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2010

3213 Blown To Life
Arnout Visser and the Glass Museum in Leerdam invited Studio Makkink & Bey for a glass workshop and to revive both the material and a more…
3178 Blue House Rug
A limited edition rug set up like a kit of building blocks. The rug is divided into different segments with which an isometric view of more…
3204 Cityscapes
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 more…
3209 Daily Hanky
Every month about 500 companies in the Netherlands go bankrupt. Where do their products go? In the past several months Droog has been bidding on more…
3227 Daily Hanky Design Miami/Basel
Special edition of embroidered daily hankies for Droog Design's presentation at Design Miami/Basel more…
3199 GastGastgeber
For RUHR.2010, European Capital of Culture, Studio Makkink & Bey was asked by Bureau Venhuizen to design guestrooms and to act as a curator in more…
3205 Oosterschelde dikes
Studio Makkink & Bey were asked to propose design strategies to harness and fortify the dikes, marrying functionality with a refined exterior into an elegant more…
3212 Werkstadt Kabinett
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2009

3128 Key magazine cover
The studio was asked by The New York Times Real Estate Magazine KEY to interpret or re-imagine a 'key' for the cover. The result is more…
3145 BI meets BS
Brazilian Design can look back to a long history. Mix of European and native influences, it has evolved very fast creating it own identity, associating more…
3187 Cheoungju
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3133 De Velden
Sketch design proposing a plan to enrich the neighbourhood 'de Velden' in Groningen by reinforcing the local strengths. A composed house is placed is the more…
3136 Droog New York
The Droog+ store in New York is a gallery, store and pioneers house. The blue house, an imaginary house handcrafted from blue foam, is the more…
3141 Flötotto
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3121 Gallerie op de Rotte
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3179 Go Slow Café
New York volunteers prepare a meal slowly but attentively at the Go Slow Cafe by Droog with Marije Vogelzang, sloom.org (Rianne Makkink and Herman Verkerk) more…
3147 Hermitage Chain
The Hermitage Amsterdam has been realized thanks to the support of many companies, foundations and individuals. This support is visualized by a chain with different charms more…
3163 House of furniture parts
Architecture, furniture and storage all in one. Studio Makkink & Bey took standard sheets of ply and with CNC cutting, created a miniature house to more…
3081 Kade Amersfoort
On the first floor of Kade Amersfoort, the restaurant and shop attract attention. The interior of these spaces is – together with the entrance area more…
3180 Libelle Cover
A cover designed for Nr. 44 Libelle Magazine. October 23 - 29 October 2009 more…
3152 Lingam
Lingams are fertility symbols used in south-east Asia, where the phallus has an opener meaning than only sex. The penis is worshiped in temples as more…
3137 Living With Things
In the Arched Gallery the studio presents a selection of its oeuvre. This selection, or 'Household' is a result of the subject of the exhibition more…
3153 Mitterand&Cramer
On the occasion of RePacked a special team was selected to design and handcraft all of the 19 pieces exhibited. This project was imagined with more…
3157 Prooff Superstudio
PROOFF stands for product development for the progressive office. It is a platform for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas. It gives clients, architects, consultants and more…
3174 Soft News
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3182 Urgent Methods
Urgent Methods: Design Education Examined Utrecht Manifest explores Dutch design education in terms of its principles, social ambitions and results and how key figures in Dutch more…
3169 Vitrum Praha
The Sumperak house was the Czech contribution for expo '58 in Brussels. The popularity of the house came from a public desire for individual living: more…
3124 Work Sofa PROOFF
The Work Sofa is a product which takes standard furniture concepts and turns them upside down. In a standard couch, your choice of seating is more…

2008

3119 Birdhouse
The business of art has an unfortunate side effect - waste. Literally mountains of paper, plastic and wood are discarded every year in the process more…
4038 Dust Cabinet
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3132 Frankfurter Messe
During the annual fair in Frankfurt, the studio made a bar where the visitors could sit down and have a cup of tea. De temporary more…
3131 Hafnarfjordur
Since Iceland has no forests, driftwood has frequently been used as a construction material. This driftwood has turned silver/grey, almost like aluminum. By casting aluminum more…
3096 Haunting Boijmans van Beuningen
It is the job of a museum to collect objects of beauty, and to reveal the beauty of today’s world. This design for the educational more…
3069 Heerhugowaard
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3140 Inside Design Amsterdam
For the annual exhibition 'Inside Design' Studio Makkink & Bey was asked to furnish a room in the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. Jurgen Bey, who's more…
3072 Lusthof Utrecht
The rich history of the building at Maliebaan 42 in which CBK is located, was reason to choose for a modern take on the baroque more…
3148 Maasvlakte landmark
At the top of the harbour area Maasvlakte 2 a new 70 meters high mast will be placed with nautical equipment. Three designers have been more…
3114 Pyramids of Makkum
This project was proceeded by an elaborate restoration for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, of 17th century flower pyramids which it had then recently acquired. While restoring more…
3123 Rotterdamse Stijl
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3127 Stand Kortrijk
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3107 Veterinary Medicine Walks
The terrain of the faculty Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht doesn't reveal much of what goes on inside the buildings. In collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht more…
3129 Vijversburg
Every solution already exists in the world surrounding us. It is only a matter of recognizing it and converting it to something useful. This principle more…
3120 Witness Flat
At the request of Pierre Bergé & associés the gallery has been transformed into a witness apartment, as if the visitor would enter a show more…

2007

3101 Cubic Meter Culture Crate
Childeren help making compost in a cubic meter sized crate, learning the right way of stacking layers of earth, organic waste and garden waste. A more…
3079 De Bolder
De Bolder is an elderly home where different forms of living co-exist. From relatively independent elderly people to demented elderly. The studio was asked to more…
3116 Haaz
For the exhibition 'BLOCK' Haaz Istanbul commissioned 18 designers to sent in proposals to be processed with Turkish natural stone by the industries and craftsman more…
3109 Happy Arnhem
Three follies were build for the Fashion Biennale Arnhem that were on display on different location in the city. Each of the follies had a more…
3099 Lightness Studios
Lightness Studios is a foundation. With lightness as a driving force she organizes strategic innovation in scenarios and presentations of these on events. In every scenario more…
3110 Model World
What does a studio look like that only wants to study in a time when schools appear to turn into thingmachines that simply exhibit and more…
3106 Oilily Chestcrates
A special edition of chestcrates designed for a newly opened shop-in-shop of Oilily in Galeries Lafayette in Lille. more…
3078 RGD Detentiecentrum
The furniture in the recreational spaces of the detention center are designed by the studio: steel tables and benches in white and shades of green. more…
3073 ROC Apeldoorn
Schools exist to teach. The world of the questioning and comprehending. The ultimate place for investigating a new world. Where you are formed and are more…
3111 Tangible Traces
The traveling exhibition ‘Tangible Traces – Dutch Architecture and Design in the making’, submitted by the NAI premièred at the seventh Architecture Biennal in Sao more…
3108 Travels Through Paradise
On invitation of Platform 21 a vision of paradise was build within one workshop day. Every one of the 55 participants received 1 meter of more…
3074 Vissershop
A specific feature of the Vissershop district is it's street life, which was one of the reasons to develop outdoor furniture with a certain indoor more…

2006

3075 Cinderella AM & Cinderella PM
Two chandeliers constructed out of very fine silver- and gold plated steel gauze with Swarovski crystals embroidered into the gauze in a pattern of night-bugs. more…
3091 Meerstad Amateurs
In response to the wish of the city government of Groningen to make Meerstad an area where nature and recreation are combined with living and more…
3088 Prooff
The Earchairs from Studio Makkink & Bey reveal their possibilities immediately: They are comfortable, have small tables integrated into the armrests and are eminently suitable more…
3076 Sparendammerstraat
Surrounded by trees, lawns with bushes and bikes, the locals meet up for small talk. The Spaarndammer district is a typical working-class district where life more…

2005

3080 B25TRIX Queensdamask
The textile museum asked the studio to design a tablecloth and matching napkins to be offered to the queen as a gift for her 25 more…
3046 Blob
BLOBs are Binary Large Objects which means computer designed shapes of fluent architecture. SKOR (Foundation for Art&Public Space) together with Professor Arno Pronk and students more…
3065 Simply Droog
An exhibition designed to travel. A basic installation is made that could travel easily and that is very flexible. This way each exhibition location could more…
3025 Woord bijt Beeld
As creators of the unlimited, designers and poets each have their own language. How big or small is the distance between the two? How does more…

2004

3043 &route
The masterplan &Route presents a leading and innovative vision on recreation and tourism in the Gelderse River landscape. The &Route is an art piece under more…
3054 Sterrenkijker
Special edition of the TreeTrunkBench for the schoolyard of elementary school de Sterrenkijker in Dordrecht. more…

2003

3052 J.P. Gaultier
Catwalk and backwall for the presentation of the women summer collection show 2004 by J.P. Gaultier in Paris. more…
3042 Minutes - Crockery Makkum
Minutes-crockery is a tea- and coffeeset made by making new combinations of excisting moulds. The flower and traditional Dutch tile images are powdered with glaze more…
3056 St Peterburg Chairs
The Premsela Foundation for Dutch Design invited Droog Design to decorate the cafe “Dutch Room” in the Baltic Home Theater in St. Petersburg. Starting point more…

2002

3034 Interpolis
The function of this room is to receive the customers and to have conferences and little meetings. Interpolis, an indemnity insurance company, finds her roots more…
3031 Kokon Paneling
These products have been rapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around a skeleton and forms a smooth elastic skin. The ‘skeleton’ consists more…
3014 Kokon Panelling Centraal Museum
Famous chairs have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around the chair and forms a smooth elastic skin, giving the chair more…
3038 Linenchesthouse
A covered canopied bed for in the garden. A sleeping old useless linen-cupboard in the loft wanted to be a little sleeping-house. Together with old more…
3041 Tokyo Daytripper
Day-tripper is a seven meter long city-bench for Tokyo, Japan. Day-tripper is based on a study of the different postures people assume on the street more…

2001

3023 Kokon My Castle, My Home
These products have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around a skeleton and forms a smooth elastic skin. The ‘skeleton’ consists more…
3026 S.L.A.K. Suits Light Architecture
S.L.A.K. is a hybrid. New materials become lighter, stronger and more and more specialized. By crossing clothes and architecture, the protection of the clothes is enlarged more…

2000

3017 Kokon Family Bench
Special edition kokon-family bench. A combination of different chairs have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around the chairs and forms more…
3015 Levi's #1
An exhibition presenting a window installation and packaging concept by Droog Design for Levi's clothing line RED. more…
3018 Wedding hall Utrecht
The brief for the small wedding hall in the new city hall of Utrecht was to use historical pieces from Central Museum's collection in the more…

1999

3011 3000 meters rope
Design for the schoolyard of primary school De Mozaik. Using 3000 meters of rope the yard can be transformed into a soccer field, a bike more…
3007 Data Treasures
Instead of designing a capsule, a piece of hardware in which material will be preserved, we prefer to go beyond the box. Information on our more…
3009 Oranienbaum
TreeTrunkBench: The woods of Oranienbaum are filled with felled trees scattered around. These trees could serves as giant benches by cross-breeding the trees with a more…
3010 Princessehof
When visiting the Princessehof, looking at the collection of ceramics, the craftsmanship displayed is stricking. The amount of ornaments and precision in detailing are the more…

1998

3002 Barsingerhorn
Because of the special relationship between the historical cultural landscape and the urban settlement, the area Barsingerhorn and its surroundings were chosen to get provincial more…
3006 Sun-Dial
Het stationsplein is een overstapplaats. Een verzameling verkeersstromen met verschillende richtingen, snelheden en intervallen. Voor het functioneren van het stationsplein is de klok bepalend. De more…
3037 Zitten aan zee
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1995

3003 Glass curtain
The curtain is integrated in a double glass window. The system is based on breaking the light. Glass is transparent , unless it has a more…