Undeniably influenced by ZERO, the work of Henk Broeke will be appealing to many minimalistic art-lover. His work is mostly white and there is a slight Japanese influence in his art that relate to nature. Structure and rhythm are more important than colour.
Photographer Sander van der Veen and make-up artist Nilgun Canbaz usually work commissioned based. In this collaboration they are creating a visual language in photography which is developing itself more into the direction of art
Model: Amy Lebowski
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The classy style of the iconic Chesterfield chair is translated to modern times by Dutch Designer Elise Luttik. With modern techniques, ash wood can be made to match the noblesse of the original leather luxury. Chester is a luxurious and comfortable chair to fit your dining table. Surprisingly enough, Chester chair is stackable. Thus Chester closes the gap between comfortable but space claiming chairs and stackable, often uninviting industrial chairs. Now available at OODE.
– Endless chair by Dirk vander Kooij –
One plastic string, made out of old refrigerators, crafted by a robot, into a chair. By combining different techniques, Dirk was able to design an automated but very flexible process. He taught a robot his new craft, drawing furniture out of one endlessly long plastic string. This opened the possibility for Dirk van der Kooij to design in the good old-fashioned way, making a chair, evaluating, refining, making a chair, evaluating, refining and making a chair. Or developing an infinitely large collection of variations. Endless. OODE has now a grey and gradient black/white chair on display at the Singel in Amsterdam.
Adrianus Kundert and Thomas van der Sman of Studio ODDNESS in Eindhoven are fascinated with amorphstructures and randomness. To them, these two elements are antithesis of what is commonly seen in design world that usually doesn’t accept a random process for creation.
Bubblegraphy is a series of vases with a mesmerising look. The pattern on each product is created by a special process of blowing air bubbles in the glaze. The coating creates a three dimensional motive and makes each vase unique.
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OODE has some new pieces of orphaned art from the collection of Schiedam and Amsterdam. Visit us at the Singel Canal in Amsterdam.
Peter Kantelberg, Moonlight Disaster
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The conscious designs of Studio Lotte de Raadt are creating awareness on water issues. Ceramics has been used for water storage for centuries. Cooling occurs by natural evaporation through the pores of the ceramics material.
At the base of this collection you’ll find a duo of geometrical shapes, inspired by the architectural shapes and uses of various water towers across Europe.
They come in dark grey and ocean blue.
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Studio Daphna Laurens is the collaboration of Daphna Isaacs Burggraaf and Laurens Manders. Both designers graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven where they are based today. They founded Studio Daphna Laurens in 2008 with the aspiration to combine industrial design, applied art and fine art. Together they give shape to ideas, objects, products and concepts creating characteristic products and objects with sophisticated combinations of shapes, materials and colours.
“This series of jewelry, is a celebration of the intriguing moiré effect. By moving or rotating the black front layer, the pattern interferes with the background pattern. Rings or dots seem to appear and to move, making this into an almost hypnotic effect. This jewelry invites you to play and become fascinated by the moiré principle.”
“Limpid Lights continues on the principle of manipulating the light by moving the lightsource. The fresh and bright light of LED can be manually masked with various handblown glass shades.”
Since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2007 designer Job Martens gives shape to his world in a handcrafted manner. He has developed himself as a product designer on one hand, and a creative craftsman in metal and construction on the other hand. These two aspects make Job Martens a versitale and innovative designer.
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Seasons is a translation of a board which stayed over fifty years to rains and wind; time frozen in cast-iron. The objects with deep grooves and rounded shapes seems to be just found in the unimpaired nature that surrounds Studio Fabien Barrero+Carsenat. Aesthetic is found in the imperfection created by the forces of nature. Combining the heavy-weight, solid metal and the matte black color provides a stately effect. As a table center-piece, painted with pure hot bee wax and placed on a walnut wood ring, the time becomes exhibited in these ever existing pieces.
Seasons at OODE
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The addition of cast polyester resin diffuses the light path and in turn uses the light source to enhance the colour properties within the resin. A new moment is created when this mutually beneficial relationship is formed between materials, defining the unique properties of each where the two meet.
VOIE light series #1
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This beautiful out of collection chair with open back is made by Polish designer Oskar Zieta. They are part of the FIDU collection, that means inflating steel just like rubber toys. With one exception – objects created this way are not necessarily toys. Inflated steel sheets have a very high weight-capacity, so these funny looking shapes are indeed an innovative construction technology. Developed as a method of steel sheet stabilization, FIDU opens new possibilities of forming for the design objects and ultra-light constructions. This limited available chair is available at OODE for E 450, – in glossy black coating.
Oskar zieta, Chippensteel glossy black at OODE.
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A rusty nail surrounded by blue stains in oak forms the basis of this research by dutch designer Steven Banken. Oak contains high concentrations of tannic acid, which turns into dark blue when it’s exposed to steel. The same happens with steel, as a result of a chemical reaction between red iron oxide and tannic acid. To accelerate this normally undesirable process the elements that cause this chemical reaction are applied in liquid form on the other material.
Tannic Acid series of Steven Banken reveals the exceptional similarity in color of two radically different materials after the natural transition.
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Introducing Lennart Bras, ArtEZ Product Design class of 2016 graduate with a niche interest in the industrial production process and how one can simplify building principles. For a question in mind: ‘How can a production process bring forward a new readability for the user?‘, Lennard replies with his latest creation entitled ‘Bottom Up’, as part of his graduation project.
‘Bottom Up Bench’ by Lennart Bras
‘Bottom Up‘ is a collection of products – shoes, a table, and a bench that unveils the manufacturing process, to be part of the design outlook in itself. The creative process featured thorough research and analysis of existing semi-finished products, readability, and focus on construction. ‘It’s all about the clarity of construction’, explains Lennart. For the ‘Bottom Up Bench‘, a traditional production process from an upholsterer was taken as inspiration, and applied from the legs of the product onwards. The result is Lennart’s way of smart construction thinking to show the inside-out of the manufacturing industry, from the bottom to the top.
‘Bottom Up Bench’ by Lennart Bras
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We have some orphaned art pieces of Angèle Etoundi Essamba. She was born in Douala and grew-up in Yaoundé. Her long and recognized trajectory in realization of photographical register of black women started in 1985 in Amsterdam. In her work, Essamba breaks from stereotypical representations of an Africa torn by famines, epidemics and wars, instead celebrating the cultural richness and diversity of the continent. Her outlook is equally aesthetic, idealistic, realistic, intimate and societal. Naturally, Essamba’s work joins the spirit of humanistic photography, and is strongly attached to the values of communion, solidarity and equality between men. Pride, strength and consciousness of African women and the relation between tradition and modernity is what one can see through Essamba’s colored and black & white photography.
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Dieter Volkers is a designer from Maastricht, graduated from the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts in Arnhem where he is based today. His work space is the place to set his mind free, the place where he developed a series of functional, but also aesthetically strong objects. With his ‘Tools and Objects’ he knows how to attract attention to everyday products and acts. As Dieter explains:
“The products are the result of functional objects.
Objects which are powerful in their aesthetics.
My collection represents the actions of our daily lives.
Central is the value of ‘normal’ things and acts, such as passing a door.”
Present at OODE, is a piece of Dieter’s ‘normal’ things – the Ball Clamp. This opaque lamp looks like a squeezed ball with a clamp, to put wherever. The ball itself is open from the bottom, to easily put a regular light bulb. A typical dutch design lamp – very useful and with a bit of humor. Available for purchase, also in the webshop.
Ball Clamp by Dieter Volkers
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Interior and product designer Tjimkje de Boer is the brain behind designstudio Knapontwerp. Knapontwerp draws its inspiration from daily scenery and objects. Captured in photography, Tjimkje dives into detailed observation and poetic analysis of ordinary moments and taking the best of old crafts and traditional production methods, new ideas take hold and lead to the development of products.
Picturesque Mirrors by Tjimkje de Boer
In such manner, a slushy paddle turns intoPicturesque Mirrors, balancing on the verge of art and design as the reflective functionality is complemented by an interaction of lustrous colours. While across it, in collaboration with Anne Marie Twigge, the studio constructs a Converso Simplex, a minimalistic cube of a base and a loose interlocking element. This object tributes the physical posture in (public) speaking in various adjustable structures of formal and informal presentations. Offering the speaker all of the settings to present: seater, presenter, activator, highriser and converser.
Converso Simplex by Tjimkje de Boer and Anne Marie Twigge
Knapontwerp’s creations are focused on bringing both functionality and scenery to the indoors for personal use and fascination. All of the products are available for purchase on demand.
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