Exhibition design: mystify, Hella Jongerius for Vitra and Rotterdam with Ikea

The Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has finally earned a shows Staff Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, RotterdamFrom 13 November 2010 to February 13, 2011. Hella Jongerius: Misfit, the title of the exhibition is dedicated to one of the most influential designers today Vitra and Ikea teach. In February Phaidon publishes a monograph devoted to it. The unique aesthetic and original Hella Jongerius is often described as a fusion of opposites: crafts and industrial production, high and low tech, traditional and contemporary.

The materials are processed and combined in an unusual way and at times contradictory, creating works that are extremely large and tactile for example, color is dropped drop by drop, disorderly on clay, the ceramics are sewn by hand on tablecloths of cotton, vessels are soft and the sinks are made of rubber.

The show’s title, Misfit, Hella Jongerius alludes to the idea of the quality craftsmanship that is indistinguishable from perfect industrial, if not in his valuable “does not fit perfectly, since the imperfections of the process and betray the hand of the producer.

Hella Jongerius has worked hard for many brands, including Vitra design, with padded Polder, The latest examples of painted pottery vessels porcupine or the table for children,Camper and Ikea, with its exquisite wall.

By incorporating the individuality of handicraft in the industrial manufacturing process Jongeriuslab has created a design that plays with subjects chosen, details unknown, insight into its land and its tradition of design.