Good art is like scientific research. Investigating the world in search of new answers, without the question for direct use.
An unrestrained research that makes us experience reality differently over and over again. And in design you sometimes find art.
Nature is a logic system. Grown out of faults during copying you get an architectonic, psychological and a esthetic tour de force. If you observe them, you can understand them. Logic makes them communicate. It becomes a language that tells things. The language of things is a language we gave them in order to communicate with their users. Sometimes the things come to life. They become individuals that develop good and bad qualities, beauty and ugliness, function and idleness. Personalities evolve and stories are told.

As a designer I feel like an explorer travelling the world out of curiosity or being send with a mission, investigating, asking questions and making connections. To come back with stories. Stories told with design because that is my language. I don't see any main challenge in the 21st century, just curiousity. And maybe hoping to find a product that can affect/ move me the way a string quartet of Rachmaninov does.
The collection I presented in Milan 1999 was called: Kokon furniture. With the lightshade shades as investigation for the skin. Tree trunk bench and garden bench as research for staying in nature. Because they reflect my way of thinking, they are a symbiosis between intuition and intellect. What I like is that they are an investigation. They are not answers but questions transformed into products. Characters asking to be used.