Avant l'aube
An embodied narrative of material creation

Here are objects that whisper the story of their genesis, showing, sometimes shyly, sometimes openly, the fascinating shaping gesture.

Our way of interacting with the world is increasingly distant. We manipulate our environment more than we inhabit it, through complex, elusive systems. The gap created between production and consumption damages our relationship with things. Let’s heal it by observing the technique, which has more to tell than just its efficiency. ...more


Drawer unit: marked oak, 925 silver, mother-of-pearl

Pull the silver knobs to reveal their story.
Each drawer of this piece illustrates the tools, stages, and details of how their handles are made. They tell the proportion of silver and copper to mix, the casting into ingots, rolling, welding, and the setting of the mother-of-pearl...