Marco De Gregorio - Jan Henriksen Architects

Marco De Gregorio - Jan Henriksen Architects Architecture studio based in Barcelona

_______________Design with PersonalityWhen everything is designed to reach the largest possible audience, design can gra...
30/08/2026

_______________Design with Personality
When everything is designed to reach the largest possible audience, design can gradually lose something essential: personality.
Unconventional design refuses conformity. It does not aim to satisfy an average user or an imaginary universal taste, but embraces difference, experimentation and individuality. Its value is not in being reproduced thousands of times, but in creating a meaningful relationship between the object and the person who chooses it.
In this sense, it challenges the idea of democratic design understood as mass accessibility through mass production. A distinctive object can be unique, limited or technically unconventional without being elitist. It is not designed for an elite, but for people with personality. The distinction is not economic, but cultural and emotional.
Here, design moves closer to architecture and art. The object becomes more than a functional solution: it becomes a statement, occupying space and expressing an attitude.
Not everything needs to be universal. Not everything needs to please everyone.
Some objects are meant to be loved precisely because they are not for everyone.

__Sit-Ges Series: N.6 – N.7Helena
16/08/2026

__Sit-Ges Series: N.6 – N.7
Helena

__Sit-Ges Series: No6 – No7_________Many people have asked me about my design process. As a digital artist and an archit...
30/07/2026

__Sit-Ges Series: No6 – No7_________Many people have asked me about my design process. As a digital artist and an architect who has grown alongside the evolution of visual tools, I have been fortunate enough to experience every stage of representation: hand drawing, ink and rapidograph, AutoCAD, 3D rendering, and now AI.

No matter which tools we use, we must keep the the essence: expression, imagination, creativity, functionality, and ex*****on. Technologies change, methods evolve, and new instruments appear, but the act of designing always begins with an idea and the desire to give it form.

And yet, among all these tools, sketching remains my favorite. There is something immediate and honest in drawing by hand, where thoughts flow directly onto paper before becoming architecture, objects, or images. A simple sketch still holds the most powerful moment of the creative process.

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__Sit-Ges Series:  No6 – No7  is an investigation into the relationship between architecture, void, and function.The pro...
22/06/2026

__Sit-Ges Series: No6 – No7 is an investigation into the relationship between architecture, void, and function.

The project begins with a simple question: How little is needed for a chair to exist?

The answer emerges through the reduction of the object to its most essential elements. Flat planes create structure, while a single circular incision introduces movement, lightness and spatial depth.

The curved opening is not merely decorative; it acts as a threshold, transforming solid mass into inhabitable geometry. What appears heavy becomes unexpectedly light and what seems static acquires a sense of flow.

The chairs are conceived as architectural fragments scaled to the human body. They are places to sit but also compositions of shadow, proportions and emptiness. By balancing strict geometric order with a sensual curve, the series proposes a contemporary vision of furniture where function and sculpture become inseparable.

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13/05/2026
__Some find it difficult to see how architecture, design, painting and sculpture can be meaningfully connected.Yet all t...
04/05/2026

__Some find it difficult to see how architecture, design, painting and sculpture can be meaningfully connected.

Yet all these disciplines share a common language of form, space, proportion and material expression.

Volume, shapes, space, their dialogue.

It is within this convergence that my work takes shape, exploring the connection between structure, function and artistic vision.
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10/04/2026

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28/03/2026

CHAIR__ The Void

“CORE CHAIR — Shaping the Void into an Elegant Form and Quiet Presence”
28/03/2026

“CORE CHAIR — Shaping the Void into an Elegant Form and Quiet Presence”

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