拥有生命的蓝钻陶瓷：劳芬2015年新品发布会专访

　　【J】You mentioned that you also design other products, what do you think are the differences between bathroom products and other kinds of products, say furniture?

　　【J】您之前说您还设计其他产品，您觉得卫浴产品和其他产品有什么不同么?比如家具?

　　【TN】For me first of all each company partner is different. It’s different story, it’s different people. I’m not trying to always do something with another parter, for me it could also be in the same field. Even if I work with different people different company like in furniture, it’s another story another culture another country, another…everything is new. Obviously the only common thing in this case is my participation. So when I focus on innovation I just focus on this relation for the project. I’m not thinking about if it’s different if it’s better. So I think it’s really like a story and fortunately I can live different stories.

　　【TN】对于我来说所有的合作公司都是不同的，都是不同的故事，不同的人。我也不是只和不同公司合作，也可以在相同领域里合作。即使我和不同公司合作，比如家具公司，也是另一个故事，另一个文化，另一个国家，另一个……所有事情都是全新的。当然在这种情况下，维持不变的就是我的参与。当我专心创新时我全身心投入在项目里，我并没有去想这有哪些不同或者是不是更好。所以我觉得这整个过程就像是个故事，而我很幸运能活在很多不同故事当中。

　　【MV】We have Mr. Magrans joining us, Laufen Chief of CEO.

　　【MV】劳芬的CEO Magrans先生也会加入到我们的访谈中。

　　【J】I’ve read in other interview that functionality is the most important thing for your design, do you consider that to be your design philosophy?

　　【J】在过去的访谈中您提到在您设计中，功能是最重要的，这是您的设计理念吗?

　　【TN】Functionality is very important, it’s one of the important issue. For me, functionality is a little bit restrictive because my motto is to make products which make sense so it could be without functionality if it makes sense. In the case of the project INO with SaphirKeramik the functionality is very important because we are talking about the bathroom, a place where people use everyday, and it has to work, you cannot say that I don’t know where to put my things or it’s too sharp it’s hurting or the bathtub is not comfortable enough. So in this case the functionality I think is very important because there’s a clear relation between the user and the objects which are the ceramic part of the bathtub the washbasin and any piece of the furniture. So yes it’s an important point. My thinking is really to achieve some new products in corporation with the company. So what I was saying before it’s more of my approach, is really to work in team, to make the people believe in the project then bring the project forward. Because in my experience if you bring something that people really don't believe in the company, it never works. When the people say that they want to do it, it happened with SaphirKeramik because also the people from the development especially for SaphirKeramik, for them understood that it was a challenge and we were excited to do it, this is very excited also for me, that the people are willing to do it.

　　【TN】功能非常重要，这是其中一个重要的点。对于我来说只谈功能有些太限制了，因为我的理念是设计“合理的”产品，所以即使是一个没有“功能”的产品，只要它“合理”对我来说也是可行的。然而在使用蓝钻陶瓷的INO系列中，功能是非常重要的，因为这是卫浴产品，人们天天都使用它，所以它必须能很好的运作，不能说我不知道我的东西能放哪，或者造型太尖锐伤到人，或者浴缸使用起来很不舒服。所以在这个案子里，我认为强调功能是必须的，因为用户和产品之间有着非常明显的相互作用关系。除此之外我觉得必须要和公司一起合作来开发新产品，所以就像我之前所说的，需要团队合作，需要人们相信这个项目并一起让它变得更好。在我的过往经验中，如果人们不相信，这项目永远不会成功。而蓝钻陶瓷这个项目，从研发团队来说，他们理解我的设计挑战，而且也很为之兴奋，因此对我来说也变成了一个大家愿意投入的很令人兴奋的项目。

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