X. Living with
X. Living with
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The relationship with a strong object is not fixed. It changes with time, with the light of the seasons, with what you are going through. A piece bought in a certain state of mind will speak to you differently five years later.
Furniture has a presence. In the same way as a book, a library, a work of art. It carries with it the moment that brought it into our lives. It may evoke a bygone era, a person dear to us who is no longer here. This is something I experience myself, I live with some of my own pieces, and what they remind me of goes far beyond what they are formally.
You buy a piece. You install it. And then one day, without having decided to, you realise it has changed something in the way you live in that space. Not dramatically, more a slight shift in what you notice, in what the eye returns to.
" Making room for what deserves to be looked at is perhaps a way of making room for oneself."
This is why the choice matters. An object chosen solely for its appearance will remain on the surface of what it could be. Like a person, for that matter. What makes you keep a piece, what makes it become part of a life, is not that it is beautiful, it is that it has meaning.
I design my pieces with that duration in mind. That they hold over time, not through their style but through their rightness. That in ten years, twenty years, they still say something to the person living with them.
To welcome a piece is to decide to make room for it, not only physically but in one's attention. Making room for what deserves to be looked at is perhaps a way of making room for oneself.
2 min read
The relationship with a strong object is not fixed. It changes with time, with the light of the seasons, with what you are going through. A piece bought in a certain state of mind will speak to you differently five years later.
Furniture has a presence. In the same way as a book, a library, a work of art. It carries with it the moment that brought it into our lives. It may evoke a bygone era, a person dear to us who is no longer here. This is something I experience myself, I live with some of my own pieces, and what they remind me of goes far beyond what they are formally.
You buy a piece. You install it. And then one day, without having decided to, you realise it has changed something in the way you live in that space. Not dramatically, more a slight shift in what you notice, in what the eye returns to.
" Making room for what deserves to be looked at is perhaps a way of making room for oneself."
This is why the choice matters. An object chosen solely for its appearance will remain on the surface of what it could be. Like a person, for that matter. What makes you keep a piece, what makes it become part of a life, is not that it is beautiful, it is that it has meaning.
I design my pieces with that duration in mind. That they hold over time, not through their style but through their rightness. That in ten years, twenty years, they still say something to the person living with them.
To welcome a piece is to decide to make room for it, not only physically but in one's attention. Making room for what deserves to be looked at is perhaps a way of making room for oneself.
