Luka Stepan
DESIGN THAT CAN BE IMPROVED?
Car design obviously; it can’t just be about
styling, can it? It’s not enough that Tesla
challenges the other manufacturers, there’s
lot to do: how do you improve on the
interior and how do you interact with all
the electronics at your command? And
being in charge of so much deadly power
in the street, how do you develop the auto-
matic system keeping everything in check?
If we will have driverless cars in a sharing
economy, what will they look like? What
kind of sociological and cultural challenges
are we facing?
THE LAST BOOK YOU READ?
The Architectures of Atelier Bow-Wow:
Behaviorology. I’m fascinated with the
Japanese metabolists of the 1950s and
how their work applies to the architects of
today, especially when we look for new
types of dwellings for new lifestyles.
LATEST MUSIC EXPERIENCE?
The Serbian indie-pop band Repetitor;
they are at their best live!
Luka Stepan continued his studies at the Royal College of Art in London,
after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana.
He received guidance from Professor Ron Arad at the RCA, and worked
as a freelance designer in the UK for several renowned London studios –
among them Tangerine – and Luka is now based in Ljubljana with his own
design studio. ‘Why am I making yet another chair? Yes, that’s a good
question! There are really way too many chairs in the world, and lots of
them are really bad since they don’t last long, not even culturally. Lucky is
made without any compromises or short-cuts, and while it’s not a cheap
chair, it’s actually an investment because you can count on using it for a
long time.’
As a designer, I appreciate restrictions regardless of whether they are
related to with artistic expression, marketing issues, sociological concerns
etc. It is these restrictions that make you bound to find successful solutions.’
LUKA
