Doors for Bod’or
My fascination for doors has been apparent from the very beginning: one of the first cabinets I made in my father-in-law’s garage after my graduation was a door cabinet (a red ‘central heating cupboard door’ cabinet).
A solo exhibition followed in 1996, consisting of 28 door cabinets in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and at the same time architect Peter Geusebroek completed a building for which we supplied the doors, surrounds and even the balconies up to the top floor. After that came countless door cabinets and another architecture project. My response was immediate when Bod’or asked if I could design doors for them.
The doors are all rather plain and based on our existing products. Only the panel door is a very simple translation of the old-fashioned panel door; simple, meaning it’s very cleverly made!
In my opinion, the most successful one is the rough solid wood door, a variation on the ‘Canteen Table’. The door can be applied in a very natural way and imparts a specific character to an interior. We thought up a casing for one client, where the frame appears to be suspended in front of the wall, making it even more of an eye-catcher. An added bonus for the construction world is that the casing, including the door, can be placed after the plastering (see photo below).
Fair in Milan
Our starting point this year was to offer a retrospective, which clearly showed our intention to take the time to slowly but surely create a collection and oeuvre in which the first step is every bit as important as the last. This goes without saying for us, but in the annual tyranny of the trade fair, it would be easy to forget what we started out to do. When it was all set up (more or less everything worked out right) I looked around and perceived that is was actually quite commercial. What we do, what we stand for and what you can buy from us became instantly much clearer.
To back up the idea, we made, together with Studio Boot, a family tree poster, which everyone could tear off a huge jotter. This led to some hilarious moments: some folded it, others rolled it up, and a lot of people walked around with the huge pages tucked under their arms! The odd one even considered wallpapering with it (complete packages were torn off).
The collaboration with Studio Boot was nice because as we’d hoped Edwin and Petra came up with all sorts of ideas, meaning we didn’t have to do everything ourselves. There’s even a ‘PIET HEIN EEK’ version of Happy Families for games fiends and/or fans of our work.
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