To make space for what endures, we may need to unmake the forms that once claimed authority. Not shapes of order, but gestures of relation. Words and meaning settle as traces — of memory, of meaning once kept aside. Some stories were never missing, only unheld — made invisible by structures not built to receive them.

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A vessel, not to contain, but to accompany — a grounded yet floating framework, shaped by hand in steel and cork, carrying the tension between solidity and softness, between respect and care.

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In stillness, it resists closure. What we choose to hold close becomes part of the piece itself — not through possession, but through dialogue. Vessel offers no answers, only an opening: a place to return, to exist, to remember otherwise.​

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Vessel is a coffee table designed to accommodate books left open, inviting reflection on how we engage with objects, knowledge, and learning. It builds on the idea that objects once organized and held knowledge, and now can embody it as part of their very structure. The table not only highlights personal tastes and values through the books chosen for display, but also places this knowledge at the center of its design, making it integral rather than peripheral.