Dear readers,
I’m Sara Core, part of PletoStudio, where we believe that every material holds a story — and our task as designers is to listen before we shape.
When you walk into our studio early in the morning, you don’t hear machines. You hear stillness. A silence filled with potential — the soft sound of wool fibers being brushed, the quiet breathing of paper pulp before it hardens into form.
In today’s world, everything screams for attention. Yet the most timeless design whispers. It comes from a space of listening — to materials, to light, to emotion.
Before a lamp at PletoStudio ever takes shape, there’s a long dialogue between hand and matter. Clay resists. Wool breathes. The mixture of cellulose and kaolin thickens like memory. Nothing happens fast. And that slowness — that reverent waiting — gives birth to form with soul.
I believe silence is a medium of creation. It allows intuition to guide movement, patience to sculpt intention. It’s how a curve becomes organic, how a surface carries breath, how an object feels alive.
When you bring such a piece into your home — a sculptural lamp, a tactile shade, a vessel of light — you invite this silence in. It calms the space. It slows your gaze. It reminds you that design can speak softly and still move you deeply.
Because maybe beauty was never meant to shout. Maybe it was always meant to listen.
With light and quiet strength,
Sara Core
Trends & Style Editor at PletoStudio
