Industrial designer Christophe de la Fontaine and artist Aylin Langreuter swapped Milan for a small medieval castle in Lower Bavaria. In 2012, they launched  Dante Goods & Bads,  creating products and editions that transcend the purely material. Always exploring the emotional bond between people and things, they continue to inspire—and we were thrilled to get a glimpse of their world and feature them in our newsletter.

What role does design play for you?

For us, design always moves between necessity and desire. We create things that are indispensable, and things that express our identity, our wishes, and our way of life.
Relevance arises at the intersection of present and future—when a design is precisely rooted in its time, yet points beyond it. Every project begins with an idea, which materializes: as a concept, a prototype, or an industrially producible object.
Design is a form of transfer—from thought to matter, from vision to usability, from individual perspective to collective experience. In the end, it becomes an object that interacts with daily life—concrete, not abstract. Taken together, these objects shape our world, influence routines and atmospheres, and affect how we move, act, and perceive.
We shape the things, and the things shape us. (freely adapted from Marshall McLuhan)