<b>Which material would you choose if you had to restrict yourself to working with just one for the next three years?</b> ‘What would happen after three years? I could chose another one?’ Jasper Morrison is smiling. ‘OK. It would be quite painful. I would maybe choose wood and then after three years I would change to plastic. When you design, it is always a question of getting a quality in an object and a sort of visual value – and the two materials that do it the best are wood and plastic. Plastic because you have so many possibilities and it is cheap. And wood because you have the sensibility of the material, the tactile quality, the warmth of its appearance and I think it is quite a good moment for wood. People appreciate it a lot. For example, the chairs I did for Maruni. You know, this very populist kind of shaped wood.' <b>At what point within the design process do you decide in favour of a specific material? What comes first – the shape or the choice of material?</b> 'It i
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