Studio Bertjan Pot

Read a little more before you see it (optionally) at www.boijmans.nl

This workshop is about design by trial and error and not design by sketching and then making.

If you look at the difference between the 2 processes (trial and error v.s . sketching and making) I always find the sketching and making method a bit disappointing because very often the outcome is not as beautiful as the sketch, which means that the whole process has many disappointments, whereas the trial and error method where you start with less expectations in general has a very rewarding process because (if done well) you get a lot of surprises during the whole process.

For this workshop, participants will be invited to make one, two or three mini-golf lanes so that all together we will make a mini-golf course. We start on Monday and Friday at 14h00 we will have a competition.

Bertjan Pot
20 - 26 August
Boisbuchet 2017
Video by Daniela Velasco

Book your workshop > boisbuchet.org/workshops/

Shaker Design Reinterpreted.

www.shakerdesignproject.com

Resting pods for NIKE exhibition 'The Nature Of Motion'. Come see how basket weaving interacts with inner tubes.

'The Nature Of Motion'
Via Orobia 15

Momentum - Bertjan Pot
NIKE Design Talks wednesday April 13th at 11.30AM
Mini Tatami, broadloom printed carpet design for Moooi Carpets and NR2 for Moooi, a new light in a well known technique.

Moooi’s ‘unexpected welcome’
Via Savona 56
Tuesday 12 April – Saturday 16 April from 10.00 to 21.00hrs
Sunday 17 April from 10.00 to 17.00hrs
Press Preview: Monday 11 April from 15.00 to 19.00hrs

Boxblocks for Cassina, a tailored fabric for Rietveld's Utrecht Chair.

Fiera Milano Rho - Pero
Hall 20 - stand D 01 E 01 E 06 F 06
9:30 - 18:30

October 17th - November 21st 2015

Lauriergracht 80
1016 RM Amsterdam
tel +31 20 6241491
www.rentobrattinga.com
wed. - sat. 13-17:30 uur

Come and see the festive branches of Heracleum Endless, and Heracleum Small Big O. Also, Moooi Carpets is newly born and launches a collection of carpets. we designed some...

Moooi's Unexpected Welcome during Salone del Mobile 2015 will again be held at Via Savona 56.

DHPH Expo | 14/19 April 2015
Via Medici 13
20123 Milano, Italy

IDS West 2014
Vancouver Convention Centre West
Friday September 26th 5:30pm
Livingspace Design Stage

GATHERING - From Domestic Craft to Contemporary Process

July 3rd - October 25th, 2014
Curated by Lidewij Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano

Design Museum Holon
Pinhas Eilon St. 8
Holon, 5845400
Israel

Opening hours:
Sunday - Closed
Monday, Wednesday - 10am - 4pm
Tuesday, Thursday - 10am - 6pm
Friday - 10am - 2pm
Saturday - 10am - 6pm

ABITI DA LAVORO (WORKWEAR)

June 25th - August 31st
Curated by Alessandro Guerriero

La Triennale di Milano
Viale Alemagna, 6, 20121. Milano.

Opening hours:
Monday - Sunday 10:30 AM - 8:30 PM
Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:00 PM

QUIZ

June 13th – October 12th
Curated by Robert Stadler

Galerie Poirel
3, rue Victor Poirel
54000 Nancy

Opening hours:
From 13 June to 19 September:
from Tuesday to Sunday: 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

From 20 September to 12 October:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Friday: 1 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 2 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Closed on Mondays and on 15 August

Free late-night openings 6 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.:
Friday 26 September and 3 October
“last days” free late-night openings on 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11 October.

Exhibition PROTECT ME!
Clothing and accessories for body and soul. A treat for fans of fashion and ethnography.

8 June – 9 Maart 2014
Official opening Saturday, June 8 | 19:00

Abdij (plein) 3-4
4331 BK, Middelburg
zeeuwsmuseum.nl

19/10/2013 - 17/11/2013

We're moving!
Moving along!
Moving up in the world!
Moving from Schiedam to Rotterdam.
Our new address as of October 1st 2013!

Essenburgsingel 94C
3022EG Rotterdam
The Netherlands

1 JAN 2012 - 31 DEC 2014 - NEDERLANDS FOTOMUSEUM

From 2012 to 2014, in the months January and February, a prominent artist or photographer displays a sensational installation around the theme of BLACK&WHITE. Two large theme-based exhibitions take place in Autumn: WHITE in 2013, and BLACK in 2014. The programme, developed and curated by intendant Anne van der Zwaag, has been made possible with the very special and generous financial help of the Wertheimer Fund.

Las Palmas building
Wilhelminakade 332
3072 AR  Rotterdam

Mastering a trick takes practice. After fifteen years of running a design studio, we have learnt to trust our gut feelings, combining intuition and reason. Our tricks start as experiments. We play with materials and discover production techniques. Small discoveries like a clever weave, a fiber with resin, or a reflection of light on a certain material, are repeated as if they are the building blocks of something bigger. They mostly result in interior products. In the exhibition ‘Tricks & Flicks’ some pieces may be considered end results and some just another step in the evolution of our practice.

Design Parade #8: 05/07/2013 - 29/09/2013
Design Festival: 05/07/2013 - 07/07/2013

Montée Noailles, 83400 Hyères
www.villanoailles-hyeres.com

Dutch designers were once again a prominent feature of the Salone del Mobile in Milan this year. The Frozen Fountain presents a selection.

The Post Milan 2013 selection includes new work by the likes of Dick van Hoff, Studio Job, Bertjan Pot, Jesse Visser, Maarten Baas, Lex Pott , Max Lipsey, Bob Copray, Niels Wildenberg, Won Min Park, Piet Hein Eek, Dirk van der Kooij and Paul Heijnen.

• Chi Ha Paura...? presents the outcome of the Global Identity project. We joined with jewelery named Mirror Mirror.

LAP (Lamretto Art Project)
Via Cletto Arrighi 19
Opening hours: April 9th to 14th from 10:00 to 20:00
Opening party:  April 10th from 10:00 to 22:00

• Den Herder Production House (DHPH) dishes out Disco Domes and Dishes at

Ventura Lambrate
Via Privata Oslavia 8
20134 Milano

The Downstairs (festive version) will be present at the cafe next to their presentation..

• Arco presenting Buzz

Salone Internazionale del Mobile / Hall 16, stand D51
Strada Statale del Sempione 28
opening hours: 9:30 - 18:30

• Moooi presenting new versions of Heracleum

Moooi’s ‘unexpected welcome’
Via Savona 56
9 - 13 April 10.00 - 21.00 hrs
14 April 10.00 - 17.00 hrs
Press Preview: 8 April 15.00 - 19.00 hrs

• Carpet Manufacturer Golran showing our collection Triangles

Juice
Via Maiocchi 5/7
April 8th - 14th 2013 - from 11:00 to 21:00
press preview: April 7th, from 16:00 to 18:00
opening (by invitation): April 11th, from 19:00 to 00:00

Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne
Cité du design, Bâtiment H
March, 13th to March 31st 2013

 This coming spring Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is taking crafts as its principal theme. An exhibition with more than 500 objects presents the most exceptional examples of artistic crafts. With a complementary programme of demonstrations of traditional techniques, films and documentaries, markets and a whole variety of workshops, Hand Made truly brings crafts to life!

from March 9 2013 until May 20 2013

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museumpark 18-20
3015 CX Rotterdam
the Netherlands

 Between Poetry and Provocation

December 4 - 9, 2012

Galerie VIVID
booth #G23
designmiami.com

For Design Miami 2012, Galerie VIVID presents new contemporary designs alongside several iconic pieces by Gerrit Rietveld, the great Dutch furniture designer and architect. A highlight of the exhibition will be an unused Rietveld Red Blue chair executed by Gerard A. van Groenekan. Galerie VIVID will debut an edition of four Bent Wood Tables by British artist, designer Richard Woods and Sebastian Wrong and three new unique vases by Glithero (Sarah van Gameren and Tim Simpson). Also on display will be the bronze Recession Chair by Frank Tjepkema (Tjep.) and new Masks by Bertjan Pot.

Press Release | Schiedam | 30 November 2012

Studio Bertjan Pot denounces contract with Italian Design Label Skitsch.

September 18th 2012, Studio Bertjan Pot has denounced her contract with Italian Design Label Skitsch. Reasons for this are breach of contract by Skitsch at various points and a very difficult communication.

Skitsch was asked to remove all designs by Studio Bertjan Pot from the collection and not to sell them any longer. This concerns the ‘Dazzle Chair’, ‘Speaker Box’ and ‘Pion’.

Table Lamp ‘Pion’ has a quality issue, the neck of the lampshade closes poorly to the base of the lamp which creates a fold in the lampshade. If you have purchased the lamp, Studio Bertjan Pot advises you to return it.

Studio Bertjan Pot hopes in this way to eventually also reach Skitsch.

We are happy to announce that the 8 step LED Downstairs chandelier, produced by DHPH, has been taken into the permanent collection of the Dutch Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, it will be on show from December 2012.

Address: Museumpark 18-20, 3015 CX Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The GRKK 2013 (29.7 x 34 cm, nearly three pounds) each day shows the work of a contemporary artist from Rotterdam. An independent group of experts selected the 365 artists (fashion) designers, photographers, architects, illustrators, etc.. The calendar can be bought for € 29.95 at (Rotterdam) bookstores, museum and other shops and via www.groterotterdamsekunstkalender.nl.

The Masks are represented on 24 February's page.

Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2013

ISBN 978 94 9060 Aug. 43 Sept.
370 pages
€ 29.95
www.groterotterdamsekunstkalender.nl

Bloemstraat 140

1016 LJ Amsterdam
3 November– 24 November 2012
Opening: Saturday 3 November, 5-7 pm Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 1-6 pm

motivation of the International Jury:

In the execution, the concept of craftsmanship is central. Moreover, this work represents the development that a design can go through. The designer travels from his initial goal, a carpet, to a new work that is an absolute expression of free design: a mask. A cheerful and attractive design.

From 20-28 October 2012, DHPH will exhibit at Ventura Interieur 2012, which is an integrated part of Biennale INTERIEUR 2012.

They will present their current collection and surprise you with some new works (of which Disco Dome is one!) at the North entrance of the Kortrijk Xpo fairground, between Hal 5 and 6.

left: Bertjan | right: Tonio

After two exhibitions and a book, artist Tonio de Roover and Bertjan pot still can't get enough of sharing thoughts. You can now see the continuation of them swapping pictures on their new Tumblr. page. http://toniobertjan.tumblr.com/

"With its clever products that are both inventive and practical, Bertjan Pot has spent years on the highest international level, "reports the jury on the Pinwinner. "This year, his striking chandelier 'Stairway to heaven' - an everyday kitchen staircase decorated with LEDs - was personally chosen by Philippe Starck as winner of the prestigious new Moooi Frame Award. Bertjan Pot has made ​​an important contribution the innovative quality and international reputation of Dutch interior design."

The exhibition ‘Wish you were here’ showcases an ambiguous and contradictory feeling; the longing feeling when experiencing absence and the anticipation of reunion.

This week, Dutch Design Awards (DDA) announced the names of the finalists. Divided into three main categories, 27 designs in total will compete for the prizes. The Masks of Studio Bertjan Pot were nominated in the category autonomous design. An international jury will decide who are going to carry off the awards.

All winners will be announced at an official award ceremony on Sunday, October 21 during Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. That same week, from October 20 through October 28, the work of all finalists will be exhibited together in a special exhibition.

June 29th 2012 to September 30th 2012 - Villa Noailles, Montée Noailles, Huyères / France

'Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles, a life as patrons', an exhibition with focus on african art pieces from the early 20th century, that Georges-Henry Rivière brought from Dakar to Djibouti to the Musée de l'Homme, sponsored by Charles de Noailles. French Designer David Dubois put together contemporary design pieces that Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles could have bought if they were living today.

June 29th 2012 till July 1st 2012 - Villa Noailles, Montée Noailles, Huyères / France

May 27th and 28th, 12:00 - 18:00, Galerie Lemaire, Reguliersgracht 80, Amsterdam.

A tour along galleries specialized in tribal and Asiatic art. This year exhibits from contemporary artists will be displayed alongside the ethnographic art. The masks can be seen at Gallery Lemaire, they were specially made for this occasion.

Wednesday april 18th 2012, at an official award's ceremony and party held at magazzini generale in Milan, the results of the Frame Moooi Award were announced by Moooi co-founder Marcel Wanders. Stairway to Heaven was crowned the overall winner of the competition. Jury, Phillipe Starck personally presented the prize.

'Stairway to Heaven' was designed for former distillery Wenneker which is considered to be the new temple of culture of Schiedam giving home to a cinema, theatre, centre for visual arts, dance studio and Grand Café Wenneker.' Interior Design by Con'Fetti, Tables by Onno Donkers-Vormgeving, QUELLE FÊTE (disco ball) by Rotganzen.

Via Ventura 6, Lambrate Milano

Press preview: monday April 16th 2012, from 3pm to 8pm
Opening night: wednesday April 18th 2012, from 7pm to 10pm

Plusdesign Design Week opening hours:
Tuesday April 17th – Sunday April 22nd 2012, from 10am to 8pm
The exhibition will be open until June 30th 2012

THE THREADS THAT BIND US is a collective exhibition presenting the work of a selection of young designers active on the international scene and sharing the same interest in research into the design and construction of systems, processes and objects adopting a critical approach to input coming from everyday contemporary life. www.plusdesigngallery.com

The award’s juror, internationally celebrated designer Philippe Starck, has selected the top 10 finalists and will personally announce the winner in Milan. Starck selected the finalists with an anonymous approach, in that he didn’t know the designers’ names or countries of origins. ‘I’m often invited to judge competitions,’ Starck says. ‘I’m happy to say that the level of this one is clearly higher than average, a very nice surprise.’

The award ceremony will be held on Wednesday, 18 April at Magazzini Generali (Via Pietrasanta 16, 20124 Milan), by invitation only. A press preview will take place from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with the ceremony and party set to commence at 9:30 p.m.

The party, which is themed Celebration to LIGHT!, will be hosted by Michele Caniato (President, Culture & Commerce) and include a special installation by artist Daniel Wurtzel. At the ceremony, the 10 finalists will be presented by designer Marcel Wanders and Philippe Starck will crown the winner.

Mosa Discussions #2 - 29 maart 2012
MACC, Pedro de Medinalaan 1a, Amsterdam (IJburg)

Koninklijke Mosa organiseert in het Mosa Architectural Ceramics Center in samenwerking met ARCAM (Amsterdam) en TOPOS (Maastricht) een rondetafelgesprek met architect Erikjan Vermeulen (Concrete Architectural Associates) en ontwerper Bertjan Pot (Studio Bertjan Pot).Onder leiding van Tracy Metz zullen zij over hun persoonlijke aspiraties en drijfveren spreken. Het overkoepelende thema van de avond zal zijn fabrication. Dit rondetafelgesprek vormt de twee­de in een nieuwe reeks getiteld Mosa Discussions.

PLUSDESIGN presents exhibition 'The threads that bind us' curated by Barbara Brondi and Marco Raino.

Via Ventura 6, Lambrate Milano
Press preview: monday April 16th 2012, from 3pm to 8pm
Opening night: wednesday April 18th 2012, from 7pm to 10pm
Plusdesign Design Week opening hours:
Tuesday April 17th – Sunday April 22nd 2012, from 10am to 8pm
The exhibition will be open until June 30th 2012
www.plusdesigngallery.com

4 t/m 19 juli 2009

For the fifth time Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is staging a selling exhibition especially for children. At Art4Kids they can buy screen prints by well-known artists. The Art4Kids exhibition is not open to adults.

From 4 to19 July Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen will be showing dozens of screen prints in limited editions by well-known artists. Children can visit the exhibition and choose works of art for
€ 30 each. All the works are numbered and signed, but the artists’ names won’t be shown with the relevant screen prints in the exhibition, so the children won’t be influenced by the well-known names but will make their choice based on what they like.
After they’ve chosen a screen print and it’s been paid for they can take it away (maximum two works per child). Previous selling exhibitions have always been a great success and have encouraged many hundreds of children to buy their first work of art.

See all masks now on: http://ropemasks.tumblr.com/

Grote Zalen
februari 18th - march 18th 2012
Opening february 18th, 17:00

 
April 26th 2012 till september 30th 2012

In the summer of 2012, Oranienbaum Palace will be hosting an exhibition of contemporary Dutch Design and fashion in combination with historical artefacts from the Dutch Royal Archives. Built for Henriette Catharina, Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, Oranienbaum is part of the heritage of the House of Orange-Nassau. With a major conservation and refurbishment process nearing completion, the palace and its park have been restored to their former grandeur.

This new film on Bertjan Pot was created as part of the DutchDFA program. Enjoy..

Donderdag 9 februari vertoont ontwerper Bertjan Pot zijn inspiratiebronnen door vertoning van oa Youtube fragmenten. Hij wordt daarover bevraagd door Nous Faes.

Hoofdfilm:'Bill Cunningham New York' uit 2010.

Het programma vindt plaats in LantarenVenster, in prettige samenwerking met OBJECT Rotterdam dat in Las Palmas plaatsvindt. We beginnen al vroeg: 17.00 u en het einde wordt verwacht om 19.00.

There are not that many soft-skin outdoor chairs. Mostly you bring a pillow outside to sit down into your garden furniture and then take it back inside when it starts to rain. In the net we saw the possibility to make a soft (comfortable) outdoor-chair. Our advice: Put on a T-shirt, a pair of flip-flops and give your shirt and tie a break. Off course ‘Tiebreak’ can be used indoor as well. Tiebreak is part of Richard Lamperts Outdoor furniture collection.

The nominations for the Designs of the Year have now been announced. We are very happy to tell you that Heracleum was nominated in the Product Category. All the nominations will be on show at the Designs of the Year exhibtion at the Design Museum, opening to the public on 8 February 2012. Category winners and the overall winner will be announced at the Awards Night at the Design Museum on 24 April.

Through life everybody collects images. You either store them in the memory carousel, or you just take a picture. It is satisfying to put them all together. At tumblr. I found the place to make some of my private pictures public. Slides of the odd, interesting, pretty and funny side of things and situations.

24|11|2011, RDM Campus Congrescentrum, Heijplaatstraat 23

Of twenty entries for the Thonet Mart Stam prize 2011, three nominations were selected. The award is an initiative of Thonet and magazine “the Architect” and is issued this year for the fifth time. The Thonet Mart Stam Prize is a prize for designers, aiming to realize an innovative seat design for the project- and consumer-market. She is annually awarded to the best seat design of the year. The ceremony will take place in the former dry dock of the RDM in Rotterdam.

17|11|2011 – 08|01|2012
TENT, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam (di – zo, 11 – 18.00 uur)

In the exhibition Face Value, four established designers abandon their commercial bestsellers, winning house style designs or attractive logos and actually show the work in which they seek, hesitate or fail. What is the value of autonomy, authenticity and originality – so characteristic for the work of a visual artist – in the practice of product designer Bertjan Pot, graphic designers 75B, designer Sophie Krier and fashion designer Marga Weimans?

29|10|2011 – 26|02|2012, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

New Energy in Design and Art is an exhibition about energy and the search for a new balance in our living environment. Artists, designers and progressive thinkers present their (alternative) ideas about our consumption of energy.

The exhibition features surprising, strange and sometimes unimaginable objects and sculptures that deal with the theme of sustainable progress. Some are poetic, others are alienating or perhaps brilliant. But they all relevant. This exhibition will be an eye-opener.

New Energy in Design and Art demonstrates how we can think differently about the consumption of energy. In Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen sustainable progress will be approached and presented in an art-historical context.

The artists and designers in this exhibition (including Atelier NL, the duo Auger-Loizeau, Joris Laarman, Philippe Rahm, Bertjan Pot, Michiel van Bakel, John Körmeling, Oskar de Kiefte, Eric Klarenbeek, Mike Thompson, Panamarenko, Jurgen Bey, mischer'traxler, Gerrit van Bakel, Dunne & Raby, Jeroen Verhoeven,  Zoe Papadopoulou, Design Drift and Theo Jansen) no longer think in terms of utopian ideas but show us pure reality. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen attempts to bring this reality into contact with our imagination.

30|09|2011  -  20|11|2011, Freiraum quartier 21 INTERNATIONAL MuseumsQuartier Vienna

Totem and Taboo is an exhibition exploring the relationship between art and design. Since the 1960s, artists have been openly influenced by objects and persons from the field of design and have integrated designers items into their works, some of the best-known exponents being Donald Judd, Franz West and Richard Artschwager. Conversely, designers have also appropriated concepts and elements of the art world. The exhibition concentrates on a second generation of artists and designers active today.

Aligning itself with the popular description of design as “applied art”, Totem and Taboo takes the hypothetical position of art functioning as a close relative of design. That metaphor of “family” brought WAASO, the workgroup of authors and curators responsible for the project, to the title Totem and Taboo. The phrase was coined by Sigmund Freud in 1910, at the very beginnings of modern design. He defines “totem” as an object representing an absent relative, while “taboo” reflects a fear of incest or improper relations within the family. Though not referring directly to art and design, WAASO has interpreted the text as an appropriate model to view the relationship between these two creative disciplines.

23|09|2011  -  25|09|2011
Ben van Meerendonkstraat (De witte kaap), Amsterdam IJburg

with: LED Zeppelin, Slim Table, Rotten Tomatoes, Rietveld boogie-woogie, Empty seats, Pitstop, Enzo Enzo, Duct-taped Carpets, Disco Dome, Non-Camo Netting, Masks, Revolving Chandeliers and The Biggest Crap Ever Crapped.

(Tables, chairs, bean bags, rugs, sofas, lamps and stuff ..)

22|10|2011, The Award Ceremony will take place in ‘Muziekgebouw Eindhoven’

A decorative LED lamp inspired by the Heracleum Plant. The white leaves/lenses ramify from one branch creating a very technical, natural structure. By using the technique of coating conductive layers, the lamp is very thin and delicate. A design not possible by using normal wires.

02|09|2011  -  02|10|2011, Nieuwe Binnenweg 75

Een onderzoek naar 3D printing

11|06|2011, Opening at the textile museum Tilburg.

Bertjan Pot presents his new tablecloths today for the textile museum in Tilburg. Designguide.tv was commissioned to make this ‘making of’ movie of his project ‘Font of the loom’ which takes us through his process of designing a typeface that could be weaved with pixel precise fabric bonds.

Bertjan chose to use a series of texts downloaded from wikipedia and used those to weave the tablecloths with. At first view the tablecloths look a little mundane but when you look closer you’ll see biographies of Michael Jackson or a detailed description of what a Haiku is. The most important thing is, according to Bertjan, not the content of the texts but the actual letter and with this project he tries to bring across the beauty of typography with technical precision.

17|05|2011, Schiedam

DutchDesign is an undergraduate field school and research program offered by the School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. Under the directorship of Russell Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Design, a research was conducted in the area of design and innovation in the Netherlands. DutchDesign is part of a larger research project that has been studying the same phenomena in Italy with the ItaliaDesign Field School program since 2004. The most significant contribution to the field are the interviews conducted in the Netherlands with leading designers, thinkers, architects and design manufacturers. Each year, the new team builds on the previous year’s research. DutchDesign is an open source network that values above all knowledge-share on a global scale.