An invisible exchange
On collaboration, creative energy, and why I believe art can heal. Learning to recognise the reciprocal exchange that enriches, and the one-way giving that empties you.
True colours and replicas..
If you hold back for fear of getting it wrong, you won't find your style. You'll find replicas. What I'd say to my best friend, as I say it to myself.
Just beginning
On what sets you free when you're afraid to expose your work: promising to love yourself anyway, however it goes. Because I will love myself always.
Two angles, decided well.
A chair that looks rigid until you sit in it, and what two well decided angles reveal about the difference between a piece you tolerate and one you want to stay in. This chair takes me back to primary school.
Oggetti non oggetti
A stool made of recycled cartons, and the ordinary objects that become extraordinary because you recognise yourself in them. A stool, and what I see around it.
Things to Find Ourselves In
On design as a place where we recognise ourselves, why some objects become timeless, and how even the most ordinary thing can bring us back home to who we are.
There's a moment
There's a moment in the creative process where what you envisioned comes alive - and you realise everything you doubted, you never had reason to doubt. But before that moment, there's the middle.
Every design choice fails - or succeeds - for one of three separate reasons, and almost no one has been taught to tell them apart.
A design choice fails or succeeds for one of three separate reasons, and almost no one has been taught to tell them apart. It's not bad taste. It's a missing language.
A thought: Ma cosa c'è di più bello che creare?
On the impulse that wants to take form, and what happens every time we stop it with reason. Don't stop the pull.
When the lines get out..
On designing a rug, the wool that carries it, and starting from a rectangle to find where the lines can travel beyond the box. On wool, rectangles, and learning to speak.