Le studio de design Néerlandais Mieke Meijer a conçu un espace de travail innovant : une fonction bureau, stockage et surtout, une fonction escalier. Fabriqué à la main à partir de chêne et d’acier noir, l’oeuvre est divisée en deux sections constituée d’étagères et d’un escalier reliant l’étage supérieur au rez de chaussée.
Residents climb over an integrated desk, storage space and shelving to reach the suspended upper section of this staircase by Dutch design studio Mieke Meijer.
The Object élevé is an oak and black steel installation commissioned by designer Just Haasnoot for his home in Wassenaar, an affluent suburb in The Hague.
It combines storage and access to the upper floor via a series of open frame boxes.
Handmade in Mieke Meijer‘s Eindhoven workshop, the industrial nature of the piece sits in deliberate contrast to the pale blue walls and muted tones of the residence that was built in the 1930s.
“The construction, built from both standing and suspended parts, largely consists of open frames allowing the design’s transparent character to be maintained,” explained Meijer.
The staircase is based on the samba system of alternating steps to allow the staircase to rise at a steep angle, while still remaining comfortable to walk up and down.
The lower half of the steps features wide pieces of oak integrated into the shelving and storage unit. These also serve as spaces for plants and ornaments and form part of a desk.
Halfway up the steps however, the design and purpose of the stairs changes. The steps become smaller, and form part of a suspended structure.
It features a large flat piece of oak that acts as a shelf and display, and space for a makeshift bookcase.
Beside the desk sits a cupboard with three shelves slotted into the lower structure to complete the piece.
“We were inspired by the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher,” said Meijer. “The Bechers’ black and white photography is renowned for the systematic photo series of industrial buildings that closely resemble each other in function and design. We reconstructed these buildings into functional installations.”
The Dutch design studio also took inspiration from the German photographers’ work in one of their earlier pieces, the Winding Tower 01 table.
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Il letto più bello dopo quello di Muji si chiama Bed Blend. Disegnato da Mieke Meijer.
This desk by Dutch designer Mieke Meijer is the first in a range of furniture based on images by German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher, known for their series of photographs that documented types of industrial structures like pylons, gas tanks and water towers.
This particular piece is based on an image of a winding tower and features a display cabinet overhanging one corner.
It’s on show at gallery Christian Ouwens in Rotterdam until 24 March.
Previous projects by Meijer on Dezeen include her cabinet based on the structure of industrial buildings from 2010 and the Newspaperwood project presented in Milan last year.
Photography is by Raw Color.
Here are some more details from Mieke Meijer:
From March 10 -24, Mieke Meijer presents a series of remarkable installations at gallery Christian Ouwens in Rotterdam (NL). The installations are inspired by the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher.
The black and white images of the photographers couple are best known for their ‘typologies’- grids of black-and-white photographs of variant examples of a single type of industrial structure.
Mieke Meijer restores these disused industrial shapes into functional installations which enable studying, collecting and storing. Each piece is hand made to her own interpretation with outstanding attention to industrial details and skilled craftmenship. The titles of the installations refer to their original function.
Exclusively for Christian Ouwens, Mieke Meijer designed Winding Tower 01; an architectural desk with as striking detail the unusually placed showcase (limited edition of 5 + 2 artist’s proofs).
Mieke Meijer (1982) graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2006. Since then she works on self- initiated and commissioned projects in her Eindhoven based workshop. Mieke Meijer regularly takes part in exhibitions in different contexts both nationally and internationally. Her ‘functional objects’ are the result of an ongoing investigation to the unperceived aesthetics of everyday life. She distils the essence and transforms ideas into designs that make a long-term appeal to the imagination, which helps them retain their value.
Transparent constructions, clean lines and clear shapes play an important role in Mieke Meijer’s work. Material and detailing both contribute to a recognisable signature. Her work is for sale through various galleries and shops in the Netherlands and abroad.
Christian Ouwens
Oppert 2 (zijstraat Meent)
3011 HV Rotterdam (NL)
In this movie, filmed at Ventura Lambrate in Milan, Arjan van Raadshooven from Vij5 talks to Dezeen about Newspaper Wood, a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers. Watch the movie »
Dutch designer Mieke Meijer and Dutch design studio Vij5 presented a wood-like material made from recycled newspapers at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month.
Reading Light by Christian Kocx
NewspaperWood is made by gluing the papers together and then cutting or sanding them to reveal lines that are similar to a wood grain.
Reading Light by Christian Kocx
The material has been used by designers rENs, Breg Hanssen, Greetje van Tiem, Ontwerpduo, Floris Hovers, Christian Kocx and Tessa Kuyvenhoven to create a range of prototype objects and furniture, including jewellery, a lamp and a display cabinet, which were shown in Milan.
Press to Open by Floris Hovers
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Press to Open by Floris Hovers
Here are some more details from Mieke Meijer and Vij5:
NewspaperWood | KrantHout
project development & collection | Vij5
material concept | Mieke Meijer
first prototype collection designed by | rENs, Breg Hanssen, Greetje van Tiem, Ontwerpduo, Floris Hovers, Christian Kocx & Tessa Kuyvenhoven
Paper Frames by Ontwerpduo
The layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree …
by designlabel Vij5
Paper Frames by Ontwerpduo
Introducing a new material: NewspaperWood
EN Every day, piles of newspapers are discarded and recycled into new paper.
Framed by Breg Hanssen
During her study at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003, Mieke Meijer devised a solution to use this surplus of paper into a renewed material: NewspaperWood.
Framed by Breg Hanssen
NewspaperWood shows a reversing of a traditional production process; not from wood to paper, but the other way around.
Display Cabinet by rENs
When a NewspaperWood log is cut, the layers of paper appear like lines of a wood grain or the rings of a tree and therefore resembles the aesthetic of real wood.
Display Cabinet by rENs
The material can be cut, milled and sanded and generally treated like any other type of wood.
Upcycling
About the environmental impact of NewspaperWood
EN NewspaperWood does not aim to be a large scale alternative to wood, nor to use all paper waste into a new material.
From A to Z by Greetje van Tiem
The main theme in the project is ëupcyclingí with which we show how you can change a surplus of material into something more valuable by using it in another context.
From A to Z by Greetje van Tiem
Although printing techniques for newspapers are nowadays efficient enough to reduce the test prints and first unusable newspapers to a minimum, there still is enough material available.
Next to that we use ëyesterdayís newspaperí: the newspapers that are printed but not sold and will turn out to be old news the next day anyway .. a perfect local source for our basic material!
United by Tessa Kuyvenhoven
To actually upcycle the newspapers into our new wood-like material, we (temporarily) take the newspapers out of the already existing and efficient cycle of paper-recycling.
United by Tessa Kuyvenhoven
We think it would be ideal to be able to bring our own waste material back into the circle again.
Sample Series by rENs
Therefore we use a glue to construct the material which is free of solvents and plastici-zers which would make it more difficult to recycle.
Sample Series by rENs
With this it is not only possible to put our own sawing and sandpapering waste back into the circle, but also to bring the NewspaperWood products to the scrap yard for recycling, although we hope they will be cherished for a long time…
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