Artoteek
Type: Interior design and furniture Location: Denneweg 25, The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Ica van Tongeren, Joost Lemmens Collaborator / associate: Architectencombinatie Bos Rosdorff Wiebing Carpenter: Morowood First design: 2004-09-01 Status: Completed
For the Artoteek in Den Haag, renovated by Bos Rosdorff Wiebing architects, NEXT architects developed the interior design and a series of furniture including working desks and a reading table.
The design concept of the furniture has been based on an array of parallel plywood slats; the shape of the slats has been adapted for various functions such as the storage of a painting, the support of a computer and the storage of magazines.
Invited by NEXT architects, designer Ica van Tongeren developed a special tile for the restroom of the Artoteek, which is housed in a historic building.
Based on the existing Delft Blue toilet and washbasin she used the coat of arms of The Hague - a stork with an eel in its beak- as the motif in the design of the tiles. By adjusting the scale of the storks she created a sense of space in the relatively small restroom. The images have been transferred to the tiles using a special glazing process through which the images are permanently rendered onto the tiles.
7x11
Type: Art Gallery Location: The Hague Client: Artoteek Den Haag / 7X11 Team: Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers, John van de Water with Shaya Fallahi Collaborator / associate: Mieke Gresnigt, Freedom of Creation, Catalogtree and Milou van Ham Floor area / size: 120 sqm Cost: Euro 70.000,00 First design: 2004-07-01 Completion: March 2004
7X11 is an art centre in the The Hague Ypenburg VINEX project that is in use as residential, work and exhibition space for artists. The starting point for the interior design is flexibility. The space has to accommodate many different types of uses: exhibitions and manifestations as well as studio space or space to host artists in residence. We chose to connect both the light and the decoration elements to a rail system. The decoration elements consist of perforated steel panels that may be used as both space dividers and exhibition panels. A kitchen-bench is part of the interior: to cook on and to sit on.
Several of the components were created in collaboration with visual artists. The front panels were developed on the basis of photographs by Mieke Gresnigt in collaboration with Freedom of Creation, and a sunblind pattern was designed in collaboration with Catalog Tree designers. Milou van Ham developed a worded wallpaper for 7X11 that entices the audience to associate freely.
