The quiet pleasures of whittling versus the frenzied sounds of the chainsaw might be at opposite ends of the sound spectrum, yet for Italian architect and designer Michele De Lucchi the move from sharpening pencils with a penknife to picking up a power tool was driven by the same joy: shaping wood. Proclaiming his tenderness for timber, he uses the blade as a brush-stroke to these create small wooden houses. The 'Cassettes', as De Lucchi calls them, start life off inside dead tree trunks that have fallen in the wind and are hollowed out solid wooden blocks; a process that the designer describes as revealing 'a mindset of acceptance and improvement of what nature has to offer'. A selection of the 'Cassettes' is the first event of 2010 to be organised at Ingo Maurer's exhibition space in Munich.