Dominic Plueer and Olivier Smitt are Swiss born designers who challenge our assumption and perception of daily life`s most basic products.

We intend to encourage the users imagination by eroding the preconceived notions and rituals that precede life’s most conventional products. Through emboldening a product’s material presence and not demoting unfamiliar forms to typical primary functions, our small-scale furniture and objects confirm that life’s basic products can realize new life as autonomous objects. Demanding to be experienced not merely recognized, our work encourages research into a new level of use and purpose becoming recognized as neutral objects of utility. The interplay of the familiar and strange combined with the users imagination, lets one experience the product in a fresh manner and allows us to freely interpret our observations.

Exhibitions

2017

Design Biennale,
"In-between: The Utopia of the Neutral"
Zürich, CH
10.09.-12.09.2017

This is today
Chamber Gallery, New York, USA
15.12-18.02.2017

2016

Design Miami/Basel, Miami, USA
Chamber Gallery
29.11-03.12.2016

Broken White, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL
08.10-06.11.2016

Design Biennale London
"In-between: The Utopia of the Neutral"
Summerset House, London, UK
07.09.-27.09.2016

Slow, Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Schwanberg, AUT
07.05.-10.05.2016

Wallpaper Handmade, The Wallpaper Hotel, Milan, IT
12.04-16.04.2016

2015

The collective Intention
Group Exhibition Synopsis, Depot Basel, Basel, CH
05.06.-15.08.2015

Group Exhibition Synopsis
Palazzo Clerici, Milan, IT
14.04-19.04.2015

2014

Spazio Cabinet, Milan, IT
08.04-12.04.2014

2013

ToolsGalerie, Paris, FR
Group Show
29.10-23.11.2013

Spazio Cabinet, Milan, IT
Solo Show
09.04.-13.04.2013