Catalogue Essay
Studiomama is based in London and owned by the designer Nina Tolstrup. She trained as a designer at the prestigious Les Ateliers school of industrial design in Paris and has a BA in Marketing from the Business School in Copenhagen.Tolstrup designs products for companies while also taking a pro-active approach to designing, manufacturing and selling her own ranges under the Studiomama name.
Nina Tolstrop’s Pallet Project is all about the social changes needed now: self-sufﬁciency, reusability, accessibility, utility and metamorphosis. The project takes the cheap wasted wood of pallets and transforms it – through the alchemy of very simple instructions – into functional furniture. The Pallet Project began in 2006 as part of TEN, a dialogue between ten London based designers focusing on sustainability.
It started with a Low Pallet chair, a High Pallet chair, a stool and a ﬂoor lamp. Following the interest generated by the furniture in the exhibition, Nina Tolstrup made the design instructions available on her website, launching the project onto the global market while still maintaining locally sourced materials. Immediate, democratic, and a swift translation from idea to distribution. Since then Tolstrup’s DIY pallet chairs have popped up all over the world. The Pallet Project captured the imagination of Cecilia Glik, a photographer and gallery owner in Argentina. Glik runs a charity, ‘Amistad o Nada’, in the slums of Lugano’s District 21 in Buenos Aires, a non-proﬁt artistic/social charity that seeks to offer digniﬁed work to those who are vulnerable. In collaboration with Tolstrup, ‘Amistad o Nada’ makes and sells pallet chairs, using the proﬁts to expand the workshops and engage more unemployed people from the slums, giving them both a source of income and hope for the future.Three leading London artists - Gavin Turk, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread – have generously supported the charity by customizing particular pallet chairs, and in so doing raising a substantial amount of money on behalf of Amistad o Nada. This model has been followed in Colombia, the Philippines and England to raise money to support local communities.

In parallel, the Pallet Project has been acclaimed internationally in leading exhibitions, galleries and museums. It was also the project that lead to Nina Tolstrup’s nomination as designer of the year by the Design the Design Museum in London.Following the pallet theme, Bloomberg commissioned a project ‘Waste Not, Want It’, whereby Tolstrup made a meeting room using 400 pallets. She transformed them in herringbone parquet ﬂoors, with high chairs and an impressive meeting table. The Pallet Project brilliantly demonstrates the potential for open source design. The interest the project has generated proves that local simple design has a wide reaching resonance for global use. This small project is an example of how design can empower new versatile initiatives and make unexpected connections in the world at large.
-Gian Luca Amadei Blueprint Magazine

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Studiomama

Floor Lamp, Mid

2010
Upcycled pallet wood
31 x 62 x 98h cm

Park Ave Shop

7 March
New York

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David David Chair
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Pine- Dark
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Pine- Light
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Trift
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General Desk
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Reversed Volumes
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Batucada Series
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O-TEA Set
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Dandelight
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Plytube Bench
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Primarily / Primary (After Carol Bove, Scott Burton and Sol Le Witt) Seat
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Primarily / Primary (After Carol Bove, Scott Burton and Sol Le Witt) Consol
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Cast Light
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Marseille, 2007
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Chicago, 2007
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Raw Edges (Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay)
Coiling B.F.A Stool
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Keel Table 007
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Oscar Narud
Keel Table 008: Console
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Mobile 1
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Spade Stool
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Spade Chair
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Spade Side Table
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Spade Trestle Table
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Element Table
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Stratum Table
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Spade Chair / Aluminium
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Spade Stool / Aluminium
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Silo
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Spade Chair / Leather
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Faye Toogood
Spade Chair / Leather with Roll
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Gareth Neal
Traditionally Worn Vessels
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Gareth Neal
Urban Picnic: Rectangular Tray
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Gareth Neal
Urban Picnic: Paddle
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Christien Meindertsma
Urchin Pouf
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Christien Meindertsma
Flax Light
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Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings
Colour Plaid Blanket
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Studiomama
Floor Lamp, Tall
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Studiomama
Floor Lamp, Mid
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Studiomama
Table Lamp
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Studiomama
Lo Pallet Chair
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High Pallet Chair
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Baby Pallet Chair
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Off-Cut Animals
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Ben Jones
Ladder
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Side Table for an Apple
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Tomás Alonso
Bottle Floor Light
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Flat Light / Powder Coated
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Paul Elliman
Wotsit Print
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Humans Since 1982
Clock Clock
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Humans Since 1982
Hair Clip on Hair
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Martino Gamper
Total Trattoria: Aqua Minerale, Water Jug
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Total Trattoria: In Vino Veritas, Coasters
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Total Trattoria: Auge fur Auge, Glass
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Arnold Circus Stool
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Cutting Glass
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Quarz Series
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Prisms
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Ground Objects, Scissors
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Found, 3-piece set (dessert spoon, fork, and knife)
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Oscar Diaz
RGB Vase
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One Deck of Cards: Shapes
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One Deck of Cards: Functions
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Peter Marigold
Chess
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Glass Slipper
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Bubble Bank
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No.13 Kraft Carrier
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No.13 Bodega Bag - IKB series
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Study O Portable
Baum
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Fuzz
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Chen Chen and Kai Williams
Cold Cut Coasters
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Chen Chen
Swell Vessels
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Metamorphic Rock Book Ends
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Samma
Semaphore
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Abacus Necklace
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Study in Balance Necklace
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Brick on Pin Bracelet
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Cutout Bracelet
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Cutout Ring
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Cary Leibowitz
Abraham Lincoln's Friend Sleeps Over
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George Washington Redecorates Mount Vernon
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Pocket Pencil
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Flat Sound
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Acrylic Object, Blue/White
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Extra Terrestrial, 1
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Stacking Vessel
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4:1 Bowl
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LT (Low Table)
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Studiomama

Floor Lamp, Mid

Park Ave Shop

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New York