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Furniture is expected to behave, sit here, store this, divide that space. And ideally, do it politely, without asking too many questions. But some furniture isn’t content with being polite. Some pieces insist on presence. Those are the pieces I enjoy creating the most. The False Divide Between Art and Use Furniture design has long lived in a strange in-between. Too functional to be considered art, too expressive to be purely utilitarian. We’re taught to separate sculpture and

We live in the loudest visual era in history. Every screen is crowded, every surface is branded, every scroll delivers more colors, more type, more motion, more stuff . And yet—very little of it means anything. This isn’t a crisis of creativity, it’s a crisis of meaning. Noise Isn’t New. The Scale Is. Visual noise has always existed. Posters competed for attention; packaging shouted from shelves.Advertising has never been subtle. What’s changed is volume. Design now lives ins

Design conversations often revolve around taste. Many times in my career, I was surrounded by people expressing their tastes and opinions about design projects; what looks good, what feels current, what someone personally likes, what they really dislike, etc. But rarely any questions. Taste is visible, judgment is quieter. And confusing the two is one of the fastest ways to derail good design. Taste Is Immediate. Judgment Takes Time. Taste is instinctive. You see something an

Minimalism used to mean something. It signaled confidence. Clarity. A willingness to remove everything that didn’t matter. Today, it often signals something else entirely: indecision, disguised as taste. When Minimalism Becomes the Default Minimalism is no longer a design choice. It’s a reflex. When faced with complexity, many brands don’t resolve it; they erase it: white backgrounds, neutral palettes, geometric sans-serifs, Plenty of space. The result feels “clean,” which is