Studio Makkink & Bey was invited by Circulair Warenhuis to develop a prototype product that uses the residual flows of the circular department store. The more…
Studio Makkink & Bey was invited by Circulair Warenhuis to develop a prototype product that uses the residual flows of the circular department store. The more…
M4H scarf more…
Studio Makkink & Bey was invited in a private commision to design a dining room in an art collectors home. Inspired by the Dutch landscape more…
Pixelated for CSrugs is a series of woolen rugs that are 3D tufted. The rugs combine 7 and 11 mm pile height and comes in more…
Chinese manufacturer Norya embraced the Studio Makkink & Bey design for a sofa and started the production. This sofa has broken with the traditional arrangement more…
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During Dutch Design Week 2019 Social Label introduced the new WAS series, designed by Studio Makkink & Bey. WAS is a rack system and a more…
special eddition TreetrunkBench is an interaction between culture and nature, The bench is made with felled trees and the back of chairs are made in bronce more…
Imperfect design Blue Pottery more…
4091 Gin Cabinet The gin cabinet is a minibar to use at promotion events and refers to the time Loopuyt went bankrupt during the depression that more…
Design, education and craft from the Netherlands and India merge together in the Cheese Maker, a design by Studio Makkink & Bey that was made more…
The first of a series of PROOFFLab at Home specials is Work At Home, a mobile work dormer. It's a hybrid of a home and more…
In addition to a previous interior design for the Boijmans van Beuningen museum, we have designed Education Trestles. They were shortlisted for the Frame Moooi more…
In our work for PROOFF we investigate knowledge landscapes with collective indoor and outdoor spaces where work and life fold into one. Recurring themes are more…
The blue Cabin is entirely made of blue Polystyrene foam, a light weight building material often used by architects and designers to make models and more…
Two stackable chairs placed slightly off center are melted together, enclosed in their outer skin. It is impossible to place these chairs in straight, neat more…
A special edition treetrunkbench conceived for Sotheby's at Sudeley Castle, A Selling Exhibition. Bronze, aluminium and found tree trunk Dimensions variable. Edition of more…
Mohair woolen blankets were made as part of an exhibition for HELMRINDERKNECHT gallery were Studio Makkink & Bey showed a walk through of a three- more…
Architecture, furniture and storage all in one. Standard sheets of ply and CNC cutting are used to create a miniature house. With walls of stool, more…
The KAdE chair is a design object that encourages active sitting. Strong contrasts in colour, material and design between the base and the seat focus more…
The piggy bank is produced in a limited edition by the Royal Tichelaar Makkum as a parting gift for committee members that leave the fund more…
For a design for an interior at Boijmans van Beuningen museum, part of th Haunting Boijmans project, an educational space was made to reflect the more…
Work Light stems from a product range made for Prooff and is the creative foundation from which Studio Makkink & Bey develops new office furniture more…
In today’s Western society, time has become an expensive commodity that leads us to demand everything to be low-maintenance and easy to clean. There is more…
Jurgen Bey was asked to shift the focus of the Italian furniture brand Pallucco’s, to explore the frontiers of modern design. As art director he more…
The "Shining Beauty" table was created for the Contrast Gallery to be the polar opposite of the "Cleaning Beauty" series focused on elaborate craftsmanship and more…
The social sculpture was designed for a project commissioned by Vitra and investigates the notion of a landscape within the professional environment. Relating to natural more…
Family of 8 Unique pieces for information mail: sales@studiomakkinkbey.nl more…
The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag has put together a comprehensive exhibition on impressive vases with spouts titled: 'Vases with Spouts'. The museums owns a collection of more…
The campus is where the world of work is developing and the Slow Car is part of a series of rethought infrastructures that speculate about more…
What should furnishings look like, in order to facilitate intellectual and creative concentration in a very small area, while leaving the surrounding common space as more…
The birdwatchcabinets are little sleep maisonnettes for a seven year old child. An old table and wooden table together with their wooden traveling box and blanket, more…
The field situated at the Buys Ballotlaan in Vlaardingen is meant to be transformed into a sculpture garden over the next couple of years. Studio more…
A couple from Schiedam contacted our Studio to know if they would be willing to do anything with a chair originally designed for their wedding. more…
A chair is merged with his shipping crate. Then a small window is placed in the door of the shipping crate. In doing so, a more…
Small things can become large in a different perspective. Far fetched connections between seemingly unrelated things can lead to an endlessly rich archive of new more…
The birdwatchcabinet is a little sleep maisonnette for a seven year old child. An old table and office-desk form together with their wooden traveling box more…
The beauty of craftsmanship. The design is a two dimensional idea of a product. Trusting that the craftsman will finish the thought. Wishing that he more…
How does one make an outdoor bench that, like its surroundings, grows and changes colour, shape and position during the seasons? A shovel with the shape more…
The Ear-chairs have ears to create privacy or define space and an arm-rest which functions as a small table. Originally Ear-chair was developed for the more…
#1: This chair has 4 legs like any normal chair. However, one of the legs is shorter than the others. Don’t let this handicap put more…
In the ‘Healing’ series is a changing process of familiar furniture, weakness results in new meanings. Removal and addition of elements creates new functions. The more…
A combination of different chairs and tables have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around the different pieces and forms a more…
The broken family is a cornucopia of tableware pieces that lost their next of kin; ceramic teacups and saucers that were once a gift of more…
The garden well looked after, all year round. Each season has its own colours, smells and waste. The hay of summer, the leaves of autumn, more…
The lightshade-shades cover up an old lamp. They are a new skin for the old, not fashionable, worn-out lamps that for some reason not more…
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 number more…
For Attese Biennale di Ceramica nell'Arte Contemporanea our studio has designed a vase cabinet. Each of the crate designs produced by the studio encompasses a more…
A crate transformed into a cabinet; a by-product transformed into a finished product, extending its life. A shipping crate, normally used to temporarily house goods, more…
Norya, China
Chinese manufacturer Norya embraced the Studio Makkink & Bey design for a sofa and started the production. This sofa has broken with the traditional arrangement of a living room, reshaping a room for life, where you are able to take a rest, gather with people, eat and dream.
Liberation of the living room
Unlike the other rooms, such as [bed] room, [bath] room, [working] room or even [dining] or [sitting] rooms, the living-room doesn’t suggest any specific form of daily activity. It does however invite us to celebrate the idea of life itself. A living room is in fact a room for life.
With their design, Studio Makkink & Bey aims to liberate living room furniture from its established role. “It’s a landscape changing and evolving according to its actors. It’s a living landscape, living furniture: living room”, Jurgen Bey explains. “Studio Makkink & Bey is interested in the landscape we live in and the landscape we make.”
Domesticating our daily life is about the context of these things. The design for this sofa is questioning how to domesticate our living room and how to domesticate our production landscape. By offering low and high seats, a sofa bed and tables in different sizes and heights one can organise the living room just like a landscape, changing it over time. Whatever your needs, you can configure the room with the various elements, and change it sustainably over and over again.
History
This sofa by Studio Makkink & Bey was part of the installation in 2016 for the Pavilion of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijng. Five international designers were asked to design furniture to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Redstar Macalline company. With the exhibition ‘Design for Chinese Lifestyle’ Redstar Macalline established a multi-cultural platform where Chinese consumers could engage with the ideas of international designers. Studio Makkink & Bey, Kenya Hara, Kengo Kuma, Luca Nichetto and Christina Strand were asked to design for the pavilion. High end Chinese furniture prodocer Norya was impressed by the design and after mutual agreement started production for the Chinese market.