Adrien Rovero’s designs often appear to be simple – an endlessly transformable sofa made from elegantly upholstered blocks, for example, or a collection of animal toys made from high quality leather off-cuts – but are inevitably the result of complex considerations. Adrien grew up in the Swiss countryside outside Lausanne, where he started making things from an early age, picking up both man-made and natural objects and turning them into something new. “I’ve always loved the idea of transformation,” he says. In his studio in Renens, he works on furniture, lighting and exhibition designs, and teaches one day a week at the ECAL (L’Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne).