This section includes subjects such as product design, furniture and interiors, and applied arts such as ceramics, glass, jewellery and fashion. For all in the 20th century the names of Dutch designers such as Copier, Gispen, Rietveld, Kramer, 'Droog Design', Victor & Rolf have made their mark on the international design market.

Jan Boelen/Herman Meijer/Catherine Geel
Hyères-les-Palmiers/Paris 2010
Sewn paper-covers 80 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Concept: Aldo Bakker
Design: Geoffrey Brusatto
Text in English & French

Price: € 30.00

This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Aldo Bakker - Creatures, studies for existence" presented at Villa Noailles (Hyères, France) from July 2 to September 26, 2010. Aesthetically well designed and in harmony with Aldo Bakker's work the catalogue shows the delicate, sensual,and natural forms which he uses to create furniture, glass work, ceramic vessels, and table-ware.

"The work of Aldo Bakker, (Amersfoort NL 1971) is the work of a designer. With that, Aldo distances himself from the current belief that a strong ‘concept’ will naturally lead to interesting forms. He believes that the mastery and control of aesthetics are essential competencies... Aldo’s objects are designed to influence the factor of ‘time’. He is deeply fascinated by such notions as ‘endlessness’ and ‘eternity’. Time is a dominant factor in the production process of his pieces of furniture. His use of Urushi varnish from Japan requires an extremely expensive and lengthy process and is a response to the fleetingness of mass production and increasing consumerism. These centuries-old techniques, combined with his love of architecture, are aimed at slowing the passage of time and creating a ‘time gap’. Emphasis is put on the physical experience and the possibilities offered by moving around the objects, admiring them or loathing them like extra-terrestrial beings. Fantasy and meaning demand an almost meditative state, and the mood of silence provokes the necessary care and attention. All these are collectively ignored today by western society." (Text from web-site Aldo Bakker)

Timo de Rijk
Den Haag/Deventer 2010
Sewn flexible covers 256 pages
Illustrations in colour & bl/w
Design: Ontwerpwerk
Text in English

Price: € 37.50

"It seems as if all the choices in our lives are individual, and yet the majority of products that surround us are standardized. This is actually not a bad thing, as a multitude of collective agreements ensure that nuts fit bolts, dishwashers fit kitchens and digital tunes can be dispatched to the other side of the planet. Many such advantages have inspired famous designers such as Dieter Rams and Piet Zwart, as well as manufacturers including Braun and Thonet, and schools such as Bauhaus, to devote their efforts to standardization, applying it to design beautiful, good and inexpensive products. Norm=Form sheds light on the sometimes hidden agendas that are employed to implement product normalization and standardization. Communist administrators, uncompromising feminists and conventional housewives embrace notions of standardization in order to fulfil their social ideals. Now that efficiency has become natural, the uniformity and limitations of rationality also receive criticism from artists and designers such as Joep van Lieshout and David Cerny. Ultimately, Norm=Vorm examines what the standardization of products means in today's world.
The book deals with a wide spectrum of historical and contemporary subjects: the standardization of tools, the food processing industry as an example, the development of ready-made clothing and the sizing system, Taylorism in the American household, the inception of professional ergonomics, the introduction of colour systems, the standardization of sound and vision carriers, and the acceptance of an array of 'classics', from pens to boats and cars to watches." (Publishers text)

There is also a Dutch edition.

Nina Stritzler-Levine/Arthur C.Danto/Joan Simon
The Bard Graduate Center Yale University
New Haven/London 2006 (3rd.printing 2010)
Blind-stamped white paper-covered boards 416 pages
All edges fraised
100 coloured plates & 15 bl/w illustrations
Design: Irma Boom
Text in English

Price: € 58.00

This intriguing book examines the small woven and wrought works artist Sheila Hicks has produced for the past fifty years. With their distinctive colours, thoughtful compositions and narrative expression, these miniature creations reveal the emergence and continuity of the artist's approach to her work. Internationally recognised for her mastery of a textile vocabulary of extremely different scales - sculpture, tapestry, site specific commissions for public spaces, environments of recuperated clothing and uniforms, and more - Hicks has thoughtfully crafted miniatures throughout her nomadic career. The palm-sized works present a record of her remarkable artistic and personal journeys. Focusing on some one hundred Hicks miniatures from many public and private collections, the book excellently demonstrates the breadth of her artistic concerns, her persistent inquiry into the mysteries of colour, her playful yet reverential subversions of weaving traditions, her surprising range of materials, and her experimentation with new technology. From initial experiments based on pre-Columbian weaving techniques to a 2005 sculptural project using ninety colours of synthetic filaments, Hicks' small works offer a unique opportunity to access and understand her conceptual and technical forays. The volume includes three informative essays as well as illustrations of the artist's related drawings, photographs and chronology.

This beautiful book has been exceptionally well designed by the award-winning Dutch book designer Irma Boom.

Rose Kerr
Dreumel (NL) 2009
Blind-stamped white cloth in a red silk open-folding cassette
456 pages lavishly illustrated with more than 130 high quality lithographed images
Design: Irma Boom
Edition limited to 1000 copies
Text in English & Chinese

Price: € 325.00

'Song Through 21st Century Eyes' discusses Song Dynasty Yaozhou and Gingbai ceramics. The book, written by one of the worlds leading authorities on Chinese ceramics, looks at these two distinct types of ceramics which were greatly admired in China at the time of their manufacture, and it places them in their historical, geographical, economic and social context. The book is illustrated from one of the finest private collections in the world and it has been exceptionally well designed by the (world) famous book designer Irma Boom.

Marianne Unger de Boer
Leiden/Bussum/Amsterdam 2010
Genaaid gebrocheerd 232 paginas
Met Stellingen
Vormgeving: Gerard Unger
Beperkte oplaag
Nederlandstalig

Price: € 20.00

Proefschrift ter verkijging van de graad van Doctor aan de Universiteit Leiden op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof.mr.P.F.van der Heijden volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
Afgelopen maart promoveerde Marianne Unger tot doctor in de kunst-geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Leiden. In haar proefschift plaatst ze het sieraad in een multidisciplinair kader, en ean niet op basis van persoonlijke argumenten maar met de vereiste kunst wetenschappelijke distantie.

An academic disertation on the art and social aspects of jewelery.

Alexander van Slobbe/Guus Beumer/Marjon Beumer (Editors)
Text/authors: Guus Beumer/Daniël Bouw/John de Greef/Takeji Hirakawa/Christophe Mollet
Florence Müller/Domeniek Ruyters/Louise Schouwenberg/José Teunissen
Amsterdam 2010
Sewn paper-back with jacket 304 pages
Illustrated with photographs by: Joke Robaard/Jop van Bennekom/Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm/ a.o.
Design: Mevis & Van Deusen in collaboration with Alexander van Slobbe
Text in English

Price: € 45.00

First extensive publication by and about fashion designer Alexander van Slobbe. The austere, minimalist designs by Van Slobbe (SO by Alexander van Slobbe, orson+bodil) are internationally regarded as the epitome of Dutch Modernism. Alongside Viktor & Rolf, Van Slobbe is seen as the most versatile, successful and talented Dutch fashion designer of the day. His personal passion is the product itself, informed by an ongoing quest for new creations, innovative materials and the use of different means of production, including traditional methods. A running theme throughout Van Slobbe’s career has been to see fashion as a platform on which various forms of collaboration with architects, artists and writers can take place.
'Alexander van Slobbe, and... and... and...' is more than a classic representation of an oeuvre. For Van Slobbe, a greater and hence more meaningful context has always been of the highest importance. In the publication this context is supplied by essays and several new picture reportage which—presented in this unusual book design by Mevis & Van Deursen—together create an independent view of Van Slobbe’s work.

Shonquis Moreno/Marcel Waanders
Berlin 2009
Paper-covered boards 320 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Adeline Mollard
Text in English

Price: € 49.90

Marcel Wanders has become a major player in the international design world. Dutch director of the eponymous design studio, art director and co-founder of furniture label Moooi, Wanders does not merely make marvelous objects; he invents worlds in which the mass-produced is handmade, floors and walls grow into forests, and a couch can make a change of costume as quickly as a supermodel.
"Behind the Ceiling' explores Wanders theatrical approach to design, which is both decorative and minimal. In his own voice, Wanders guides the reader through pages of ceramics and glass work, jewelry and lighting, wallpapers and textiles, new species of office, restaurant, hospitallity and retail space. He showcases collaborations with design movers like Bisazza and Puma, his humorously poetic art direction for Moooi, and his Personal Editions collection, which features products intended to furnish a more democratic design world in which man has taken back the machine and art has co-opted industry.

Petra Blaisse/Kayoko Ota
Essays from o.a. Sanford Kwinter/Cecil Balmond/Renz van Luxemburg/Gaston Bekkers/Chris Dercon
Rotterdam 2007/2009 (second edition)
Printed paper-covered boards 504 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Irma Boom
Text in English

Price: € 49.50

The first edition sold out within a few months, making a demand for a second editon of the first overview of Blaisse's broad spectrum of work, presented in the same stunning book design by Irma Boom.
Internationally recognized as one of today's most important and pioneering landscape and interior designers, the Dutch designer Petra Blaisse continues to define new and increasingly ambitious roles for landscape and interior design. In contrast to architecture's static and immutable severity she devises flexible and flowing solutions that interconnect interior and exterior. Her designs are often poetic and colourful, but they consistently provide astute and elegant solutions to complex technical problems.
Blaisse contributes to important projects in Europe, Asia and the USA both as an independent designer and in association with urban planners and architects such as Tim Ronalds, SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima, Macken & Macken, OMA/Rem Koolhaas and Michael Maltzan.
This volume provides extensive documentation of key projects, features the designer herself in conversation with the editor Kayoko Ota, and includes essays by a range of experts, making it an indispensable source of inspiration for architects, engineers and designers, as well as providing a new impulse for the whole field of architecture.

Christian Brändle/Verena Formanek (Editors)
Text by Christian Brändle/Glenn Adamson
Zürich 2009
Printed paper-covered boards 800 pages
600 colour & 100 bl/w illustrations
Design: Irma Boom
Text in English

Price: € 30.00

This handsome, hefty block-book, which features 700 prints, posters and other objects from the collection of Zurich's Gestaltung Museum has been designed by the well known Dutch book designer Irma Boom. The museum's collection is renowned worldwide for its unsurpassed holdings of design masterpieces: Ettore Sottsass's iconic red "Valentine" typewriter from 1969, Paul Rand's 1950 poster for the film No Way Out, as well as graphic works by Toulouse-Lautrec and El Lissitzky, and a range of works by Richard Paul Lohse, Harry Bertoia, Willy Guhl, Makoto Saito, FHK Henrion and many other great designers. Founded in 1875, the museum's collection focuses on twentieth-century mass-manufactured products, comprising over 10,000 objects and 20,000 examples of packaging, from famous designs to anonymous everyday objects; a graphics collection containing over 100,000 items from around the world, dating from the fifteenth century to the present; a collection of 300,000 posters and an applied arts collection, showcasing work from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that covers the overlap between industrial manufacturing, design and art. With beautiful, full-page spreads, 'Every Thing Design', like the Gestaltung Museum itself, expands our conceptions of what design is, unpacking how a designed object is perceived and how this perception changes over time. It examines the criteria museums use for acquisition, and how the objects' significance and value are established. The result is a surprising reconsideration of trends, production techniques and public reception.

There is also a German language edition.

Vincent van Baar/Bart van Meggelen/Timo de Rijk
Rotterdam 2009
Sewn paperback 216 pages
Illustrated in colour and bl/w
Design: Studio Dumbar (Sacha van den Haak)
Text in English & Dutch

Price: € 29.50

This first Dutch Design Yearbook presents a survey of more than 60 of the best designs in the field of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design that were produced in 2008-2009 in the Netherlands. A selection of important events, publications and exhibitions in the field adds colour to the design year and content to the design debate during this period. ‘Dutch Design’ – whether design pure sang, fashion design, graphic design or architecture – has over recent years been winning acclaim the world over. Besides being of interest to designers, studios and the industry, this publication is also highly accessible to a broad inter¬national readership with an interest in Dutch design.
With designs by, among others, Maarten Baas, Irma Boom, Pieke Bergmans, Doepel Strijkers Architects, HUNK-design & ID-Eddy, Iris van Herpen, Juurlink [+] Geluk, Bureau Ira Koers, Klavers van Engelen, Ted Noten, Momkai, Observatorium, Thonik, Daan Roosegaarde, Ingrid Siliakus, Wieki Somers, Studio Libertiny, Rieks Swarte, UNStudio, Richard Vijgen, Thomas Kopperschlaeger, Marcel Wanders and West 8.

Dit eerste Dutch Design Jaarboek presenteert een overzicht van ruim 60 van de beste ontwerpen op het gebied van ruimtelijke vormgeving, productvormgeving, mode en grafische vormgeving die in Nederland gerealiseerd zijn in 2008-2009. Een selectie van belangrijke evenementen, publicaties en tentoonstellingen op het vakgebied geeft kleur aan het designjaar en inhoud aan het ontwerpdebat in deze periode. ‘Dutch Design’ – zowel design, mode, grafisch ontwerp als architectuur – is de afgelopen jaren uitgegroeid tot een begrip in de wereld. Deze publicatie is niet alleen interessant voor vormgevers, studio’s en de industrie, maar zeker ook voor een breed (inter)¬nationaal publiek met een interesse in Nederlands ontwerp.

Premsela
Dutch Platform for Design & Fashion
Marjan Unger/Sybrand Zijlstra/Jan Konings a.o.
Amsterdam 2008
Paperback 146 pages
Black & white illustrations
Design: Thijs Verbeek
Nederlandstalig / Text in Dutch

Price: € 10.00

Morf 9 is het derde nummer dat veschijnt in een nieuwe vormgeving. Met opinies en beschouwingen wil Morf studenten aan het denken zetten over het ontwerpvak. In het tijdschrift staan zowel oude klassiekers als nieuwe artikelen.

With a new design and format this is the ninth issue of Morf, the bi-annual design magazine sponsored by Premsela, containing contributions from Marjan Unger, Mienke Simon Thomas,Louis Sullivan, Gerard Unger, a.o.

Monika Auch (concept & editing)
BNO Amsterdam 2009
Sewn paperback 190 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Oblong 15 x 21 cm
Design: Svea Gustavs
Text in Dutch and English

Price: € 28.50

Met beeld en tekst brengt het boek thema's in kaart en visies op de huidige en mogelijke toekomstige ontwikkelingen van de vrije vormgeving in Nederland. Het boek is zowel een waardevol document voor het vakgebied als een interessante kennismaking voor een breed publiek.
Met ruim negentig full colour pagina's wordt een brede selectie getoond van werk van vrije vormgevers, van de 'Chew your own brooch' van Ted Noten en het verhalende 'Vaetwerk' van Maaike Roozenburg tot de in Indonesië bewerkte sprookjestalfel 'Godoga' van Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe. Het thematische geordende beeld wordt afgewisseld met zes essays, waarin kwesties aan bod komen als de economische positie van vrije vormgevers en hun positie tussen beeldende kunst en industrieel ontwerp, het belang van sensitiviteit voor materiaal en ambacht, en de positie van vrije vormgeving gezien vanuit het buitenland.

'Conceptual crafts' is an increasingly used term that stands fro conceptual design, usually not created on commission, in the fields of jewellery, fashion, textiles, interiors and other products. This publication, sponsored & published by the BNO, with more than ninety pages in full colour, shows a broad selection of conceptual crafts created by independent artists and designers working in the Netherlands. The thematically arranged images are interspersed with six essays on subjects including the economic position of makers of conceptual crafts and their position between fine art and industrial design, the importance of sensitivity to material and workmanship, and the place of conceptual crafts from an international perspective.

Otakar Mácel/Sander Woertman/Charlotte van Wijk
Rotterdam 2008
Sewn paperback 270 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Photography: Hans Schouten
Design: Joost Grootens
Text in English

Price: € 24.50

Comprising the effort of more than a century of collecting chairs, the Faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft can pride itself on having one of the major furniture collections in the Netherlands. Set up as an educational tool, the collection has offered knowledge about materials, construction and typology to students and designers. In this catalogue, the entire collection of over 240 chairs is presented for the first time. Each object is accompanied by images and a thorough description. Also, the book offers comprehensive texts on key designs in the collection, showing the diversity of the collection which consists of world famous designs, 17th, 18th and 19th century designs, everyday household chairs and rare pieces of furniture that have never been published before. Among the designers presented are Verner Panton, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Jean Prouvé, Marcel Breuer and Droog Design.

There is also a Dutch edition.

Yvonne Brentjens
Den Haag/Zwolle 2008
Sewn paperback 303 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Marjo Starink
Nederlands talig / Dutch text only

Price: € 39.95

Piet Zwart, interieurarchitect, modeontwerper, reclametypograaf, fotograaf, criticus, docent en industrieel vormgever, werd in het jaar 2000 door de Beroepsorganisatie van Nederlandse Ontwerpers (BNO) uitgeroepen tot dé Nederlandse ontwerper van de twintigste eeuw.
In de jaren twintig zette hij de grafische wereld op zijn kop met dynamisch drukwerk dat uit eenvoudig zetmateriaal was gecomponeerd en waarin spoedig ook zakelijke foto’s werden gemonteerd. Hij ontwierp de legendarische Bruynzeelkeuken en beijverde zich voor een moderne opleiding tot industrieel vormgever. Al in 1964 prees de bekende kunsthistoricus prof.dr. H.L.C. Jaffé hem om zijn talent mensen met elkaar te laten communiceren.
In deze nieuwe monografie wordt het veelzijdige oeuvre van Piet Zwart vooral in internationale context bezien. Zijn relatie tot De Stijl, Dada, het Russisch constructivisme en het Bauhaus wordt uitvoerig aan de orde gesteld, zo ook de rol die Piet Zwart zelf binnen de avant-garde vervulde.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition about the work of Piet Zwart at the Gemeente Museum in the Hague, this monograph is the first in years to cover and protray extensively the many facetted genius of one of the Netherlands most important and certainly best known designers. Sadly enough the people behind this project did not see the necessity for an English translation.

Inga Powilleit/Tatjana Quax
Rotterdam 2008
Printed paper-covered boards 224 pages
Illustrations in colour & bl/w.
Design: Ben Lambers (Studio Aandacht)
Text in Dutch & English

Price: € 39.50

Dutch designers are currently creating quite a stir on the international scene. What is the secret of their success? In How They Work photographer Inga Powilleit and stylist Tatjana Quax examine the working methods of seventeen designers, as well as the typically Dutch approach which has made them world-famous: a fanatical attitude towards work, a healthy lack of respect for convention, and a determination to go their own way.
How They Work consists of portraits of the very top of the Dutch design world, which offer readers an honest and revealing look behind the scenes.
The designers featured are: Hella Jongerius, Job Smeets & Nynke Tynagel, Claudy Jongstra, Dick van Hoff, Wieki Somers, Marcel Wanders, Petra Blaisse, Jurgen Bey & Rianne Makkink, Piet Hein Eek, Richard Hutten, Joep van Lieshout, Gijs Bakker, Evelyne Merkx, Ineke Hans, Bertjan Pot.

Marion S. van Aken-Fehmers
Contributions from: Sarah Bosmans/Claire Dumortier/Wies Erkelens/Ben Groen/Christine Lahaussois
Den Haag/Zwolle 2007
Cloth with dust-jacket 328 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Marjo Starink
Text in Dutch & English

Price: € 42.50

Delft earthenware, since the seventeenth century pre-eminently our national product, is especially widely known by the spectacular flower vases with spouts. From about 1680 these vases, also called tulip holders, were put on the market in all colours, sizes and designs.
In this publication the significance of the flower holder in the past and the present is discussed with more than 200 examples.

Delfts aardewerk, sinds de zeventiende eeuw het nationale produkt bij uitstek, is speciaal beroemd door de spectaculaire bloemenvaas met tuiten. Vanaf ongeveer 1680 werden deze vazen, ook wel tulpvazen genoemd, in allerlei kleuren, formaten en soorten op de markt gebracht. Speciaal mooie exemplaren zijn bewaard gebleven, met als onweerlegbare topstukken de bloemenvazen met tuiten die werden besteld door de Oranjes en leden van de hofhouding.
In deze uitgave wordt de betekenis besproken van de bloemenvaas in het verleden en de toekomst en ongeveer 150 voorbeelden van deze unieke Delftse, Friese en andere vazen worden beschreven en geïllustreerd.

Libby Hruska/Rebecca Roberts (Editors)
Museum of Modern Art
New York 2008
Sewn paperback 192 pages (untrimmed)
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Irma Boom (cover type: Daniël Maarleveld)
Text in English

Price: € 28.95

Over the past twenty-five years, in tandem with the introduction of the personal computer, the Internet, and wireless technology, we have experienced dramatic changes in our relationships with time, space, the physical nature of objects, and our own essence as individuals.
"Design and the Elastic Mind" focuses on the responses of designers to the momentous advances in technology, science, and social mores that have characterized the last quarter-century and presents their projects that convert these developments into useful concepts and objects- from nanodevices to full-size vehicles, home appliances to building facades, pragmatic solutions to provocations.
Designed by Irma Boom, this book features essays by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Moma; design critic and historian Hugh Aldersey-Williams; visualization design expert Peter Hall; and nanophysicist Ted Sargent.

Ron Tasman
Editors: Friggo Visser/Inemie Gerards/Dr.Jan Gielkens
Rotterdam 2007
Cloth with dust-jackets
3 volumes in slip case
Total of 1200 pages with 889 photographs
65 drawings 10 maps & floorplans 97 tables
385 company marks 539 signatures of decorators 74 pipe marks
Text in English

Price: € 365.00

In the first half of the twentieth century Gouda was home to a flourishing earthenware industry which acquired a world-wide reputation. Many of the potteries recalled in this work began as small family-owned enterprises with their roots in tobacco pipe making.
Gouda’s designers, clay workers and artists made a huge economic impact on the town and left a legacy of art highly prized to this day.
Ultimately their work has come to those enthusiasts who appreciate and value the wares.
The company names of Ivora, Goedewaagen, Regina, Zuid-Holland and Zenith are still vivid in the memory of Gouda’s older inhabitants, while the new wave of residents scarcely seem to know of their existence or the heritage of the buildings in their street.
Some small earthenware enterprises remain, but the heady days of international success have faded. Traces can still be found in Gouda’s museums, but even here literature in English about the exhibits is sadly lacking.
Until now, dating Gouda styled pottery has been rather difficult for all but the most well-informed collectors, while for others the story of “Gouda” ceramics has a beginning, a middle and an uncertain end. The result has been a good deal of confusion – decorative items that are often overvalued, or later pieces that are grossly underrated.
One aim of this work therefore is to shine a light into the darkness by providing not only a detailed history of the major potteries but also enough information to help collectors accurately date their pieces, identify many of the decorators, and determine an item’s value.
Some 100 companies are included in this publication. Seventeen of these receive extensive coverage. Comprehensive lists of models and decoration patterns are also included. In addition to the large number of manufacturers, many of their designers, decorators and others are also recorded. Many moved from one company to another. An extensive list, of some 2000 names and occupations, now makes it possible to trace their places of work and their period of employment.
To assist in clearly dating the most colourful ceramics ever to be made in Holland, the work also contains many pages of unique company marks and the signatures or monograms of their decorators.
Given the wealth of information, the high quality of the photography and the care with which it has been produced, this three-volume, large-format edition will be indispensable for Gouda Pottery collectors around the world and a source of reading and viewing pleasure for those interested in earthenware in general and Gouda Pottery in particular.

Tonko Dop/Lucas Bonekamp
Voorwoord: Victor & Rolf
Arnhem 2007
Gebonden 192 pagina's
Illustraties in kleur & zwart/wit
Vormgeving: Studio Jan de Boer
Nederlandstalig/Dutch text only

Price: € 29.95

Jan Jansen brengt al sinds 1964 schoenen op de markt onder zijn eigen naam. Zijn ontwerpen zijn meer dan schoenen alleen, het zijn kunstwerken. De haute chaussure van Jansen vindt al decennia lang haar weg naar liefhebbers over de hele wereld. Hij werkte samen met grote namen als Christian Dior, Manolo Blahnik, Stephane Kélian en Charles Jourdan. Daarnaast ontving hij vele prestigieuze prijzen en worden zijn schoenen wereldwijd in musea geëxposeerd.
Jan Jansen verschijnt ter gelegenheid van zijn 45-jarige jubileum als schoenontwerper. Hoewel hij creatief gezien nog volop actief is, is ook het feit dat hij onlangs vijfenzestig jaar werd aanleiding om stil te staan bij zijn indrukwekkende carrière tot nu toe. In Jan Jansen komen niet alleen de topstukken uit zijn oeuvre aan bod, maar vertelt de ontwerper zelf uitgebreid over zijn inspiratie, drijfveren, voorspoed en tegenslagen.

Jan Jansen, a dutch shoe designer, has become world famous and in the 45 years that he has been making customized shoes he has worked with many of the worlds most famaous fashion designers. This book is a celebration of his career and shows many of his most famous creations.

Kees Dorst
Amsterdam 2006
New revised and enlarged edition
Sewn paperback 240 pages
Black & white illustrations
Design: Studio Ron van Roon
Text in English

Price: € 19.00

Revised and enlarged edition of this highly recommended text which has been adopted as course material by design schools the world over.
Kees Dorst- Dutch design scholar, educator, consultant and practitioner, presents 175 provoking essays to stimulate designers to think about what they do, how they do it, why and to what effect. The essays are written to encourage designers and students of design to reflect upon the many aspects of their field. Fundamental questions are raised about the nature of design, about designers themselves, and about the role of design within the broader contexts of business and society.
There are no definitive answers in this book; the readers are challenged to construct their own solutions by considering their own experiences as a designer or student.

Peter van Kester/Paul Mertz
Eindhoven/Amsterdam 2007
Genaaid gebrocheerd 64 pagina's
Zwart-wit illustraties
Concept & Design: Titus Swart
Nederlandstalig/Dutch text only

Price: € 15.00

Publicatie naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling 'Zicht op Design. Het vroege oog van Lou Kreymborg' in Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam.
Pieter Zeegers, die jarenlang met Kreymborg heeft samengewerkt, ontwierp deze tentoonstelling als een hommage aan de man, die als directeur van Kreymborg BV en Tecno Benelux een vooruitstrevende visie had op het importeren en distribueren van design. Met zijn vroege oog en zijn scherpe neus haalde Lou Kreymborg (1919-1993) vanaf 1947 'grote (on)bekenden' naar ons land. Namen, merken als Kjaerholm, Vitsoe, Mateograssi, Stilwood, Tecno, Tulipan, Storck, Leucos, PAF, Danese, Toso.

Dutch language publication about Lou Kreymborg(1919-1993) who was responsible in the second half of the 20th century for the introduction in the Netherlands of many of the most important design products on the market.

Tuja van den Berg/Jan Jaap Heij (editors)
Foreword Frans Leidelmeijer
Amsterdam 2007
Sewn paperback 176 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Fred van den Berg
Text in Dutch/Nederlandstalig

Price: € 31.00

Frits Lensvelt was a exceptionally talented Dutch designer who worked as theater-set designer, illustrator, book designer, architect, interior and lighting designer. This monograph, published to coincide with an exhibition at the Theater Institute, covers all aspects of his work but is especially dedicated to his lighting projects for theaters and his lamp designs.

Frits Lensvelt was een veelzijdig ontwerper.Hij begon zijn professionele loopbaan in 1907 als illustrator en vormgever van boeken maar nog datzelfde jaar kon hij echter ook als decorontwerper aan de slag. Nadat hij het toneel in 1921 definitief de rug had toegekeerd, werkte hij - met de kennis die hij in het theater had opgedaan - achtereenvolgens ook als ontwerper van lampen (1926-1941) en binnenhuisarchitect (1929-1936). Het vormgeven van boeken is hij - met tussenpozen - zijn hele loopbaan blijven doen.

Barbara Maas/Peter van Kester
Stuttgart 2006
Stiff paper covers/Japanese binding 168 pages
158 colour illustrations
Concept & design: Mariëtte Haverkort
Text in English/Dutch/German

Price: € 42.50

This is the first publication on the Dutch designer Herman Hermsen and provides an in-depth survey of the work he has been producing in the past twenty-five years; jewellery and product design, both one-offs and series. This original book with numerous fold-out panels and a Japanese binding zooms in on this cutting-edge exponent of contemporary jewellery, lighting design and other objects.

Peter van Dam
Eindhoven 2006
Sewn paperback 144 pages
More than 200 illustrations
Text in Dutch/Nederlandstalig

Price: € 22.00

Louis Kalff was a pioneer of industrial design in the Netherlands in the first half of the 20th century. Having studied furniture making, sculpture, ceramics, advertising design and finally architecture he went to work for Philips in the advertising department in 1924. Not long thereafter he took over the advertising studio at Philips where he became responsible for not only the advertising but also the packaging, brochures, merchandising displays for shops and for the yearly trade-fairs. In 1929 he set-up a lighting design studio and was responsible for many extensive lighting displays at the Worlds Fairs in Barcelona, Antwerpen and Paris. In his career as designer he also did free-lance poster work for Holland-America Line, the PTT, and the city of Scheveningen, and, he designed several houses for Philips' directors. He continued working for Philips up to his retirement in 1960 and his last major project was the Evoluon in Eindhoven.
Peter van Dam has researched many achieves to put together a fitting reconstruction of Kalff's life and work and the book contains many designs and illustrations which have never before been published.

Stefano Marzano/Philips Design
Eindhoven/Amsterdam 2005
Thick paper-covered boards cloth spine 774 pages
Illustrated in colour & b/w
Design: Stefano Marzano/Ally Cane
Text in English

Price: € 49.90

'past tense, future sense' celebrates 80 years of design at Philips. This, large, objective, authoritative and richly illustrated book, edited and supervised by the man who has lead the design department of Philips for more than a decade, gives a fascinating insight into the creation of some of the most iconic products of the past decades.
Engaging topics like the rise of design, the role of visionary projects and what actually constitutes good design are discussed at length and vividly brought to life by numerous case studies. The editor(s) have had the good fortune to be able to explore the rich archives of one of the leading product design companies of our times.
'past tense, future sense' is a compelling reflection of the remarkable journey undertaken by design, Philips and society during the extraordinary period of development that our era has witnessed.

Geert de Rooij/Hans Démoed
Introduction by José Teunissen
Amsterdam/Utrecht 2006
Gilt stamped & printed cloth 256 pages
Full-colour illustrations through-out
Design: Roelof Mulder
Text in Dutch & English

Price: € 49.00

"The People of the Labyrinths (POTL), the Dutch high fashion label of Hans Démoed and Geert de Rooij has been creating internationally successful haute couture, independent from prevailing hypes and trends since 1984. With POTL, Démoed and De Rooij - both graduates of the Arnhem Institute for the Arts -, have gained a steadily growing fan base from L.A. to Moscow and from Japan to Amsterdam with no well-devised marketing concept or publicity campaign.
The People of the Labyrinths are known for their all-inclusive concept of fashion, interior design and cosmetics. In the past 23 years they launched 46 collections all expressing that exclusive hippy-chic style in a distinctive, carefree and divergent POTL pallet of colours. Their sharp graphic prints and the lines of the creations are inspired by heraldry, art, history, photography, nature and science." (Taken from the publishers introduction)

Janjaap Luijt
Zwolle 2006
Printed paper-covered boards 384 pages
54 coloured illustrations & numerous bl/w illustrations including master-signs & symbols
Extensive appendices/ 3 indices in French, English & German
Text of all entries in Dutch with the 'references' translated
Design: Marjo Starink

Price: € 39.95

This is the new standard-work on Dutch and Belgian Silver. It contains an alphabetical listing of people, places, technical terms, tools, objects & marks related to the history and design of silver in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Yvonne Brentjens/Titus M. Eliëns
Den Haag/Zwolle 2006
Sewn paperback 240 pages
216 illustrations in colour & bl/w
Design: Manifesta Rotterdam
Text in Dutch

Price: € 29.95

During their lifetime the architects H.P. Berlage and K.P.C. de Bazel were regarded as two unrivalled luminaries in their field. Berlage’s work still enjoys broad public interest, but de Bazel remains known only among insiders as the architect of country villas in the 'Gooi', the designer of handsome Leerdam glassware and the master builder of an imposing bank on Amsterdam’s Vijzelstraat. On the other hand, his impressive contribution as a furniture designer has been largely forgotten.
For the first time the book K.P.C. de Bazel(1869-1923 Ontwerpen voor het interieur) draws detailed attention to his refined matching sets of furniture. These were designed for an elite group in the Netherlands, including wealthy businessmen, aspiring intellectuals, well-off artists and the Royal Family. All these eminent clients had a deep admiration for De Bazel’s craftsmanship and the idiosyncratic way in which he sought to unite styles from both the West and Far East.

André Koch
Rotterdam 2006
Soft cardboard cover sewn 242 pages
Black/white & several colour illustrations
Design: Ton Homburg (Opera ontwerpers)
Text in Dutch with English summary

Price: € 39.90

In Holland the Dutch industrial designer Willem Hendrik Gispen(1890-1981) is now seen as one of the most important pioneers of functionalism. His vision was to carry his designs to the Office Furniture world and so began the inception of the Gispen company in 1916.
The first steel tube chairs were delivered in 1929 from the factory located in the Netherlands. This particular factory was standardized to manufacture steel furniture in serial production. The majority of the early product lines are still currently sold in large quantities. Exhibition of the Giso-lamps and furniture at the International fair “Die Wohnung” in Stuttgart, Germany in 1927 was a footprint in history for Gispen. The success of Stuttgart’s fair led to more International activities. Competition with the likes of Gerrit Rietveld, Marcel Breuer and Le Corbusier, Gispen boasted showrooms in Brussels, Paris, London, Cape Town and Willemstad (Curaco).
This publication contains all of the products made in series between 1923 and 1960 including lamps, furniture and living accessories.

Ed van Hinte (editor)
Rotterdam 2006
Rough-cloth covered boards 120 pages
Illustrated in colour & bl/w
Design: Johannes Niemeijer
Text in English

Price: € 29.50

"Current culture seems to be engaged in covering up reality. Before they know it real objects are buried under layers of meaning and even immaterial narratives. Upholstered furniture still is an everyday phenomenon. Yet classic provision of comfortable softness seems to have escaped the attention of top designers. One reason may be that they are interested in image rather than seating. Another is that upholstering is a complex and costly process. They do, however, experiment with ways to integrate upholstery with structure and with new production methods. This book tells all, well almost anyway, there is to know about upholstering furniture, with many colourful and inspiring examples. Ten of those, designed by the likes of Dick van Hoff, Maartje Steenkamp and Bertjan Pot, were especially developed for a project that was undertaken by the Sofa foundation, a Dutch organisation that aims to promote the development of quality furniture."(Publishers text)

Yvònne G.J.M.Joris/Ida van Zijl
Stuttgart/'s-Hertogenbosch 2005
Printed paper-covered boards 272 pages
Illustrations in colour & duo-tones
Including an oeuvre catalogue of the jewelry
Design: Studio Anthon Beeke
Text in Dutch and English

Price: € 52.00

Gijs Bakker's career has been one of perpetual revolution rather than steady evolution. He made his radical break with the traditions of jewelry design around 1965, since when incessant renewal has been the only constant in his work. Bakker is certainly not on some quest for the ideal jewel: the designs grow out of his interest in what is going on in the world around him. What drives him to experiment with materials and techniques is the need to find the most appropriate form for those designs. The results amount to a fascinating survey-a kind of cultural diary of the past five decades.
This well designed publication contains beautiful photographs of his work and is completed with an annotated catalogue of his complete oeuvre.

Ed van Hinte
Rotterdam 2005
Paper covered boards 100 pages
Illustrations in colour
Design: Thonik
Text in Dutch and English

Price: € 24.50

It is quite unusual for a company to use the occasion of its 100th birthday to invite no less than twelve designers to react to its products, production system and image, and think about the company's future in their own particular way. Dutch furniture producer ARCO did just that. Its director Willem van Ast, felt the need to do so as his firm owes its very existence to commissioning designers from outside. something it has done since the 1970s.
This publication elucidates the clear signatures from the twelve talented Dutch designers who contributed to ARCO's project: Miriam van der Lubbe, Michiel van der Kley, Frank Tjepkema, Bertjan Pot, Ruud-Jan Kokke, Laurens van Wieringen, Job Smeets, Floris Schoonderbeek, Dick van Hoff, Ineke Hans, Jurgen Bey, & Joris Laarman.

Ingeborg de Roode
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2005
Hard cardboard covers 28 oblong accordion pages
Illustrated in colour & b/w
Concept & design: Gesina Roters/Gilian Schrofer
Text in Dutch & English

Price: € 19.50

Published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at the Stedelijk Museum, this nicely made catalogue presents a collection of interior design products which are shown as proposals for the Municipal Art Acquisitions 2004. The collection is varied and includes stools, chairs, carpets, lamps, coffee & tea-pots, sugar bowls, tiles, vases, plates, dinner services, benches, kitchens, and wall-paper.
"Surveying the whole, it appears that design in the Netherlands throws a bridge between functionality and a profusion of creative ideas, between tight, severe objects and cheerful free forms, between solid reliability and playfulness. That corresponds to the diverse training the designers receive, situated in a context of autonomous art or a climate of purposeful technique. Among the participating designers are both architects, graduates of the Technical University, and visual artists from art academies." (Gijs van Tuyl, Director Stedelijk Museum)

Timo de Rijk
Rotterdam/Den Haag 2004
Cloth 192 pages
Illustrations in colour & b/w
Design: Piet Gerards/Ton van de Ven
Text in Dutch

Price: € 39.50

'De Haagse Stijl'(The Hague Style) was a interior design movement in the Netherlands which developed after the 1st. World War and went on through the Twenties. Strongly influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and the avant-garde ideas of 'De Stijl' movement 'De Haagse Stijl' distinguished itself with interiors and furniture of a restrained luxury and it became the most important Dutch representative of the international Deco movement.
The work of young designers such as Henk Wouda, Cor Alons and J.Brunott (working within the commercial framework of the furniture company H.Pander & Zonen in the Hague), the architect Jan Wils and the independent designers Jan Lecointre and Frits Spanjaard all contributed to the creation of a unique style which bears the name of the city in which it had it's most lasting effect.
This publication coincides with an exhibition in the Gemeente Museum in the Hague.

Luca Dosi Delfini a.o.
Amsterdam/Rotterdam 2004
Printed paper boards 456 pages
80 colour plates & complete catalogue in b/w showing 717 pieces
Design: Beukers Scholma
Text in English

Price: € 82.50

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has been building a collection of applied arts and design since 1934, and furniture is one of its most significant subsections. With designs from circa 1850 to the present, this collection places the accent on the twentieth century and now includes more than 1,000 objects: chairs, sofas, tables, cabinets, screens, and sets of furniture. It is one of Europe's largest and most comprehensive collections in the field of modern furniture design.
This well designed publication provides a complete catalogue of the collection. Alongside the many examples of Gerrit Rietveld's furniture, this collection includes pieces by other Dutch designers, such as H.P.Berlage, K.P.C.de Bazel, Piet Kramer, Martin Visser, Gijs Bakker, Piet Hein Eek, Ineke Hans and Marcel Wanders. The collection also includes many international classics designed, for example, by Michael Thonet, Charlotte Perriand, Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Joe Colombo, Charles & Ray Eames, Le Corbusier, Arne Jacobsen, Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck and Ron Arad.

Marjan Unger
Bussum/Utrecht 2004
Cloth 582 pages
383 illustrations in colour & b/w
Design: Ronald Boiten/Irene Mesu
Text in Dutch with a short English summary

Price: € 59.50

This wide ranging and very thorough study of Dutch jewelry in the 20th century will with-out a doubt become a standard work in this field.
Marjan Unger (art historian, publicist and teacher) painstakenly for the first time, presents a comprehensive history of all of the various trends, modes and styles in jewelry of the last hundred years and places them in their cultural, political, social and economical contexts. At the same time she devotes much attention and illustration to individual and often exceptional pieces of avant-garde, classical and popular jewelry.
Especially the avant-gardistic element in jewelry making is very dear to her and she demonstrates how exactly in this area Dutch jewelry in the last decade has made it into the international top.

Titus M.Eliëns/Miep Singelenberg-van der Meer
Lochem(NL) 2004
Sewn paperback 300 pages
Illustrations in colour with artist's signatures
Design: Saskia Zandvliet
Text in Dutch

Price: € 45.75

This is a completely revised and actualised second edition of the only dictionary of 20th century Dutch glass. It contains one or more pieces of each of the featured artists and a short biography with summry

Jan Daniël van Dam
Zwolle 2004
Sewn paperback 208 pages
150 colour illustrations
Design: Berry Slok
Text in English

Price: € 25.00

Delft faience was produced in thirty different workshops for more than two centuries. Tens of thousands of men and women worked in Delft on a product with a European appeal. Although a broad cross-section of the Dutch population bought it, the best faience was reserved for the elite of Europe.
This book describes the workshops, the people, and the beautiful decorated wares that they produced. The pieces which have been selected for the illustrations in the book all come from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which is one of the finest in the Netherlands.

Piet Augustijn
Lochem/Leerdam 2003
Printed paper-boards 112 pages
214 illustrations colour & b/w
Design: Jan van Waarden
Text in Dutch and English

Price: € 39.50

This publication celebrates the 125th anniversary this year of The Royal Glassworks at Leerdam (NL). Royal Leerdam has become a nationally as well as internationally recognized leader in glass design and has been the work place of many famous dutch designers such as Cochius, de Bazel, de Lorm, Lanooy, Berlage, Lebeau, Copier, & Meydam. Each of the the important resident artists who have worked at the glassworks are discussed and more than half of the book is devoted to a review of the last thirty years and especially the influence of Siem van der Marel who has been in residence as designer since 1968.

Dan Klein/Menno Jonker
Amsterdam 2002
Cloth 208(double) pages
Full-page colour illustrations
Design: Maarten Evenhuis
Text in English

Price: € 90.00

Menno Jonker(b.1968) is one of the Netherlands most promising glass-artists and has since 1997 been designer in residence at the famous Royal Leerdam Crystal Works in Leerdam. Inspired in his youth by the Dutch master glass designer Copier and the abstract movement in painting Jonker has arrived at his own variety of lyrical abstraction and has established his own set of aesthetic values in which beautiful proportions emphasized by colour elevate the senses. He is creating a modern visual language in glass that builds on tradition and also takes Dutch decorative art a step further into the 21st century.
This publication coincided with an exhibition of Jonker's work in the National Glass Museum in Leerdam, the Netherlands.

Reino Liefkes
Zwolle 2003
Cloth 112 pages
Illustrations in colour & b/w
Design: Gert Jan Slagter
Text in English

Price: € 22.50

Andries Dirk Copier(1901-1991), one of the first Dutch industrial designers, began his career at the Leerdam glassworks in 1914. Leerdam was one of the first Dutch factories to collaborate with artists and architects in order to produce aesthetically superior, modern products to be marketed under the artist's name.
By the 1960's Copier could boast confidently, that his glassware for everyday use could be found in every Dutch household. Over the last few decades, his more exclusive unique pieces have enjoyed international acclaim and are now much sought after collector's items. In 1940 he founded the Leerdam glass-school where some of the best glass artists of the next generation received their training.
This handsome monograph shows examples of and gives detailed information about both his unica and serica, chronological information about his career and shows examples of his marks.

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Jojanneke Clarijs
Rotterdam 2002
Cloth 112 pages
Illustrations in colour & b/w
Design: Arlette Brouwers
Text in Dutch with an English summary

Price: € 29.50

't Spectrum was founded in 1941 as a subsidiary of the weaving mill De Ploeg with the intention of preventing that the mill be dismantled and its workforce being sent to Germany by the Nazi invaders. It has existed in various combinations and under several names until today and through the years renowned designers and architects such as Willem van Gelderen, Walter Antonis, Martin Visser, Kho Liang Ie, Hein Stolle, Werner Blaser, and Benno Premsela were associated with the workplace which strove to manufacture furniture with a timeless and measured design.
This book contains a complete catalogue (351 pieces) of all the furniture which has been manufactured under its name since 1951.

Titus M. Elions
Zwolle 2002
Sewn paperback 164 pages
100 illustrations in colour
Design: Gracia Lebbink
Text in English & Dutch

Price: € 27.50

Based on the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague this publication offers a comprehensive view of late 19th and early 20th century advances in Dutch glass design. It gives detailed account of leading producers like Leerdam, the United Glassworks of Maastricht and Glashuis Muller in Amsterdam, as well as the artists who produced designs for them; H.P.Berlage, K.P.C.de Bazel, Chris Lanooy, Chris Lebeau and A.D.Copier. It contains examples of Serica and Unica.

Nel Linssen/Ans van Berkum
Nijmegen 2002
Sewn paperback 48 double-folded pages
Illustrations in colour
Design: Bas Linssen
Text in Dutch & English

out of stock

In this nicely designed book Nel Linssen personally presents her line of paper jewelry which originated in 1981. Through her use of paper, a material that appeals to both hand and eye through its subtle diversity of colours and its engaging tactile qualities, she has created objects which interact with the wearer. As the wearer moves the object catches the light and it comes to life streaked with different hues. Her work is a combination of colour, volume and shape joined together in perfect harmony.

Willem Heijbroek (Editor)
Zwolle 2002
Sewn paperback 136 pages
180 illustrations 100 in colour
Text in Dutch with English summary

Price: € 37.50

This is the first major study of the many faceted talents of ceramist, glass designer, painter, and graphic designer Chris Lanooy. He started at a young age as apprentice Delftware painter at the Rozenburg studios but quickly became the first independent Dutch ceramist. He later moved on to glass art and became one of the major designers for the Leerdam Glassworks designing unica as well as serica. He was also known for his designs for wallpaper and for fabric.

Peter Drijver/Johannes Niemeijer
Bussum 2001 (second revised edition)
Sewn paperback 128 pages
125 ills in colour & b/w
Text in Dutch & English

Price: € 22.50

This handy "do it yourself" manual contains 35 of the most famous pieces of furniture designed by the famous Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld. It contains detailed information on the original designs, measurements, materials and construction instructions in a scale of 1:1.