The Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA in partnership with Matheson commissioned the design for the 'Matheson Creativity Hub' in memory of Tim ScanlonThe design more…
3505 IMMA Matheson Creativity Hub
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA in partnership with Matheson commissioned the design for the 'Matheson Creativity Hub' in memory of Tim ScanlonThe design more…
Wetlands - Rotterdam, The Ground excavator, The Mountain builder, his Overgrow Engineer, and The tireless Energy Agent Together with these 4 characters, we outline possible futures while more…
On Sunday 6 November, the 27th UN Climate Change Conference will begin in the city of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. More than 30,000 activists, policymakers and business leaders more…
Binnen dit ontwerpend onderzoek werkten we door middel van een lessenreeks en het bouwen van Sp(b)ouwborden met leerlingen van X11 (Grafisch media) aan het vraagstuk more…
From 6 April to September 2022, the exhibition 'Expo Gouda Makes' offers an inspiring platform for stories, conversations and connections between young and old about more…
Van cosmopoliet tot agrarier De Polder Triënnale is een initiatief van architect Rianne Makkink, cultureel strateeg Willem Schenk en curator Jules van den Langenberg en heeft more…
Title: Unfolding Landscape Year: 2022 Location: Shenzhen China Unfolding Landscape is a research project that explores the possibility of mobile life style and promotes social interaction. Trailer, as more…
The Dutch Pavilion at the World Expo Dubai shows an installation of WaterSchool. The installation is the result of research by Studio Makkink & Bey more…
# OP STAP MET Het initiële doel van Stappenplan is via lokale, specifieke en fysieke interventies op kruisingen van verschillende routesin het publieke domein nabij te more…
FOR AND FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOODStudio Makkink & Bey designed the concept and interior of the program office of Alliance Hand in Hand, an organisation committed more…
Polder TVAgrarians & Cosmopolitans Business is booming for the brand-new polder travel agency. Reservations are pouring in, and the Polder Hostess is trying to cope. Tourists more…
In samenwerking met Le Far West & Site Practice De Woontuin biedt een alternatieve manier van samenleven en brengt een gevoel van eigenaarschap, inmenging en emancipatie terug more…
Studio Makkink & Bey was invited in a private commision to design a dining room in an art collectors home. Inspired by the Dutch landscape more…
Invited by Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (IBR), Studio Makkink & Bey joined the renovation plan for one of neighbourhood centres in the more…
"It is much easier to talk with each other when you are doing something together." An acrobat draws strokes of paint gracefully on the wall in more…
Studio Makkink & Bey have developed an expanding public square in the NDSM area that will grow over a six months period, starting from September more…
Bartholomeus Gasthuis, Aorta and the Creative Industries Fund initiated an interdisciplinary research project aiming to strengthen the chain of well-being, housing and care of more…
The CompostKlikoToilet is on show in the exhibition Everything you've always wanted to know about toilets, but were afraid to ask at Cube Design more…
Whilst preparing the exhibition 'House of Arts', the farm of Studio Makkink & Bey in the Noordoostpolder served as a workplace for 'designers & artists more…
In 2007 Studio Makkink & Bey, together with, amongst others, Atelier NL, Maarten Kolk, Lucas van Vugt, Florian Visser, Yep Wiersma and stichting Herbergen, more…
Design Diorama, London Design Biennale 7 September – 27 September 2016 Curator & Exhibition Design: Studio Makkink & Bey Commissioner: Het Nieuwe Instituut Studio makkink&bey present design more…
The exchange of ideas is at the heart of politics. The architecture in which this exchange takes place has a powerful impact on the type more…
Event: 01/06/2016 - 21/08/2016 Locatie: Museumpark Uproot RotterdamPop-up beeldenpark, Museumpark1 juni – 21 augustus 2016Toegang gratis, 24 uur per dag, 7 dagen per week.Opening: 1 juni 2016, tickets Deze zomer is more…
Together with team members GROUP A and Roukens + Van Gils, Studio Makkink & Bey designed the interior of De Rotterdam, a design by OMA more…
Since their House of Parts project in 2009, Makkink & Bey have explored cutout solutions, which develop, into furniture pieces. The concept is to produce more…
a new magazine for the future working landscape “It’s for human curiosity that we develop. Even more so, we believe that curious people are great learners. more…
Een vierkant doosje met uitkragende dakrand en tamelijk gesloten gevels: erg uitnodigend oogt het stationsgebouw van Zevenaar niet. Het sobere gebouw had vooral een more…
constructed for shenzhen biennale of urbanism architecture, this bamboo installation considers potential working environments within a domestic setting. designed by studio makkink & bey, the workscape theatre is more…
The Autonië project is set up as a city sweatshop to investigate the car as an object which, aside from being a commodity, transmits cultural more…
The history of the Université d’Orléans and its hometown becomes animated in a new interior by Studio Makkink & Bey, which is furnished with specially designed more…
Studio Makkink & Bey has completed the design of a home for one of our clients. Bright colors, bespoke furniture and furnishings fit the wonderful more…
At the opening of the theater in 1884, a newspaper wrote that: 'A theater should be the equivalent of a woman in full dress'. Studio more…
Design of three wooden pavilions in the new landscape garden for Wonderryck, part of the Provincial Museum of Natural History Natura Docet in the eastern more…
A Soft Gust Of Wind, i.c.w. Anke Weiss January 24th until March 19th, 2013 The sports theme of the Maison Hermès window display by Studio Makkink more…
Werkplaats Buijtenland is a cooperation project with the aim to open up agricultural polderland to a recreational program of activities. Buijtenbed, by Studio Makkink & Bey, more…
As a spin-off from Utrecht Manifest in 2012 and follow up of Buurtbios Hoograven by Jolanda van Iersel, Studio Makkink & Bey decided to make more…
The ideal landscape for feet, or feet with shoes them, must be the staircase, which was designed on the size of a foot and the more…
The workspace designed by Studio Makkink & Bey for DutchDFA, serves as meeting point for exchange between Dutch and Indian designers. The interior is a mix more…
Vedute is a library of spatial manuscripts by invited artists, designers and architects who were asked to depict their conceptions of space in a three more…
Mapping Flevoland is a summer event organized by Museum de Paviljoens. Studio Makkink & Bey took part in the form of a summer school with more…
During a Summer School session in August 2012, we made a new kind of production landscape 1:1, with the themes compost, water and energy. Three more…
Utrecht Manifest is a bi-annual cultural event in and around the Dutch city of Utrecht. For each edition the Stichting Utrecht Biënnale invites an art more…
The Cabin Seat is a paneled worklandscape. An enclosed space for one person offering a possibility to retreat and create some privacy. Spacial functions shift more…
We are planning to install three pilot installations on the site of Erasmusveld, prior to the new housing. Before an infrastructure of roads, fences and more…
Upscaling without expansion, the well-being of cows and the versatile farmer are all integrated in the design of an innovative dairy farm. The organic dairy more…
Defining the private spaces in the courtyards of Reimerswaal. Both the play sculpture, and courtyard fence are fused together - combining the private and public functions more…
Studio Makkink & Bey made a proposal for ProRail (in control of the Dutch railway system) in which quiet interactive images on large screens revive more…
In cooperation with the University of Utrecht and together with designer Henriëtte Waal, Studio Makkink & Bey has put together a series of walks through more…
In commission of Living Architecture, we were asked to create the interior of MVRDV's Balancing Barn in Suffolk. Their design was largely inspired by the more…
Arnout Visser and the Glass Museum in Leerdam invited Studio Makkink & Bey for a glass workshop and to revive both the material and a more…
A limited edition rug set up like a kit of building blocks. The rug is divided into different segments with which an isometric view of more…
Every month about 500 companies in the Netherlands go bankrupt. What happens to their products in stock? Droog Design collected all sorts of objects from more…
Special edition of embroidered daily hankies for Droog Design's presentation at Design Miami/Basel Every month about 500 companies in the Netherlands go bankrupt. What happens to more…
For RUHR.2010, European Capital of Culture, Studio Makkink & Bey was asked by Bureau Venhuizen to design guestrooms and to act as a curator in more…
Hotels and hotel rooms need to suggest a certain domesticity for temporary residents to feel at home. These environments are usually fitted with a standardised more…
No Matter is a a small table made of wax and jute, you have to take care of. It reacts against use as it more…
Studio Makkink & Bey were asked to propose design strategies to harness and fortify the dikes, marrying functionality with a refined exterior into an elegant more…
Studio Makkink & Bey designed tableware and products in answer to the Habsburg valuables found in the Imperial Silver Collection of Vienna. To start the more…
Re-interpreting the container, Studio Makkink & Bey engage our perceptions of what a product’s purpose is. These shipping crates, normally used to temporarily house goods, more…
In the world of Studio Makkink & Bey many products are designed from a narrative point of view. For the Helmrinderknecht galery the studio designed more…
The Werkstadt Kabinett is a place of work, it is about modern-day working environments, about privacy at work. Today, working can be done everywhere and more…
Brazil Influence vs Brazil Style is a project in which Studio Makkink & Bey reinterpreted renowned Brazilian modernist chairs by designers such as Sergio Rodriguez, more…
Upon entering the city hall people find their way to the waiting area, to take a seat between community members and city visitors. Strangers and more…
Sketch design proposing a plan to enrich the neighbourhood 'de Velden' in Groningen by reinforcing the local strengths. A composed house is placed is the more…
The Droog+ store in New York is a gallery, store and pioneers house. The blue house, an imaginary house handcrafted from blue foam, is the more…
Small chunks taken out of the river. The city river, a part of the city's fabric that doesn't invite use, proves to be a great more…
New York volunteers prepare a meal slowly but attentively at the Go Slow Cafe by Droog with Marije Vogelzang, sloom.org (Rianne Makkink and Herman Verkerk) more…
The Hermitage Amsterdam has been realized thanks to the support of many companies, foundations and individuals. This support is visualized by a chain with more…
Architecture, furniture and storage all in one. Studio Makkink & Bey took standard sheets of ply and with CNC cutting, created a miniature house to more…
On the first floor of Kade Amersfoort, the restaurant and shop attract attention. The interior of these spaces is – together with the entrance area more…
The studio was asked by The New York Times Real Estate Magazine KEY to interpret or re-imagine a 'key' for the cover. The result is more…
A cover designed for Nr. 44 Libelle Magazine. October 23 - 29 October 2009 more…
In response to 'The Architecture Of Knowledge' project, initiated by the NAi, Ester van de Wiel and Jurgen Bey examined an alternative typology for the more…
Lingams are fertility symbols used in south-east Asia, where the phallus has an opener meaning than only sex. The penis is worshiped in temples as more…
In the Arched Gallery the studio presents a selection of its oeuvre. This selection, or 'Household' is a result of the subject of the exhibition more…
On the occasion of RePacked a special team was selected to design and handcraft all of the 19 pieces exhibited. This project was imagined with more…
PROOFF stands for product development for the progressive office. It is a platform for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas. It gives clients, architects, consultants and more…
Softnews, a project by Studio Makkink and Bey, is a different way of recording and delivering news. Based on the tradition of Portugal's Lenços de more…
Urgent Methods: Design Education Examined Utrecht Manifest explores Dutch design education in terms of its principles, social ambitions and results. It explores how key figures more…
The Sumperak house was the Czech contribution for expo '58 in Brussels. The popularity of the house came from a public desire for individual living: more…
The Work Sofa is a product which takes standard furniture concepts and turns them upside down. In a standard couch, your choice of seating is more…
The business of art has an unfortunate side effect - waste. Literally mountains of paper, plastic and wood are discarded every year in the process more…
Every solution already exists in the world around us. It is a matter of recognition and then to convert it into something useful. This principle more…
During the annual fair in Frankfurt, the studio made a bar where the visitors could sit down and have a cup of tea. De temporary more…
Since Iceland has no forests, driftwood has frequently been used as a construction material. This driftwood has turned silver/grey, almost like aluminum. By casting aluminum more…
It is the job of a museum to collect objects of beauty, and to reveal the beauty of today’s world. This design for the educational more…
For the annual exhibition Inside Design Studio Makkink & Bey was asked to furnish a room in the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. Jurgen Bey, who's more…
The rich history of the building at Maliebaan 42 in which CBK is located, was reason to choose for a modern take on the baroque more…
At the top of the harbour area Maasvlakte 2 a new 70 meters high mast will be placed with nautical equipment. Three designers have been more…
Studio Makkink & Bey designed a new type of polder barn together with E19 architecten: the Poly Barn. Farm barns that are made of shock concrete are more…
An elaborate restoration for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum of 17th century flower pyramids sparked off a project by Royal Tichelaar to reinterpret the vase. They commissioned more…
The terrain of the faculty Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht doesn't reveal much of what goes on inside the buildings. In collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht more…
At the request of Pierre Bergé & Associés gallery their exhibition space in Brussels was transformed into a show flat, a witness apartment. The studio more…
Childeren help making compost in a cubic meter sized crate, learning the right way of stacking layers of earth, organic waste and garden waste. A more…
De Bolder is an elderly home where different forms of living co-exist. From relatively independent elderly people to demented elderly. The studio was asked to more…
Three follies were build for the Fashion Biennale Arnhem that were on display on different location in the city. Each of the follies had a more…
Recreation site Heerhugowaard, Luna Park, 2007 Living, recreation and nature are closely interlaced in the modern day urban landscape. The integrated character of the former polder more…
Lightness Studios is a foundation with the aim to explore innovative ideas for light constructions. With the emphasis on light weight, we developed radical proposals more…
What does a studio look like where you can keep on studying without having to conform to the constraints imposed by industrial production? The model more…
A special edition of chestcrates designed for a newly opened shop-in-shop of Oilily in Galeries Lafayette in Lille. more…
The furniture in the recreational spaces of the detention center are designed by the studio: steel tables and benches in white and shades of green. more…
R.O.C. Aventus Apeldoorn is a school for secondary Vocational Education and Training in the mid-east of the Netherlands. Studio Makkink & Bey was invited to more…
On invitation of Platform 21 a vision of paradise was build within one workshop day. Every one of the 55 participants received 1 meter of more…
A specific feature of the Vissershop district is it's street life, which was one of the reasons to develop outdoor furniture with a certain indoor more…
Two chandeliers constructed out of very fine silver- and gold plated steel gauze with Swarovski crystals embroidered into the gauze in a pattern of night-bugs. more…
In response to the wish of the city government of Groningen to make Meerstad an area where nature and recreation are combined with living and more…
The Earchairs from Studio Makkink & Bey reveal their possibilities immediately: They are comfortable, have small tables integrated into the armrests and are eminently suitable more…
Surrounded by trees, lawns with bushes and bikes, the locals meet up for small talk. The Spaarndammer district is a typical working-class area where life more…
The textile museum asked the studio to design a tablecloth and matching napkins to be offered to the queen as a gift for her 25 more…
A design for a traveling exhibition reflecting on ten years of Droog Design in Museo Oscar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil. The twofold aim of the event more…
As creators of the unlimited, designers and poets each have their own language. How big or small is the distance between the two? How does more…
The masterplan &Route presents a leading and innovative vision on recreation and tourism in the Gelderse River landscape. The &Route is an art piece under more…
Special edition of the TreeTrunkBench for the schoolyard of elementary school de Sterrenkijker in Dordrecht. more…
A design for a catwalk and back wall for Jean-Paul Gaultier’s presentation of his 2004 women’s summer collection. Revealing and unveiling, a principal part of more…
Minutes-crockery is a tea- and coffeeset made by making new combinations of excisting moulds. The flower and traditional Dutch tile images are powdered with glaze more…
The Premsela Foundation for Dutch Design invited Droog Design to decorate the cafe “Dutch Room” in the Baltic Home Theater in St. Petersburg. Starting point more…
The function of this room is to receive the customers and to have conferences and little meetings. Interpolis, an indemnity insurance company, finds her roots more…
These products have been rapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around a skeleton and forms a smooth elastic skin. The ‘skeleton’ consists more…
Famous chairs have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around the chair and forms a smooth elastic skin, giving the chair more…
An old and dozy, redundant linen cupboard in a dusty attic, wanted to be a sleeping cabin. Together with forgotten folded sheets, blankets and an more…
Day-tripper is a seven meter long city-bench for Tokyo, Japan. Day-tripper is based on a study of the different postures people assume on the street more…
These products have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around a skeleton and forms a smooth elastic skin. The ‘skeleton’ consists more…
S.L.A.K. stands for Suits Light Architecture K? The k represents an individual with a name starting with 'k'. A suit was tailored to this (fictional) more…
Special edition kokon-family bench. A combination of different chairs have been wrapped in an elastic synthetic fiber. The material shrinks around the chairs and forms more…
An exhibition presenting a window installation and packaging concept by Droog Design for Levi's clothing line RED. more…
The brief for the small wedding hall in the new city hall of Utrecht was to use historical pieces from Central Museum's collection in the more…
Design for the schoolyard of 'Het Mozaiek' primary school in Leerdam. It was decided that the familiar graphic lines on the playground should facilitate as many types of more…
Instead of designing a capsule, a piece of hardware in which material will be preserved, we prefer to go beyond the box. Information on our more…
The project Couleur Locale, Droog Design for Oranienbaum was the incentive for the Tree Trunk Bench, a design that grew to be a Dutch design more…
When visiting the Princessehof, looking at the collection of ceramics, the craftsmanship displayed is stricking. The amount of ornaments and precision in detailing are the more…
Because of the special relationship between the historical cultural landscape and the urban settlement, the area Barsingerhorn and its surroundings were chosen to get more…
City government of Amersfoort / Station square Amersfoort 52º 09’ N - 5º 22’ W A train station is a transfer point: it is basically a more…
The curtain is integrated in a double glass window. The system is based on breaking the light. Glass is transparent , unless it has a more…
Hermès Japon
A Soft Gust Of Wind, i.c.w. Anke Weiss January 24th until March 19th, 2013
The sports theme of the Maison Hermès window display by Studio Makkink & Bey merges softness and the act of making to connect with the skillfully made fashion of Hermès. This edition of Hermès' street theater is a narrative featuring soft textile, floating movements, whirlwinds, a Japanese master and a mastermind sewing an imaginary landscape handcrafted from woolen felt. The title 'A Soft Gust Of Wind' is a near quote of a famous Japanese wood print by master Hokusai.
The windy scene in the window display on the right shows a translation of the graceful movement of a scarf whirling on a gust of wind. The window display stages the Hermès heavily decorated scarf as a kite up in the air with the wind as competing force.The backdrop is a scenery that is stitched onto wool felt with trees and figures plodding through it. The drawing is based on an illustration with the title 'A Sudden Gust of Wind' by the well known Japanese printmaker Hokusai, an illustration of people who struggle as they seem to have been caught off guard by a whirlwind that tries to rid them of their papers, hats and scarfs.
While in the stormy scene on the right everything is about defying a meteorically changing force, on the left there's a figure calmly engineering the world to be, with a sewing machine. He's sewing a soft universe. The illustrations are drawn with black yarn that is cut off loosely to create a sort of ruffled effect with the fluttering thread. Behind the artisan there is a poster that illustrates things related to meteorology: a classification of clouds, natural elements, a weathervane, stars, the moon and the sun.