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At Strijp-R, Piet Hein Eek is showing his new collection and interesting exhibitions of other designers are organised throughout the building, that many years ago was a Philips factory. 

In 1990 Piet Hein Eek graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven. He opened his first company in 1992. For Eek, it is important to have an influence on the whole process – from drawing to a final product. This proved to be an exceptional way of producing that became recognised internationally as it was and is still rare that furniture is designed and produced under the same roof.

On one of the floors, you can find Waste art expo – all projects are from waste materials.

• Busts – Piet Hein Eek – plastic, scrapwood, cardboard boxes+tape.

• Linda Nieuwstad – Flowers – These flowers 100% handmade. The frames of her creations are made of solid steel frames. After she bends the steel by hand in the right shape she welds the separate parts together. Then she cuts leaves and petal leaves out of truck tarp and gives them a final touch with details out of wool, velvet or paper.

• Arsenio Rodriguez – Masks (waste plastics and tie-wraps).

• (1) Dirk van der Kooij – Table made from used CD cases and 3d printed lamps.

• (3) Marc Mulders – Wonderwall ( steel tubes and glass applique).

At another room more exhibitions:

Vadim Kibardin – Russian designer from Omsk but live in Praga now.

These chairs are made from paper. Based on cardboard, previously used to be packaging and paper glued together by layers. He started from paper prototyping and ended up with the philosophy way of thinking about why a chair should live longer than his owner. Over the years, the chair takes the form of the owner and follows his habits, it only becomes more beautiful, causes affection, and gains personal value.

Victor de Bie – Below the surface – As a visual artist Victor creates his own universe by paintings, drawings and objects.

❞ The table with eight chairs represents the one we all sat around and symbolizes family. At the head of the table, two embracing armchairs representing my parents. At the table, we identify ourselves through others and we are able to explore and recognize ourselves, revealing many secrets hidden from under the surface. The family as an introspective mirror, hiding the unknown. The mouth-blown vase represents a fish that gasps for air and symbolizes my desire for freedom. The small table, named after my youngest brother Wiglius, is personally important to me because it is one of the first steps towards three-dimensional and applied work. Initially, it was a painting (2017), later I cut out the fish and turned it into a table.

(2) Daniel Ruanova – The Fuck Off Project TFOP (Galvanized steel drywall studs and self-drilling screw).

(1) Taiwanese designers Liang-Jung Chen and Shuei-Yuan Yang have designed a collection of homewares called The Misused (A geeky study on how to use metal hardwares wrong). The design was inspired by how elders in countryside of Taiwan creatively improvise daily necessities with existing objects. The collection aims to re-fulfill the potentials of everyday metal hardwares by misusing them with a twist of humor.

(2) Ceramics Recycling.

(3-4) Floris Wubben – The studio is known for its unique design that is at the cutting edge of functional products and sculptural work. Furniture is made from ceramics.

Coming back to Piet Hein Eek.

(2) The classic cupboard in scrapwood was designed in 1990 as Piet’s graduation work. In honor of the 30th anniversary, they made an edition of 30 unique cupboards to celebrate! The price is 4281€.

New collection – Birch cabinet. Price 36 000€.

Show room photos. (2) Blokken serie.

(1-2) This ANTIEK is one love – oak and rosewood 2-doors pillowcloset with blackwood inlay, 19th century. 3600€.

(4) OILY BUSK – Roderick Vos we saw him as well at Plan B.

(1) Can simple mass-produced bottles green glass can become unique objects? Klaas Kuiken was intrigued by the question. Klaas turned their ‘flaws’ into something beautiful, re-forming them by using his own technique of glass-blowing. The Bottles Collection consists of no less than 17 different models, all equally good-looking. bottle vase 98€.

(2) Cut (old/new) glass candle holder.

(3) One mold ceramic lamp – The concept is simple; one lamp out of one mold with various functions. Standing next to your bed, hanging on the wall as down or up lighter, also on a stick as a table lamp.

Haave

(1) RENS – 9 objects made from 9 materials united by 1 color.

(2) Figuronomics

(3) Sennes – fashion that combines Portuguese and Belgian tradition, high-sustainable Portuguese Wool & Belgian Linen. Designer Nele De Block is Belgian, But she lives in Portugal, in Faro.

(4) Blurred Objects – UAUPROJECT – All products are designed to be 3D printed from plant based bioplastics like PLA. They are fully recyclable & compostable in industrial facilities.

(1-2) Cobalt blue – Ineke van der Werff – porcelain vases, each uniquely glazed with a specially developed pouring or rolling technique.

Check about Strijp-R location 2018