Maartin Baas Grandfather Clock – The Father
The Maartin Baas Grandfather Clock - The Father is unusual take on the classic Grandfather clock, and on time itself. It's the latest addition to…
Marcel Wanders Designed Miniature Bikes For Randstad And They Are So Cute.
Randstad, now a large job placement company in the Netherlands, started with a bicycle and an idea way back in 1960. To honor the foundation…
Narrative Chairs by Kranen/Gille
After their first presentation of “The Von Trapp Dining Room,” a series of products inspired by Tiroler volkskunstas (popular Austrian Art), Gallery Priveekollektie invited Dutch designers Kranen/Gille to make a series of chairs based on the “Forest” dining chair that was included in the project. (more…)
The First Flat-Packed Wooden Bike You Assemble Yourself. The Sandwichbike by Basten Leijh.
It’s new. It’s cool. It comes in the mail and you put it together. Dubbed the Sandwichbike, this Dutch Design original was inspired by the concept of flat packing, home assembly and Bleigh Industries’ never-ending drive to create exceptional products. (more…)
Packing Foam Fashions Emulate 16th and 17th Dutch and Flemish Masters’ Paintings [UPDATED].
In Suzanne Jongmans Packing Foam Fashions, an ongoing series of quietly elegant photographs, she explores textures of both the past and present. Using the foam materials from packaging and insulation, she has fashioned them into the collars, shawls and clothes commonly seen in the 16th and 17th century Dutch, Flemish and French portraits by the likes of Golden Age and Dutch Renaissance painters Vermeer, Franz Hals, and Francois Clouet. (more…)
