Joost elffers biography of william hill
A brief family history - Dutch Design Daily!
ONE WEEK ABOUT Product Design by curator Toon Lauwen
“Looks weird, is expensive and doesn’t work.
Joost elffers biography of william hill
That must be Dutch Design!” Ten years ago, Joost Elffers and I walked past Moss Gallery on the corner of Green Street and Houston. It was getting dark in New York and, curious to discover what was exhibited, we pressed our noses against the display window.
For ‘Where There is Smoke’, Maarten Baas had blackened and casted the whole design canon of the 20th century in epoxy: Thonet’s No. 14, Rietveld’s Red-Blue, Mackintosh’s Hill House and Eames’s LCW.
Your family will always be your family, but turning yourself against the previous generation is also a natural process, that’s what I understood from the subtitle ‘A Concise Family History’ which Maarten Baas had given the presentation.
Last year, this theme took on a new urgency for me during the preparation of a speech that Joust Elfers gave at the Wim Crowel Inst