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Type: Conference table Client: Wieden + Kennedy Material: Greenpanel Cost: €1500 Carpenter: Morowood Completion: december 2007 Status: for sale at NEXT

2008-10-19 NEXT table at Kortrijk interior exhibition

This table was designed for the prize winning office interior of Wieden + Kennedy. The table is designed as a construction box, it consists of 4 pieces that can be easily fixed together by wooden pins and taken apart again, which makes it easy to move. We designed the table out of Finsa Greenpanel, a very light and strong constructive material, developed to reduce material use, without loosing quality. The inside of the plates is hollow, by taking a series of partitions out, it is possible to carry cables thru the construction, ending up onto the tabletop thru the legs.Details: length: 200 cm, width: 75 cm, height: 75 cm, weight: 28 kg

Type: prototype chair Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Samira Boon with Maria Salinas Moltó, Eve Arpo, Agathe Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo Collaborator / associate: Studio Samira Boon Material: fiberglass and nylon Spacer Fabric with polyester resin; Floor area / size: h=70, w = 62,5, d = Build engineer: Müller textiles and Polyproducts Construction: Textilemuseum Tilburg Special thanks to: Prof. Adriaan Beukers, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Hybrids Completion: September 2007

2007-09-14 DRYTECH NEW PRODUCTS AND EXHIBITION

In the context of ‘Drytech 3’, NEXT architects, in collaboration with Studio Samira Boon, manufactured two products, a chair and a folding screen. Both products are the result of a technologically innovative use of materials, which is a condition for the “Drytech” project series organized by Droog Design.

For the chair, we used a double weaving technique used in carpet production: two carpets are woven together and cut loose afterwards to create a velour side. This inspired us to design a chair along the same lines: two pieces of fabric are partly interwoven and partly cut loose. Cutting the fabric turns a two-dimensional cloth into a three-dimensional object.

The chair derives its strength form both the double fabric and the curves: hardening so-called ‘three-dimensional’ fabrics by means of resins gives them constructive qualities.

Type: prototype chamber screen Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, Samira Boon with Maria Salinas Moltó, Eve Arpo, Agathe Osika, Ieda Alvarez Dogo Collaborator / associate: Studio Samira Boon Material: cotton and elastics with polyester resin Floor area / size: h=180, w = 87, d = 7 Build engineer: Müller textiles and Polyproducts Construction: Textilemuseum Tilburg Special thanks to: Prof. Adriaan Beukers, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Hybrids Completion: September 2007

The folding screen is a continuation of Samira Boon’s research into 3D weaving techniques, for instance by using waffle patterns. Using a combination of 3D waffle structures and resin reinforcement makes the load-bearing structure and the screen melt into one, thus creating a super light and exceptionally rigid screen.

The 3D relief also has an acoustic function. The transparency of the material causes the structure to change whenever the light incidence changes. The screens are zipped up, with the zippers attached to parts of the fabric that are not reinforced. This way, the fabric can even be used as a hinge.

Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water , Aura Luz Melis with Marrit de Jong Collaborator / associate: Aura Luz Melis Material: Glass, vegetable fat, cork, 25W/G9 bulb Floor area / size: 16 x 31 cm Cost: Euro 415,00 Photographer: NEXT architects Status: For sale

2010-10-25 Slow glow award 2010

NEXT architects designed the FAT Lamp for the Droog presentation ‘Go Slow’ during the Salone del Mobile Milano 2004. Formerly known as FAT Lamp, this product is now for sale under the name ‘Slow Glow’. 

The 12th presentation of Droog Design in Milan was based on the concept of going slowly. Within an entirely white environment, visitors could enjoy a moment of rest amid the hustle and bustle of the furniture fair. Slowness as a quality was the focus. In accordance with the theme, NEXT architects developed a slow product - the FAT lamp - together with Aura Luz Melis.  

The light source is immersed in fat. As the heat from the lighting element slowly melts the fat, an intriguing process gradually unfolds. The light glows brighter and brighter and the lamp becomes warmer and warmer in a comforting way. This process takes about 2 hours. After turning it off the fat returns to its original solid state.

Type: Bookcase Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Waterwith Shaya Fallahi, Mattias Zuchetti Contractor: Morowood Photographer: NEXT architects Status: Presented at furniture fair Milan by Droog Design

2009-04-23 "Readymade bookshelf" in Milan

More than any other object, a filled bookcase reflects the identity of its owner.

At the moment of purchase this Ready Made reflects the collective intellect of centuries of literature: the Top 100 of all time, everything you ought to have read – but never got around to.

Filling the case means replacing classics by a personal selection. Great works become bookends to personal favourites.

Type: prototypes for the project Me, Myself and You Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Material: wood Floor area / size: 1.80x1.80m Cost: not for sale Carpenter: Frank Hoogveld, Morowood Competition: part of the Droog Design Collection Completion: November 2000

2010-05-26 NEXT at 100X Summerdesign

New types of contact exceed physical boundaries. Neither the relation between the public and private nor the transitional area in between is unambiguously manifest. Oddly enough, the elements that make up this boundary have hardly been cultivated. We studied the conceptual possibilities of this boundary and listed them in a catalogue of doors (boundaries between private and public) and fences (boundaries between private and private). The pursuit of forced social interaction between people was not an objective here. A meaningful experience of the boundary, however, was. The project resulted in a number of prototypes, such as a fence that may also be used as a Ping-Pong table and a fence in which holes are punched, shaped like articles one may share with one’s neighbours.

Type: prototypes for the project Me, Myself and You Client: Droog Design Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water Material: metal Cost: not for sale Carpenter: Morowood Completion: November 2000 Status: Part of the Droog Design collection

New types of contact exceed physical boundaries. Neither the relation between the public and private nor the transitional area in between is unambiguously manifest. Oddly enough, the elements that make up this boundary have hardly been cultivated. We studied the conceptual possibilities of this boundary and listed them in a catalogue of doors (boundaries between private and public) and fences (boundaries between private and private). The pursuit of forced social interaction between people was not an objective here. A meaningful experience of the boundary, however, was. The project resulted in a number of prototypes, such as a fence that may also be used as a Ping-Pong table and a fence in which holes are punched, shaped like articles one may share with one’s neighbours.