SPATIAL INSTALLATIONS & SCULPTURES
Nomadic Dialogues,
Between Body and Nature
Collaboration: Atelier Plateau x Sørensen Leather x Norm Architects
Photography: Atelier Plateau
Atelier Plateau presents Nomadic Dialogues — Between Body and Nature, an art project created in collaboration with Sørensen Leather and Norm Architects.
Human connection to nature has increasingly been challenged as society has developed. Through Nomadic Dialogues — Between Body and Nature, Atelier Plateau seeks to reawaken this connection by exploring how materials such as leather and driftwood can create spaces that revive our perception of, and relationship with, nature.
Unfolding where art, design, and architecture converge, the project explores leather as a nomadic material — shifting, adaptable, and deeply tied to human history. In conversation with driftwood gathered from nature, the works emerge as forms that are both lived-in and poetic, appearing at the intersection of function and sensorial experience.
ECHOES OF TIME
Leather has accompanied humankind for millennia — as clothing, shelter, and surface. It carries both body and structure, protects, supports, and transforms. In Nomadic Dialogues — Between Body and Nature, this heritage is reinterpreted: one material serves multiple roles, allowing it to move between poetry and purpose.
CARRIED AND CARRYING
Driftwood and leather combine in shifting ways. Driftwood — the carrying — belongs to nature, positioned according to its own form and grounding. Leather — the carried — responds to the human body. Together, the materials create forms that are sculptural and functional, inviting sitting, lying, and standing.
Developed by Sørensen Leather in collaboration with Norm Architects, TERRA® leather was chosen for its remarkable softness, durability, sensorial presence, and OEKO-TEX® certification.
Its silky-matt, velvety surface and rich, nature-inspired hues — from earthy greens and yellows to deep bordeaux and brown — complement the organic qualities of driftwood while engaging the senses. Each hide is unique, developing a natural patina over time and aging gracefully alongside the evolving forms it wraps and supports.
Leather and driftwood unfold into nomadic, spatial essentials, each responding to its surroundings and orchestrating a harmonious balance of space, light, and material.
