Vagujhelyi is an interdisciplinary design studio based in New York City that aims to transfigure the relationship between the object and its holder as well as affinity and compulsion. The Vagujhelyi name is steeped in tradition and innovation—a family name evoking and echoing the perseverance of ancestral agency. It is a name that arose from the strains of World War II, bestowed by a grandfather upon his lineage to maintain his Hungarian roots in the New World. As such, Vagujhelyi binds adversity and discipline with tension and composure.