During interviews with people whose life stories are both ordinary and singular, I tried to decipher their dream object.Establishing a research protocol for a new proposal allowed me to define specific typologies.This game of back and forth between the words of others and my own drawing leads to the development of dedicated and expressive furniture. The approach is similar to that of the portraitist, the difference being that the representative object is a kind of allegory. Between use and expression, these movable objects tell their own story, and ours.