Does creating together affect your personal practices and preferences?

The ideas we produce while working together draws up an overall framework for the studio’s general approach towards design, enabling us to maintain an ideational continuity even among works which include predominantly personal approaches. The opposite applies as well, projects we develop individually can serve as a starting point for our mutual works; the interaction is bilateral.

Can you name a quality the other possesses that you don’t, which enables you to work better together?

Since we come from a background in design and architecture, respectively, we have different sets of knowledge and skills. This helps us to form better relationships among topics such as materials, production techniques, utilisation, and space setups.

Are there any issues around the design world on which you disagree?

There are no topics on which we disagree per say, then again where we stand on differing or clashing approaches within the design world is an issue we constantly contemplate upon. Our own approach also evolves and changes in accordance with the intellectual, technological, and cultural developments around the world.

What does an ideal image of partnership look like?

Every project has a design process on its own, and an ideal partnership needs the organisational flexibility to endure these discrepancies. In addition to this, an ideal team needs to have the kind of interaction that turns itself into something bigger and better than the pieces added together.

Tom and Jerry, Bert and Ernie, Beavis and Butthead, C-3PO and R2-D2… Who do you think is the best duo of popular culture?

Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994). A memorable matchup of irony, meaning, and style with regard to their story and dialogues.

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