Study O Portable is a designing practice for accessories and other portable objects based in London, founded by Bernadette Deddens (the Netherlands) and Tetsuo Mukai (Japan) in April 2009. Their work evolves around the idea of portability and question of functionality in objects. They take great interest in the methods of designing just as much as the resulting work and often choose a simple but considered production process and material.

They met while studying at ArtEz in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Bernadette graduated from Design Products Royal College of Art in 2006 and has since worked as an independent accessories designer and consultant. She is a visiting lecturer at London College of Fashion. She looks for practical emotional functions in objects that we carry around. Tetsuo has a background in fashion design and worked in London and Paris. He investigates alternative ways to design objects.




Exhibitions

16 April - 15 May 2010
Glass Tube Necklace at Punnetto Square
a joint exhibition with Hiroko Shiratori at Sakumotto gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

13 - 18 April 2010
Baum & Ananas at FoodMarketo
a group show and workshop by Apartamento Magazine and DesignMarketo at Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan.

14 - 18 April 2010
Level Scarves at Arnhem Coming Soon
at Made in Arnhem exhibition. Ventura Lambrate, Milan.

04 December - 24 December 2009
A Shop
an exhibition and temporary shop of British designers and Irish craft in Dublin, Ireland.

19 September - 17 October 2009
A City In A Shop Window
a shop window installation at Tenderproduct in Covent Garden as part of the London Design Festival.

23 - 27 September 2009
On Rooftops at Okay Studio and Friends
a group show at Mother in Shoreditch as part of the London Design Festival.

23 - 27 September 2009
Scarf is a lift at Airmail LND
a group show organised by Parallel Projects at Idea Generation Gallery as part of the London Design Festival.

17 - 21 June 2009
Chain Jam at Just Now
a self initiated and organised group show with Rowan Mersh and Tithi Kutchamuch in Camden, London.

6 June - 6 July 2009
Clogs at Royal Artez
during the Arnhem Mode Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands.


Commissions/Workshops/etc.
Collections of accessories for Cabinet by Tomoko Yamanaka, a women's wear designer.
Chain Jam, a jewellery making workshop for My Sugarland and Benefit Cosmetics.
Super Christmas Market at Somerset House.
Accessories for Snog Pure Frozen Yogurt, London.
Jewellery commission for Darkroom, London