Project:
Boomstoel (Tree Chair), Friso Kramer
It took Friso Kramer, the doyen of functional design, twelve days – two of which he spent in bed from exhaustion – to make a chair out of a tree trunk. It seems a world away from his famous Revolt chair, but both pieces are ergonomically sound and carefully finished down to the last detail.
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 ... person: Friso Kramer
Friso Kramer is one of the Netherlands' foremost exponents of modernist design, which was guided by the principle of functionalism. “We ... "In the 1970s we strongly believed that good design is socially conscious design. I'm still convinced of that."
Friso Kramer "A designer makes something because the time or the object demands it."
Friso Kramer
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 ... “For new materials and techniques, you’re better off seeking alliances with big industrial companies."
Ivan Kasner
about us:
Behind the Scene #01
This website was launched in conjunction with the exhibition Behind the Scene #01, held 5-10 April 2006, during the 2006 Salone Internazionale ...
Interview:
Making It as a Team
Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan, Industrialized Wood
Imagine being fresh out of art school and selling your work to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, a firm of architects in Los Angeles, a ... "Photography books are fantastic historic documents. But they're labour-intensive and you almost never recover expenses, so few get made."
Rob Hornstra
Project:
Industrialized Wood, Jeroen Verhoeven/Demakersvan
Jeroen Verhoeven of Demakersvan used drawings of seventeenth-century furniture to make his Industrialized Wood table. He converted different ... "We have to see to it that machines start working for us again, instead of allowing ourselves to be led by them."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan
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 ... "We want to aesthetically educate the average person. That’s why we’re looking at producing in India."
Jeroen Verhoeven, Demakersvan "The vacuum oven is a kind of time machine: in two weeks, objects undergo an ageing process that would normally take millions of years."
Ivan Kasner
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 ... "You never know whether your design will survive even a generation. With these objects, I at least know that they could."
Ivan Kasner