Every piece begins with an emotional starting point rather than a functional brief, furniture as a feeling given shape, whether that shape ends up reading as a chair, a mirror, or an object with no clear category at all. A seat that looks mid-collapse is not a flaw to correct; the discomfort is often the point, provoking a reaction in whoever encounters it rather than disappearing quietly into a room. Mercer treats craft and joke as inseparable, the wax clay, the moulds, the hand-poured resin are as intentional as the deliberately unresolved silhouette sitting on top of them.

Each form is sculpted first in wax-based clay, then cut into sections and cast into silicone moulds before resin is hand-poured and, on larger works, assembled from multiple individually moulded parts. Every design is modelled digitally beforehand to judge scale and feel ahead of fabrication. Some smaller pieces are 3D printed to reduce material waste during development; AI plays no role anywhere in the process. Surfaces are hand-painted and finished in high gloss, with editioned pieces produced in intentionally uneven colour runs rather than matched sets.