ABOUT

Laura Mrksa (Croatia, 1992) is a slow designer in a fast-paced world, working from Amsterdam. Her design practice revolves around the transformation of everyday objects, predominantly furniture, as a means of exploring concepts related to materialism, consumerism, and individualism. At the moment, the focus of her practice is directed towards crafting objects that engage with the notion of rest. Within this theme, Laura adopts a comprehensive research approach, exploring urgent social realities such as workplace pressures and the impact of social media on our daily lives.

Simultaneously, she delves into the design sector’s imperative to create slow and meaningful spaces and encounters. Her dominant design tool is weaving, and she has developed a technique that utilizes the splicing of rope. Through an intuitive process of building without predetermined patterns, Laura creates nets that are subsequently incorporated into the objects she designs (or finds).