Peter Webster
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JOURNAL

Notes from the edges of objects and space.

This journal is a place to gather thoughts from inside the studio. Here you will find essays, fragments, and reflections on design systems, material logic, and the ways architectural ideas become enduring objects.

It’s less about news, more about thinking in public. A way to document process, share case studies, and invite dialogue with those shaping the built environment.

The Hidden Costs of Imported Furniture: Why Interior Studios Are Losing

The gleaming showrooms of Milan and the venerable workshops of Northern Europe have long held sway over the interior design imagination. Yet beneath the surface of this seemingly prestigious procurement strategy lies a web of hidden costs that systematically undermines the profitability, efficiency, and creative control of interior studios. The time has come to examine whether the emperor's clothes are worth the price of admission.

What Is a Design System, and Why Should Architects Care?

Architectural and engineering details often begin and end in a single project. But what if the most thoughtful gestures such as benches, lights, joinery could be scaled without losing their soul? In this first essay, Peter Webster explores how design systems can extend spatial thinking into enduring, manufacturable objects.