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Newsletter #142


Newsletter #142

We feature two cultural exchanges this week. From visiting Indian designers, we hear about their views on the lack of colour in Dutch design and from Dutch designers living in the US, they compare the differences in doing business in their native and adopted homeland. Reconnection with nature is highlighted with the use of natural colours and is the central theme in a quirky bathroom interior, and we chat with an Anglo/American-Dutch fashion duo about their menswear label which is catching the attention of fashion heavyweights in London.  


The Colourless Dutch

The Colourless Dutch

On a recent trip to the Netherlands, a group of Indian designers saw the best of what’s happening now. They loved what they saw, but agreed that colour was the missing element in Dutch design.

Traditional Modernists

Traditional Modernists

Anglo-American/Dutch menswear label Baartmans and Siegel is about to take its new collection twenty thousand leagues under the sea.

Natural Colours

Natural Colours

The latest issue of Bloom magazine puts the spotlight on natural colour where artists and designers are re-entering the territory of dyeing naturally with plants, flowers, bark, minerals and even insects. 

Marcel Wanders for KLM

Marcel Wanders for KLM

From March 2011 KLM World Business Class customers will be eating from designer tableware, courtesy of Marcel Wanders.

A living bathroom

A living bathroom

Cracked tiles, crooked pipes and a wash table with curved branches for legs all feature in this bathroom restoration by Bo Reudler Studio.

Letterproeftuin

Letterproeftuin

The Letterproeftuin is taking a hands-on approach to typography and printing during the graphic design festival de Stad = Grafisch in Rotterdam.

Living the American Dream

Living the American Dream

Three Dutch-born US-based designers Maaike Evers, Jan Habraken, and Alissia Melka-Teichroew compare the ups and downs of working in the two countries, where the biggest differences concern the business of design.

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