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Designer
Bertjan Pot
Bertjan Pot is a Dutch designer, born in 1975 in Nieuwleusen, the Netherlands (Moooi). He runs Studio Bertjan Pot and works with manufacturers including Arco, Cassina, Established & Sons, Hay, Lensvelt, Montis, Moooi, Moustache, Richard…
Biography
Background
Bertjan Pot is a Dutch designer, born in 1975 in Nieuwleusen, the Netherlands (Moooi). He runs Studio Bertjan Pot and works with manufacturers including Arco, Cassina, Established & Sons, Hay, Lensvelt, Montis, Moooi, Moustache, Richard Lampert, Kvadrat Febrik, Maharam and Nike.
Signature Style
Every product starts as a material experiment. The outcome is usually an interior product showing a fascination for techniques, structures, patterns and colours. Most experiments begin impulsively, out of curiosity about how something would function or look; he then sets himself challenges, with or without a manufacturer, to test possibilities and move limits, and the studio notes that each challenge brings a new one.
Notable Works
- Random Light (1999, Moooi), his best-known product
- Masks made from colourful rope (Dutch Design Award 2012)
- Carbon Chair (Moooi; Elle Deco Award 2005, collection of MoMA New York)
- Random Chair (Materiaalfondsprijs 2003)
- Slim Table (Dutch Design Prize and iF Gold Award 2007)
- Heracleum, Non Random, NR2 and Prop Light lights for Moooi
Legacy
His work is in the collections of the V&A (Random Light, Shrunken bench), MoMA New York (Carbon Chair), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and the Textielmuseum Tilburg.
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