Study O Portable

Rubber Rocks Sphere Currently on show at @gallery_fumi

Transit Scarves The foundation of trade is the idea that once something is taken out of its original context and placed in an environment where the object is more scarce, it acquires a higher value. This simple idea has been utilised in many different areas from creative work to information technology where methods of re-contextualisation and dispersion of an idea forms a critical element of the system. Transit Scarves are made in Italy using Chinese silk, the two ends of the Silk Road. Each scarf is both a fashion accessory as well as a depiction of an often overseen yet crucial component(packaging) of the logistics that our modern life relies on. Digital print 100% Silk Crepe de chine 90cm x 90cm Made in Italy Transit Scarves will be on show at @stateoffashionnl from 14th May

Rubber Rocks @gallery_fumi

Fuzz Bench for @gallery_fumi

Read now: Study O Portable in conversation with Vicky Richardson.⁠ ⁠ 'I feel as if I’m learning something - the way you’ve broken granite down geologically, then reconstructed it in a new material, is very enjoyable in the work.'⁠ ⁠ In this thought-provoking conversation between @vcky_rchrdsn , writer and curator specialising in architecture and design, and Tetsuo Mukai and Bernadette Deddens of @studyoportable , the trio explore the conceptual and material themes at play in the body of work Rubber Rocks. ⁠ ⁠ Touching on architecture, permanence, ruin, and replication, the discussion unfolds as a meditation on the lifecycle of materials, the building of ideas, and the quiet power of mischief in design.⁠ ⁠ Read now with the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ PH @_leroyboateng ⁠ ⁠ Rubber Rocks by Study O Portable | 15 May - 28 June 2025

A fragment from the past, reimagined for the present: Planter in Granito Sardo, from @studyoportable 's new body of work Rubber Rocks, is crafted with pigmented rubber eraser with marble dust, and hand-sculpted to look like the fragment of a weathered column. ⁠ ⁠ In this work, Study O Portable explores the tension between permanence and impermanence, transformation and erosion.⁠ ⁠ Discover more now with the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ PH @penguinseggstudio ⁠ ⁠ Rubber Rocks by Study O Portable | 15 May - 28 June 2025

'At first glance, London's Gallery FUMI appears to have been filled with a set of carved granite furnishings – monolithic stools, consoles and benches arranged like the scattered remnants of a classical ruin. But step closer and the illusion gives way: what looks heavy and enduring is, in fact, soft and pliable to the touch. "It’s always nice to see something that confuses you slightly and then finding out what it is,' Mukai says of the trompe-l’œil sculptures. 'That moment of discovery or figuring out is something we always like to have in the work." - @ali__morris for @wallpapermag ⁠ ⁠ PH @haylesnashphoto @penguinseggstudio ⁠ ⁠ Rubber Rocks by Study O Portable | 15 May - 28 June 2025

OPENING THURSDAY: Rubber Rocks, a new series of works by @studyoportable at Gallery FUMI, composed of objects made in rubber eraser in the form of granite architectural elements in decay.⁠ ⁠ 'We are interested in how we think about architecture after its initial utility and the idea of permanence vs ephemeral. Some things are seemingly permanent but nothing is as permanent as we think. Rubber Rocks plays with that contradiction - bringing together the fleeting and the enduring, the monumental and the mundane.'⁠ ⁠ Discover more with the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ PH @penguinseggstudio ⁠ ⁠ Rubber Rocks by Study O Portable | 15 May - 28 June 2025

View now in our current show: New side tables from the Fuzz series by London-based design duo @studyoportable , formed through the meticulous application of layered pigmented jesmonite.⁠ ⁠ In hues of deep, inky blue through to a soft cream, the layers of material are hand-brushed over a hexagonal mould where they blur and merge in an organic progression like sedimentary rocks shaped by time. The resulting effect carries a quiet alchemy where precision dissolves into fluidity.⁠ Scroll for an insight into the process.⁠ ⁠ View new works by Study O Portable on our website with the link in bio.⁠ ⁠ PH @penguinseggstudio ⁠ ⁠ In the Warmth of Winter | 30 January - 22 March

Incomplete Copy in good company at Grazie Enzo: Contemporary Responses to Enzo Mari @designmuseum #EnzoMariBalcony

Plate with a Hand Holding a Couch Shell by Study O Portable 💸 STARTING BID Edition of 6 + 2 AP Base price of £95 each Study O Portable, founded by Bernadette Deddens and Tetsuo Mukai, is a research based practice that makes objects about the designed environment, and our relationship to the cultural landscape that enables it. We are interested in the transitional nature of our ideas towards objects and the work often catalogues various, and sometimes disparate notions associated with certain ideas and objects and proposes other potential for the mundane and ordinary. “Ralph took the conch from where it lay on the polished seat and held it to his lips; but then he hesitated and did not blow. He held the shell up instead and showed it to them and they understood.” In the book ‘Lord of the Flies’, conch shell is a symbol of authority in an unstable society made up of lost boys on a remote island where the meeting only takes place where the shell is and whoever holding the shell can speak. The blind trust in the power of the shell is at first a device for establishing order and organisation but soon its power is abused and later dismissed by the disillusioned population. 🪑 SIT, FEAST ON YOUR LIFE 15 - 21 April, Milan Design Week @dopo.space

Wallpaper made as a part of permanent interventions for the London College of Fashion’s new campus in Stratford. The wallpaper design is taken from the cotton sheets that were used to cover work surfaces at LCF’s screen print workshop on Lime Grove (4th image). Photographed, arranged and printed at 1:1 scale, the image depicts the remains of the activities that took place at the workshop. Throughout this project we were interested in cataloguing marks left in the LCF campuses by people who use them and making them into permanent fixture for the new building as a quiet gesture that reminds us the past and history of the college. These small things are meant to blend in with the environment and can only be found or understood in certain instances. Certainly, there is a chance not everyone realises the object is in fact placed there intentionally as an intervention, but in the age of obvious, in-your-face and bold presentation being the norm, this level of specificity feels somewhat relevant as an counterpoint to the convention. @lcflondon_