Posted in Dutch Design, Eindhoven on September 16th, 2008 2 Comments »
Recently Droog has revamped its website. From an artist’s point of view the earlier versions were probably acceptable, but they were not very useful for a Blogger like me who wants to highlight some scraps and pieces about them.
Portrait of Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker
A Short history of Droog:
In 1991 Renny Ramakers noticed interesting new [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Dutch Design, Hotel Design, Netherlands on September 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Design.nl is a blog about Dutch Design. Currently In Amsterdam we have the Inside Design Amsterdam event where the Lloyd Hotel is one of the primary locations. This is not about design of a hotel, but a hotel in design. Therefore an extensive quote.
Out of the sixteen rooms redesigned for Inside Design Amsterdam’s Lloyd Hotel [...]
Posted in Dutch Design, Luxury, Things to do on August 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
No, this photo is not upside down and it is not on its side: WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get).
Marcel Wanders is a versatile Dutch Designer. Sometimes he likes to pose as an enfant terrible, sometimes as a clown.
He is involved in many facets of design. He is involved in Mooi and designed [...]
Posted in Austria, Design, Dutch Design, Hotel Design, Hotels, Italy, Spain on August 14th, 2008 4 Comments »
The Final Announcement:
Thecoolhunter.net - The Cool Hunter Book Publishing Series (our first book)
The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms - the first in a series of the cool hunter-branded books has been published by Harper Collins Publishers (US). Next in the line will be The World’s Coolest Houses, The World’s Most Creative Work Environments, The World’s Most [...]
Posted in Dutch Design on August 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Clearing up and posting old stuff:
Photo found on Virtual Shoe Museum
Arnold van Bezooyen’s site seems dismantled. It redirects you to: Material Stories. Arnold owns it. He is possesed by material. Material Identity was an exposition he organized back in 2007. There I found this quote about Arnold, or Aart:
Material Stories ™ was initiated by Aart [...]
Posted in Amsterdam, Been There, Design, Dutch Design, Hotel Design, Netherlands, Pod Hotel, The Making of on June 26th, 2008 4 Comments »
The CitizenM Room has various neat design features:
Its 2 m long and 2 m wide Bed under the window with, on the west side of the hotel, nice views on one of the landing strips of Schiphol Airport:
Under the bed, like in yachts, there is a huge trunk size drawer where you can stash your [...]
Posted in Airport, Amsterdam, Been There, Dutch Design, Hoteliers, News, Pod Hotel, The Making of, Travel, Unusual on June 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
He looks a bit tired, but here is Rattan Chadha, the founder of CitizenM and former owner of the Mexx fashion company who opened the press conference.
Some quotes as a starter:
They started 4 years ago.
Rattan traveled more in his prior life than many in the audience of the well attended press conference will ever do [...]
Posted in Austria, Dutch Design, Inspiration, Promotions, Switzerland, UK on June 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Aanvallah (source Arab_Lab Loves Aanvallah)
According to Tjebbe, who initiated this media project to get Muslims united with the Dutch soccer team, and Dutch people with their neighbors, this will be the T-Shirt of choice for the Dutch Football Fans who will visit the 2008 EK Football (European Soccer Championship) that starts today in Switzerland and [...]
