Tent sofa by philippe malouin

Good design generally stems from happy intuitions and apt choices. These affect three different key aspects which then intersect and merge to create an object: on one hand the typological innovation of the article in response to changing lifestyles and habitation patterns in the broad sense; on the other a correct and innovative application of technological research (while often dodging the logic of engineering and industry); and finally, form as symbolic and aesthetic expression, in original interpretative visions of the changes that characterise our times.

The result of this mixture may equally start out from each of these factors, and the design's essence is concentrated firstly in a study of the object's changed uses in relation to the evolution of customs and languages, especially if affecting increasingly wide strata of society.

Every designer hopes to sense a society's as yet unexpressed demands for design. In other words, designers sh