{"product_id":"a-lot-of-work-muller-van-severen","title":"A Lot of Work, Muller Van Severen","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Lot of Work is a new monograph dedicated to the work of the Belgian design studio Muller Van Severen, an untiring source of inventiveness. The result of 15 years of pioneering activity, it is the first work to present Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen both together and as individual artists, tracing the energies of their personal paths alongside their shared design language. Conceived as a collage, the monograph retraces what has unfolded over the last decade and a half, what preceded it, and what might yet come – shaped, as the title suggests, by a lot of work. With a raw and meditative structure, it draws from their private and public archives to allow \"images to speak through adjacency rather than explanation,\" as Hannes explains in his introductory text. The result \"feels less like a retrospective and more like a pause,\" he writes, \"a breath.\" Curated by Nicolás Barreto and Nacho Alegre, co-founder of Apartamento, the book sits halfway between an art book and something else entirely: an elusive object poised between visual narrative and asynchronous storytelling. A 224-page invitation to witness a work of design sensibility and all the labor behind it, A Lot of Work allows meaning to emerge through proximity and contrast, offering a glimpse into how the couple finds permission to cut, question, reorganize, and delicately destabilize the objects around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Muller Van Severen\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in 2011 by Belgian artists Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen, Muller Van Severen was born from years of individual artistic practice and a shared desire to rethink everyday life. Their collaboration began with functional objects and evolved into a distinctive language shaped by sculpture, architecture, and use, independent of trends. Their furniture is like drawings in space: thin lines, transparency, and openness allow both the surroundings and the objects within them to remain visible. Solid, timeless materials are used in their purest form, combined in unexpected ways, while color becomes a structural element, shaping rhythm and perception. Through this approach, Muller Van Severen has forged a singular and internationally recognized voice in contemporary design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished by Apartamento Publishing S.L.\u003cbr\u003eRelease date: April 15, 2026\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 297 x 210 mm\u003cbr\u003ePages: 24 pages\u003cbr\u003eBinding: hardcover\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e978-84-09-83344-3\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apartamento","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56999994294537,"sku":"0930","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0664\/0864\/4873\/files\/A-Lot-of-Work-Muller-Van-Severen-Apartamento-Book-00.png?v=1776272956","url":"https:\/\/soulstudio.store\/en\/products\/a-lot-of-work-muller-van-severen","provider":"Soul Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}