Design for Vitality in the world.

Real bodies. Real places. Real climates.

LIVED IN is our evolving field archive — a collection of Design for Vitality pieces being worn, slept in, lived with, repaired, travelled with and made part of everyday life.

We are interested in what happens after an object leaves the studio: how linen softens, how colour changes, how a garment moves in heat, how bedding feels in humidity, how a cushion settles into a home, and how a piece becomes personal through use.

Each photograph is a small piece of evidence. A body. A place. A climate. A material in real life.

BODY × MATERIAL × CLIMATE

We will continue adding customer photographs from around the world, with simple field notes such as place, product, material, climate and year.

Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026
Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026
Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026
Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026
Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026
Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026

Share your piece

If you live with Design for Vitality, we would love to see it. Send us a photograph of your piece in its real environment, together with your location and a few words about how you use it. Selected images may become part of the LIVED IN archive.

Example field note: Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026

LIVED IN / FIELD ARCHIVE

01 / ONGOING RESEARCH

Design for Vitality
in the world.

Real bodies. Real places. Real climates.

An evolving archive of pieces being worn, slept in, lived with, repaired, travelled with and made part of everyday life.

AFTER THE STUDIO

What happens after an object leaves the studio?

We are interested in how linen softens, how colour changes, how a garment moves in heat, how bedding feels in humidity, how a cushion settles into a home, and how a piece becomes personal through use.

Design does not end when something is sold. Its real life begins when material meets body, climate, time and care.

02

FIELD EVIDENCE

Each photograph is a small piece of evidence.

A body. A place. A climate. A material in real life.

Linen kimono worn in tropical Tulum
01 / TULUMLINEN KIMONO · HOT + HUMID · 2026
Linen kimono in Tulum climate
02 / TULUMLINEN KIMONO · HOT + HUMID · 2026

03

BODY × MATERIAL × CLIMATE

We learn from how things live.

BODY

How does it feel?

Movement, sensitivity, perspiration, comfort and the changing relationship between skin and material.

MATERIAL

How does it change?

Softening, colour, washing, repair, wear and the evidence that appears through repeated use.

CLIMATE

How does place matter?

Heat, humidity, altitude, wind, light and season reveal whether a material truly belongs where it lives.

04

THE ARCHIVE

A growing record of material in use.

We will continue adding photographs from around the world, with simple field notes recording place, product, material, climate and year.

FIELD NOTE FORMAT
Tulum, Mexico · Linen Kimono · Hot + Humid · 2026

05

SHARE YOUR PIECE

Your piece becomes part of the research.

If you live with Design for Vitality, we would love to see it. Send us a photograph of your piece in its real environment, together with your location and a few words about how you use it. Selected images may become part of the LIVED IN archive.

SHARE A FIELD NOTE →
Design for Vitality linen kimono lived in Tulum

DESIGN FOR VITALITY™

Nothing ends
with the product.

How it lives, ages, repairs and adapts becomes intelligence for what comes next.

DISCOVER THE COLLECTION →
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