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Some things I don’t know of, some things I didn’t think of.
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Good input is always welcome. Good questions too.
DUTCH AMBASSADORS
Utrecht
Lap
Fashion collective from The Hague opens its doors for young talent
Official opening spring 2009
Lap is the name for the prestigious project of 8 textile and fashion students and graduates from the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK)in The Hague.
It's name may refer to laboratory as it’s pronounced the same as lab, but lap is also the Dutch word for a piece of textile.
Both students and Graduates join forces to transform a building at the
Source: KABK website
www.KABK.nl
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Space to take place
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned design agency Droog Design to design an exclusive gift for its important foreign contacts. Each year the Ministry gives away 50,000 copies of Holland Agenda, a lavishly illustrated desk diary, but the need was felt for a more exclusive present suitable for the 1,000 most valued contacts of Dutch ambassadors and consuls-general across the world.
The bench is designed by Claudia Linders and the location chosen for the bench is typically Dutch;
source: www.spacetotakeplace.nl
www.droog.com
Thomas Eurlings- Opening Doors
12/04/09 - 09/05/09
Try to look beyond the door before you open it
What do you want to feel?
What do you expect?
Beauty…
Pleasure…
Inspiration…
It’s up to you.
Everything is possible!
It’s your imagination!
I’ll give you the key.
In a series of four an abstract passage is shown in four steps, from minimal to almost complete.
The symbolic passage is emphasized through the use of both transparent and non-transparent yarns.
With this design Thomas Eurlings challenges people to use their imagination and to look beyond the obvious.
This is a recurring theme in his work and was also the subject of his graduation collection ‘Total Access Jewelry’; a series of keys that can be worn as jewelry.
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Garden Party
18/04/09 -26/06/09
Emmy Miltenburg’s Gallery in Schiedam now hosts for the third time an exhibition put together by guest curator Ivar Tjon-Sack-Kie.
At GARDEN PARTY several exhibitors will show what you can do with a plant or tree; manipulate it, strain it, keep it in aqua fortis, copy it…..
Even though these options sound disturbing, the exhibited objects turn out to be seemly comprehensible.
participating designers: Onno Donkers
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Arnhem ModeBiennale
05/06/09 – 05/07/09
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The hub of the Arnhem Mode Biennale is the city itself, home of the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, which is a hotbed for the leading lights in Dutch fashion. The quality of ArtEZ‘s fashion design graduates is internationally acclaimed and the course has nurtured many talented individuals.
Every two years the fashion biennale in Arnhem presents the best designers alongside the most progressive visions in the domain of fashion design. It is a point of reference for what is happening in the world of fashion right now.
| Red Light Fashion The Red Light Fashion Amsterdam project originally was set up In order to redevelop the centre. For the period of one year several buildings will be loaned to Dutch fashion design talents and used as shop-windows, workshops and living areas. The Red Light Fashion Amsterdam initiative gives designers the opportunity to bundle their powers in order to increase visibility and collaboration nationally and internationally.” | |
Red Light Design
september 2008 – september 2009
The City of Amsterdam now starts Redlight Design with their partners Ymere and Droog. Housing corporation Ymere is the new owner of the houses that will be used for the project and are situated around the Old Church in Amsterdam. The selection of the talented jewellery designers was made by Droog.
source: www.redlightdesignamsterdam.nl
Fashion Guide Amsterdam
published 2008
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PIG 05049- Christien Meindertsma
published: 2008
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Christien Meindertsma has spent the last three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
Meindertsma makes the subject more approachable by reducing everything to the scale of one animal. After it's death, Pig number 05049 was shipped in parts throughout the world. Some products remain close to their original form and function while others diverge dramatically. In an almost surgical way a pig is dissected in the pages of the book - resulting in a startling photo book where all the products are shown at their true scale (1:1).
language: English
www.christienmeindertsma.com
Raapsteeltje, (h)eerlijk eten in Nederland
published 2008
Last year Simone Kroon presented at the Graduation Show in Eindhoven the concept of her book ‘Raapsteeltje en andere verhalen….’
Now, a year later, the book is published by Terra Lannoo publishers under the name ‘Raapsteeltje (h)eerlijk eten in Nederland’ and is for sale in any self-respecting bookshop in the Netherlands.
Raapsteeltje is about honest food and ingredients, with lots of recipes, background information and addresses and beautifully edited.
Simone Kroon Graduated at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2007 and started together with Marriët Willems- also a Design Academy Graduate- House of Origin, a label that originates in a fascination for honest and pure products, edible or otherwise.
language: Dutch
www.houseoforigin.nl
www.terralannoo.nl
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Eat Love- Food Concepts by Eating Designer Marije Vogelzang
published 2008 (available at the end of December)
After her graduation from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2000 Marije Vogelzang has been designing eating concepts. Her interest is in the verb ‘to eat’. Not only does she think deeply about what is on the plate (if there is a plate at all), but she also thinks about everything that surrounds the act of eating. The atmosphere, the people involved, the stories behind the ingredients, the taste and texture, sound, smell and colour of food and the way it is prepared and served. She explores the intimacy of design that actually goes inside your body and follows the journey of food from seed all the way to poop.
Thinking about all this and working and experimenting in her studio and restaurant and by creating eating experiences for her clients she has developed her own unique way of looking at eating from a psychological, cultural and design point of view.
This book makes her vision and spectacular eating concepts available for the first time for a large group of people who are interested in food and the culture and experience of eating.
Marije Vogelzang's labfile
www.bispublishers.nl
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Ted Noten- CH2=C(CH3)C(=O)OCH3
published 2006
Beautifully edited book with loads of pictures about 15 years of work of Dutch jewellery designer Ted Noten
language: English
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How They Work- The Hidden World of Dutch Design
published 2008
Dutch designers are currently creating quite a stir on the international scene. What is the secret of their success? In their book ‘How They Work’ photographer Inga Powilleit and stylist Tatjana Quax examine the working methods of seventeen designers, as well as the typically Dutch approach which has made them world-famous: a fanatical attitude towards work, a healthy lack of respect for convention, and a determination to go their own way.
How They Work consists of portraits of the very top of the Dutch design world, which offer readers an honest and revealing look behind the scenes.
The book has not been released yet but for a preview you can visit Ingaf Powilleit’s website www.ingapowilleit.com or the website of Tatjana Quax: http://www.studioaandacht.nl/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=9
language: Dutch-English
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'How they Work' was published by 010 Publishers, a publishing house that is known for publishing books on the most wide-ranging aspects of architecture, interior design, photography, industrial design, graphic design and the visual arts.
www.010publishers.nl
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Jan van Toorn- Critical Practice
published 2008
Another book that has been published by 010 publishers is ’Critical Practice’ by Jan van Toorn.
Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions.
His designs persistently force the viewer to make an effort to process their complexities.
Van Toorn wanted the public to measure the motives of both the client and the designer who mediates the client’s message against their own experiences of the world. He hoped in this way to stimulate a more active and sceptical view of art, communication, media ownership and society.
language: English
www.010publishers.nl/catalogue/book.php?id=565.
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House of concepts
published 2008
Design Academy Eindhoven was founded in 1947, at which time it was called (in Dutch) the Academy of Industrial Design Eindhoven. Today the school has a reputation, at home and abroad, as a highly contemporary and virtually unequalled design institute.
The publication, House of Concepts, casts a light – through words and pictures – on the 60-year history of the academy. In the pages of this book, the reader will find the work of important Dutch designers, who have studied at the academy. House of Concepts also offers a philosophical and critical view of design as a whole, and of Dutch design in particular, set in an international context.
language: English
MAGAZINES
LINK
LINK is an inspirational, highly distinctive fashion trade magazine that links wholesale and retail fashion industries.
Editorial subjects are such as fashion developments, technical product information (materials, fabrics and innovative techniques), trends (Describing new upcoming national and international trends translated into inspiring photo reports and editorials), store design and more.
language: Dutch
www.linkmag.nl
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Frame
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Launched in December 1997, Frame is an international magazine on interior design that fuses British and American journalism with the aesthetic flair of an Italian publication. First and foremost, Frame appeals to interior designers. But the magazine also has architects and product designers, as well as their clients, in its sights. The driving force behind the magazine is to help interior designers shed their 'second-rate artist' self-image. To make them proud of their profession. And to inspire and surprise them, time after time.
language: English
www.framemag.com
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Items
Items is a professional magazine about developments in the design world, covering graphic design, visual communication, product design, interaction design and architecture.
language: Dutch
www.items.nl
Bright
Bright Magazine, first published in February 2005, is an innovative lifestyle magazine covering and connecting digital technology, culture and design.
In 2008 a foreign edition of Bright will be launched.
language: Dutch
www.bright.nl
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Textiel Plus
Textiel Plus is a quarterly magazine edited by the Textiel Plus foundation. It provides interviews and photographs about Textile, Designers and more and pays attention to innovative ideas, materials and techniques as well as authentic handicraft.
www.textielplus.nl
TV
There are/have been several Dutch television programs worth watching.
Here’s a short selection and the links where you can find them on the internet.
About new developments in a diversity ofcreative disciplines and about what these developments tell us about our present-day society.
March 2008 Paris Fashion Week
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting/artikelen/39404188
April 2008 Milano, Salone Internazionale del Mobile
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting
September 2008 Venice, bi-annual Architecture Exhibition
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting
December 2008 Miami Beach, Art Basel
www.vpro.nl/programma/trendspotting
Mode in Arnhem 26/01/08
www.novatv.nl/novaplayer/player169.html?id=rep-5759-0
Van hier tot Tokio
About Dutch designers and artists living and working abroad.
24/02/08 Istanbul
Ahmet Polat (fotographer) and Bas van Beek (designer)
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6575713
02/03/08 Berlin
Richard Cameron (musician/ producer) and Ronald de Bloeme (artist)
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6625853
09/03/08 Beijing
Neville Mars, architect and Ruben Lundgren, photographer
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6663611
16/03/08 London
Marloes ten Bhömer, Shoe(designer) and Sander Lak, fashion designer
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6705861
De Kunst 16/03/08
How photogenic are misery and distress
www.player.omroep.nl/?aflID=6705860
I like the sides of design where boundaries meet. Where they clash or melt.
That’s where things happen, develop, appear, where you get surprised, amazed
and start looking through different eyes.
That’s often when different disciplines meet, or cultures, or old craftsmanship
and cutting edge developments….
In the Netherlands several renowned companies join forces with known and less
known designers. For the better of both of them.
Royal Leerdam
Since 1878, the most exquisite art and decorative pieces have been produced in the Dutch city of Leerdam using traditional methods (made by hand and blown by mouth). This requires skill, creativity and years of experience. Royal Leerdam Crystal has plenty of all three.
The master glassblowers of Royal Leerdam guarantee a high-quality glass rendition of drawings by in-house designers and other Dutch artists.
Pieke Bergmans, whoms favorite modus operandi is to alter existing production processes to come to new forms and functions worked together with glassmaster Gert Bullee at Royal Leerdam Crystal to create her crystal viruses.
www.royalleerdamcrystal.com
www.piekebergmans.com
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Polycel, Pieter Joosten
Polycel started it’s polyester business in the early sixties when working with polyester was still fairly new in the Netherlands.
The last couple of years Polycel has been working with several young designers and gave them the opportunity to profit from Polycel’s expertise in Polyester.
Polycel benefited from these collaborations as well, giving them the opportunity to demonstrate an
even broader range of polyester’s possibilities and to profile themselves as a partner in innovation.
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The eggy boxes are a sculptural audio installation that is part of Alex Vermeulen’s ‘Mood Rooms’ and deals with how man is influenced by sound and resonance.
Also designed by Alex Vermeulen and developed in collaboration with a group of students physics are 88 floating eggs, each with their own solar panel. The energy that is generated by these panels is used to lift the Buddha (eggman) in the bell glass when the sun is shining.
On bad weather days the Buddha is hidden below the surface of the water.
www.polycel.nl
www.syndicaat.org
Royal Delft/Porceleyne fles
The Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles is the only remaining factory of the 32 earthenware factories that were established in Delft in the 17th century.
In 1988 Royal Delft started with their 'Collection Modern Ceramics'. This collection was the result of a relationship between ceramic artists and the Royal Delft factory, a bond earlier created with the Experimental Unica Departement that existed from 1957 till 1977.
Royal Delft values working with both famous and upcoming artists and designers ever since.
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In the year 2004 Judith van den Boom started an intensive work period with the Royal Delft Blue factory, the Porceleyne Fles in Delft which resulted in a new body of work called Dutch Disturbance.
Working closely with the knowledge of traditional Delft Blue, the skilled workers and exploring the attics of the old factory was the start of experimenting concepts about the use and relationships we had in 2005 with Delft Blue. Dusty and rooted for most local people but highly interesting cliché for the tourists. Do they still believe we wear wooden shoes? Or cycle all over the country to deliver cheese? Ideas about the nature of people where being assumed and turned in cliché's that stayed around for generations.
Time for some disturbance!
Source: website Judith van den Boom
www.royaldelft.com
www.Judithvandenboom.nl
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Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum
Royal Tichelaar Makkum is the Netherlands' oldest company and has from 1640 continuously been run by the Tichelaar family. It owes its continuity up to the present day to its appreciation of tradition, though with an eager eye for innovation
Today’s managing director Jan Tichelaar represents the 13th generation at the helm of the company. He appreciated the company’s unique aptitude for research in and production of custom made ceramics.
Signing up renowned architects and designers, he turned the company around into an innovative laboratory for hand crafted, top class custom products, away from making standard classical pottery exclusively.
The invaluable knowledge of ceramics, accumulated by successive generations, has provided a firm base on which to build, from which development of products and know-how will progress hand in hand as, in Tichelaar's vision, they should.
Royal Tichelaar Makkum fosters a company culture marked by open minds, an inquisitive disposition, enthusiasm for research and experiment, the pursuit of perfection and the drive to deliver custom made solutions for every conceivable application of ceramics, especially in architecture.
Designers who collaborated with Royal Tichelaar Makkum are, among others, Studio Job and Jurgen Bey.
Source: Tichelaar website
www.tichelaar.nl
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Royal VKB- Koninklijke Van Kempen en Begeer
Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer has made history with durable stainless steel products and timeless silverware. Utensils for cooking and dining in the kitchen and the dining room.
Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer was founded in 1789 and has always concentrated on developing products that offer solutions for modern man and his times. The period we live in is marked by a fast-changing way of life, constantly shifting consumer patterns and very varied life styles. Preparing food and enjoying a balanced meal has become more important than ever.
Royal VKB is the latest brand of the Dutch company Koninklijke Van Kempen & Begeer, that focuses on innovation.
As part of their product vision and brand strategy Royal VKB collaborates with both well-known and upcoming Dutch Designers. This collaboration results in refreshing contemporary designs, like Jorre van Ast’s functional screw caps, that fit on jars all over the world and allow you to re-use and preserve that memorable mustard jar from Dijon, France or that pickle Jar from Poland.
Source: Royal VKB website
www.royalvkb.com
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Philips
Royal Philips Electronics is a global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions.
Design at Philips translates technology into human-focused solutions.
Philips Design Probes is a dedicated ‘far-future’ research to track trends and developments that may ultimately evolve into mainstream issues that have a significant impact on business.
The Smell-project for instance is a probe collaboration with the Design Interaction department of the Royal College of Art in London. In Smell, a prototype apparatus was created which basically captures odors from the body and not only communicates them to the wearer but also to other people.
Dogs are reputedly able to sniff out cancer, so this work may initiate dialogue that leads to medical practitioners being able to carry out smell-based diagnoses.
Source: Philips website
www.design.philips.com
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other places where craftsmanship and design meet:
Audax Textielmuseum in Tilburg
The heart of the Textile Museum, the building in which a hundred years ago the weaving looms of textile manufacturer Chris Mommers were in full production, now houses the TextileLab, the museum’s experimental workshop. Students, designers and artists collaborate with the museum’s product developers in experimenting with the machines in order to achieve special, often highly advanced results. This process of collaboration and experimentation does not take place behind closed doors. The TextileLab is a normal, but through its concept unusual museum presentation, which is open to the public. Visitors of the museum can witness this unique process and are given explanations by the product developers and demonstrators of the museum and by students, designers and artists about their tests, trials, products and objects.
Designers and artists either make products or (parts of) works of art for themselves or in commission for a company or agency, or they are commissioned by the museum. In the latter case, if the experiments are successful, the objects are added to the museum collection in the field of art and design.
Source: website Textielmuseum
www.textielmuseum.nl
EKWC European Ceramic Work Centre in ‘s Hertogenbosch
The European Ceramic WorkCentre is an international workplace where artists, designers and architects explore the technical and artistic possibilities of ceramics. The EKWC operates as an artist-in-residence centre and as a centre of excellence. Its aim is to promote the development of ceramic art, design and architecture. As an artist-in-residence centre, the EKWC annually welcomes about 45 artists, designers and architects to experiment with ceramics for a continuous or phased period of three months.
The EKWC offers, among other things, the most advanced equipment and the support of a team of specialists. This team gives a unique added value to the residency as 75% of the participants have no or little experience with ceramics. Intensive guidance allows the participants to realize their prearranged work plans. The residency is concluded with a final presentation.
Being a centre of excellence the EKWC encourages its staff and participants to conduct research in artistic and technical fields, and also in the area of presentation. The knowledge and understanding acquired are documented and spread internationally by means of publications, exhibitions, masterclasses and conferences.
The EKWC works together with art academies, the ceramic industry, several scientific research centres, museums and galleries in the form of special projects.
Source: EKWC website
www.ekwc.nl
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Materia
New materials present opportunities for fascinating innovations. Materia stimulates and inspires architects, designers and producers to apply these materials to their designs. The company is a knowledge centre for developments and innovations in materials, and their applications for architecture and design.
Materia’s aim: to build together with creative professionals on a new vision for the future: Materialize the future!
Materia offers you free use of their search engine, a complete knowledge bank of materials.
They will also keep you updated about innovative materials and their applications, and trends in architecture and design, through newsletters, publications, and presentations.
Materia activates its expertise via the Inspiration Centre, where the new materials can be seen and felt in real life. This way Materia offers a platform for knowledge development, interaction and cross-fertilisation. An inspirational experience.
Source: Materia website
www.materia.nl
GALLERIES
Nijmegen
Marzee
Galerie Marzee was founded in 1978 as a gallery for contemporary jewellery, and has since become one of the principal promoters of contemporary jewellery and silverware.
As a rule, the gallery hosts four or five exhibitions at any time, with new openings every two months. In addition, Marzee has a large collection of jewellery in stock, representing a lot of different great jewellery designers.
www.marzee.nl
Amsterdam
Platform 21 for DESIGN, FASHION AND CREATION
Platform21 is not as much a gallerie as it is a platform. It’s focus is on contemporary issues and topics that will be of relevance in the future. They aim to create dynamic spaces for a variety of projects and activities that question and give insight into how the world is shaped around us and are interested in creative developments in fashion and design, including amateur initiatives.
Platform21 functions as an international meeting point, where seemingly disparate groups can inspire and strengthen each other.
www.platform21.com
Galerie Ra
Galerie Ra, founded by Paul Derrez in1976, shows international contemporary jewellery designs.
On top of that they have regular exhibitions in which they show broader aspects of design like hats, objects, ceramics etc.
www.galerie-ra.nl
Dordrecht
Intermezzo
Intermezzo is a gallery and shop that shows and sells contemporary design, mostly of unknown Dutch Designers. It’s one of the eldest galleries of contemporary design in the Netherlands, situated in one of the eldest cities in the Netherlands.
A lot of designers that just graduated from Art Academies have been showing their work here over the years.
It’s my favorite gallery. I’m buyest I know, because I have connections there. But then again; I have connections there because it was my favourite gallery in the first place.
www.galerie-intermezzo.nl
Rotterdam
Vivid Vormgeving
In the center of Rotterdam VIVID Gallery started in 1999 making contemporary design exhibitions. In these exhibitions designers are able to present their latest ideas, concepts and products to a wide audience.
VIVID has a strong relation with Dutch designers but the scope remains international. www.vividvormgeving.nl
Nieuwe Ontwerpers Arnhem The name ‘Coming Soon’ hints towards the upcoming generation of designers.
Nieuwe Ontwerpers.nl was founded march 2000 to provide a place for fashion designers to show/sell their collections without having to make huge investments . A lot of designers have presented and sold their collections there already.
Besides presenting fashion collections and accessories they compose a diversity of exhibitions with a link to fashion, on a regular basis.
NieuweOntwerpers.nl has an open mind for all talented designers with a link to fashion design
and therefore can by all means be called a talentshop.
www.nieuweontwerpers.nl
Coming soon
Arnhem hosts the Art Academy ARTEZ and a great fashion department.
Therefore it’s no surprise that Coming Soon opened it’s doors there at the end of 2007.
Coming Soon is an initiative of the Arnhem Academy of Arts ArtEZ and presents a selection of Designs from both upcoming fashion talents and well known top designers. Besides fashion Coming Soon also shows and sells other `hand-picked’ design products of young Dutch Designers, such as , accessories, shoes, gadgets, books and magazines
www.comingsoonarnhem.nl
Unlimited Delicious- Kees Raat In the book ‘Bonbon’ Kees Raat gives away 47 of his recipes with pictures that’ll make you drool in advance. Rotterdam Source: Tjep's website Dordrecht In the market café you can wait for your dinner companion(s) to arrive or buy homemade bread, cookies per piece, or jams and chutneys made by the chef himself. The authentic atmosphere is enough to make you feel right at home.
Proef (also in Rotterdam)
Marije Vogelzang has been designing food concepts ever since she graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000. Bases for her work is the verb ‘ to eat’ which means she doesn’t just think about food on the plate- if there even is one-but about everything related to it; the atmosphere, the ambient sounds, taste, scent and texture, dining company, service, the story behind the ingredients and the effect they have on the body.
Beautiful examples of her work you can find on the ProefLog.
www.proefamsterdam.nl
www.proefamsterdam.nl/proeflog/
Marije Vogelzangs's labfile
Kees Raat’ s addiction to chocolate was the real reason for starting his chocolate career.
Besides for his craft in chocolate making and his unusual choices and combinations of ingredients, Kees Raat is also known for his innovative ideas.
To do justice to his love for chocolate, he started searching for the essence of a good bonbon and came to the conclusion that there are three essential conditions to make a good bonbon:
1) a bonbon should not be too sweet
2) a bonbon should not be too big
3) a bonbon should have an element of surprise
A bonbon that’s too sweet you’ll want to drink away; a bonbon that’s too big makes you feel full and a bonbon that’s boring you’ll forget.
A bonbon that meets with all three conditions mentioned above, makes you want more.
For the book ‘Koekje’ Kees Raat masterminded 50 surprising new Dutch-cookie-recipes.
www.keesraat.nl
www.unlimiteddelicious.nl
Kees Raat's labfile
Fabricca
Because Fabbrica is located in the Rotterdam harbor, right between the boats and the cranes it’s name seemed to be the most convenient name for this Italian restaurant. Fabbrica meaning factory in Italian, Tjep envisioned the canteen of a very special factory: a very romantic factory where pleasure is produced for guests. Like in the canteen of a factory you will find long tables and benches at Fabbrica, but then coloured in Italian ice-cream shop style colors: pink and pistachio green. The oven is placed in a huge tank, covered with Italian mosaic. A large wall composed of crane elements is used to store wood to fire the oven. Every detail combines industrial sturdiness with soft colors or decorative elements. Tjep chose not to intervene with the authentic industrial character of this nineteenth century warehouse so all structures were left in original state and walls were left intact. In several places large glass panels were placed in front of them covered with Italian wallpaper patterns. The result is that the patterns seem to float in front of the wall in a complex game of reflections.
It’s worth a visit, just to enjoy the interior, but the food is good too.
Interior and identity design by Tjep.
www.tjep.com
www.fabbrica.nl
Frank Tjepkema's labfile
Villa Augustus
Not too long ago Villa Augustus opened its doors.
Villa Augustus is more than just a restaurant; It’s also a hotel, a bar, a beautiful garden, in which their own vegetables are grown, and much more.
Truth must be said that I know the handyman there as well as the lady behind the bar and that’s probably enough to make anyone feel at home, but nevertheless, the ambiance is great and I think you will really enjoy yourself too.
Please take a walk in the garden if you’re there. It’s allowed and worth your while.
Tip: If you need a hotel room and can afford it, you should definitely choose the secret garden.
www.villa-augustus.nl
