PLAY HAUS
Somewhere in the backs of our minds, we are still children at play—sliding furniture across the floor of our bedroom, rearranging shelves, constructing new worlds from the same familiar pieces. Each shift creates a new story, a new logic, a new way of seeing what we already own. Play Haus begins here.
We used play to imagine a more sustainable way of living. Play can take the shape of unexpected textures, colors, or form, or it might unfold through architectural flexibility, shifting a familiar room into something newly charged. Sustainability, in turn, is found in the continued use of materials—fabrics, woods, and found objects—alongside pieces already present in our own collections. When we resist replacement and instead rearrange, the house becomes like a dollhouse, open, mutable and alive to change.
play as a method
not an aesthetic.
Play Haus features the work of 21 emerging and established artists whose practices themselves center on play or sustainability, photographed in-situ in one of our residential projects, Clover House. Their work is crafted from remnants, centered on reuse or saturated with color; their pieces bring texture, memory, and form into conversation. Together, these pieces and this home create a domestic landscape that feels vibrant and slightly unruly. It’s an environment shaped by touch not perfection.
Above is a small selection of the works throughout Play Haus. Each object is made by an independent artist. Learn more about the objects and their makers by browsing the Play Haus Collection.
Before we played with objects, we played with architecture. We approached this project not only as designers, but as craftspeople. Every major architectural and artistic element—handmade tile, stained glass, painted murals, custom lighting, built-ins, and structural detailing—was designed, fabricated, and installed by the studio’s two principals themselves; nothing was outsourced.
The project was conceived as an immersive, hands-on act of making, where even some creative direction emerged directly through material exploration. Rather than impose a borrowed architectural language, the designers chose to build one from the inside out. With a limited budget and complete creative trust, they set out to construct a personality reflective of their clients using color, craft, and custom fabrication as primary tools.
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pieces shift, scenes evolve
and we open the home
to ongoing possibility.
The artists’ work folded into the space. Objects settled into built-ins, gathered in corners, leaned against walls. The house was rendered again—not as a single composition, but as two distinct scenes. Each arrangement offered a different reading of the same rooms, demonstrating how interiors can transform without starting over.
In Play Haus, play is a method not an aesthetic. It is the act of trying, rearranging, and living with what’s already there. Sustainability is no longer a set of rules, it is the play itself. Like a child returning again and again to a dollhouse filled with the same objects and imagining new worlds for them, we play within the limits and discover they are not limits at all.
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