Stories — Altherr Désile Park

This section offers a more personal view of Altherr Désile Park — from the life and working atmosphere of their Barcelona rooftop studio to a collection of experimental and self-initiated projects where the studio thinks outside the box, free from commercial constraints. These projects are opportunities to explore themes, materials and ideas that inspire the studio — a reflection that is often playful, conceptual or unconventional. Here, curiosity leads. Creative boundaries are pushed. New visual and narrative directions are discovered. Alongside documentation of studio life, this section traces an ongoing creative conversation that runs parallel to the commissioned work and informs it in ways that are not always visible in the final objects.

Christmas Cards — An Annual Ritual Each year, a Christmas card — no brief, no client, no constraints — reflects where the studio's thinking is at that moment in time. A small, considered gift that is as much object as message.

Tami, 2025 · Limit or Beginning, 2022 · The Table Knife Project, 2020 · Garden Diary, 2019 · A Grammar of Objects, 2013 Across more than a decade, these projects share a consistent attitude: curiosity over convention, material honesty, and a willingness to work within constraints — a 10×10×10 cm box, a blank knife blade, a sustainable biopolymer — and find freedom within them. Whether responding to ecological questions, collective design calls, or exhibition briefs, the studio brings the same rigour it applies to commissioned work, while allowing space for reflection, experimentation and unexpected form. Themes of sustainability, local production, the intelligence of natural systems, collectible design and the relationship between object and meaning recur throughout. Together, they trace a creative conversation that runs alongside the studio's commercial practice — restless, considered, and always reaching toward design as a genuine way of thinking about the world and our place in it — not just responding to it.

This section is updated regularly as new stories, experiments and studio moments are added.