Eindhoven studio Dutch Invertuals challenged 14 designers to remodel one among its chairs for its Specimen exhibition, with the outcomes together with tree branches, copper fossils and LCD-style graphics.
Kiki van Eijk, Joost van Bleiswijk, Daphna Laurens and Earnest Studio are amongst people who have put their very own spin on the armchair initially designed by Dutch Invertuals for an workplace inside.
Every designer or studio was requested to create a model of the chair that displays their design experience.
Founder Wendy Plomp initiated the challenge to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Dutch Invertuals, a studio identified for its research-based strategy to inside and exhibition design.
Dutch Invertuals unveiled the 15 chairs – the unique and the 14 remixes – in an exhibition at its studio throughout Dutch Design Week, which occurred in October.
The identify, Specimen, provides the challenge a way of a scientific experiment.
“The challenge showcases every designer’s experience, craftmanship and private model,” mentioned the studio.
“Like biologists accumulate specimens to grasp evolution, Dutch Invertuals invited 15 designers, highlighting every designer’s evolutionary course of,” the studio added.
Plomp initially designed the armchair for an workplace inside at 5Tracks, a significant new mixed-use growth at present below development within the Dutch metropolis of Breda.
The chair includes 4 artificial-leather cushions set into an ash plywood body.
The interlocking particulars of this body give the chair distinct particulars, together with cross-shaped corners and projecting Ts on the factors the place the seat meets the perimeters.
Rachel Griffin of Rotterdam-based Earnest Studio translated these particulars into laser-cut aluminium, whereas Japanese designer Sho Ota created a model in strong hardwood.
Eindhoven-based designers Onno Adriaanse and Willem van Hooff labored with tree branches, one with oak and the opposite with maple, whereas Copenhagen-based Elly Feldstein created a woven seat with hemp rope.
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Myeonga Search engine marketing experimented with hydro-dipped wooden and metallic, whereas Dutch designer Jeroen Wand added his Re-veneer, a floor protecting made out of offcuts of wooden veneer.
Essentially the most uncommon chairs got here from German designer Anna Resei, whose design took cues from digital graphics, and Joost van Bleiswijk, who made his from neon-painted plywood shards.
A curved base turns the design by Eindhoven-based Edhv right into a rocking chair, that includes copper buttons forged from fossils, whereas Kiki van Eijk used wax crayons so as to add color to her design.
The remaining three, by designers Scheublin & Lindeman, Max Lipsey and Daphna Laurens, all discover completely different relationships between type, color and textile.
Dutch Invertuals usually levels exhibitions for Dutch Design Week, in addition to in Milan.
Previous examples embody Gradual-motion Circulate, a fountain for a single drop of water, and Fundamentals, an archive of 800 objects.
For the Specimen exhibition, the studio additionally created an animation that includes all of their exhibitions from the previous 15 years, in addition to digital variations of all of the chairs.
The pictures is by Ronald Smits.
