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tiny town, Raine Design

tiny town, Raine Design
tiny town, Raine Design

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Raine Design
Moorhead, Minnesota

Chelsea Raine Thorson is an Architectural Designer who recently graduated with a Master's Degree in Architecture. Surrounded by a family of artists, she has been getting her hands dirty since day one. She found her passion for concrete in the early years of her architectural education, captivated by the idea of creating solid where once was void. As the architectural coursework became more complex, Chelsea found comfort in the straightforwardness of casting small-scale objects in solid concrete in her own time. After graduation, the decision to pursue handmade concrete jewelry and concrete object design came naturally, as the alternative seemed to be staring at a computer screen drafting someone else's designs. With the belief that design should be an intimate, personal, hands-on experience, Chelsea started "Raine Design", a small business dedicated to simply designed handmade jewelry and modern housewares in her home studio.

The "Tiny City" series of concrete houses is a modern look at architecture and our western idea of "home". Investigating the icon for "house", in the American sense, began shortly after returning to Minnesota after a 4 month stay in India. The set reflects on the consistencies and differences between cultural imagery and sense of place