ELIAS
VAN ORSHAEGEN

Elias is a Belgian designer/maker at the intersection of design and sculpture. Raised as a maker in the carpentry workshop of his dad, he blossomed into a designer after four years of interior architecture and furniture design. The work of Elias exists somewhere between primal, rootsy memory, and a distant exotic yearning.  He has an atypical and intuitive approach in which conveying energy through manual labour is essential. Sculpturality, atmosphere and the sensory qualities of materials are central to his practice. The works of Elias can be seen as the starting point of a dialogue, a back and forth, between object and bespoke.