Lonneke Gordijn
Born: 17th of March 1980, Alkmaar
Nationality: Dutch
Education
1999-2005, Design Academy Eindhoven, Man and Wellbeing, Cum Laude
Internship 2004: Studio Tord Boontje, London, design collection chairs and textiles for Moroso
Ralph Nauta
Born: 30th of August 1978, Swindon (UK)
Nationality: Dutch
Education
1999-2005, Design Academy Eindhoven, Man and Leisure
Internship: 2004, FAT architects London / 2003, Bessun, Honeycomb factory, Sushou, China
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2012
/ Design Miami/ Basel, Basel
/ ‘Great Summer exhibition Oranienbaum’ at the Royal Palace, Oranienbaum
/ ‘Luminale’, Frankfurt
/ ‘Design Days Dubai’
/ Featured Designers at ‘OBJECT’, Rotterdam
/ ‘Art and Design for all’, The Victoria & Albert Museum, showing in KAH, Bonn
/ ‘Curious Minds’, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
/ ‘Nieuwe Energie in Design en Kunst', Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2011
/ Pavilion of Art & Design, New York
/ Design Miami/, Miami
/ ‘SuperDesign’, London
/ ‘Liberation of Light’, Beijing Design Week, Beijing
/ ‘ZomerExpo’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
/ Design Miami/ Basel, Basel
/ ‘FOO-Flight of Objects’ Ventura Lambrate, Salone del Mobile 2011, Milan
/ ‘Every Day Dutch’, Selfridges, London
2010
/ Design Miami/, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Miami
/ gallery, ‘Make Me’, New York
/ Vitra Design Museum, Domaine de Boisbuchet park ‘Luminous Times’, Lessac
/ Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
/ World Expo Shanghai, BIE, ‘Better city, better life’, Shanghai
/ ‘Death or Alive’, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
/ Pavillon des arts et du Design, Jardins des Tuileries, Paris
/ Bologna Art Fair, Bologna
2009
/ Glow Festival, Eindhoven
/ Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Eat drink design
/ ‘In Praise of Shadows’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
/ ‘Maison et Objet’, Paris
/ ‘Design Act’, Moscow
/ ‘Design High’ Louise Blouin Foundation, London
/ Design Miami/Basel, with Carpenters Workshop Gallery
/ Gallery Karena Schuessler, Berlin
/ Salone del mobile, Milan
/ ‘Pavillon des Arts et du Design/ Jardins des Tuileries’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris
/ ‘Surface’ Schnittstelle Kunst/Design, Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund/Heimatdesign, Cologne
/ ‘Object’, Gallerie Vivid, Rotterdam
/ Diseño holandés. En la calle como en casa. Binnen/Buiten", Vigo, Spain
/ ‘Responsive’, Material Sense, CeBit fair, Hanover, Germany
2008
/ Tokyo Design week, Design Tide, Tokyo
/ ‘New Dutch Design’, Mars Centre of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
/ (solo) ‘GHOST Collection’, Salone del Mobile, Milan
/ ‘Material Sense’, IF, Hanover
/ ‘Light+Building 2008’, Lights of the future, German Design Council, Frankfurt
/ ‘Family of Form’, Designhuis Eindhoven
2007
/ ‘Becoming Dutch/Eindhoven Caucus’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
/ ‘No Windmills, Cheese or Tulips’, 100% Design Tokyo
/ ‘NAT’, Design Week Eindhoven, MU, Eindhoven
/ ‘Via Milano’, Woonbeurs Amsterdam
/ Art Partner, ‘Exploring new Identities’, Post CS Gebouw W139, Amsterdam
/ Fashion Biennale Arnhem, Installation with dandelights, Arnhem
/ Salone del Mobile, Milan
/ ‘Bright + Light’, European Parliament, Brussels
/ ‘Art Rotterdam’ for gallery Mart House, Rotterdam
2006
/ ‘Fleurs et Lumières’, International Design Biennale, Saint Etienne
/ ‘White bright and delighting home’, Mart House, Amsterdam
/ ‘Post Mortem’, Salone del Mobile, Milan
2005
/ ‘Graduation 2005’, Design Academy Eindhoven
PROJECTS (selection)
2012
/ Teaching at HAUTE ÉCOLE D'ART ET DE DESIGN, Geneve
/ Teaching at the Willem de Kooning art academy, Rotterdam
2011
/ Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai
/ Hosting the Summer workshop ‘ Apocalypse Now’, Domaine de Boisbuchet
2010
/ Lecture at TEDxAmsterdam – ‘Science and Fiction’ - “Fragile Future: Design for dreamers”
2008
/ Teaching product design at Academy of Arts, Maastricht
/ Design Unlimited, rapid prototyping project together with TNO
2005
/ Studio Tord Boontje, Christmas collection design for Target, Bourg Argental
AWARDS
2011
/ 1st Prize ‘ZomerExpo’ – Gemeentemuseum, Netherlands (Fragile Future 3.5)
2010
/ The Moet Hennessy - Pavilion of Art and Design London Prize 2010 in October (Fragile Future concrete chandelier)
2009
/ ‘Lener van het jaar’, Materiaalfonds for project Ghost Collection in Milan
2008
/ International Design Prize ‘Lights of the future’, German Design Council (Fragile Future)
2006
/ Art prize 2006, 1st Prize, Stichting ArtiParti (Fragile Future)
/ Young Talent Award, Stichting MS Research (Fragile Future)
COMMISSION
2011
/ Private commissions FF3, London, England
/ Private commission Flylight, Moscow, Russia
/ Private commissions FF3, Paris, France
2010
/ Private commission FF3, Meribel, France
/ Commission for City of Eindhoven, design public furniture for ‘Lichtplein’
/ Bespoke Fragile Future for ‘Death or Alive’ for Museum of Arts and Design, NY
2009
/ Commission for Balak Coatings, Flylight. (2007-2009)
2007
/ Commission for Art Partner, exhibition design, W139, Amsterdam
/ Commission for Arnhem Mode Biennale, installation with dandelights
/ Commission for Centre of Architecture Eindhoven, voting machine for Dirk Rosenburgprice.
/ Commission for SenterNovem, concept for congress Sustainable Purchasing Government
/ Commission for Daniela Gregis, dandelion light installation, Bergamo Italy
2006
/ Commission for Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam: ‘Water Web Bench’
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
2011
/ LUX Lamps & Lights, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-373-4)
/ ZomerExpo 2011, Gemeentemuseum, d’Jonge Hond (ISBN: 978-90891-02638)
2010
/ Dead or Alive, Museum of arts and design (ISBN: 978-1-89038-520-0)
/ Design, 28 April 2010, catalogue Philips de Pury
2009
/ Once Upon a Chair, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-256-0)
/ Furnish II, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-176-1)
/ Star Pieces, Thames & Hudson (ISBN: 978-0-500-51482-5)
/ Desire, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-218-8)
/ Limited Edition, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-7643-8895-9)
/ Create, Gestalten (ISBN: 978-3-89955-231-7)
/ Inspirations, Elizabeth Leriche
MEDIA (selection)
2012
/ Financial Times, How to Spend it, January
2011
/ Elle Décor, Italy, September
/ Eigen Huis & Interieur, Netherlands, July
/ Surface Magazine, Asia, May
/ Architectural Digest, Spain, May
/ Art Aurea, Germany, April
/ De Volkskrant, Netherlands, April
/ De Architect, Netherlands, March
/ Home and Garden, UK, March
2010
/ Beaux Arts Magazine, France, December
/ The New York Times, Home & Decoration Gift Guide Holiday 2010, Dec 1
/ The New Yorker, USA, May
/ New York Times, Of Compost, Molecules and Insects art is born, Natalie Angier, May 3
/ Floor Magazine, Ukraine
/ Pig Magazine, Italy
2009
/ How to Spend It, Financial Times, United Kingdom, November 8th
/ The Art Newspaper, UK
2008
/ Wallpaper Asia, August
/ Trend, Jordan, June
/ Bright, NL June/July
/ VonHaus, Argentina, June/July
/ De Architect, Netherlands, June
/ Design, Korea, June
/ Box, Italy, May/June,
/ Interior, Denmark, May
/ Style, Germany, May
/ VT Wonen, Netherlands, April
/ Procbet, Russia, March
/ El Pais, Spain, 25 February
/ Eigen Huis en interieur, Netherlands, January
2007
/ Eigen huis en interieur, nr 12
/ Lumieres, nr. 5
/ Elle Wonen, December
/ Frame Magazine nr. 59
/ Elsevier thema, interieur September
/ Bright, August/September nr: 17
/ De Telegraaf, ‘Hollandse zege in Milaan’, Wednesday 2 May
/ Venti Quattro
/ Frame Magazine nr. 55, March/April
/ Impuls, nr. 5, ‘Eindhovense ontwerper scoort in Milaan’
2006
/ Elle, “Beursberichten, Hollands design talent in Milaan”
/ Limburgs Dagblad, “Apartprize 2006 kent twee winnaars”
/ Axis, “The best show of Dutch Design Week, Design Academy graduation
/ Icon magazine, “What you are seeing on these pages
–by the Verhoeven twins, Lonneke Gordijn and others,
could define Dutch design for another ten years,....”
MUSEUMS REFERENCES
Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.