Flora Lechner
Flora Lechner (born 1994 in Vienna, Austria) is a designer based in the Netherlands, working at the intersection of design and sculpture. Her practice unfolds through material experimentation and object-based storytelling, moving between craft, industrial processes, and sculptural approaches.
Through material and form, seemingly opposing qualities come together: organic references and technical structures, softness and hardness, intuition and engineering. Industrial materials and mechanical components are shaped into forms that appear delicate, floral, or bodily, creating objects that resist fixed readings and hover between decorative presence and functional use.
"Materials and forms are culturally and gender- coded with meaning — I am interested at how fragile those readings really are. I see my objects as small stages for experimentation, where contrasts and tensions activate stillness."
Through these contrasts, her work subtly questions how materials, forms, and production methods carry cultural and aesthetic expectations.
Moving fluidly between handwork and industrial fabrication, her objects explore tension without becoming rigid, maintaining a sense of lightness, clarity, and attention to detail. Rather than resolving oppositions, her practice dwells in them, allowing form and material to remain open and ambiguous.
Lechner graduated cum laude from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2018 and completed her Master’s degree at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2020. She works independently and has exhibited internationally, including at the Van Abbemuseum (NL), MAO Museum of Architecture and Design (SI), Collectible Fair Brussels (BE), and Max Radford Gallery (GB).
