Journal
Journal
Notes from the atelier: material tests, colour releases, projects going in, and what we learned crating them.
From Sketch to Plug: The First Physical Step in Making a Fibreglass Chair
A chair drawn in three dimensions on screen looks finished. It isn't — not until someone has to decide where the mould splits, how much draft the back needs to release, and which radius a sanding block can actually hold. The plug is where those decisions stop being theoretical. Get it wrong and every single part that follows inherits the mistake, politely and permanently.
How Cats Actually Choose Where to Sleep (And What That Means for Furniture)
You buy the plush donut bed. The cat sleeps in the empty box next to it, or on top of the bookshelf, or in the sliver of sun on a hard tile floor. It isn't ingratitude and it isn't random — cats are running a fairly consistent site-selection routine every time they settle. If you can read that routine, you can design furniture a cat will actually choose, instead of furniture that photographs well and sits empty.
Why Curved Architecture Returned: Reading the Shift From Grid to Contour
Look at almost any new cultural building, hotel lobby or rooftop terrace and you'll find something that would have been unbuildable, or at least unaffordable, thirty years ago: a continuous curve. Not a decorative arch bolted onto a box, but geometry that refuses to resolve into a grid. Designers often describe this as a mood shift — softness, wellness, organic form — but that explanation skips the more interesting part. The curve came back because the tools, the research and the manufacturing economics changed at roughly the same time.