 Sunlight shines on rippling water and the spokes of a bicycle wheel spin. We see all these products that are made over time that are cherished now because they have this personal handwriting. I think that's our challenge as designers. Chromatography. A pen is lifted. We always start with a blank page. It's dragged across a sheet of paper. Once you draw the first line, you know you will start like this process which takes maybe three years. Four years before it's ending. You should forget all that to be very creative and very open. Color is the starting point of our design process. You need to apply color of course. So the more minimalistic the canvas is, the better. Paintbrush is cleaned. We always try to have this balance in colors with a little bit of an edge. So people have to get used to it. We're always trying to push these boundaries. The color range we try to achieve with the material is based on study. I think that's also to do that we are husbands and wives by creating together the designs get more unique. And I think that's the combination which makes our relationship very strong. It's a way of working almost like an artist or a sculptor that we also do in our practice. So we make our own materials and we make our own colors and we make our own models. And by doing so, we get this layering and it will, we hope, provide this quality to a product. Quilted fabric samples are unpacked. The model making is very important. Stiff paper is cut. Instead of going from A to B as quick as possible in the design process, the model helps us to find new shapes, new possibilities. A diorama is built. If you create a model with your own hands, you see the difficulties. And sometimes you see new solutions which you never could find on paper. Quilted fabric is draped over the arm of a sofa and pressed into place. Our inspiration comes from our life as designers. Water is poured. We travel a lot. We work in all these different cultures. But special nature is providing us so many details. Because if you look, for example, to flowers, even though they're the brightest flowers, they're always perfect in balance. And this perfection in color and shape is what we really love and what we also like to achieve in our work. I'm Carol Beijing. My name is Stefan Scholten. And we work together at Scholten and Beijing's Studio for Design.