about me

My name is Alexandra Weseloh. I am 21 years old, born on the 16.08.2001 in Hamburg, Germany. 50% German, 50% Icelandic. I grew up in Hamburg all my life and only visited Iceland on vacation. 2020 I successfully completed my graduation. In 2021 I decided to move to Iceland to study graphic media design at Tækniskólinn and of course to improve my Icelandic and to get to know my homeland better. Now I live in the middle of Reykjavík city and have been able to draw a lot of inspiration from there. Thanks to my Amma, I‘m in the south almost every weekend and experience nature up close. I have always had an eye for art, fashion and aesthetic design in my life. I love everything that is minimalistic and aesthetic. Pinterest is my best friend.

After graduating, I will move back to Hamburg, do my internship in a design studio and then probably do a Bachelor of Arts in media design.

During school, random design, advertisement and logos immediately caught my eye. My understanding of design has increased a lot and I analyze and criticize more about design. I found out that Helvetica Neue Extended is my favorite font. If I were a Pantone color I would be Pantone Blue 072 C.

Takk fyrir mig!

Since its launch in April 2009, Moustache, a French publishing house in the field of contemporary articles and home furnishings, under the impetus of Stéphane Arriubergé and Massimiliano Iorio, is forging close links in a network of complicity and expert knowledge in design fields.

An active participant in the present-day writing of the history of manufactured articles, Moustache proposes a collection which explores new approaches to production and consumption. Its articles and pieces of furniture involve their users in their own contemporary history. To the market constraints linked to the ever-increasingly insistent demand for novelties and experiences on the market, Moustache prefers to build a long-term domestic world with a high cultural value. Rooted in the history of arts and techniques, the Moustache philosophy combines design and pattern in the present: attentive and responsible production responds to his searches for new, aesthetic, function and relevant shapes.

Committed, Moustache is surrounded with designers for whom it is essential that convictions and points of view be shared. The result of a well thought-out dialogue between technique, strong identity and contemporary use, each article with its disparities forms the contours of the same family.

Moustache is attached to the heritage value of the articles, evidence of a society, its developments and its uses. It offers to share its soul, its ideas and its values. The environment it reveals according to an enlightened editorial line, a catalogue of objects linking some with others according to the principles of simplicity and accessibility. A distinctive and remarkable symbol, Moustache publishes a collection with a character which, today, is imposing its presence in the design environment.

Bold

Inspired by the Bauhaus classics, designers had been experimenting since 2004 with shaped metal-tube chairs, with the intuitive desire to make a chair composed 100% of tube. Fascinated by the idea of a continuous line that draws a three-dimensional object. On visiting the Belgian upholstery company Drisag, the idea of adding polyurethane foam padding directly around the metal tube came up to create a chair that is visually only lines. After extensive searching and testing, the textile chosen to cover the foam is produced by a sock factory, which knits an extralong tube. Thinking of the original tube which is made thicker by the foam, the chair is called BOLD, just as the thicker version of a typeface is described.

In 2009, Stephane Arriuberg and Massimiliano Iorio create the company Moustache to produce furniture. The BOLD chair is the first object in their catalogue, followed a few years later by the bench of the same name.

Extra Bold For Moustache

The EXTRA BOLD armchair takes up the radical constructive principles of the BOLD range by combining two large tubes and, contrary to what it suggests, offers surprising comfort. Like the chair, the stool and the bench before it, the EXTRA BOLD armchair alternates taut, soft curves that act successively as seat, back and armrest.

Its strong sculptural dimension contrasts with the sensation of comfort experienced once seated on the large diameter tubes, upholstered with a very thick layer of injected foam.

Several technical details buried in the depth of the seat and an invisible assembly system allow the seat and backrest to be flush with each other, so that barely seem to brush against each other to come together.

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Photo credit: MOUSTACHE