Ask og Eng
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01 | WHY ASK OG ENGQuiet mastery deserves quiet conversation.
Your work has lived in my awareness for years - the precision of your craft, the integrity of your material story, the way your pieces create space rather than fill it. Bamboo as singular commitment. Seven finishes as a complete palette. Every object an invitation to presence.
What draws me is the alignment: your attention to detail mirrors my own. Your material-led philosophy is my foundation.
Your understanding that home is where we practice being human - that's exactly what my work explores.
02 | THE VISION OF A COLLABORATIONThis Feeling: This Home. A bespoke collection of handmade artworks exploring colour, emotion and the resonance of sanctuary.
If we reside in our homes, then our homes become human: a symbiosis of function, emotion and support. Home is where we're free to feel our widest range of emotions, where a rich patina of individualized experience gradually etches upon us - smudges and marks upon our hearts and walls.
This Feeling: This Home would be an exclusive collaboration celebrating the stories, visions and values we share: the resonance of home, the feeling of colour, the people these spaces touch.
Each artwork would be created in colour harmony with your seven bamboo finishes - possibly incorporating bamboo textile itself - so that customers could select pieces that complete the emotional-material system of their space.
03 | THE COLLABORATION FRAMEWORK Custom artwork as extension of your material philosophy.
Adding textile wall hangings to your artist collection.
I could envision joining your considered Object Collection with textile wall hangings harmonized to each of your seven bamboo finishes, using a bamboo hanging system.
I'm proposing to debut a new sculptural textile design which would launch through this collaboration. The design itself explores two elements coming together, a fitting symbol for the partnership between our practices.
Wall hangings are completely new to my collection and this design debuts here, with you - created specifically for this collaboration.
Each piece would:
1. Debut exclusively in your collection
2. Incorporate reclaimed bamboo textile as material dialogue
3. Be colour-harmonized to your specific bamboo finishes
4. Mount via bamboo system, creating works that breathe with the space
(Framed works following your established artist collaboration model would also be possible if preferred.)*
04 | HOW IT COULD WORKI'd love to work within the framework you've already established with artists like Britt Fabello and Marianne Nielsen.
Should we move forward, I'm genuinely open to your existing commission structure, pricing model, and production timelines.
My studio can scale to meet demand while maintaining the handmade quality that makes this meaningful, and I'm comfortable adapting my process to align with how you work.
What matters most to me is creating a partnership where we both thrive - one that lets us each do our best work while offering your customers something they can't find anywhere else.
Following your artist partnership model, with openness to what serves us both
06 | VISUAL EXPLORATIONThe following images explore how this collaboration could unfold - primarily as wall hangings (a new format for both my practice and your collection), with framed works as an alternative option.
These are early samples and visual studies showing reclaimed textile and bamboo in dialogue.
Texture meeting structure. Narrative meeting frame. Emotion meeting home.
Seeing the conversation between textile and bamboo.
AN EXCLUSIVE DEBUT SCRUCTURE: SYMBOLISING COLLABORATION- 2 ELEMENTS COMING TOGETHER AS ONE.
CONCEPT WALL HANGING CONCEPT WITH DEBUT 3D STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE OF CONCEPT DETAIL CONCEPTUAL BAMBOO HANGING SYSTEMTHE TINY DETAILSEach artwork harmonizes specifically with Ask og Eng bamboo finishes - warm earth tones in conversation with warm earth tones.
The collection celebrates your palette while extending it into the textile form of my brand.
Colour as collaboration.
WALL HANGING CONCEPT IN RYE
WALL HANGING CONCEPT IN GRAIN
WALL HANGING CONCEPT IN STONE07. GRATITUDEThank you for considering this collaboration.
Thank you for your time and attention. I look forward to the possibility of working together to evolve my practice further towards these values we share.
Nikki Heaton
+44 (0) 785 7755 808