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dutch designer piet hein eek makes hand-fabricated furniture: tables, chairs and cabinets made from reclaimed scrapwood. the wild patchwork of recycled wood is his signature. piet enjoys combining different materials, textures and finishes. his new collection was presented at spazio rossana orlandi during milan design week.

piet hein eek

plank chair

tie lamps

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite object

the reason why the drawings are smeared: read here

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one of the mayor design websites in the netherlands published a video overview about dutch design from milan design week. some of the interviews like the one with richard hutten or pieke bergmans, are done by me. sometimes you just hear my laugh but can’t see its me.

‘check out our special design.nl video of dutch highlights during the week of the milan furniture fair. video filmed and produced by robert andriessen. extra reporting by jeanne tan and matylda krzykowski.’

direct link to the post on design.nl here

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dutch food designer franke elshout was responsible for the catering at the opening of the ‘nl=new luxury’ exhibition at the nai. just as museums store insects and artifacts in thin draws, franke uses a similar method to display her food creations.

franke elshout

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the nai opened a show called ‘nl=new luxury’ yesterday. the new luxury is attention to the craftsmanship and to the material a product is made off.

marcia nolte - investigation how a human body could adjust itself to the design of products

cygalle shapiro - put a sheet of paper between the large serving platters and you got new plates

lianne kuijpers - wall covering inspired by the appearance of the human body translated into rubber

sayaka yamamoto - carpet inspired by the human skin

celestine briet - birdhouses made of pressed leaves

hung-pin hsueh - system for using taiwan cypress driftwood as an architectural building material

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on this sunny day I went to the nai, netherlands architecture institute, in maastricht for the opening of the ‘nl=new luxury’ exhibition. the show is curated by alexander van slobbe, fashion designer and creative director of the design academy eindhoven. since april 1st 2009 the nai operates independently as the naim/bureau europa, an organisation for architecture and design.

_______I will show some of the exhibited work tomorrow_______

unknown guy,
alexander van slobbe, creative director design academy,
guus beumer, director of naim/bureau europe

nai maastricht - 1st floor

nai maastricht - arched gallery

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amsterdam-based designer bo reudler presents slow white, a collection of furniture and objects made from tree branches at tuttobene showroom during milan design week last month.

bo studied at the arnhem academy of art and design. I am happy to find a good designer who isn’t coming from design academy eindhoven :) please, give me more! for his new collection bo decided to left the computer behind. he ventured into the woods and used the material he found there. he build his products by himself and painted them with white linseed-oil paint.

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite object

the reason why the drawings are smeared: read here

I have to admit that the video embodies amateurism. we did the video on the spur of the moment. 3 takes and the 3rd one was chosen. but I said what I think and have finally an ‘ABOUT’. I like it that way.

find the ABOUT link on the right side …

… and the video appears!

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ilona huvenaars + willem derks presented ‘knitted vase’, a rapid manufactured vase that ‘adapt to the single beautiful rose or the bunch of wildflowers instead of the other way around’.

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los angeles-based industrial designer jang won yoon presented ‘janus’, a stool that is convertible to a chair and the other way around at the salonesatellite last month.

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sometimes you see objects you not even realize that you like them. I have seen marcus tremento’s work before but I never paid attention. light and illusion effects are usually not my thing. but he really got me with one of his lights. (it’s the one on the first picture)

so, new york-based treluce design studio by marcus tremonto showed his lightworks at spazio rossana orlandi during milan design week. sliced digital landscapes that reflect the modern age.

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite object

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nacho again.. :-) eindhoven-based designer nacho carbonell presented the skin collection for droog during milan design week. the furniture consists from an elastic layer that allows the user to place objects underneath it.

see the story about the preview here

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german-hungarian designer laszlo rozsnoki presented his work with designersblock during milan design week last month. here is his ’share a chair’ which can be used as 1 or 2 seating options.

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german designer sebastian herkner presented is ‘bell table’ at the salonesatellite during milan design week. I like it when things are different.

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pieke bergmans is a dutch designer, based in amsterdam. pieke presented her new work ‘handle with care’ inspired by the idea of transporting antiques in crates at zona tortona during milan design week .

the crates mean to protect the precious content. she used antiques, put them in custom-made wooden crates and furnished them with ‘handle with care’ and ‘fragile’. basically she makes use of 2 components: the crates and the antiques. by bringing them together she added an extra value to these items. the user is confronted with a surprising moment when he opens the wooden box and unveils the content.

lightbulbs

crate cabinets

crate cabinets

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite object

milan 2009/

me and robert andriessen from designguide.tv received an invitation for a cosy lunch from fancy van de vorst , account manager creative industry eindhoven, at spazio rossana orlandi, a prestigious design studio in the center of milan.

lovely women served delicious pasta for a good cause. and after all I had the chance to do a quick interview with lidewij edelkoort, dutch trend forecaster and curator of the ‘talent milano’ exhibition about the idea to bring the exhibition to milan design week.

video:

lidewij edelkoort, dutch trend forecaster
at the ‘talent milano’ exhibition spazio rossana orlandi

fatima roos, artistic co-ordinator of the designhuis
jeanne van beers, general manager of the designhuis
jeanne tan, lead writer for design.nl

rossana orlandi

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the eindhoven-based design duo bcxsy presented ‘change’, a series of ten objects handcrafted from foam and coated in rubber.
here are my 2 favourites.

boaz cohen and sayaka yamamoto - itchy nose! : )

squeeze light

stone stool

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max lipsey lives in eindhoven. the american designer was exhibiting his coathooks at spazio rosana orlandi last month during design week.

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dutch brand prooff presented the ear chair by studio makkink & bey at superstudio piu. the chair was designed in 2002 but went in production now. .. I had a look on it at the stand and I just had eyes for the lighting… these were my real eye-catchers. and I don’t even know if they belong to the collection.

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london-based designer simon hasan was one of the designers who took part at design miami’s craft punk performance during the milan design week. It was an event in a partnership with the Italian luxury fashion house fendi.

simon hasan demonstrated the creation process of his leather vases. for ‘beauty and the boiled beast’ he boiled leather, wrapped it on wooden forms, added resin and car paint. I catched him in a busy moment. luckily he had some time to draw for me.

draw yourself

describe yourself in one word

draw your favourite object

the brain

milan 2009/

helsinki-based design studio arihiro miyake - this guy is surely blessed with this surname : ) - has designed a table lamp with a polyhedron base which can be set in various angles.