School House Apartments in Rotterdam by Eklund Terbeek.This Rotterdam loft apartment in a former school building consists of two ex-classrooms and an adjacent hallway. Eklund Terbeek knocked through the dividing wall to create a large, open living space, and focused on enhancing the inherent...
Oil Plastic Sculptures by Stefan Gross.Artist Stefan Gross creates sculptures from his unique ‘oil plastic’ material, made from dying recycled industrial thermoplastic with classic oil paints, creating a translucent substance that behaves like glass at room temperature,...
The Waterline Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands by Studio Anne Holtrop.Studio Anne Holtrop’s Waterline Museum is a former military defence base, which flooded large parts of the Netherlands intentionally. Spanning 85km along the ‘new Dutch waterline’ with multiple fortresses, the site is UNESCO World...
Arresting Rope Tapestries by Textile Artist Joana Schneider.Textile artist Joana Schneider pushes the boundaries of rope with her Totem wall tapestries, drawing on technical inspiration from fishermen and net makers. Using chunky rope and sustainable yarn, Joana Schneider hand wraps and crochets...
Mister Design Showroom in Den Bosch, The Netherlands by Studio 34 South.A remnant of early 20th-century industrialization in the Netherlands, a 2,000sqm former Ford factory with monumental 1930’s Neues Bauen façades is now a showroom for MisterDesign, refurbished by Studio 34 South. Studio 34 South were...
Valentin Loellmann’s Extraordinary Design Pieces & Workshop in Maastricht, The Netherlands.German-born designer Valentin Loellmann has a studio to be envied. Set in the quaint medieval town of Maastricht in the Netherlands, Loellmann designed the 500sqm space as conducive to concentration and balance. A ground floor workshop...
Kvistad Redesigns Bakken & Bæck’s Amsterdam Office.Designed by Norwegian studio Kvistad, the Amsterdam outpost for Bakken & Bæck is reminiscent of a ‘yellow submarine’ – a long and narrow space that sits below ground level by the docks of Houthaven. The main room of Bakken &...
Suzanne Jongmans Uses Waste Materials to Recreate Dutch Renaissance.Suzanne Jongmans takes her inspiration from the old Dutch masters, the painters of the past, specifically focusing on the 15th, 16th and 17th century. Rembrandt, Holbein the Younger and Rogier van der Weyden - you’ll find references to...
Villa Waalre in The Netherlands by Russell Jones.Towering fir trees surround this sprawling villa in the town of Waarle, in the southern Netherlands. The large five bedroom family home covers an enclosed area of 1200 square meters over four levels and resides on a 7000 square meter plot...
