An object doesn’t gain value immediately. It earns it over time, as it becomes part of a daily life. At first, it’s chosen, sometimes deliberately, sometimes instinctively. Then it finds its place and simply becomes present.
It’s that repeated presence that shifts how we perceive it. Seeing it regularly, living around it, it gradually becomes associated with moments, with periods, with states of mind. Without us really noticing, it accumulates memories.
It can then evoke something precise or something harder to name a feeling, an era, an emotion. It’s no longer just an object as such, but what it has accompanied over time.
The question then becomes something else entirely. Would an object hold the same value if it had remained an idea, never given form ? Or is it precisely the act of giving it a shape, a place, and a duration that allows it to become a real anchor ?
— Studio Ninette, designed in Belgium.