I was at the Milan Design Week 2017 to spot the newest developments in design. Today I was at Lambrate, spotted designs by Maarten Baas x Hans Lensvelt, Creative Chef Jasper Udink ten Catea and Designschool Kolding. I visited the Ikea festival and the expo One Planet, One Future by Anne de Carbuccia.
Elke woensdag ben ik tussen 10 en 11 uur te gast in het KRO NCRV radioprogramma De Ochtend op Radio 1 om actuele ontwikkelingen op het gebied van architectuur en stedelijk leven te bespreken. Vandaag: De Design Week vorige week in Milaan is de grootste designhappening van de wereld met zo’n 300 duizend bezoekers. Welke trends en ontwerpen vielen op?
I went to the Milan Design Week, always the international hotspot for the design world – and 2017 was no exception. And… I started doing a video blog, a ‘vlog’. It’s fun to experiment with a new form of storytelling. This is the vlog for my first day, including Atelier010’s project Sugarrush, work by Piet Hein Eek, en exhibition in a 16th-century villa curated by Airbnb, the Dutch exhibition Masterly and Tom Dixon’s collaboration with Ikea (behh).
I went to the Milan Design Week, always the international hotspot for the design world – and 2017 was no exception. And… I started doing a video blog, a ‘vlog’. It’s fun to experiment with a new form of storytelling. This is the vlog for my first day, including Atelier010’s project Sugarrush, work by Piet Hein Eek, en exhibition in a 16th-century villa curated by Airbnb, the Dutch exhibition Masterly and Tom Dixon’s collaboration with Ikea (behh).
Op een steenworp afstand van elkaar bouwen zowel China als Hong Kong aan nieuwe musea voor design. Bij beide instellingen zijn Nederlanders betrokken. Voor het NRC bezocht ik China en Hong Kong en interviewde ik Aric Chen over het nieuwe M+ museum en Ole Bouman over Design Society. Update: Aric Chen wordt per 1 mei 2021 directeur van Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam.
Winners of the 2017 Pritzker Prize are RCR Arquitectes, a Spanish studio located by deliberate choice in the volcanic hinterland of the province of Catalunya. I interviewed them for NRC Handelsblad and made a video interview as well.
The reaction is most of the architecture world was: ‘Who?’ By chance I knew their work: I had stayed in an extraordinary hotel they designed with rooms made entirely of glass, I had visited a school + library in the Barcelona neighbourhood of Sant Antoni, and I had seen an exhibition on their work in Barcelona. I returned to their town of Olot, to the 16th-century foundry where their studio is located, to speak with them, and visited their striking underground bodega in Palamós, on the coast north of Barcelona.