I believe that objects have souls. We give identities and personalities to objects, and they are also reflections of ourselves. This project is a discussion from objects’ perspective. It is a dramatic and humorous furniture design collection. All of the objects have clockwork equipments which makes them familiar but unfamiliar; impossible in daily lives but lifelike in a fairytale dream or memory. According to Heidegger’s ontology on object, the difference between an object and a thing is probably related to people. Lacan also indicates in “Mirror Stage” that the recognition and ident

Yang Song, industrial designer, MA graduate from Goldsmiths, University of London. He has four years working experiences on both theoretical and practical realms of design before attending the MA program.

Studio SOONG is a personal design studio in China running by industrial designer Yang Song mainly working on experimental furniture design and product research. The works designed by Yang have a particular style, which come from his unique design philosophy on memories of daily objects. As an independent designer as well as a maker, he makes nearly each piece of the design works by hand.