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Based on principles that favor
honesty and simplicity, Afteroom’s
designs explore the relationship
between time and space.
The three-legged chair designed by Afteroom
remains one of our most popular items.
When Taiwanese design duo Hung-Ming Chen and Chen-Yen Wei
relocated to Stockholm to pursue studies at Konstfack—an academic
hub for Swedish designers—they had no intention of staying in Scandinavia.
A decade later, however, the couple now run furniture design
studio Afteroom out of the very same building at Konstfack in which
they studied, and live just a couple of blocks away.
Based on principles that favor honesty and simplicity, Afteroom’s
designs explore the relationship between time and space; ‘afteroom’
itself means the transformation that a space experiences over a long
period of time.
The couple discuss ideas together before Hung-Ming sketches
out designs and makes 3D models. Chen-Yen takes charge of creative
direction, including the proportion and colors of objects. As a husband
and wife duo, their creative process calls for honesty as the best
policy—Chen-Yen isn’t afraid to hurt Hung-Ming’s feelings when
giving feedback on his designs.
Admirers of the traces that the passing of time can leave on physical
objects, Hung-Ming and Chen-Yen aim to create pieces that are not only
to be enjoyed in the present but that can be passed down through generations.
Consequently, Afteroom’s designs carry a pure, paired-back
aesthetic that arrives from the duo’s sensory intuition and judgment.
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