His, His & Hers

We have a relationship of 3. We are polyamorous.

Since the start of our relationship, we experienced a world insufficiently designed for people like us. Dwellings, public spaces, furniture, public & private institutions, as well as all the regulations within them, were typically based around the traditional understanding of the couple and their binaries, which didn’t meet our needs.

When we moved in together, we immediately started to experience the discomfort of living in a household designed to a conventional standard of relationship. It withheld the ability of our love to flourish.

More so than products, services were equally as hard to come by for our case. For example, when booking a room none of the hotels could offer us a proper suite. When trying to reserve a table for a romantic Valentine’s day dinner for the 3 of us from a special menu of a restaurant, we were refused, - "couples only", they told us.

Products and services are universally designed for singles or couples. Very often they are romanticized. (double seats for lovers in the last row of the cinema, matching couple pendants, bed linen for a double bed, twin toothbrush holders, matching mugs and sweatshirts, romantic getaways, dates for two ... not to mention weddings). This led us to believe the market just doesn’t exist for this type of love, and worse, it even manages to inhibit the chances of this type of love to evolve.

We asked ourselves why in a world that is becoming more open an accepting of personal choices we are still faced with the taboo of personal choice concerning love. Our relationship and the needs around it became the start of our design-triad.