In the anniversary, 55th issue of Design Alive, focused on wellbeing, my column “Towards Quality” was published. The text inaugurates a new editorial section developed together with the magazine and dedicated to contemporary craft and its role in design.
In the same issue, the editors also selected a group of Polish craftsmen, including myself. I see this as part of a broader conversation about how craft is understood and practiced today.
Craft as a method of work
In the column, I address the growing inflation of the term “craft”, which is increasingly used in marketing language and less often understood as a real working method. In my practice, craft is not an idea or an identity. It is a tool.
It is a way of working with material, structuring decisions and achieving quality through process.
Craft and wellbeing
The theme of wellbeing adds an important context to this discussion. Manual work is not an aesthetic choice but a real experience that supports focus, patience and a sense of agency. These qualities directly influence both the making process and the way objects are experienced.
In this sense, craft is not about returning to the past. It is a way of working consciously in the present.
Bensari Workshop
Bensari Workshop is a woodworking studio and school based in Wrocław, Poland, where I design and build collectible furniture and teach traditional woodworking techniques as part of contemporary practice.
