At Home With Scholten and Baijings

The couple’s Amsterdam Armoire with handblown glass feet and screen prints on the door’s interiors.

The living room is furnished with Scholten & Beijings designs, including a coffee table from their Colour Wood series and a rug for Scandinavian retailer Hay.

The custom kitchen cabinets are made of aluminium.

The dining room console.

Taking a look inside the studios and homes of the designers we love is always a treat, and the colourful home of Amsterdam-based product designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings, of Scholten & Baijings, is no exception. Their three-bedroom 1920s home in the south of the city is a living still life; a flawlessly styled showcase of their techni-colour minimal aesthetic, featuring their trademark lines, grids, blocks, gradients of striking colour combinations, light effects and layered patterns.

Baijings’ grandmother lived in the house for 65 years, and the couple renovated it extensively before moving in – removing doors and extending windows to open up the space and let the light in. Translucent and reflective materials, from lacquered vases to sheer window dressings decorated with metallic discs, work together to filter light in a playful way. The duo’s expressive use of colour builds on the lively energy of the home, found in wall colours, objects and textiles in hot pinks, olives, sky blues and fluorescent oranges.

Like many designers, Scholten and Baijings live amongst their prototypes, a process which helps them learn about their products every day. Collections of objects are displayed throughout home, a mix of every-day items and design objects that are curated in a purposeful way that indicates each item has a story, ultimately showcasing the duo’s renown hyper-elegant attention to detail.

The Agape tub in the couple’s bathroom at home gets it’s green tint from fluorescent yellow curtains, and the neon orange showerhead is made of silicon rubber.

The main workspace in Scholten & Beijings studio, with textile panels in their signature colour combination and their new Light Ball lamps atop a vitrine displaying recent prototypes.