A project Toolscale, studios BlackWool and MINIMÈTRE come together to explore contemporary making as a space of hybridization between handcrafted gestures and digital tools.

At the heart of the project: a sofa conceived as a manifesto piece, where materials from radically different practices converge.

The wool, carded and hand-spun, is enriched with multimix — a blend of fibers reclaimed from textile production waste.

It sits alongside 3D-printed ceramic elements — an artisanal process controlled through additive technology — and extruded aluminium profiles produced through standardized industrial methods.

Each material embodies a mode of making, a rhythm, a relationship to gesture. Together, they shape a functional and narrative object, revealing both the frictions and complementarities between tradition, innovation, and production.

Surrounding this central piece, the exhibition reveals the backstage of the project: prototypes, tools, material samples, and fabrication narratives.

The whole forms a working method that is open, sensitive, and guided by — as much as responsive to — the material. Toolscale is an invitation to reconsider how we make, produce, and transmit knowledge.

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