VolkerHaugStudio

Commissioned by Design Anthology, 2022. Volker Haug's studio in Brunswick East, a former 1940s hosiery factory. Walking in that afternoon, the light had turned. Outside, austere and cold earlier. Inside, a warm glow through the factory windows. The workshop bench, bits of metal everywhere.

The connection surfaced immediately—Dario Pegoretti in Veneto, 2011, the artisanal bike frame makers in Italy, that period of documenting craft. Bike-racing photography ended in 2016, and the work shifted to architecture and interiors. But standing in Volker's studio, watching him work with metal and light, the resonance was unmistakable.

A German lighting designer who'd set up in Melbourne in 2004, making beautiful lights by hand. The space held that same quality: evidence of making, materials scattered, the tools of a singular practice. A couple of portraits of Volker, the warm afternoon light doing most of the work.

A decade between workshops, different crafts, same language.