"Each year, the curator Alice Stori Liechtenstein invites a group of young designers to live and work for one to three weeks at Schloss Hollenegg, her husband’s family’s 12th-century castle in rural Austria. The participants end up creating an object for the castle’s grand spaces or grounds in an effort to bring contemporary urban culture to the isolated countryside. While this year’s public exhibition of the installations has been canceled, Stori Liechtenstein instead organized an online show. To address the theme of Walden — a nod to the Henry David Thoreau work and to the German word for forest — Stori Liechtenstein asked the participants to think about the “uncomfortable aspects of nature,” she told me. The French designer Marlene Huissoud crafted a hand-knotted wool rug inspired by swarms of insects; the Danish product designer Jonas Edvard created a chair made from mycelium; and the Brooklyn-based studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero collaborated with the wallpaper company Calico to create a lush if violent print that depicts entangled vines, as well as insects copulating and biting each other’s heads off, that covers the ceiling of Schloss Hollenegg’s tapestry room."