piet hein eek: new works
piet hein eek: new works
dutch furniture designer piet hein eek first gained notoriety in 1990 with his 'scrap wood cupboards'.
he works with found wood and salvaged materials and uses them for intricately patchwork tables, chairs,
sofas... the thinking behind his work is partly a desire to rescue these discarded pieces of wood but also to
escape the soullessness of mass production. in eek's work we can draw analogies to amish furniture, dutch
architects like oud and rietveld, jean prouvé’s parisian atelier, and even donald judd's furniture.
but the references are subtle and spiritual rather than blatant, and eek's work developed to an undeniably
own personal statement.



table top soccer

'bureau'



sofa
he works with found wood and salvaged materials and uses them for intricately patchwork tables, chairs,
sofas... the thinking behind his work is partly a desire to rescue these discarded pieces of wood but also to
escape the soullessness of mass production. in eek's work we can draw analogies to amish furniture, dutch
architects like oud and rietveld, jean prouvé’s parisian atelier, and even donald judd's furniture.
but the references are subtle and spiritual rather than blatant, and eek's work developed to an undeniably
own personal statement.



table top soccer

'bureau'



sofa
Where are the found wood and salvaged materials?
I like this retro metal trend, which I saw Tom Dixon is doing too.
I like this retro metal trend, which I saw Tom Dixon is doing too.
Gert 03.31.09
piet hein eek: tube chairs
design | 04.14.11
the collection of furniture is constructed from industrial pipes that were extracted from a building the studio was renovating.
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piet hein eek: scrapwood wallpaper
design | 11.10.10
'scrapwood wallpaper' emulates real planks of wood on paper for a rustic wallcovering. each roll contains 4m˛ of unique scrapwood to transform your walls.
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piet hein eek palmwood series
design | 11.10.10
during tokyo designers week 2010, japanese company CIBONE presented an exhibition of works by dutch designer piet hein eek.
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