COMMISSIONED
2024, PARIS (FR)
2023, MILAN (IT)
2022, STOCKHOLM (SE)FINE DYING (MISSCHIEFS)
SET & PRINT DESIGN
"The struggle was severe.
One might even say brutal. What is left is decay.
Shatters of a glass that fell to the floor.
Out of the ashes - a new kind of beauty.
Out of death - life.
Once we've killed the angel, what remains?"
LISA CARLSSON
FINE DYING is a feminist collectible design tableware setting produced by Misschiefs with 6 outstanding womxn designers + invited guest creatives.
The idea of "The Angel in the House" was formulated in Coventry Patmore's poem of the same name, which was based on Patmore's own wife Emily Augusta Andrews.
The Angel in the House was the perfect Victorian woman - the graceful hostess. The quiet and modest protector of the home. In her 1931 essay "Professions for Women", Virginia Woolf describes how she had to kill this angel in order to write. Something must be sacrificed in order to create.
Six designers were invited to participate in the Fine Dying installation for Misschiefs. Based on Woolf's words and the idea of Fine Dining, Anna Nordström, Sara Szyber, Lotta Lampa, Isa Andersson, Maria Pita Gerreiro and ButchXFemme (Alice Hägglund) have each created unique objects and artefacts that take up space on a long dinner table setting.
Guest artist in Paris: Popline Fichot
Minna Palmqvist did the set design for all three Fine Dying set-ups; in Stockholm 2022, Milan 2022 and Paris 2023.
For Milan and Paris, she also created a limited edition Misschiefs t-shirt print for each location respectively.
Together with text by Lisa Carlsson, the set design worked as the glue to bind the theme together into a dinner party in decay.
All photos: Daniel Camerini
