Made by someone in China at Milan Designweek 2014

Made by someone in China, a Teapot designed by Klaas Kuiken and Dieter Volkers was presented for the first time at Milan Designweek 2014. This teapot is the result of  the project "Made by someone in China" by the designers during Salon/BJ >>Read more about that here<<

winterSALON/2014: Drinks at Magazijn

WinterSALON/2014 was officially opened last Sunday on January the 26th. This day ended with drinks at Magazijn. Guests and SALON/ participants drank "mannen liefde" (men love) beer by Brewery Oedipus  in designer cups (by Klaas Kuiken and Dieter Volkers) And get to hear  a reprise by Imara Thomas singing Puccini. (see more of the opening day here)

Gijs Stork and Marjo Kranenborg

Angelo Tromp, Stephanie Gude, Gijs Stork, Marjo Kranenborg

Charlie Reijnderss and Klaas Kuiken

Dieter Volkers and Klaas Kuiken

Bart de Baets

Jeroen Theunissen

Edo Dijksterhuis

Andrea van Pol and Partner

Imara Thomas

Cathal McKee

Selina Parr of NOMAN

Cathal McKee and Conny Groenewegen

Henri Olai

Manon Schaap waiting in line and Nelleke Strijkers

Selina Parr, Conny Groenewegen and Desiree Hammen

Sander Wassink

Angelo Tromp and Klaas Kuiken

winterSALON/2014: Participants at Magazijn

Participants at Magazijn, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 153:
NOMAN, Bart de Baets, Klaas Kuiken, Dieter Volkers, X+L, Anne de Grijff, Martin Butler (Opening hours from Wednesday to Sunday: 12:00/17:00 hrs. Admission: free)

 

Product designers Klaas Kuiken and Dieter Volkers teamed up for winterSALON/2014. Kuiken and Volkers designed beer glasses with recycled glass jars. They altered a traditional meat grinder to produce the porcelain ears.
At the evening of the opening day beer (from the Oedipus Brewery) was served in these designs. They came up with this project especially for this edition of SALON/.
(Kuiken and Volkers also teamed up for SALON/BJ)

X+L, interior designers by trade, created a perfume: Parfum Obscure, which they showcase at Magazijn. The walls are covered with the inspiration they gathered throughout the years to create this scent. The actual perfume is integrated on this wall.

Artists NOMAN teamed up with graphic designer Bart de Baets to create (and co-curate for SALON/) posters in which they share their image collection of industrial, anonymous, designed objects. These photographs are inspirational images and relevant for NOMAN's work which is on show at Magazijn as well. (Bart de Baets is the designer of the SALON/ Logo's)

By invitation only/Special Date: February 8, 18:00 - 21:00 hrs. Fashion show: Anne de Grijff, (choreography by Martin Butler) at Magazijn

SALON/BJ covered on DDS Blog

4 participants of SALON/BJ were covered by the Dutch Design Starter Blog. Written and filmed by Ireen Laarakker,  founder of DDS (Dutch Design Starter). Ireen was in Bejing for the Beijing Design Week 2013, she was in search of the chinese opinion on dutch design shown at the BJDW.

http://dutchdesignstarter.com/made-someone-china/

http://dutchdesignstarter.com/beautiful-symbol-wealth-shoddy-insult-chinese-taste/

http://dutchdesignstarter.com/dashilar-flagship-store-sander-wassink/

http://dutchdesignstarter.com/ernst-van-der-hoeven-leaves-china/

Film Crews in the Dashilar area

With Borre Akkersdijk

With Conny Groenewegen

Film Crews in the Dashilar area in Beijing reporting about SALON/BJ

Chinese tv crew (CCTV) interviewing Dieter Volkers and Klaas Kuiken on their project "Made by someone in China"

CCTVfilming Dieter Volkers and Klaas Kuiken

SALON/BJ Participants: Klaas Kuiken & Dieter Volkers

SALON/BJ Participants: A group of fifteen Dutch designers/artist went to Beijing to work together with volunteering Chinese art students and inhabitants of the Dashilar area. The Dashhilar area is situated in the old center of Beijing and is one of the few area's where traditional houses can be found. Several rooms and houses where assigned to the participants of SALON/BJ for them to work in. The finished work is on show in that same place. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Participants: Klaas Kuiken & Dieter Volkers
Project: Made by Someone in China
Place: Tan'er #40

Tan'er #40

Courtyard with stove built by Kuiken & Volkers

The Hallway to the courtyard

see work in progress by Klaas Kuiken and Dieter Volkers