Like a piece of foam that has been picked away at, the rough cylindrical form seems to have been found through a process of gradual erosion – its pitted surface resembling a rugged rock face, resplendent with dents and cavities, craters and pockmarks.

In vivid blue, the Suerza brings to mind industrial materials, such as Styrofoam and copper sulphate – but it also recalls a choppy sea, or crystal formations such as kyanite and blue quartz.

A moment of levity and brightness, colour and texture, Suerza is a small fleck of blue – but a big dose of character; a rough and raw contrast to the precision and angularity of most design, a protest against the straight lines and right-angles that dominate architecture.

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Suerza. The post-distration effort to recall the reason you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, trying to retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid gathering the string of a downed kite. – John Koenig