The Dwell 24: Andu Masebo

"I don’t want the object I’m designing to be the loudest in the room," says London designer Andu Masebo over the phone. "I don't want it to say, ‘Look at me, I’m clever.’ I want it to be a reason for someone to access the story behind it." Masebo, who studied ceramics at Central Saint Martins and product design at the Royal College of Art before working as a carpenter and metalwork fabricator for a decade, elaborates: "A lot of the time when I’m making an object, I’m trying to shorten the gap between the person that makes [it] and the person that lives with it, with an idea that if you know a bit more about why something is the way it is, or who made it, then maybe the person who owns the thing will have a stronger connection to the object and be less quick to throw it away."