Project:
Herinneringsbank (Memory Bench), Ineke Hans
Ineke Hans built a bench with a hole cut into it for a new tree to grow through, replacing the one used to manufacture the bench. The concept of the piece, commissioned by Triodos Bank and the Dutch forestry service, is simple but heartfelt. And above all, it’s beautiful.
Interview:
A Bench with a Heart
Ineke Hans, Herinneringsbank (Memory Bench)
During her master’s course in furniture design at London’s Royal College of Art, she was discovered by the store chain Habitat. She worked ... person: Ineke Hans
After earning her master’s degree in furniture design at London’s Royal College of Art, Ineke Hans designed for the Habitat store chain for ...
Interview:
Growth Rings
Friso Kramer, Boomstoel (Tree Chair)
Friso Kramer may be advancing in years, but when he talks about his work you quickly forget it. He speaks with great enthusiasm about the ... "In the 1970s we strongly believed that good design is socially conscious design. I'm still convinced of that."
Friso Kramer
Project:
L’Essence de Mastenbroek, Birthe Leemeijer
Artist Birthe Leemeijer has created a perfume that expresses life on a Dutch polder through the medium of scent. Working closely with local ... "You never know whether your design will survive even a generation. With these objects, I at least know that they could."
Ivan Kasner "I’d rather develop a work on location, with others, preferably so that the collaboration takes on meaning within the work itself."
Birthe Leemeijer “For new materials and techniques, you’re better off seeking alliances with big industrial companies."
Ivan Kasner
Project:
Table de Ville, Hans Meiboom (Studiomeiboom)
A table that’s more than two kilometres long ought to get people talking to each other again. Hans Meiboom wants to build just such a table in ... "You have to make comfortable things. Not philosophical treatises – just comfortable, sellable furniture."
Ineke Hans
Project:
Petrifying, Ivan Kasner
For his graduation project at Eindhoven’s Design Academy, Ivan Kasner turned ten natural objects to stone. To do so, he sought the assistance ... "With this table I want to bring back the meeting function of the Bijlmerpark in particular and of public space in general."
Hans Meiboom, Studiomeiboom "The playground was bleak, but inside the school there was a sultry atmosphere. The contrast led me to the 18th century."
Ineke Hans
Interview:
The Smell of the Landscape
Birthe Leemeijer, L’Essence de Mastenbroek
Designing a perfume for Mastenbroek, a late-medieval Dutch polder in the province of Overijssel where many cattle farmers make their homes and ... "I feel a connection with people who use imagination to unite humour with serious things, absurdity with the everyday."
Hans Meiboom, Studiomeiboom
Interview:
Fast Forward
Ivan Kasner, Petrifying
Starting off your design career with objects that can last tens of thousands of years: that was Ivan Kasner's daring choice for his graduation ...