Jane Worthington
The Meaning of Design - Thinking through objects
Having worked alongside Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini and Stefano Marzano, Jane began her career in a uniquely privileged position, under the mentorship of some of the twentieth century’s most visionary designers, figures who played a central role in shaping Postmodern design and redefining the course of design history.
From this foundation, deeply informed by history, Jane continues a line of questioning that seeks meaning in an era shaped by excess and repetition. For her, design begins not with answers, but with better questions, not simply to solve problems, but to cultivate depth. She understands design as a cultural act; a form of reflection that shapes how we live, feel, and remember.
Having lived and worked from within the core of design history, she does not seek to replicate it, but to quietly move forward, questioning the speed, scale, and ephemeral nature of our time.
Post-Industrial Design
Post-Industrial Design defines Jane Worthington’s design practice: a position for those who still believe that objects can carry thought. Her designs are less performative, more meditative. She sees design, at its best, as a slow art, rooted in memory.
Made for living, with spatial intention and material gravity, her objects are intended to deepen our connection with the spaces we inhabit. This is neither a return to function nor an escape from it, but a position between use and reflection, where objects hold cultural meaning through form and restraint.
Here, the poetic becomes precise, and the handmade becomes rare. Jane creates work for a world which seeks connection over consumption, producing with cultural and ethical intention and with feeling at its core.
Art after Industry
From this foundation Art After Industry emerges as a natural extension of Jane’s work and philosophy. Here, she applies the knowledge and technical fluency of design towards emotion rather than efficiency.
The work emerges from a fusion of practices shaped by thought and care. Her sculptures redirect industrial tools of production into listening instruments of reflection, uniting industrial precision with human craft.
These works are not concerned with form alone, but with the tension between art and industry, object and space, memory and desire. Here Jane brings the intelligence of design into dialogue with sculptural introspection, allowing technology, craft, and emotion to meet in the space between design and sculpture.
Studio practice - 2025