Knit your house: in an attempt to transfer the quality of industrial production onto the scale of architecture, the French broth
March 3, 2004 | bengisu
When Issey Miyake asked Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec to design the A-Poc store in the Marai in Paris, it was the first time the brothers from Brittany had directly tackled the architectural dimension. As industrial designers we are accustomed to reason in terms of industrial production. Making a plastic injection mould for a piece of furniture or manufactured object costs a lot of money. In architecture, making a mould for series production is cheaper, considering the scale to cost ratio. This reduces the use of traditional materials like glass or plaster, which require skilled craftsmanship to
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