The Natural Choice
When talking to Kiki, you really get the impression that she fell in love with pattern long before she even realized it. Being Norwegian, and having such close ties to the landscape, she was the perfect person to create the latest patterns for our Stokke® seating collection.
Kiki Plesner in a family trip
Inspired Designs
Like many artists, Kiki found inspiration from familiar places early on. While walking through the woods or on her family boat on holiday, she found herself sketching and painting. Patterns emerged while picking mushrooms, not from the mushrooms themselves but from their arrangement in the basket. “Seeing patterns is natural, Kiki explains, “When we find a pattern, we understand how things are connected.”
Inspired Designs
 
 
 
The Patterns
For our collaboration, Kiki turned to two of nature's most majestic features, the ocean and trees. Drawing from the colors and motion of the water, she captured its essence by creating soft, playful waves which became the Waves patterns. 
For the Stokke® Clikk™ Multi Circles Cushion, she opted for a less literal translation, and instead illustrated growth resulting in an impressionistic rendering of the rings of the trees.
Stokke® cushions collection method
The Method
In a digital world, Kiki does a lot of her work offline. She prefers to almost always work from analog first for an unpolished look and human touch. She often begins by drawing in ink or mixing her own watercolors to get a unique color to for each creation. The resulting authenticity of the patterns is one of the many reasons we're so proud of our collaboration!
 
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Kiki Plesner as a chld on a Tripp Trapp® Chair
A pleasant surprise!
Although we did not know it until after Kiki shared her designs with us, it was no surprise to find out that she grew up using the iconic Tripp Trapp® chair. We know we can't take credit for all of Kiki s creativity, but we're pretty sure all that time at the table played a part.