Designing Meaning
Lodovica Gay on bespoke jewellery, intuition, and the story behind the Keshi Ring
What the Strelitzia keeps
A personal reflection on how flowers come to hold meaning — not through tradition alone, but through memory, intention, and the honesty of those who give them.
What lights your fire?
A personal reflection on Christian Dior and the inspiration that changed everything.
The “Rosewood” Chair
A message on the ongoing rosewood crisis and the responsibility of young designers to create meaning and transformation through design.
We Know All the Rules, and Still…
I asked ChatGPT to tell me the most absurd questions people have asked it — the ones that should only ever belong to humans. The first one it gave me was: "What does it feel like to fall in love for the first time?"
And its answer made me think about us more than it made me think about the machine.
My mother was right, beauty will save the world.
The environments we inhabit shape how we feel, often in ways we don’t consciously notice.
In a world obsessed with speed and productivity, choosing beauty can even feel like a quiet form of rebellion.