Innholdsfortegnelse for Jan 2020 i OBJEKT South Africa

The apartment is situated in a former distribution centre for the South Holland Brewery from The Hague. Until the mid-twentieth century, this was one of the most renowned breweries in the Netherlands, it even received the Royal designation of Beer Supplier to the Crown. At the beginning of this century it was developed into an apart-ment complex. When Ruud Zegwaart and Debby Dunand bought their apartment in 2016, they could start from scratch with making everything they had imagined a reality. They wanted to create a little bit of Curaçao in the Dutch capital and so they stripped down the apartment completely. Their idea was to realise a loft-like whole in the limited space that they had. Debby had been trained as a visual artist. Ruud had made his name…

The Taycan is Porsche’s first fully electric sportscar and goes one step further than the company’s myriad hybrid models. From the ground up it’s entirely new and is a crucial piece of a longterm vision towards emission-free motoring. This is just the tip of the non-melting iceberg for Porshce, with an all-electric Porsche Macan set to follow next. For the moment the range spans three derivatives, each with a measured increase in performance and standard specification. But as Objekt Magazine learned on the international launch of the entry-level Taycan 4S, there’s no shortage of desirability or speed in this package – as you would expect from the marque. Taycan 4S is equally important to Porsche’s EV assault by bridging value, brand cachet, range and performance in one zero-emission footprint. Little-known…

Catharsis marked a turning point in the artist’s creative process. For over twelve years, Prune Nourry has been developing powerful and thoughtful multidisciplinary work, exploring the body by questioning gender and hybridization. She tended to keep her subject at a distance, remain-ing as objective as a researcher or anthropologist. Having recently overcome breast cancer, over the course of her treatment the artist felt she was becoming the subject of her own work, a sculpture in the hands of the doctors. With Catharsis, armed with her sculptor’s tools, Prune reappropriates her body and her femininity, forging an intimate tie between her past explorations and her current life experience. The sculptures are all marked by their evocation of exvotos, the popular offerings in the form of an object, limb or organ which…

New touch stone, concrete and timber materials, exclusive to blu_line, have been combined with specialised glass and aluminium finishes. New kitchen collections as well as specialised details, all developed inhouse, form part of the new showroom with blu_ line’s own sensorline 4.0 technology, which sees the electronic opening of solid stone counters as well as other elements, bringing a new dynamic concept to the kitchen space. The showroom adapts and develops as the user walks through the 600sqm space, offering an unrivalled experience for every client. With this, the new wardrobe area showcases the latest material developments that carry the blu_line authentic luxury finishing to the rest of the home. The brand is continually seeking to discover more, risk more and create unique experiences for their niche clientele. creating products…

Renee and Ken Metrick, made their names with Elte, the successful interior business from the Toronto started by Ken’s grandfather in 1919. Furnishing and rugs are their specialty with an extension with Elte Mkt, an affordable luxury line and their bathroom and kitchen brand: Ginger’s. Their sons Andrew and Jamie have been working alongside their parents for year and have gradually taken over the business, so they could spend time out of the city. Visiting friends at their cottages was an eye-opener: it was like heaven and the beginning of a cottage adventure with no way back. They found a location at Muskoka’s Lake Joseph, a two hours drive from the city where a whole new live started. Renee and Ken: “We decide to built something where we not only…

CÉLINE WRIGHT AT THE MUSÉE DES ARCHIVES NATIONALES, PARIS In collaboration with Spanish design house Grok, for whom designer Céline Wright created Les Voiles, at the Musée des Archives Nationales in the heart of Paris. Her installation featured a flurry of sails in the building’s main staircase: lights dancing through the air linking the lobby to the entrance of the Grands Dépôts. Each of the lamps were made from two rigid shells constructed from Washi paper.…

The house was built in 1905 as a ´stolp´ farmhouse on the foundation of a much older farm. The noble family of Van Stolk, owned the majority of the land in the vicinity. At the beginning of the last century, the family essentially gave around 1000m2 to their friend, the painter Jaap Min. He raised his 6 children on the farm and painted in the old stable. He raised the ceiling in the central part, to create more light and space for his artistic activities. When Hannah and Jorg Grimm bought the place in 2014, the old ´stolp´ farmhouse was in such a dilapidated state that the place was offered simply as a building plot. The family actually found it a lovely idea that the Grimms wanted to keep the…

Geoffroy designs and decorates houses, apartments and restaurants in Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, the UK, France, and the US. He names Leonardo da Vinci, Tony Duquette, St. Nicholas and his mother as his biggest sources of inspiration. He was born and raised as a professional decorator, one of the sixth generation of decorators and furniture makers in his family. “We started out as furniture makers in Maldegem. Five generations before me huge pieces of furniture were being made here in the studio, for the good citizens who were looking to create their first ‘dining rooms’ during that period. That went on until around 1918, the end of WW1, and then my great-grandmother decided to open a shop, alongside the studio. People were euphoric that the war was over and had…

The White House has quite a history as it was designed by a member of the Harvard Five from New Canaan, Connecticut, USA. This a group of architects that settled there in the 1940s: John M. Johansen, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes. They were all influenced by Walter Gropius, who founded the Bauhaus in 1919, and thereafter became head of the architecture program at Harvard. The house stayed within the family who commissioned it until Tamara bought it in 2014. It is located at a rocky tip of land in Lake Rousseau, one of the Muskoka Lakes in Ontario, Canada. At that time the cottage needed lots of work. The original materials did not survived the harsh winters of Canada and all the electrical and wiring…

Jean-Christophe Orthlieb and Juan Pablo Naranjo set up the NOCC studio exactly a decade ago. Having tied their hands over the years focusing on artistic direction, interior design, industrial design, staging, and experimental and mass production, today the pair are marking their ‘tenth times first birthday’ by heading to l’Hôtel Cromot du Bourg. It is home to design consultancy Nelly Rodi whose office was refurbished by is NOCC . Hotel Cromot du Bourg is located on a paved courtyard hidden by an imposing gateway in Paris’ 9th Arrondissement. Originally, it was a simple house built in 1735 by Claude Pierre Gallerand, the chief of the fruitery of King Louis XV. The property had been turned into a mansion by Jean-François Chalgrin, the father of the Arc de Triomphe. Camille Pleyel,…