Short&Sweet: an interview with designer Pieke Bergmans.
Pieke Bergmans: It started off with the question why neon is always in a linear tube and I was just questioning if I could somehow also put gas inside a more organic shape.
Short&Sweet: an interview with designer Maarten Baas.
Maarten Baas: In 200 years time you should have this massive chair, I really wanted it to be this thick chair so that it needed to be a development of 200 years.
Short&Sweet: een interview met designer Christien Meindertsma over haar project en boek “Bottom Ash Oberservatory”.
Christien Meindertsma: The material in waste is worth money, if you can separate it. That is the funny thing about waste: It’s not worth anything, unless you extract it and separate it. Therefore it’s also supposed to look like a rich material.
For my interview series ‘Short&Sweet’ from Milan Design Week I talked with designer Christien Meindertsma about her project and book ‘Bottom Ash Observatory’.
Christien Meindertsma: The material in waste is worth money, if you can separate it. That is the funny thing about waste: It’s not worth anything, unless you extract it and separate it. Therefore it’s also supposed to look like a rich material.
Short&Sweet: een interview met Jolan van der Wiel en Marjan van Aubel, Energies Unseen, vanuit de Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milaan.
Jolan van der Wiel: We wanted to show the transport of energy from A to B. Normally you don´t have an emotional feeling on what´s going on with the light and its energy. By changing the sort of lightbulbs for our project, you can finally see what kind of energy it uses.
Short&Sweet: een interview met Renee Mennen & Stefanie van Keijsteren, design duo rENs, vanuit de Salone del Mobile 2015 in Milaan.
Renee Mennen: We play a lot with a broad range of different materials. At the beginning, it’s always really experimental, but after that we always want to focus on the results.