The Trouble with Happiness - Tove Ditlevsen exhibition while at the same time

while at the same time discussing topics relating to our homes and how we live in this moment of time

and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move

This monograph brings together twenty-two compelling projects — from lighting works for Bocci to furniture and standalone homes — to reveal practice founder Arbel’s radical design ethos

The collective’s practice is based on a range of media

The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint

The Trouble with Happiness - Tove Ditlevsen exhibition while at the same timeA newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wifes beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in mid century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence, and despair, as women and men struggle to escape from the roles assigned to them and dream of becoming free and happywithout ever truly