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Old wooden coffers, a loft, traditional shutters. Then a device of untreated aluminium and industrial modules arrived and took up residence between them.

Dwell Passepartout is a micro-architecture inserted into a small historical domestic space in Milan, a single multifunctional furniture-device that organises the entire interior through a series of rigid modular boxes with reflective faces. The aluminium folds crystallise the Milanese tradition of interior drapery into something structural and permanent. The staircase is defined not as a fixed element but as an idea of movement through space. Nothing is treated or finished. The materials show themselves in their natural rawness, following a philosophy of the unfinished that suits both the industrial logic of the new intervention and the layered character of the old space around it.

Continuity and contrast held in the same object, in dialogue with a domestic culture that has always known how to hold both.

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The mechanism was inspired by an old Swedish woodworking clamp. Then it was tested on Axelsson's children.

The IKEA PS 2026 Stool by Mikael Axelsson adjusts height through a deliberately analogue system: a wedge-shaped lever pulled upward loosens a bright blue lacquered latch, allowing the birchwood saw-tooth base to slot into a new position. No electronics, no hidden mechanism, no instructions needed. The Tvingman clamp, a workshop tool most people recognise immediately, was the reference. The exaggeration of the mechanism was intentional, an invitation to interact rather than a technical necessity.

Axelsson designed it with the same principle that guides how he furnishes his own home: nothing you admire from a distance, everything you can live with fully. A stool that works, adjusts, and is completely fine with getting broken.

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