Craft/2009/7 min/Reel № 09.001
ByArno Mathies
Arno Mathies on luxury and industrial design
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Arno Mathies takes craft as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Switzerland in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Arno's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Arno Mathies talks about luxury, industrial design and the influences in his own work.
About the speaker
Arno Mathies
Lausanne/Switzerland
As a designer Mathies explores various media and methods, and spent a year working closely with a carpenter to investigate different production processes.
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