Flavia Bon

MEET THE MAKER

My name is Flavia Bon and I’m a traditionally trained tailor, a graduate in Fashion and Product design and a self-taught maker. After working for different companies in Switzerland, Iceland and the Netherlands, I founded STUDIO BON where I materialise my experience from the past 15 years and share it with a diverse clientele. The focus is on developing abstract ideas into concrete products through design, material, construction and storytelling.This way of working enables me to get in contact with different people from the industry and to create a dialogue which is based on mutual learning and results in highly functional and long living products.

Project

Augmented Weaving by Anita Michaluszko and Flavia Bon is a series of collaborations around the technique of jacquard weaving and digital craft. This project interweaves various physical, digital, and virtual ways of working into one unified and boundless process. Initially spawned in a digital realm, textile objects evolve to manifest themselves in physical space and vice versa.

Value iAtelier

The ideas for this project were already floating on our minds, but the iAtelier program gave us the final impluse and the right framework to conduct this reasearch. Collaborating with each other gave us a sense of purpose and knowing that the work is going to be exhibited added a sense of importance to it. The official setting of the program also made it easier for us to apply for an additional grant. Without financial support it would not have been possible for us to find the time to dive so deep into these subjects. We have learned so much in so many aspects during this collaboration. An overwhelming amount of ideas and possibilities manifested themselves, and together with the techniques urge us to make the ideas tangible.