Video: Handbag Video 1 - Pieter Lategan | STUDIO
11 January 2026
Video: Handbag Video 2 - Pieter Lategan | STUDIO
Handbag Pattern Design: Width 30cm x Height 25cm X 2 - Pieter Lategan | STUDIO
11 January 2026
This post documents design studies and visual explorations that are not approved for production by Pieter Lategan | STUDIO.
These images form part of my internal design and research process. They are shared for transparency and documentation only, and do not represent finished products or items intended for manufacture, sale, or licensing.
The designs shown here are explicitly excluded from future production. They may contain unresolved structural, material, or conceptual elements and are retained as part of the studio’s development archive.
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Pencil line drawing derived from the abstract form, used to study structure and proportion.
Pieter Lategan | STUDIO -10 January 2026
Video: Pieter Lategan | STUDIO - 10 January 2026
Fabric Study — Concept in Progress
This video shows an early exploration of fabric options for a sculptural bag concept currently in development.
The materials shown are not final selections, but part of a tactile thinking process — considering weight, texture, flexibility, and how fabric holds form.
The intention is to create a hand-made piece, where the fabric will be carefully selected in dialogue with the object’s structure and use.
Material choice will be guided by restraint, durability, and presence rather than decoration.
This is a working study.
Final fabric, colour, and construction will be decided through making.
Quiet Monumentalism — Structural Object Study I - Pieter Lategan | STUDIO 2026
Structural Form Study — Bag Concept I
This image represents an early process study rather than a finished design.
The starting point was a Quiet / Silent Monumentalism figure study. I removed the background entirely, isolating the abstracted form so that only mass, weight, and structure remained. What interested me was not the figure as a body, but the figure as volume — a contained presence defined by compression, fold, and gravity.
By stripping the image down to its essential shape, the form could be read differently: not as a person, but as an object with architectural logic. This allowed me to begin thinking about how a sculptural presence might translate into a functional object, such as a bag, without becoming decorative or illustrative.
At this stage, the work is intentionally unresolved. The image documents a way of thinking rather than a solution. It marks a transition point between painting, object, and material exploration, where questions of fabric, structure, and use will be tested slowly and rigorously.
This is a working process. The final outcome may change significantly, but the core concern remains the same: restraint, material intelligence, and form carrying meaning without explanation.
Work in progress, 9 January 2026 - Pretoria, South Africa
Pieter Lategan
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