Established in 2019, Studio Sløyd takes its name and inspiration from the practical woodwork taught in Scandinavian schools. The emphasis is on exploration: learning what a material can do by working with it. The studio carries that curiosity into self-initiated exhibitions and collaborations with manufacturers, moving between one-off experiments and objects intended for everyday life.
Their ROGGBIF exhibition at Oslo’s Sorgenfri gallery in 2024 explored colour through a collection of 24 wooden stools. Different forms and joints were paired with a process using vacuum technology and pigments to colour the timber through its fibres. The grain remained part of the expression, even as the wood took on bright, unfamiliar hues. It is a lively example of how craft and technology meet in their practice.
For Nedre Foss, Studio Sløyd designed the Knubb Tray, exploring how a useful surface and its supporting structure could become one flowing form. Full-size models milled in wood allowed the designers and the Nedre Foss team to test and refine the object together. The choice of timber, its weight and the curves produced by the cutting tools all contributed to the finished piece.
Knubb is made in Finland from a single piece of solid ash and finished with food-safe wax oil. Fine marks left by the milling process remain on its surface, giving a quiet record of how it was made. Its softly contoured shape offers a place for fruit or larger objects, while the grain introduces a different pattern in every piece. The name refers to a short, sturdy piece of wood, an apt description for an object with such compact presence.
What draws us to Studio Sløyd is the pleasure they find in making. A practical question becomes an opportunity to try a new shape, a new process or a different way of seeing a familiar material. In Knubb, that attitude finds a natural home within Nedre Foss’s collection of useful objects with sculptural appeal.
Discover the Knubb Tray by Studio Sløyd at Good Form.
