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Five years ago, celebrated designer Piet Hem Eek (who designed this scrapwood chair) moved his production and design facilities to a former ceramics factory northwest of Eindhoven’s city center. The complex (left) also hosts a showroom, restaurant, and gallery space for emerg ing designers.
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Remy van Zandbergen’s Silkscreen Facto,).’-- the set for a stop-motion animation that depicts the printing process was among graduate projects at Dutch Design Week 2014. —
itselfmore freelybecause no and design. The internationally one was watching.”.... respected design academy has their innovative and unconvenThe manufactiiring giant graduated thousands of designtional product designs, with Philips was responsible for the ers in several fields and in 2002 most top retail stores and coloriginal growth,hnd ultimate was instrumental in debuting lectives based in Amsterdam. dcline, of Eiidhoven. The Dutch Design Week, an annual (Think Droog and Moooi.) But in 1891 and showcase for thousands of de many designers get their start at built factories, signers that now draws more Design Academy Eindhoven, lo housing cultur4 than 250,000 visitor some 75 miles southeast and late ‘ i tions, and eyn a Perhaps the most telling ly more are staying put, contribSt ium. Three bo.ings c testament 1 tle ‘ogress uting to the city’s rebirth. ing World War II d troyed is the nurnberFot demy gradParadoxically, Eindhoven much of Eindhoven’s riginal 1 u atës st,riñJuyoung crcisn’t much to look at, which architecture. Then came the ativès su as Maarten Kolk perhaps is part of its appeal. and.G.jis kusters, class of 2006, bombshell ofthe 19805: Philips “It doesn’t appear so nice started shipping work overseas r h5se work can be seen in items from the outside, and I think and in 1997 moved its headquar ranging from porcelain tablebecause ofthatwe have more ters to Amsterdam. ware to pressed vegetable plants. edge and determination,” says Since the exodus, Eind “We thought we’d leave Cecile van der Riet, who man% hoven, immediately, probably for the Netherlands’ fifthages Yksi Store, the city’s most Amsterdam, but there were largest city, with a population comprehensive retail design of about 220,000, has been new opportunities, cheap space shop. “In Amsterdam, everythoughtfully reinventing itself to rent, and Dutch Design Week one watches what you do. as a global hub for technology was growing,” says Kusters. Eindhoven could develop
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Their studio is in the Klok gebouw (Clock Building), where Philips once processed Philite (a synthetic plastic simi lar to Bakelite). Others before us have stayed, like Piet Hem Eek and Kiki van Eijk, but I think we’re part ofthe first generation ofgraduates to collectively stay because we wanted to be here. Before, Eindhoven felt more like a working town, but now there’s a lot more in the creative field.” “
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Strijp S The best one-stop shopping destination is in the development that exemplifies Eindhoven’s dramatic do-over Strijp S (pronounced “Stripe 5”). Still awork in progress, the 67 acres that once housed the bulk of Philips’ —
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Yksi is both a design firm developing products such as these rugs and a store that features work by emerging and established designers.
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This spacious shop ( above), run byjurgen Koens and Richard van Gent, offers sweets made from sustainably sourced ingredients.
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This Dutch Design Week project focuses on innovative solutions to complex social issues. In 2014, Kenyan engineer Roy Ombatti presented a 3D-printed shoe made ofwaste plastic, to fit people with a foot disfigurement.
NACHO CARBONELL
From his workshop in Sectie C, Nacho
Carbonell produces sculptural installations as well as fantastical furnishings, such as his Skin collection.
workspaces and factories now boast shops, offices, loft apartments, restaurants, and a budget hotel, with most spaces styled in extreme industrial chic. Yksi Store, housed at Strijp S, is an offshoot ofthe design firm ofthe same name. Here you’ll find work from emerging to established designers, such as waste-paper pulp bowls from J 0 Meesters and graduated-tint glassware designed by Scholten & Baijings for the Danish brand Hay. J ust up the street are Urban Shopper a multi-room space with single-proprietor kiosks selling everything from handprinted T-shirts to design furni ture and Out ofthe Blue, a clothing, home goods, and furniture store emphasizing Dutch designers. —
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contemporary art in a stylish ceramics factory. Eek added Around the corner, the everbuilding beautifully situated a showroom and retail store changing nonprofit gallery space along the Dommel River. (selling his and others’ designs), Mu explores a wide range of art During Dutch Design Week, along with a cheerful restUrant and design. A big drtiv was an the museum organizes designdecked out in his furnishings installation by We Make Carthemed programs. This year’s, and lighting. Through the pets, a Dutch trio that creates “Thing Nothing” (Oct. 17— showroom’s enormous winstunning rectangularor coydows, you can see designers and Nov. 15), examines the rela erings assembleitunextionship between design makers at work, while upstairs pected mateia?fm colored and craft. sponggs to tiicookeasta. gaLjcry ace is reserved for A few other downtown spots eeigii designers. rijp to lsusethe ‘rry local designs. One recent mon e’!Cod Market, 4 a’frival is the This Is Eindhoven wher rtis ns, gourmet food 2 Inner City Brandstore, a shop run by VVV, purve rs, and musicians gathe\ In the nearby neighborho& the cityvisitors’ bureau. Conve ofPhilipsdorp, wher1Imny nientlylocatedjust outside the employees once lid,e small Strijp R/Piet Hem Eek central train station it sports a but ambitious NatyAlice Gal Piet Hem Eek a design acad “made in Eindhoven” wall with lery shows a ix oainting, emy graduate who first gained items for sale. photography, d ceramics, ‘fame for his colorful furniture On the lively shopping most ofwhich are spotteddurmade ofscrap wood, moved his street Kleine Berg is You Are ing Dutch Design Week. design and production facilities Here, a hip boutique run by Eindhoven’s only art musein 2010 to the area known as Ellen Albers, who changes the um is the Van Abbemuseum, Strijp R, a cluster ofred-brick inventory every half year which highlights modern and buildings once housing Philips .
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PHILIPS MUSEUM
This museum chronicles how a small manufac turer of incandescent bulbs became an interna tional powerhouse known for innovation, such as the invention ofthe compact disc.
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Torenallee 60-02 urbanshopperni
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Keteihuisplein 7-9 pastryclub.nl
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Stationsplein 17 thisiseindhoven.nl
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Run by the Eindhoven visitors’ bureau, the Brandstore is a tourism info hub as well as a retail destination for Eindhoven-made goods.
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The monthly FeelGood Market showcases regional artists, designers, musicians, and artisan food vendors, such as
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gallery space, restaurants, industrial area used in the ioos “I’m always looking for new and retail. to process fuel. The city is selldesigners,” Albers says, pointwilling buyers to its buildings ii1 hangvored ing out industrial-fla All Over Town 4 to transprm them into shops, ing lights of reclaimed glass, What started in Eindhoven as çafe, crtive workspaces, designed by Sander Wassink a cylong event is now the ninçand Ma’ayan Pesach.% aresidences. day Dutch Design Week(this oo downtown’s of One year Oct. 17 — 25), featuriig Sectie C destinations is newcomék exhibitions, lecturesiand pop-iI Just east of downtow Sectie C Kazerne, an ambitious prect and restaurän at 4zens shops 6-acrace a is C) (Section Annefrom academy graduate oflocations aound1e city, with that was once used for uip moon Geurts and her partner free transportation oered in ment manufacturers. It recently Koen Rijnbeek. The duo transtoppecLwith objets d art cre for VoWns studios into turned was formed former military barracks Also during the week, many ative workers — more than 170 into a sophisticated design/art Eindho%n-based studios open and counting — including ceram showcase, with a restaurant situtheir doors to the public. A popBerg, den ics designer Elke van ated in the middle and a shop filled ular destination is the academy’s Carbonell, Nacho well as as designDutch from with wares graduation show, which last year internationally known for his ers, many ofthem local. Lodgdisplayed some io social, indusfantastical free-form furnishing is planned for next year. or functional projects rangtrial, the next year, the In ings. Another creative destination ing from a play mat for visually owners plan to add living and in the works is NRE, a 5-acre
impaired babies to vessels made ofmicrobe, with students often on hando discuss their designs. i”A Design Week, you’ll find fipishd and experimental proj ed,” says Guus Kusters. He and his partner serve as art direc mrs for a large exhibition in the Klokgebouw, selecting partici pants and designing the venue. Comparing the event to the more famous Milan Design Week, Kusters says, “People like to say that the paint is still wet here, and then you see the more polished version in Milan. In Eindhoven, you get an insid ers’ view.” +
Diane Daniel is a writer based in Florida andthe Netherlands. oct/nov 15
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