milan 2009/

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

maastricht/

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

maastricht/

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

maastricht/

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

milan 2009/

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’.