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Amsterdam artist Marlies Spaan (mes.nl) hand-stitches patches cut from old blankets into colorful pillows, throws, and curtains. In the same way Martin Margiela contrasts rough materials with delicate stitching, she pieces together her bold patches with neon-orange thread. “People respond when something industrial has become handmade,” she says.
Utrecht’s Esther Derkx (estherx.nl) screen prints images of musclemen, and women dancing, swimming, and doing yoga, onto the clunky flowered porcelain found in the back of every Dutch kitchen cupboard. “Many designers want to create a completely new form,” she says. “But there is already so much pottery out there, I’d rather reuse ones that already exist.”
Eindhoven-based Jo Meesters (jomeesters.nl) buys blue-and-white porcelain Boch vases, sandblasts the upper portion to expose a rough white surface, then adds images of mosques, McDonald’s arches, and wind turbines. “It’s the landscape of modern, multicultural Holland,” he explains.
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