CAPSULE TALKS hosts honest, in-depth conversations with pioneers about work, pressure, doubt, discipline, and growth. Designers, founders, athletes, and cultural leaders reflect on the choices behind their careers. What shaped them, challenged them, almost broke them, and how they kept moving forward.
38 episodes, 14,000 listeners in 66 countries. The archive stands on its own.
Hosted by Bastiaan van der Sluis, communication performance partner for creative studios. He works beside founders, inside the pressure, on how a studio decides, communicates and shares responsibility.
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EP38: Markus Töll On True Materials: Craft, Silence, and the Freedom of Making Things That Last
Markus Töll is the founder of SUPERSEDIA, a Vienna-based studio dedicated to the hand manufacture of seating objects. He grew up in his father's metalworking workshop in Bressanone, trained as a metalworker, and went on to study architecture at Vienna's Technical University. The practice brings structural rigour and craft intimacy together in chairs and objects that sit somewhere between furniture, sculpture, and small architecture. Since 2022, SUPERSEDIA has collaborated with Stone Island across more than 20 flagship stores worldwide, and was named in Wallpaper's Future Icons 2026.
What if the most honest thing a chair can do is have no front, no back, no upside, and nothing to hide?
Töll's practice is built on the constant dialogue between an idea and its immediate realisation. He works slowly, plans obsessively, and insists on making everything by hand, including, until recently, the screws. He sources materials exclusively from four traditional artisan workshops in Vienna. He chose a studio across the Danube so that no one passes by coincidentally. His furniture is reduced without being minimalistic. Made from true materials. Built to be inherited.
In this episode, Markus speaks about growing up beside his father at the workbench, the physical and emotional cost of going fully independent, and what it means to build a practice on patience rather than urgency. We talk about Carlo Scarpa, the Stone Island collaboration that started with a Shanghai daybed he redesigned, why he believes the handmade detail lives in the moment you stop, and what it means to work in silence every day toward something you are not yet ready to show.
25 Feb 2026
EP37: Basile Fournier On Structure as Language: Designing Systems That Outlast Trends
Basile Fournier is a French creative director and founder of Studio Basile Fournier, working across art, visual identity, digital environments, and spatial storytelling. His practice operates at the intersection of culture and technology, developing visual ecosystems for brands, institutions, and independent voices seeking clarity.
What if design is not about style, but constructing a system that can evolve without losing meaning?
Basile’s work is rooted in arts, structure, research, and iteration. From early explorations in graphic language to building flexible visual ecosystems for contemporary brands, his approach resists decoration and focuses instead on coherence over time. He speaks about independence, long-term thinking, and why a visual identity should behave more like architecture than advertising.
In this episode, Basile reflects on building a studio without shortcuts, navigating doubt while protecting creative standards, and the tension between intuition and methodology. We discuss discipline, authorship, collaboration, and why visual culture today demands systems that can absorb complexity rather than fight it.
4 Feb 2026
EP36: Stian Dahl Sommerset On Running as a Social Act: Endurance, Community and The Privilege of Suffering
Stian Dahl Sommerset is a Norwegian ultrarunner, public servant, and Satisfy pro athlete, balancing life between long-distance endurance racing and working on environmental and infrastructure policy in Norway. Raised north of the Arctic Circle, his relationship with darkness, nature, and solitude has shaped how he approaches effort, ambition, and meaning.
What does endurance reveal when winning is no longer the point?
Stian’s path moves from football and law school into ultra-distance running, where effort stretches beyond performance and into psychology, community, and shared experience. He speaks openly about fear at the start line, the privilege of chosen suffering, and why motivation cannot survive on ambition alone. We talk about racing as a social act, why finishing together can matter more than finishing first, and how support systems carry athletes long before the race begins. Stian reflects on unlearning competitiveness, processing failure, running through darkness, and advocating for dark-sky preservation in a world that rarely slows down.
This episode is about endurance as a way of relating to others, to nature, and to yourself — especially when the outcome is uncertain.
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