Design Connection Brainport has invited designer Kiki van Eijk to select a number of products for the Jewels concept. The products on view are designed by Eindhoven designers and manufactured by local industries, ranging from a high-tech metal factory to a craft-oriented woodworking business. The products are presented within the framework of themes such as form language and choice of materials. The dynamic arrangement enables the products to communicate with each other.
To visualise the entire manufacturing process of local industries and designers, a number of products are accompanied by an extensive photo report, in some cases starting on the drawing board and ending with the factory machine.
Marieke van der Bruggen
The Garden of delight stimulates your fantasy and lets you taste the sweetness of paradise. It's tempting to be part of Garden of delight and by tasting the sweet this has become an option. An inverted nature element that spawns, like a sculpture, from the ceiling. This object exists of branches, twigs and leaves in colours and tastes that are to be picked and eaten. A quite idyllic experience.
Kiki van Eijk
Pots inspired on small japanese foodbowls and cups. These pots can be used to stall all the knick knacks you find in ones house ! the subtle relief is a pattern of everyday knick knacks you can find around you in the house.
The Knick Knack pots are available in 4 different colours and 2 different patterns.
Kiki van Eijk & EE labels
Designed and manufactured for 'Jewels and Joules'. A tablecloth with a pattern of herbs - inspired by Kiki van Eijk's own garden. EE labels was kind enough to manufacture this beautiful tablecloth in silk. Can be ordered at the exhibition in Milan!
Anthony Kleinepier
Update your interior into an adventurous scenery!
Roomdivider is part of the “soft living improvement” collection, designed by Anthony Kleinepier. By the special productionprocess every roomdivider has an unique shape. Also available in classic green; GRASS – Roomdivider ‘EVERGREEN'.
Roomdivider is part of the “soft living improvement” collection, designed by Anthony Kleinepier. By the special productionprocess every roomdivider has an unique shape. Also available in classic green; GRASS – Roomdivider ‘EVERGREEN'.
Anthony Kleinepier
By the special productionprocess every stool has an unique shape Also available in black; SKULL –Stool (black).
Lucas Maassen
Chairs who practice yoga are known as "yoga chairs" and one of the fundamental beliefs that these chairs share is that the concept and the material are as one within a unified structure.
Maarten Kolk en Guus Kusters
In the work of designers Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters nature is often an important theme. They involve flora in their designs for its organic qualities. The process of growth is an essential part of vegetation. The ‘Cultivation Cabinet’ is a cupboard in which young plants can be grown. By placing the process of growth into an interior product, they’d like to bring vegetation back into daily life.
Jo Meesters
TESTLAB is an experimental ongoing project about rejuvenating and reusing discarded materials. It is
about experiments and prototypes, exploring the possibilities of the materials, removing them from their
contexts and transforming them into something new.
TESTLAB kicked off with the collection “Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces”, consisting out of four furniture
pieces. The collection which is entirely made out of 34 discarded wooden beams and 16 leftover
blankets, is based on upholstering and weaving techniques creating soft variations of everyday objects.
Charlotte Dumoncel d'Argence
Everyday alarming information all seem to merge into one conclusion: our world in unrelentingly going forward to its end. The contemporary Vanitas are melancholically questioning the fate of our society. They are conveying a disenchanting vision of our world, celebrating the pleasure of what is now while meditating on its fragility.
The massive copper cable gets loose and ramifies into nothingness. The light bulb itself dangles from a thin copper; the whole object freezes in time its decaying process.
Harm Rensink
Vormkatoen is a series of 3 small benches made out of cotton fibres. The fibres are mixed into a pulp which is pressed around a copper tubular drainage system that allows the water to run out.This system also functions as the frame of the bench that wears the pressed cotton like a jacket. By imprinting the seat with different textures, the textile feeling of the pressed cotton is emphasized.
mischer'traxler
Limited moths is one piece out of the RealLimited series.
Inspired by the current hype of limited editions, the project RealLimited connects limitation back to realistic facts and translates endangered species into limited editions of products.
A critically endangered Austrian moth species (marumba quercus) is represented in copper. As a huge swarm the moths are flying towards a light bulb. Each copper moths is numbered, representing one moths in reality.
limited edition of 4 to 5 lamps (depending on amount of single moths).
Julien Carretero
The Drag project deals with a production process inspired by the traditional plaster dragging technique in wich the plaster is constrained in shape by a profile while hardening. This technique traditionally used to produce ornamental cornices is adapted here in order to serially produce various typologies of objects in an infinite variation of shapes, all based on solids of revolution.
Snodevormgevers
Gentleman's chamber 1953 is a fusion of nature and interior, traditional elements from a
gentleman's chamber are brought back to their essence and are reinterpreted from the point
of view of forest animals.
The fireplace , and the stools are made out of tree trunks, or that how it appears to be. On a closer
inspection you will notice they are actually made out of plate steel.
Snodevormgevers
Gentleman's chamber 1953 is a fusion of nature and interior, traditional elements from a
gentleman's chamber are brought back to their essence and are reinterpreted from the point
of view of forest animals.
The fireplace , and the stools are made out of tree trunks, or that how it appears to be. On a closer
inspection you will notice they are actually made out of plate steel.
Jo Meesters
Inspired by the underlying processes and principles in nature and science, the vase Redefining Genetics
is composed of 6.000 small rods, which have been built up manually through a 3D computer
programme. The vase is a reflection of the properties of SLS (Selective Laser Sintering), a Rapid Prototyping technique.
Rapid Prototyping is based on virtual computer information obtained through the CAD process, which is
translated into a physical 3D product. A laser melts powder on the basis of the diameter of the virtual
model that was made by means of a computer programme. Layer by layer, the whole model is thus
constructed.
Ilona Huvenaars en Willem Derks
Finally a vase you can leave on the table. The Knitted Vase will adapt to the single beautiful rose or the bunch of wildflowers instead of the other way around. The flowers determine the shape and the flexible neck will seamlessly wrap itself around them. Just like the snug fit of a finely knitted sweater. Thanks to the Rapid Manufacturing technique this vase will not drop a single stitch.
Drift
Oil is used in a lot of materials and products around us. The price of a drum oil is getting higher all the time because of the rapidly slinking oil reserves. Instead of consuming less, the world population is being motivated to buy more oil based products to stimulate the economy, we think that's strange.
'Oil Light' is an unique lamp made out of nylon, an oil based material. The size of the lamp is directly related to the oilprice. When the oilprice rises, one can buy less oil for the same price. Therefore the lamp you can buy will be smaller when the oil price is high and bigger when it is low. When the oil price is 100 dollars for a barrel, the lamp will be build up from 100 little drums. One dollar change on the oil market = one oil drum in the lamp less or more. We use a widget to check the oil price constantly. This is directly related to the size of the lamp you can order.
'Oil Light' is an unique lamp made out of nylon, an oil based material. The size of the lamp is directly related to the oilprice. When the oilprice rises, one can buy less oil for the same price. Therefore the lamp you can buy will be smaller when the oil price is high and bigger when it is low. When the oil price is 100 dollars for a barrel, the lamp will be build up from 100 little drums. One dollar change on the oil market = one oil drum in the lamp less or more. We use a widget to check the oil price constantly. This is directly related to the size of the lamp you can order.
Emily Hermans (MLY)
Remarkable about the “knit couture” by MLY is that it is developed and produced locally and in-house. In stead of buying ready-made fabrics, Hermans designs her own. Production is not delegated halfway across the world, but done at a knitting facility in the vicinity of Eindhoven, where MLY is located. This is how MLY has complete control of the production process from A to Z. Although the collections by MLY differ in design and inspiration sources, a clear line can be discovered. Especially the rhythmic repetitive designs and graphic patterns give the label its own distinctive signature.























