Duo, not commission At Design Museum Brussels, five pairs from craft and design work together, among them a glassblower, a woodturner and basket makers. What they show is not finished products but samples and prototypes from six months.
The old order Usually one person draws and another carries it out. The drawing dictates, the hand obeys. In that order, craft becomes a service and design becomes a claim on paper.
What happens in between A duo turns this around. The glass says how thin it wants to be. The wood shows where it splits. The willow sets the curve. Whoever listens designs with the material, not over it.
The sample counts That is why the prototypes are more exciting than any final piece: you see the failed attempts, the corrections, and the moment two people suddenly wanted the same thing.
Open Perhaps that is the real luxury: not the object, but six months in which two people had time for each other and for a material.
