FUNCTION / FRICTION / FINESSE
Our mission as a furniture maker is to turn exceptional ideas into well-crafted furniture.
It’s no coincidence that we see ourselves as furniture makers. After all, our factory – with its wood workshops and studios for upholstery, cutting and sewing – is the heart of our business. This gives our designers, product developers and prototype makers the time and space they need to explore how ideas and sketches can be translated into long-lasting furniture.
Our aim is to build furniture that people grow more attached to over the years. We believe there is a common denominator to what such pieces offer: both function and friction. Friction is what gives a piece of furniture its distinctive character: the poetry of the thing.
Function alone is no fun. Friction alone makes no sense. You need both. It is a conviction that we share with our collaborators – designers who have the courage to question habitual ideas about how things should be, and who do so with finesse.
You can tell when something is made with finesse. It just feels right.
Design Philosophy
1 / Think and act simultaneously.
2 / Friction creates bonds.
3 / Function without friction is boring.
4 / It’s all about finesse.
5 / Let the material speak.
6 / There is no conflict between tradition and renewal.
7 / Have fun.
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Our Factory
We are part of a long tradition of furniture making. This equips us not
only with the skills to solve problems in well-tried ways, developed
over centuries. Precisely by being part of this tradition, we are also
able to challenge it.
We see no conflict between tradition and innovation. On the
contrary. Tradition anchors new knowledge, while innovation keeps
tradition alive by challenging it with ideas and tools that, over time,
become part of it.
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