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Milan 2014: Dutch design studio Droog has adapted pieces from the 8000 objects in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to create a studio space for Milan design week (+ slideshow).

Spaces set up at Droog‘s Rijksstudio m2 exhibition will include an entrance, bedroom, kitchen, living room and dining room.

The walls and ceiling will be decorated with Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom’s wallpaper, referencing works in the museum’s collection by the likes of Vermeer and using the colour palette she developed as part of the 2013 Rijksmuseum renovation and rebrand.

An eighteenth-century tapestry will be transformed into wallpaper, while a painting with birds and clouds will become part of a reflective gradient wall in the bedroom.

The furniture and homeware range created as part of the installation takes its lead from historical artifacts and pieces within paintings in the museum’s collection.

A bathtub, a daybed, a writing desk, a mirror, a nightstand and a candleholder are executed in wood and leather.

Droog is also launching products previewed at Milan last year that are now in production. The collection takes colours, shapes and details from traditional artworks and uses contemporary materials such as rubber and titanium to create contemporary products.

The AA Glasses mimic the form of five historic glasses in the Rijksmuseum whose makers are unknown. They are available in transparent, or matte black for blind tastings.

Table Skin is a silicone cast of traditional Dutch ribbons and piping embroidery, used to form a durable, waterproof and easy-to-clean table cloth.

The collection also include a 3D-printed napkin ring by Studio Droog that resembles a pleated Tudor ruff.

As well as these, Droog will present new products from its New Original series referencing iconic Chinese products such as the Tea for One and Tea for Two teapots by Richard Hutten.

The exhibition will be open at Via San Gregorio 29 in Milan from 8 to 13 April.

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News: Dutch design collective Droog will turn the notion of piracy in China on its head by unveiling its own copies of Chinese objects in a Guangzhou shopping centre next week.

While Chinese companies and the government strive to shed their copycat reputation, The New Original project suggests that the process of imitation can be more than mere replication when small adaptations are made to the knock-off goods, potentially driving innovation.

Exhibited items will include a traditional Chinese tea pot with a more robust handle and an inverted Chinese restaurant where a fish tank contains the dining area.

Top: Tea Pot by Richard Hutten
Above: Family Vase by Studio Droog

The show will feature 26 objects that were created in Shenzhen, which Droog calls “the epicentre of copycat culture”, as part of a workshop organised by the firm’s experimental arm Droog Lab. Participating designers designers included Studio Droog, Richard Hutten and the late Ed Annink of the Netherlands, plus Stanley Wong and Urbanus of China.

“We have reached a level of saturation in design and in the market, that it’s time to think more intelligently about what to do with the surplus, and use it in the design process. We should take better advantage of our collective intelligence,” says Droog co-founder and director Renny Ramakers. “Imitation can also be inspiration.”

Above: Fish Restaurant by Studio Droog

The New Original will be on show at Hi space, zhen Jia shopping mall, 4th floor, No. 228 Tianhe Road, Guangzhou, China, from 9 March to 9 April.

The show is organised in partnership with Today Art Museum of Beijing and OCT Art and Design Gallery of Shenzhen.

Other news about copying in design includes a building designed by Zaha Hadid for Beijing that’s been copied by a developer in Chongqing. At the Venice Architecture Biennale last year, Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob of FAT argued that copying is fundamental to how architecture develops.

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Dezeen Screen: dresses whirl past on a radio-controlled coat hanger in this installation by Amsterdam-based German designer Michael Schoner at the Droog flagship store in Amsterdam. Watch the movie »

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