Mae Engelgeer's Beautiful Textile Designs

We love these pretty textile designs by Mae Engelgeer. This Dutch designer based in Amsterdam likes to design colorful and eye catching products which are like a piece of art in any interior. 

Billowing paper sculptures by Peter Gentenaar

Netherland-based artist Peter Gentenaar creates billowing paper sculptures that are born out of what he couldn’t do with commercial paper. As a printmaker, Gentenaar’s search for a better type of paper led him to an unexpected process of creating his own custom beater that processes and mills long-fiber paper pulp into the material he now uses in his artwork. “My sculptures start as totally 2-dimensional,” says Gentenaar, describing the process in which his organic forms come to life. As the wet pulp dries around the bamboo framework it begins to shrink and curl. The resulting sculptures, massive, yet delicate seem to resemble underwater organisms gracefully floating in water. The pieces are then suspended in mid-air in sprawling spaces like churches. 

Lenneke Wispelwey Ceramics

Dutch designer Lenneke Wispelwey founded her studio in 2008 in Arnhem.

Her pastel coloured products with mathematic/geometric patterns are the result of a very low-tech way of designing. 

Lenneke finds a basic, simple approach to techniques and materials very important to communicate her vision and her way of working. She prefers creating a family of products because as an only child she had always a desire for a bigger family. 

Her work is also known for the use of different shades of one colour, and playing with the contrast between biscuit and glazed porcelain. She creates honest and harmonious designs, inspired by her own memories and found pieces from every day life. 

She feels her work should make people smile - we agree!