Jurgen Bey - Studio Makkink & Bey

Studio Makkink & Bey

Studio Makkink & Bey is led by architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey. The studio works in various domains of applied art and includes public space projects, product design, architecture, exhibition design and applied arts. Supported by a design ream, they have been operating their design practice since 2002.

The ambition of Studio Makkink & Bey is to see the role of the designer expanded to the most strategic function possible. To this end, our design team includes professionals from many different fields of knowledge; forming alliances with other designers, architects and experts. The design strategy of Studio Makkink & Bey is to re-appropriate what is already present in the context of an assignment, with a strong emphasis on the process. These contextual elements aren't just rearranged within one product, but also on the scale of a building, a landscape or a social work environment.

One single product can progress into a project of a larger scale, motivating its own setting. In reverse, a project on the scale of architecture or urban planning can equally produce a series of products related to their original context. This movement of zooming in and zooming out marks the interaction between the domain of architecture and urban design and the domain of products. Urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture are indissolubly bound to product design. The light bulb has had an influence on architecture, the way a house is built will inevitably influence its interior. Did the invention of elevators give rise to the skyscraper, or did high-risers necessitate elevators?

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News

PROOFFLab Magazine in Milan



At the Salone del Mobile 2015, a selection of PROOFFLab Magazine's digitally published
essays and projects will be showcased in a physical installation. Essayists Sander Manse, Lissa Zengerink, Elise van Mourik, Tom Loois, Jan Pieter Kaptein, Yuri Veerman and Tamara van Esch will present their work along with various designers in an exhibition that will also function as an editorial office.

PROOFLab Magazine is a new publication that aims to define the working culture of the future. Each month, a visionary thinker is invited to share his or her views on the new working landscape through an essay in text and images. Articles are published daily online. The magazine is curated by Studio Makkink & Bey and is an intiative of PROOFFLAB and PROOFF.

PROOFLab Magazine installation
Palazzo Clerici, Via Clerici 5, Milan
Tuesday 14 - Sunday 19 April 2015
10am - 8pm
www.proofflabmagazine.com


Interior Design, Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibition



Studio Makkink & Bey will provide part of the interior design for the forthcoming retrospective exhibition in Paris of the wor of the fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier. The exhibition will be on view from 1 April to 3 August at the Grand Palais. Studio Makkink & Bey's installation, Morphing: The Living, inspired by the duo's set design for Gaultier's spring/summer 2004 fashion show.

The interior will be based around the Kokon Furniture series, designed by Jurgen Bey in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Gaultier noticed the Kokon range at the Sketch gallery in London and was so impressed that he asked Studio Makkink & Bey to design a set for his show. In the design for that show chairs and table pressed against an elastic skin, showing a skeleton of recognizable furniture forms. The backdrop connected arm rests and chair sets and merged into a domestic hybrid with the wall behind the fashion models. Now, in 2015, Gaultier has again approached the designers, who will transform the entrance room of the Grand Palais with Morphing.

Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du General Eisenhower, Paris
Wednesday 1 April - Sunday 2 August 2015

Exhibition Jean Paul Gaultier 2015

Design Studio Makkink & Bey for Fashion Show Jean Paul Gaultier 2004












http://www.cityproject.it/morphing-the-living-by-studio-makkink-beys/


Jean Paul Gaultier's latest exhibition has design under its skin
March 25, 2015

Fresh from a sellout (an event for which all tickets are sold) season at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Gaultier himself anticipates the Paris exhibition of his iconic works to be "perfect".

While Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival (VAMFF) may have wrapped up last week on Melbourne the show must go on for recent NGV guest Jean Paul Gaultier. Studio Makkink & Bey will provide part of the interior design for the forthcoming exhibition in Paris showcasing the work of 'enfant terrible' (a person who behaves in an unconventional or controversial way) fashion designer. The exuberant designer first came across Makkink & Bey's Kokon series back in the early 2000's, which inspired the backdrop for his 2004 runway. Chairs and tables were pressed against an elastic skin, showing a skeleton of recognizable furniture forms and shadows. Over 10 years later, the designers and Gaultier will collaborate once more on a section of his Paris retrospective.



Kokon Range by Studio Makkink Bey

Studio Makkink & Bey's ideal design process is one where projects inform products as much as products inform projects. There is a "zooming in and out" that allows interaction between the domains of architecture, urban design and the conception of products. On this occasion the conceptualisation of set design and haute couture fashion has been added to the mix of disciplines.

This is not Gaultier's first foray (a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something'a raid) into the furniture design space. In 2010 he used his own infamous wearable artwork the 'Hello, Madonna cone bra!' as a basis to collaborate with French design group Roche Bobois.

The worldwide exhibition has seen millions of visitors flock to its previous locations in New York, San Francisco, London and Madrid. Its Melbourne launch saw over 200,000 visitors with long queues lining the outside of the NGV in its final days. When commenting on the Melbourne exhibition (the ninth location) the exuberant designer was quoted as saying "It's almost perfect... by the time it gets to Paris, it will be!"

http://www.australiandesignreview.com/interiors/54299-jean-paul-gaultiers-latest-exhibition-has-design-under-its-skin


Gaultier Fashion Show 2004

http://www.textileismore.com/core/content.php?&option=viewitem&id=75&rd=212&le=10


Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Jean Paul Gaultier
http://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/on-tour/jean-paul-gaultier/



Find out more about Jean Paul Gaultier



Other videos:
Behind the scene of the Jean Paul Gaultier's exhibition
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier at the NGV 

Shin Azumi

a studio
is a London based design company established by the Japanese designer Shin Azumi. Its activities covers product, furniture and spacial design, working with a variety of clients on consumer products, furniture, lighting, electronics and audio equipment as well as spacial design for shops, restaurants, exhibitions, etc.

Observation + Distillation 
Observations are key to development.
We begin by objectively looking at all the phenomena surrounding a brief and try to clarify the key points to develop the project.
After distilling the idea, the end result is often purified into a simple solution.

Fun + Function
Functionality increases the longevity of a design life. We look at physical functionality as well as the effect of psychological functionality. We aim to satisfy both within our process.

Interactivity + Theatricality 
A design is complete when it is used by people.
Providing a satisfactory, interactive quality ensures a successful design. We always try to create maximum effect from minimal solutions.



Shin Azumi
Shin Azumi's works have been published and gained worldwide recognition and awards being acquired for the permanent collections of many museums - such as the Victoria & Albert Museum (UK), the Stedelijk Museum (Holland), the Crafts Council (UK), the Die Neue Sammlung (Germany), the Museum for Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt (Germany).

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New additions for Shin Azumi's Loku collection
March 18, 2015

Loku additions launch at designjunction Milan

We launched our Loku chair at Maison & Objet last year and received much praise for this slender piece by Japanese design Shin Azumi. For Milan Furniture Fair we have extended this popular range to include a stool, bar stool, cafe table and bar tables at two heights.



Making good use of the efficient methods of three dimensional (3D) plywood technology, the Loku collection is moulded into shape by heating and pressing thin plywood veneer into tight curves to stiffen the material. The tables are made from a steel base with a wood laminate table top for durability, which makes it perfect for restaurants and cafes.

In Milan you will be able to see this new collection at designjunction, in the entrance cafe along with a display inside the building.

http://www.casefurniture.co.uk/news/new-additions-for-shin-azumi-loku-collection/

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"Good design is the result of great collaboration" Shin Azumi
April 22, 2015


Sketch of Loku Stool by Shin Azumi

The Loku chair by Shin Azumi was first launched in 2014, and has recently grown with a stool and table to extend the range for cafe's and restaurants.

Taking it's name from the Japanese word for the number 6, written 六 or Roku with the R sounding like an L, the chair makes reference to its six sides and six corners.


Shin Azumi designed the chair with these six sides to give a cohesive character and shape and extended this idea to the table with the six sides integral to the design.

We spoke to Shin about the design to understand more about his career and what shaped his thinking for the chair.

"I had the experience of using 3D plywood technology back in 2003. However, it is still an attractive new technology which is under development. Forming plywood in 3D shape is the great new technology.

"However, I found some of the 3D plywood shell chairs in the market are getting too similar to plastic ones. When I designed Loku, I was careful to keep the dignity and beauty of a wooden chair."

Before Shin Azumi moved to London, he was working with NEC in Japan... "The experience at NEC Design Centre is still my lifetime treasure. It was a great training period as a young designer. I built my attitude of respecting the functionality of design and cultivated my sensitivity about the details."

"When I was studying at Kyoto City University of Art in Japan, I happened to see the the travelling exhibition of the UK's Roral College of Art degree show. It was extremely attractive, but it was also difficult to understand the background ideas. After that, I began to dream of going to the UK to study at the Royal College of Art.

" I always start from my observation. When I design something new, I always think carefully what can be the most outstanding feature within the brief."

One of Shin Azumi's best known products is the LEM stool... " I am proud of LEM and my design very much. I am also proud of the miracle moment of meeting with this great client who could understand the possibility of my design. They had a great enthusiasm toward manufacturing technology.

"I always feel good design is the result of great collaboration."







http://www.casefurniture.co.uk/news/good-design-great-collaboration-shin-azumi/

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Loku, Eos and 675. On show at Clerkebwell Design Week 2015
May 13, 2015


Loku, Eos and 675. On show at Clerkenwell Design Week

Returning to Clerkenwell Design Week, we will be showing some new pieces that we recently launched at designjunction during Milan Design Week; the new additions to our popular Loku collection by Japanese Designer Shin Azumi.

These new pieces will be joined by the iconic 675 chair by the British designer heralded for his mid-Century designs Robin Day; and the Eos outdoor range by Matthew Hilton, recently used in contracts such as the spectacular waterfront destination in Plymouth, Royal William Yard.

Once more, we will be exhibiting at the Design Factory at The Farmiloe Building alongside some of the most exciting design brands.

Stand number: Ground Floor (in the stand)
Venue address: 34 St John Street, London, EC1M 4AY
Opening hours: 10:00 - 21:00 everyday during Clerkenwell Design Week

http://www.casefurniture.co.uk/news/clerkenwell-design-week-2015/

Other info to look into:
http://www.cmog.org/glasslab/designers

Next designer juror to research on: Jurgen Bey
- Collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/more-lifestyle-stories/story/jean-paul-gaultiers-fashion-career-feted-paris-exhibition-201#6

http://www.cityproject.it/morphing-the-living-by-studio-makkink-beys/




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