DDW 2014: Collaboration (Floris Wubben, Borre Akkerdijk and Marc Mulders)

All kinds of things happen in our factory. One of the most remarkable aspects is that collaborative projects with other designers and artists come into being almost continuously. During this year’s DDW we’ll be presenting three projects.

 

The hammer bowl with Floris Wubben was created during the last DDW, resulting from an initial enthusiastic encounter. It all started when we were supposed to press clay the other way round in a garage press and ended with what you could almost call a circus act: using a big hammer to strike a large pestle so that, blow by blow, a bowl is pounded out of the mould.

 

Borre Akkersdijk overcame a certain reluctance to work with existing materials when he got to see the enormous quantities of silk fabric available and, by chance, came across a machine that enabled him to do wonderful quilting. Following the quilted blankets, which we brought out earlier, cushions and clothing have now been added to the project.

 

It is not the first time that I’ve made something together with Marc Mulders. His bowls needed to be hung on and in something – preferably a construction as refined and ethereal as the bowls themselves. For Marc I thought up a new way of constructing: punched all over and folded by hand. The cages can be joined together and are extremely strong; they don’t confine Marc’s bowls, but make it possible to hang them freely. 

 

With Floris Wubben 

 

With Borre Akkersdijk

With Marc Mulders