Soft-geometry presents the summer-winter (sw) collection that explores many personalities within the same object, defined by the materials and processes that make them. 

The collection is inspired by the changing of seasons and how people, places, lifestyles and conversations are different in different seasons.

Do objects have personalities?

The S-W or summer-winter collection explores the idea of product personalities and the material choices that define them. The 3-piece collection of a coffee table, end table and side chair are built in simplistic steel frames that are dressed with interchangeable tops in different materials. The lines of the frames emulate the first lines of a sketch while the tops emulate the layers of color and texture that complete the picture. Together they weave a bridge connecting the slow, soft, intricate, hand-worked processes of the tops with the pure, geometric, efficient, industrially-manufactured steel frames.

Each material used lends to a distinct character that evokes different associations from different people. The hand-woven cane can remind one of summer evenings stretched on cane mats on verandahs, while the flat color on bent steel can rouse up memories of painted playground swings, slides and seesaws. The velvet may inspire a cool calm of mountains; while the hand knitted wool might have you cozied up against a furry pet on a cold winter morning.

The collection illustrates a diversity in products that mirror the diversity of the people that use them and pose a limitless opportunity to grow into more materials, processes and personalities. In a small way, the pieces hope to inspire a rich personality culture into the realm of furniture, recognizing, emphasizing and celebrating the many identities that can be born from material qualities.

See press coverage of the exhibition and the sw collection on Milk Decoration, An Interior, Sight Unseen and Husk Design Blog.