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By designing process-first, Dirk van der Kooij crafts furniture according to the will of unlikely materials. Maintaining a delicate union of machine and craft, the studio is able to re-imagine over 30T of waste plastic each year.
Kooij is embracing unlikely materials, process-first.
The collection showcases small refinements, combined with a renewed enthusiasm for the possibilities within the Kooij workshop. Milling shavings are repurposed in the Meltingpot tables, producing rich, deep tones that are complemented with transparent recycled plastic.
The seemingly simple bend of a solid sheet forms the Staple, a soap-like rounded table and stool.
By stacking volumes in different directions, our layered fluting pattern appears to rotate and balance, while playfully refracting the light in the Tol lamp. Our low-resolution printing technique, which seventeen years ago was called Endless, has always carried the ambition to create a literally infinite line pattern.
Combined with 3D bending of stainless steel, this pursuit gave rise to the Gestalt – a form that, from certain perspectives, reveals more of the background than itself.
