Studio Integrate: Where biology and history meet
Design Exchange Magazine
Design Exchange Magazine
Interview
2016
Looking at the Flux table, legs protrude out from
different points and at different angles, morphing into what seem like upturned
tree stumps. It appears to be, simply, an organic, expressive form. But with
London based practice, Studio Integrate and co-founder Mehran Gharleghi things
are never that straight forward. (...)
“I have vertigo.” Juha van ‘t Zelfde tells me when I ask
about his first exhibition, Dread. “Trying to understand what
my vertigo was about I came across this book by Søren Kierkegaard called The
Concept of Dread, and suddenly it opened up this whole world.”
In The Concept of Dread Kierkegaard contends that imagining the possibilities of what might happen is heavier than accepting reality. If one comes to accept what happens and what can become fact, then the burden of dread becomes lighter. (...)
In The Concept of Dread Kierkegaard contends that imagining the possibilities of what might happen is heavier than accepting reality. If one comes to accept what happens and what can become fact, then the burden of dread becomes lighter. (...)
