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eat drink design at dutch design week

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Danielle| 1 Comment


Eat Drink Design is a temporary restaurant inside a greenhouse set up in Eindhoven during the Dutch Design Week. Dutch designers have decorated the interior and every night one of the designers is link to a leading Dutch chef to prepare a stylish dinner event.

Every evening, a new duo will be presenting the result of their collaboration. The outcome is a surprise: a stylish dinner service and/or table linen, or perhaps even an entirely new way of looking at food. One of the collaborating designers is Kiki van Eijk, who has designed this gorgeous Bottled Lamp.

Other designers that are contributing to Eat Drink Design are Carolien Niebling (top image), Annelies Hermsen (left image) and Maarten Baptist (right image).

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the graduation galleries – dutch design week 2007

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Danielle| 2 Comments

My favorite exhibition during the Dutch Design Week is the Graduation Galleries. Here graduates from the acclaimed Design Academy show their graduation work to the public. The talent of these young designed and the creativity and originality of their work amazes me every year! Below you can see some of the designs spotted at this year’s exhibition.

‘Reflectie – Projectie’ by Karin van der Zande: The chrome steel facets on these vases create a surprising wall decoration when incident rays of lights project the flowers in the vase on the wall; a subtle moment of beauty.


‘Todo cae por su propio peso (all things fall by their own weight)’ by Liora Rosin: Inspired by this Spanish proverb, Liora designed three saltshakers. Fitting in the palm of your hand, the delicate grayish-green porcelain entice the user to play with shape, salt and gravity.


‘Buitenbeentjes’ by Anna ter Haar: These chairs made of polyurethane casting resin represent movement congealed in material. They may look fluid but in fact, they’re strong enough to sit on.


‘Compact Life’ by Alexander Tranter: All our daily activities fit neatly in Compact Life. The drawers and compartments of this birch wood cabinet are in fact chairs, tables , cushions, a chaisse longue, and even an worktop.


‘Regentegel’ by Saline Toonen: The relief on these concrete tiles makes rainwater flow to lower parts in patterns like arrows, stars and flowers. Different combinations create different patterns. You can cross the square safely by treading on the highest parts, as the they stay dry.


‘InterVases’ by Channa Ernstsen: Due to their shape, size and the flexible rubber material they’re made of, the interVases need to lean against one another. Take one away, and the others will have different shapes.

In the coming days I will show you more work of graduated designers, as well as other images and news from the Dutch Design Week.

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made by eight exhibition at dutch design week

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Danielle| 4 Comments


A great exhibition that I visited yesterday at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven yesterday, was the one by Made by Eight. Made by Eight are eight graduated designers from the Utrecht School of Arts: Robert Jan Snoeks, Liane Gaemers, Nienke Hansen, Shanna Deurloo, Stina Feldt, Marlous de Roode, Wendy Klaver en Anne ten Donkelaar. For the exhibition they have fitted out a house behind the door with the name What’s Behind?. The designer have used their own speciality to express their vision on a home in a collective show, placing each product in a particular context. Above and below you can find some of the designs they have used to decorate the exhibition house. The designs in the top row images are by Marlous de Roode. Her specialty is the design and production of fashion accessories as leather bags and jewelry.

Robert Jan Snoeks is the designer of the objects in the top row images. His aim is to design objects that have an emotional value for people. The beautiful woolen poofs and cushion are from Wendy Klaver’s 300 serie. Nienke Hansen has designed the object in the third row images. Nienke’s source of inspiration are the colours, shapes and processes of nature.

Visit the Made by Eight website for more information and designs by these talented, young designers.

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Lunch with 5.5 designers at Droog Design

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Danielle| 4 Comments

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Last Sunday Droog organized a lunch with the name Self Food Factory. It wasn’t a lazy Sunday afternoon for the 40 guests who visited this do-it-yourself lunch, which was designed and executed by 5.5. designers. Everybody had to work for their food, but at the same time had the chance to eat from the unique tableware which the designers produced in collaboration with the workers of French porcelain manufacturer Bernardaud.
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For 2,5 hours 5.5 designers became the management team of the factory and instructed the guests what was expected from them: which was making their own lunch. But first everybody had to change their clothes for typical factory clothing. Ingredients were combined, flavours were mixed and guests created their own favourite taste. Every 5 minutes the factory bell announced a new course, reminding the workers to finish their meal. The 7-course lunch ended with a session of tea and coffee, including the sugar teacup handle created by 5.5 designers.

Droog’s next special event is on February 12th. Then a “dinner with Flemish Masters”, with jewellery designer Sofie Lachaert and painter Luc d’ Hanis will be organised. For more information you can contact Droog. Or, if you are in The Netherlands and would like to join this dinner, you can contact me and perhaps we can organise a get-together of like-minded design & food lovers.

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Future trends in interior design

Posted on November 14, 2006 by Danielle| 7 Comments

Are you wondering how our homes will look in the future? Trend guru Li Edelkoort is one of the world’s most important trend setters of this moment and her trend predictions are followed by design companies and major brands world wide. With the exposition ‘Museum House, a choice of Lidewij Edelkoort’ in the Art Pavilion in Nieuw Roden, The Netherlands, Li gives an impression of what she thinks will be future trends in interior design.
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Work of young talent but also of renowned names in the international designer’s world is represented. For example work by Piet Hein Eek, Jurgen Bey and Hella Jongerius, are used by Li to express living in the future according to her interpretation. Maarten Baas’ Smoke chairs are also displayed.

According to Li the key in modern living is that people become curators of their own lives. In the future we will live among all kinds of collections. With these collections we can show our identity. This way we create our own ‘museum house’, Li explains.

Another prediction is that family space is a trend of the past. ‘The living room becomes obsolete’, Li says. In her opinion the house is divided in three categories: the kitchen, the bathroom and the bedroom. The rest of the rooms in the house get a specific, gender orientated function. In the future we will retreat in spaces customized fo ourselves. This inspiring exhibtion can be visited until 29 January 2007.

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Sigrid Calon’s colorful textile designs

Posted on November 2, 2006 by Danielle| 1 Comment

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Dutch designer Sigrid Calon presented her latest work at the Dutch Design Week 2006 in Eindhoven. I especially love her colorful tea towels which can be ordered (€ 10) by sending Sigrid an email.

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Sigrid also designed the DahliaShowWall which can be used as a room divider.

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Sleeping Beauty by Nadine Sterk

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Danielle| 4 Comments

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One of the most innovative and original designs at the Dutch Design Week’s Graduation Galleries 2006 was in my opinion Sleeping Beauty by Nadine Sterk. This young designer has created a lamp that develops like a living organism. Similar to living organisms, this lamp contains all the essential “mechanisms” that will enable it to develop. All it needs is energy. If switched on, the lamp slowly starts to grow by knitting its own lampshade.

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Dutch Design Week 2006

Posted on November 1, 2006 by Danielle| Leave a comment

Last Saturday I headed off to Eindhoven to visit the Dutch Design Week 2006. This event, organised for the fifth year, is the largest design event in the Netherlands. During the week of October 21-29, the latest developments in the field of design were shown in a stimulating and inspiring way by means of a dynamic and diverse selection of events, exhibitions and lectures. In Eindhoven I met up with the lovely Holly from decor8 who was there for an assignment. Together we roamed the exhibition halls.

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One of the highlights of the event was the Graduation Galleries 2006 with graduation projects from the Design Academy Eindhoven. Below you can find the innovative work of some of the 140 graduated designers who were present at the exhibition.

“O”bject by Sylvia Siu Fung Lai
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Designer Sylvia Siu Fung Lai has translated the perfectly circular top views of every day object, as a flower pot, a donut and a roll of toilet paper, into a series of white ceramic objects. “O”bject plays with the interaction between proportion and function.

“Uit de klei getrokken” by Lonny van Rijswijck
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The clay used to create this amazing tableware, is digged up by designer Lonny van Rijswijck in various parts of the Netherlands. The cups and saucers show their home ground through the different shades of color and clay textures.

Hide and See by Jetske Verdonk
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Jetske Verdonk has not only created a series of furniture (HIDE) in which things can be hidden: storage space is created by the material. But she also created a series of furniture (SEE) that show things: storage space is created by the decoration.

Door in felt by Norihiko Terayama
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Norihiko Terayama stepped away from the concept that a door normally is part of the construction of a house. The young Japanese designer’s aim was to make a door that is part of the furniture. This felt ‘door’ is a door, wall and floor rolled into one.

Tattoo lamp by Thomas Linssen / Mix culture by Nicolas Ka Chi Cheng
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Thomas Linssen has ‘tattooed’ this cone-shaped bone china lampshade (left photo) by using a special casting method. The recesses in the porcelain were created by stickers in a plaster mold. The result is a natural design as the decoration is completely integrated in the production process.

Nicolas Ka Chin Cheng has created a ten-piece dinner set (right photo) in which elements from the Western and Eastern culture come together in an eye-catching design.

Precious by Daphna Isaacs Burggraaf
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Just as in real life, these seven porcelain dolls created by Daphna Isaacs Burggraaf, are affected by unforeseen imperfections, distortions, shrinkage, breakage, and discoloration. It’s these imperfections that lend them their unique character.

Just hanging around by Jennifer Bruinendaal / Shelf by Jantien Roozenburg
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Jennifer Bruinendaal has designed a light sculpture (left photo) that is able to create an atmosphere of intimacy. The alluring, hand-sewn, gold or silver colored bag lend the lamp a distinct identity. Switched on, cool silver or warm golden light touches the surrounding objects.

The 1,5mm thick cedar wood shelf (right photo), designed by Jantien Roozenburg is flexible enough to gradually sag under the weight of the objects on it. As different object create different curves, the shelves form a striking, organic composition.

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