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LXRY Department: stylish design
Top designer Carole Baijings takes the MASTERS world into the wonderful world of design. Oh the places you'll go and the things you'll see.
Top designer Carole Baijings takes MASTERS world into the wonderful world of design… Oh the places you'll go and the things you'll see.Text: Carole Baijings
Online editing: Mical Joseph
Divine chair
Furniture company developed together with architectural firm Powerhouse Company Lensvelt this indoor-outdoor tubular steel chair. The Coquille, handmade in Italy, looks classic but is at the same time very innovative due to the special base that posed a technical challenge: the steel structure consists of one piece and had to form a flowing line. The starting point for the design was the bistro chair made of bentwood and rattan. On a symbolic level, the Coquille is inspired by Botticelli's painting Birth of Venus, on which the goddess of love is carried by a huge scallop shell. The bucket chair has the same organic shape as the shell and sits 'divinely'. A perfect fusion of form and function. The Coquille is fully recyclable and available in all possible colors.
Design with a small footprint
The Municipal draws attention to the greatest challenge of our time: the climate crisis. The exhibition It's Our F***ing Backyard shows that designers can make an important difference: through innovative experiments or by reverting to 'forgotten' knowledge, they allow us to look at materials in a radically different way and offer us design that is responsible, aesthetic, comfortable and accessible. Designers reuse all kinds of waste materials for new products and use the power of nature to create unusual materials. For example, design studio Bentu processes ceramic waste into furniture, Tamara Orjola converts pine needles into textiles, Basse Stittgen invented a tableware made from cow's blood, Maartje Dros and Erik Klarenbeek experiment with CO2-binding micro-algae to make glass and the Balinese design studio Space Available designed together with DJ Peggy Gou made a chair from 20 kilos of plastic waste collected in Indonesia. The eighty selected projects provide an overview of different strategies to achieve better use of materials. The exhibition, on view until September 4, also examines how soil depletion is linked to practices of colonialism, which are still continued by some multinationals.
Camper by Carole
Camper builder Tonka has produced a series of All Electric campers in collaboration with Mercedes-Benz. The new EQV from Mercedes-Benz forms the perfect basis for Tonke All Electric. The 100 kWh battery can drive more than 300 km. In addition to the German car manufacturer, Tonke has called on the expertise of top designer Carole Baijings, who designed the EQV 'Cyclist' and 'Hiker'. For these versions, Carole has opted for a light appearance with color accents made from soft natural and, above all, sustainable materials. Consider, for example, whitewashed poplar wood for the kitchen, the ice blue and water-repellent fabric Haku for the lounge/sofa bed and chairs (after swimming you can sit on it with your wet swimwear), and a specially developed fabric for the topper of the mattress with a fluorine detail which is characteristic of Carole Baijings.
MASTERS MAGAZINE
In the summer edition of MASTERS an interview with Sven Kramer, a driving impression of the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport (> € 4 million) and a study into the Effect of Max. But above all, it features people who bring light to the darkness. Such as Henk Jan Beltman, who took over Tony's Chocolonely because with a company you can make the world a more beautiful place. Chef Emile van der Staak, who has the ambition to change our food culture and therefore cooks with plants and vegetables that he obtains from the food forest. Designer Nienke Hoogvliet, who has introduced natural seaweed paint as an alternative to harmful textile paint. And Anna Nooshin, who criticizes the current social media culture of pretty pictures. In her documentary she also shares the less beautiful aspects of her life. “In the hope that someone who recognizes themselves in, for example, domestic violence or the struggle with your mental well-being, can take comfort in the fact that I have also experienced that and am still standing.” All people who ask questions, hold up mirrors, take steps. Steps towards a healthier world and more understanding society.
