First look: Five new Singapore designs that envision a Future Home Life

Images courtesy of DesignSingapore Council
Photos by Mark Cocksedge

Curated by Hunn Wai (Lanzavecchia + Wai) and assisted by Eian Siew, with support from DesignSingapore Council, Prototype Island has created a big buzz at Milan Design Week this year. The showcase not only tackled global challenges through materiality, but also demonstrated Singapore’s design identity—bold thinking, creativity, and large-scale action. Of the 15 works presented, a third explored new ways of home living by using craft, technology, and inclusivity.

Fragility to Permanence by ODD M.

ODD M.’s co-founder, Eden Loh, presented a project that, at first glance, looks like a typical ceramic collection. However, it actually uses recycled eggshells and post-consumer waste to form a series of clean and consumer-friendly objects. “Fragility to Permanence is a material exploration of how delicate beginnings can lead to enduring form,” says Eden. “The collection hopes to bring together crafted objects shaped through processes where vulnerable, overlooked resources become the foundation for something lasting.”

Iris by Parable

Similarly, Parable – an award-winning concept and design studio founded by Ken Yuktasevi in 2016 – also tried their hands at crafting a modular lighting system using local Singaporean clay. Named Iris, these eye-shaped ceramic pieces offer flexible combinations of colour and texture and are designed to be expanded, repaired, and reconfigured over time. Not only are they suitable for residential and commercial spaces, but they can also create “thoughtful, storied spaces and brands woven from meaningful narratives and built to last.”

Lustre Series & Earth Deity Altar by Roger Ng Wei Lun

Roger Ng’s Lustre Series reimagines the traditional Peranakan tea table by combining contemporary materials like wood and UV-printed Dibond aluminium panels. While historically crafted in blackwood with mother-of-pearl inlay, Roger’s version was adorned with digitally produced pixel-based patterns, which allowed its aluminium surface to shimmer subtly while remaining distinctly industrial. The designer explained: “By merging ornament with digital abstraction, I have proposed a vision of Peranakan heritage defined by transformation, reinvention, and dialogue between past and present.”

Threads of Becoming by Melvin Ong, Shervon Ong, and Andy Yeo

Threads of Becoming is not merely a vase collection, but a showcase of how digital tools can merge with traditional craft. By first shaping a vessel through 3D printing and then enhancing it with hand-applied lacquer threading (also known as qi xian diao 漆线雕, a rare traditional technique practised in Singapore by Andy Yeo, one of the few remaining artisans in Singapore), the intricate results have honoured an age-old heritage while allowing it to evolve through new contexts and collaborations.

People of the World by weareSuper

weareSuper, a new venture that sprang out from the already well-known Supermama brand, has begun to play an inclusive role within their newly opened 800 sqm facility at The Enabling Village. While holding a structured Portrait Design workshop there, participants have collectively created faces through shapes, gestures, and shared decisions by using the restrained blue-and-white palette. With this method, weareSuper has kept attention on the method rather than the medium and that’s how People of the World, a collection of 25 cobalt blue and white porcelain plates, was born.

For more on Prototype Island, visit https://designsingapore.org/events/prototype-island/

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