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No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips (Photo: Maurice Scheltens)
19 Dutch designers present the strength of Dutch design at galerie Espace 218 / L'Eclaireur in Tokyo During the Tokyo Design Week, held in Japan from 31st October – 4th November, 19 designers from Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Rotterdam will be presenting work that illustrates the strength of Dutch design. The exhibition ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ will be presented as a still life, like those familiar to us from the ‘old masters’, putting contemporary design from the Netherlands on display in a classically Dutch way. No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips The Netherlands has a lot more to offer than windmills, cheese and tulips. Design, for instance. No matter how small the Netherlands may be, it still ranks fourth on the list of major design countries. All over the World, Dutch designers are renowned for their conceptual abilities and their ability to translate these concepts into designs that are suitable for mass production. Furniture, interior accessories, household items and jewellery The exhibition ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’, an initiative of Maarten Baptist and Margo Konings, puts 21 objects on display that stand as a symbol of this characteristic design mentality. The objects vary from furniture (such as the perforated chair Perf by Khodi Feiz and the stool Lost & Found by Demakersvan) and interior accessories (vases Botanical Ceramics by Jo Meesters) to household items (water bottle Waater by Tjep.) and jewellery (Trésor du homard & Les pinces et l’argent by Margo Konings). A three-dimensional painting These objects are presented as a still life, like those of the ‘old masters’ who painted during the 17th century: an artistic composition of objects. In ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ the different shapes, colours and textures have been arranged and illuminated to resemble a modern-day ‘best room’; a three-dimensional painting of Dutch design at a high standard of quality. ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’ is part of NL4 Design, a programme of activities initiated by Brainport Eindhoven, the municipalities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, the BNO (the Association of Dutch Designers) and Premsela (the Dutch platform for design and fashion) to create an unequivocal and recognisable international profile for the Netherlands as a design country and to promote the export of Dutch design. Concept and Art Direction: Maarten Baptist and Margo Konings. Participating designers and objects on display: Amsterdam Pieke Bergmans – Unlimited Editions Wiebe Boonstra – Bird is free Khodi Feiz – Perf Ted Noten – Love Bag Idiots – Fake IIII Scholten & Bajings – Colour Plaid 05 Tjep. – Waater Eindhoven Maarten Baptist – Louise, Tables Drift - Lonneke Gordijn – Dandelight Kiki van Eijk – Quilt Chair Gro Design – Nokia 6500 Margo Konings – Trésor du homard & Les pinces et l’argent Jo Meesters – Botanical Ceramics Buro Vormkrijgers – About Time Rotterdam Jurgen Bey – Kokon Stubborn Demakersvan – Lost & Found Richard Hutten – Low Res Elephant Chris Kabel – Flames, Bowls & Plates Ben Oostrum – Low Res Jenever Bottle No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips Tokyo Design Week Japan 31st October – 4th November 2007 Opening hours: 11:00 - 19:00 Venue Espace 218 / L'eclaireur 4-21-26 Minami-Aoyama Minato-ku Tokyo 107-0062 Japan Subway ‘Omotesando’, on the Hanzomon Line, Ginza Line or Chiyoda Line. Exit A4, 4 minutes walk from the station.