DESIGN JUBILEE

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualised by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 10/10 is a reflection on the 'Still Waters' vase series, designed for Thomas Eyck in 2016 by Studio Wieki Somers in collaboration with Van Tetterode Glass Studio, Royal Leerdam Crystal and Pierreglas.

Reclaimed Lakes
There’s a lot that can go wrong between humans and water, but designers Jos Klarenbeek and Sander Manse have chosen to show the harmonious interaction of the Dutch people and water through the ages. Peat-cutting, draining lakes, and digging canals and ditches: these are reflected in the mouldings of the eleven polders on the floor. The contrast between the organic form of water and the precise grids of man-made waterways is made visible here using mouldings created with professional geographic software and technology.
 
Jos Klarenbeek and Sander Manse reflect on a serie of Studio Wieki Somers. The sensitive work of Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg, together known as Studio Wieki Somers, often includes an element of fantasy and is usually created with the help of ingenious technology. In 'Still Waters', the vase series they designed for Thomas Eyck in 2016, they not only depict the various stages of the water cycle but also reference the negative impact of human activity on nature.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 9/10 is a reflection on the 'Oak Inside' series of utensils created for Thomas Eyck in 2011. The series was developed by designer Christien Meindertsma in collaboration with Roosje Hindeloopen and Tinctoria.
 
Studio Apartment
In a living-room-sized aluminium sculpture we see a collection of oak furniture, painted with enlarged traditional Hindelooper motifs which have been applied in a new way. The wooden pieces of furniture are reflected in a remarkable installation by artist Wouter Paijmans. His aluminium sculptures are partly painted, dented and crumpled and create a special trompe l'oeil effect. In them, each wooden piece of furniture is given a 'mirror image' from Paijmans' studio.

Wouter Paijmans reflects on a serie of Christien Meindertsma. Designer Christien Meindertsma was commissioned to create a series of pieces of oak furniture, 'Oak Inside', inspired by the Hindelooper interior design art of the 17th and 18th centuries. At that time, living rooms in the Frisian village of Hindeloopen featured furniture painted with colourful flowers, birds and garlands. This style of interior decor had been adopted from Scandinavia, with which Hindeloopen maintained a brisk trade. The furniture was originally made of oak, but this later became too expensive and was replaced by pine.
Meindertsma investigated the traditional production process and discovered new colour techniques which she used to decorate her designs for Thomas Eyck – a tea table, stepladder, chest, chair, cabinet, cupboard, salt and pepper mills and a rug. Roosje Hindeloopen, a family business dating from 1894, enabled this innovation on the traditional local art of furniture-making and painting.

The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 8/10 is a reflection on the book and wallpaper 'Colour Based On Nature', developed for Thomas Eyck in 2012 by graphic designer Irma Boom in collaboration with Lenoirschuring and Eijffinger.
 
Untitled (Jungfrau Aletsch)
The work of designer Aliki van der Kruijs (born 1984) is always tactile: for each new project, she carefully researches the most suitable material to illuminate the relationship between humans and nature. In the material panorama she has created for this installation, we see the colours, textures, observations and thoughts that she gathered when she visited the Jungfrau-Aletsch region of Switzerland this past summer and autumn. A striped colour landscape, created based on a photograph, was her tour guide: it inspired Van der Kruijs to explore the area, first as a tourist and later as artist-in-residence at the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch.

The designer worked on location to research the perspectives from which humans observe nature. For example, she recorded tourists' 'nature experience behind glass', doing little dances with their selfie sticks to immortalise themselves in the landscape. She also photographed the Aletsch Glacier and translated this into a textile. The back fluidly displays the colours of the landscape.
 
Aliki van der Kruijs reflects on a serie of Irma Boom. Irma Boom, internationally renowned graphic designer and the designer of the Rijksmuseum's corporate identity, created the book Colour Based on Nature for Thomas Eyck in 2012. In this book she translates 80 Unesco natural heritage sites into colour DNA. She captures the Jungfrau-Aletsch region in coloured stripes, derived from photographs of the landscape. Boom chooses unusual formats, materials, colours, textures and typography in her work.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 7/10 ‘ the Elm Collection’ is a reflection on the 'Leather Collection' series of utensils created for Thomas Eyck in 2013 by VanHoffOntwerpen in collaboration with De Buffel, Kuperus & Gardenier and Roxal.
 
Elm Collection
Contemporary Wild works with local materials and challenges traditions. In this installation, the designers' collective responds to a series of items made of leather, underpinned by elm. The designers carried out an intensive study of the elm; the tree is threatened with extinction elsewhere in the world, but still grows in abundance in the Netherlands. In this installation, the designers show the unique and sometimes unexpected qualities of the elm as wood. The elmwood barrel vat that they have created is ageing a distilled drink. In ten years, at the twentieth anniversary of Thomas Eyck, the man himself will be able to celebrate with this elm-flavoured drink.

Contemporary Wild reflects on a serie of VanHoffOntwerpen. Designer Dick van Hoff combines fine craftsmanship with industrial techniques. He designed a series of eight utensils of quality leather and elm, ‘Leather Collection’, for Thomas Eyck in 2013. The lunch set, bags, wood basket, day bed, table, and chair are functional and robust, but subtly detailed and finished.
For this series VanHoffOntwerpen worked closely with leather business De Buffel. De Buffel was founded in 1951 and is now one of the few leather processing companies remaining in the Netherlands and western Europe. Carpentry workshop Kuperus & Gardenier in Lelystad makes the wooden components. This company specialises in modern and traditional carpentry and the restoration, reconstruction and maintenance of historic buildings and ships.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 

To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection.  Installation 06/10 is a reflection on the 'Copper Collection' ornaments, developed for Thomas Eyck in 2010 by Aldo Bakker Studio in collaboration with Dubbelop.
 

Copper Connection
 

This installation by Commonplace Studio brings together everyday concepts: eating, telling the time, daydreaming. Jon Stam, who was a student of designer Aldo Bakker ten years ago, reflects on the relationship between student and teacher. Along with his colleague Simon de Bakker, he shows the differences and hidden similarities between their work and that of Aldo Bakker Studio. Both have worked with copper, a material that conducts heat extremely well. Both combine this traditional material with contemporary techniques. Aldo Bakker uses electricity to make his ornaments, while at Commonplace Studio heat is used to make the numbers on the clock.

Commonplace Studio reflects on a serie of Studio Aldo Bakker. Studio Aldo Bakker's 'Copper Collection' consists of a series of copper ornaments that Bakker designed for Thomas Eyck in 2010. The gravy pan, candle-holder, mixing bowl, soy pourer, watering can and candle dome are fabricated using both traditional and new manufacturing methods. Bakker does this by working closely with Dubbelop in Schoonhoven, where the well-thought-out designs are transformed into flawless items.
 

Thanks to their sophisticated design and the unlimited time and attention devoted to the manufacturing process, Bakker's copper creations take on an unusual, almost alien appearance. Some items require a time-consuming technique which uses electrolysis to shape the copper. This process takes sixteen weeks.
 

The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 6/10 by artist Leon de Bruine is a reflection on the ‘Porcelain Tableware’ series developed by Designer Aldo Bakker and producer Studio Zand for the t.e. collection in 2009.
 
Buster
Painfully slowly, a tractor tyre drives a path over cracking porcelain. The remains of a series of porcelain items form a circle in space. A power struggle between a shelf and a rope plays out an unavoidably dramatic end. Two other situations threaten the fragile ceramics.
Artist Leon de Bruijne (born 1992) creates work that moves. His machines often have a destructive character. During his research into the production of porcelain for this reflection, he became fascinated by the quantity of ceramics that is smashed after firing – and not only the seconds: destruction also awaits the porcelain support moulds that are fired along with the dishes.

This led De Bruijne to create a destructive installation. One that, fuelled by the fragile nature of porcelain, plays with the tension of the ‘near miss’.
 
This installation is a reflection on the 'Porcelain Tableware' series, developed for Thomas Eyck in 2009 by Aldo Bakker Studio in collaboration with StudioZAND.
 
Designs by Aldo Bakker Studio have such seamless surfaces with such a regular finish that they don't look like they were made by hand. Nonetheless, this designer uses intensive artisanal manufacturing processes to create his designs. In 2009 Aldo Bakker designed a series of five porcelain ornaments, 'Porcelain Tableware', for Thomas Eyck. The water carafe, oil can and vinegar flask, salt cellar and oil platter are made and fired by Frans Ottink of StudioZAND in Amersfoort. Exceptionally high quality standards are common to the designer and artisan, for whom an apparently perfectly finished piece can still turn out to be a 'second'. Pieces rejected by Ottink feature in this installation by Leon de Bruijne.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection.  Installation 04/10 is a reflection on the 'Flax Project' series of utensils created for Thomas Eyck in 2009. The series was developed by designer Christien Meindertsma in collaboration with Touwslagerij Steenbergen and Kuperus & Gardenier.
 
Flaxity

Flax is an 'old' material with a rich history. Buro BELÉN builds on designer Christien Meindertsma's flax items, which are also on display in this installation and show that flax will continue to be very much at home in the future. BELÉN focuses on the rich tactility of flax. The designers developed the 'Oiled cape', a rain cape made using linseed oil, which is derived from flax. They used traditionally-made bell rope to knit the 'One thread hammock', a hammock made of a single long thread. They also developed a 'Combed couch cover' of woven linen, another flax product, and roughened the fabric to give it a soft texture. To finish there is a 'Go through': a huge wall, which is also a passage, made of hairy, strokeable flax.

Buro BELÉN reflect on a serie of Christien Meindertsma. Designer Christien Meindertsma explores the life and origins of objects and materials. She uses these to portray production methods which industrialisation has pushed into the background. In 2009 Thomas Eyck commissioned her to design a series of utensils made of flax, 'Flax Project', which consists of a flax candle, tea-towels, napkins, a tablecloth, chair, rug, pouffe, three types of hanging lamps, and an extension cord. The items are made by Touwslagerij Steenbergen in Gorssel, where rope has been hand-made from natural materials such as hemp and flax since 1900. Lelystad carpentry business Kuperus & Gardenier manufactures the wooden components of this series.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 3/10 by Bruno Vermeersch is a reflection on the 'Withering Tableware' series, developed for Thomas Eyck in 2014 by Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters in collaboration with Royal Tichelaar Makkum.
 
Impression of a house
Bruno Vermeersch uses a collection of 60 porcelain plates, cups, dishes, vases and bowls and protects them by building a transparent house in which the vague impression of a window is still visible. When you look closely at the crockery, you can make out an increasingly vague decoration painted with delicate flowers and branches. In his drive to preserve these fragile, 'wilting' objects, architect Bruno Vermeersch created a form study of a feather-light house. He began by making a wooden mould featuring the spatial impression of a house.

Bruno Vermeersch reflects on a serie of Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters. In the items, use of materials, innovating ways of making things, and exhibitions by Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters, the designers take inspiration from things including the transience of nature. Thomas Eyck commissioned them to create eight pieces of tableware, 'Withering Tableware', in 2014. Porcelain is traditionally painted by hand. Kolk and Kusters turned this process around by painting the mould rather than the crockery itself. The mould is then cast several times, causing the image of the flower to slowly fade.
 
In total the series of tableware items consists of 60 different pieces, fired by Royal Tichelaar Makkum. The company was founded in 1572 and is constantly innovating, without compromising the age-old artisanal working methods.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 2/10 is a reflection on the 'Woven Willow' series of items, developed for Thomas Eyck in 2008 by Scholten & Baijings in collaboration with ESH Vlechtwerk, Bernard Heesen and Royal Leerdam Crystal.
 
The Making of
In this installation, visual artist Tjalling Quinten Mulder expresses himself using plaster and ceramics. He uses these materials to make plinths on which he elevates fragile-looking objects made of wicker and glass. The ceramic masterpieces honour the creators of these designs. We see the weaver's rough hands and the blood vessels in the glass-blower's cheeks – cast from the artisans themselves. Seemingly unsteady, but nonetheless precise, they nourish the ornaments.

Tjalling Quinten Mulder reflects on a serie of Scholten & Baijings. Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings' designs are characterised by discriminating materials research, attention to grids and balanced colours. As Scholten & Baijings, the duo create interior design pieces in collaboration with old and well-established craft firms from both the Netherlands and abroad.
 
In 2008 Thomas Eyck commissioned the creation of 'Woven Willow', a series of eight ornaments based on fine willow skeinwork. The items, made of wicker, willow wood, glass and papier-mâché, are hand-woven by weaver Esmé Hofman of Wapse and blown by artist Bernard Heesen of Acquoy and Royal Leerdam Crystal. Royal Leerdam Crystal was founded in 1878 and enjoys international renown due to the high quality of its crystal.
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 

To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 1/10 is a reflection on the 'Tinware' ornaments, developed for Thomas Eyck in 2007 by Studio Job in collaboration with Tingieterij Leerdam.

Second Spade

Particulary in the sculptures for this exhibition, artist Saskia Noor van Imhoff and designer Arnout Meijer investigate the genesis of a series of pewter ornaments. In this exceptional collaboration, they query the definition of the 'thing'. When does an item become an object? How do we experience the various stages? And what status and value do we assign to these perspectives? The transparent drawers function as a collection of data, in which the definition of the 'thing' becomes visible in an associative manner. The cross-sections present a historical document of the item, just like the layers of the earth.

Arnout Meijer and Saskia Noor van Imhoff reflect on a serie of Studio Job. Studio Job, founded by Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel in 1997, combines a high level of craftsmanship with extreme embellishment of the items they design. Their work is on the cutting edge of art and design, and they regularly work with unusual materials like bronze, aluminium and pewter. Voor Thomas Eyck ontwierp Studio Job in 2009 een serie van vijf tinnen objecten: ‘Tinware’. De candle holder, vase, basket jar and plate with standard zijn in mallen gegoten in Tingieterij Leerdam.

 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen

Iconic Dutch Design is recontexualized by a younger generation in the jubilee exhibition of contemporary design publisher Thomas Eyck. In collaboration with Zuiderzee Museum and curator Jules van den Langenberg this section is first to publish a series of new projects.
 
To mark his jubilee ten product series were selected from Thomas Eyck’s collection, which are exemplary for the collaborations the publisher & distributor has developed with designers and producers since 2007. Accordingly, ten young designers, artists and architects were invited to create a project in which the iconic t.e. objects are studied and recontextualised. The retrospective exhibition reviews the past decade and forecasts a potential future for the t.e. collection. Installation 0/10 by artists and filmmakers Lernert & Sander is a reflection on the craft businesses with which Thomas Eyck has collaborated in the past decade.
 
Artists and filmmakers Lernert & Sander reflect on The work serves as an introduction to the exhibition. It consists of a film projector that projects its own birth using tangible 16mm film. The film shows a number of the workshops where the parts of the projector are re-created, in wicker, porcelain, flax, copper, oak and leather. Pewter, glass and paper are also used, but are not shown in the film.

This project celebrates attention and time, the core values ​​of Thomas Eyck.
 
The projector includes the following components:

*the handle is made of wicker and woven by ESH Vlechtwerk in Wapse (Drenthe)

*the buttons are made of pewter, cast by Flevotin of Zeewolde (Flevoland)

*the light and lens housing are made of porcelain, shaped and fired by StudioZAND in Amersfoort (Utrecht)

*the film reel is copper, forged by Dubbelop in Schoonhoven (South Holland)

*an extra film reel (not used here) is made of glass, blown by Van Tetterode Glass Studio in Amsterdam (North Holland)

*the cord is made of flax, made by Touwslagerij Steenbergen of Gorssel (Gelderland)

*the projector arms and parts of the film reel and film canister are made of oak and constructed by Kuperus & Gardenier of Lelystad (Flevoland)

*the exterior and the back cover of the film canister are made of leather, sewn by De Buffel in Terheijden (North Brabant)

*the projection surface is paper, created by Eijffinger of Zoetermeer (South Holland)
 
The exhibition 10 Years of Thomas Eyck is open until 14 May 2017 at Zuiderzee Museum Enkhuizen