The challenge and opportunity Studio Tord Boontje has long sought is a delicate marriage of design with emotion that is as broadly accessible as it is enticing.  The Studio’s work draws from a belief that modernism does not mean minimalism, that contemporary does not forsake tradition, and that technology does not abandon people and senses.  The Studio’s designs often temper edges with softness, take inspiration from nature, and employ a décor of forms and layers to engage and entice an observer’s imagination and emotions.  But these references to nature and emotion reflect only an outcome, not the process of design itself.  Although the use of technologies and material properties is never celebrated (and is always subsumed within the final product ), there is nonetheless a conscious insistence that the Studio’s work employ the latest production and material technologies in pursuit of its vision. Recent exhibitions include Anima Animus, at Ebeltoft Glass Museum in Denmark a joint exhibition with artist Emma Woffenden exploring their creative relationship, and Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design at the V&A..