Exhibition by Studio Makkink & Bey for Nissan in the Lloyd Hotel
On display from Februari 10th until Sunday the 14th: our exhibition for the launch of the Nissan cube in the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam.
The context of the Nissan Cube, future car culture, and refined public spaces is presented in three scenarios. On three platforms in the hotel, each displaying one scenario, visitors can peek into our view on refining the public realm. We've chosen to show works which signify new and past culture, revealing the story in between about the way products and culture evolve through reciprocal response.
Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy Oostelijke Handelskade 34 Amsterdam
LAST WEEKEND: Happy Families exhibition at Kunsthal Kade
The Happy Families exhibition shows the entire story of Studio Makkink & Bey and our design philosophy, which is largely based on personal relationships, connections with like-minded people and collaborative arrangements. It is more than simply a display of finished work, but shows how the Studio’s design practice has developed over time.
28 November 2009 - 14 February 2010 in Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Studio Makkink & Bey Prooff Lab - exhibition at Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam and results Rotterdam Design Prize 2009
Studio Makkink & Bey undertook a study into mobility and work for PROOFF LAB a platform for the development of new workscapes, in collaboration with SV, manufacturers of office furniture. This resulted not only in new furniture concepts but also in a vision of versatile work environments, a ‘progressive office’. The working environment becomes a meeting place for the exchange of ideas and experience, rather than serving pure profit motives. We expand it to form a campus, a knowledge environment composed of communal indoor and outdoor spaces where working and living become one. Feeling our way between the scales of product design and architecture, we asked ourselves ‘What if a piece of furniture were itself a space?’, allowing a choice of physical working position, whether lounging, leaning or sitting. The same question that earlier gave rise to the Ear Chair, a seat wide enough and high enough to prevent distraction by shielding the user from outside sights and sounds. An individual space within the public area. Another product, the recently developed Work Lamp, emits bright white light and looks like a cross between a functional workshop lamp and a piece of street lighting. The lamp can hang either indoors or out and has its own built-in ceiling. Our thinking about work and mobility began, not with the car, but with a piece of furniture: the office chair. The resulting Slow Car is intended as an alternative to office seating rather than motor vehicles. It’s the best office chair around, not the slowest car, promoting concentration with its limited sight lines.
Our hat goes off to Joost Grootens who's won the 2009 Rotterdam Design Prize with his clear-cut design of four atlases.