Floor lamp or cloud lamp, folding chair or seating landscape: seating furniture and lamps tell of the social dreams of their design era. And how do you want to live? After a walk through the Swiss Design Lounge and the sample rooms in the Ideal Living exhibition, personal ideal furniture is built in miniature in the studio.

Our real or imagined living spaces and their furnishings are expressions of our identity. On the one hand, our own apartment or room with all our personal belongings is a personal retreat, a guarantor of privacy par excellence. On the other hand, it is also a means of self-expression. The apartment or room as an "ego museum" (Gert Selle) reflects individual self-designs. Younger workshop participants are asked about the furniture they would like for their children's room. Teenagers and young adults are given the challenge of developing furniture with more complex functions or for specific scenarios and building it as a model.

Photos: Umberto Romito, Ivan Suta