aarticles brings together contemporary and found objects within a shared field of observation. Some are newly made, others rediscovered; all are chosen for how they reveal the thought held in material. Each piece exists between function and reflection, showing that design’s meaning lies not only in its use but in the traces it gathers through time.
Conceived as part gallery, part archive, and part marketplace, aarticles is a place to encounter crafted design that speaks through process, presence, and material intelligence. It began from the belief that objects carry stories. A carved wooden chair, a woven basket, a fired ceramic, each retains the gestures, rhythms, and decisions of its making. The platform was formed as a framework for looking closely: to situate objects within a lineage of craft, and to recognise their measured persistence across generations.
Collection 01 includes contemporary works that reflect a commitment to material exploration and narrative integrity. Each object is selected for its distinct voice, its texture, its gesture, its making. Together, they form a living archive of meaningful design: an evolving collection shaped by continuity, care, and collaboration.
Alongside new works sit Found Objects, pieces gathered from markets, studios, and travels. These are forms that have already lived: hand-turned, carved, cast, or woven. They enter through intuition, adding to an ongoing conversation between what is newly made and what endures, linking contemporary practice to long-standing traditions of making and use.
Founded by Kasia Sznajder and Fred Aartun, aarticles grew from two intersecting practices, one rooted in cultural programming and partnerships, the other in design and photography. Their collaboration asks how the objects we live with might shape the way we see. What began as a personal pursuit became a shared framework: aarticles (from “articles” and the act of archiving), an echo of books, catalogues, and museum systems that frame objects worth keeping.
Influenced by artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe, J.B. Blunk, Lina Bo Bardi, and Isamu Noguchi, figures who lived within their work, they approach the home and studio not as backdrops, but as active sites of thinking. For aarticles, craft is not a style but a method of enquiry: to shape wood, clay, or metal is to shape understanding itself.
The references that inform aarticles live in the Library, a growing index of books, images, objects, and places that trace where our thinking begins.
In the end, aarticles is less a collection than a study in continuity. It observes how objects move between hands and settings, how they retain presence long after their purpose is known. Whether newly cast or long kept, each piece adds to a language that is grounded, lucid, and sustained by looking, touch, and time.
