The design process at Schneid is iterative and physical. Ideas are developed through drawing, models, prototypes and repeated adjustment until form, construction and material feel resolved as one.

A product rarely moves in a straight line from sketch to final object. Proportions shift once a model exists at full scale. A construction detail may change the silhouette. A material can introduce a possibility that was not visible on paper.

Prototypes therefore play a central role in the studio. They allow decisions to be tested through use, weight, balance, light and touch rather than through drawings alone. Some objects are refined through many small adjustments; others change considerably once the first physical version exists.

This process of making, evaluating and refining is what gives the final pieces their sense of inevitability. By the time an object enters the collection, its form is not simply chosen. It has been arrived at.