Hasta La Ideas

Top: 600 year old oak timber. Bottom: Julien Carretero’s Matchsticks.

This year, the group of designers behind the loose collective Dutch Invertuals had the opportunity to work with a magnificent material: Oak wood that dates back to Medieval Times, forming the foundation to the EIndhoven city entrance over 600 years ago, and excavated only recently.

Each individual studio has conducted their own experiments and research, “translating the value and symbolism of the wood into contemporary design project,” focusing especially on ideas bout time and the oak’s unique material properties. They exhibited their findings together at a show entitled Matter of Time during Dutch Design Week.

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