Objects with Love
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The Beauty of Insignificance
(Schweizer Grand Prix Design)
Connie Hüsser has contributed substantially to the history of Swiss design even though her work cannot be assigned to any conventional design discipline.
The Beauty of Insignificance
Connie Hüsser has contributed substantially to the history of Swiss design even though her work cannot be assigned to any conventional design discipline. For over 20 years, she has been creating unique scenarios and strikingly beautiful three-dimensional collages, all daringly unabashed assemblages which are nonetheless of great clarity and cogency. With her unerring ability to identify trends, she anticipates what will later become the zeitgeist.
"What Connie Hüsser does and is cannot be learned," says Jörg Boner, President of the Federal Design Commission. "She is what she is thanks to her personality, her single-minded search for exceptional objects and combinations, her presence, and her discriminating eye." Trained as a visual merchandiser, she has taught herself what it takes to be an interior stylist, exhibition maker, design expert, and mediator. Driven by curiosity, this indefatigable explorer ferrets out special objects at trade fairs, in glossy magazines, on the Internet, and also in her immediate surroundings. Over the past decades she has amassed a dazzling archive of materials, colors, and objects which has become a repository of sources and inspiration for her many projects and commissions.
Design companies for which she serves as consultant, reap the benefits of that archive as do her own creations for showrooms, clinics, and hotels. In 2018, she mounted her first exhibition, labeled "Object with Love," for which she selected works made by various designers and put together a collage of objects with painstaking care.