STUDIO LO "works on objects through strong constraints: ethical, institutional, technical and symbolic. Having taken act of the environmental question, as well as of the economic realities of design, we created this alternative editor company in 2005. This structure allowed us, to develop objects, without institutional nor editor supports."

"Our desire to manufacture “responsible objects” brought us to the shaping of natural matter in a close dialogue with a local network of SME. Without relay, nor financial support, we have developed a «poor design», adapted to small structures of production through very limited investments. Our research on the optimization of matter, non-standard series and chain production, led us to work with water-jet cut manufacturing. We transform technical issues into geometrical problems. A board becomes a chair through a simple cut. Our objects seek to make readable the production process, to give it an expressivity."

-----"Pod slippers, felt screen printed, original pieces, water-jet cutting, assembly by keys. Each slipper constitutes a tile of a hypothetically infinite periodic paving. The patterns being contiguous, each cut generates two parts, instead of one. It is the principle of the «share-cut», which we exploit largely in our creations. The rotation of the serigraphic screens, as well as the «bougé» of the cuts, allows the generation of non-standard series." -------

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