Dutch Design

This morning Nathan and I rode to downtown to check out some design stores. But we first made a stop in Rembrandplein, where the picture above was taken. Although the area is named for Rembrandt, his house is not there.

We went to Droog design first, which has a mixture of pieces for sale, as well as an exhibition space for Delft students. The student work was very interesting, a lot of them using materials such as rope and fabric to make chairs, walls and other furniture. A lot of the pieces used resin as a hardener. One of my favorite things was the bench below. You sit on the plates and they roll around on top of the beads.


After Droog we went to WonderWood, which had a lot of bent plywood furniture. Everything was way out of my price range, but the best thing in the store was the Vitra. Its an elephant chair for children designed by Charles Eames. Apparently this store is the only one displaying it. There were two versions, one in a natural wood tone and the other red. The man in the store said 1000 of each were made to commemorate Eames 100th birthday, and all 2000 have already been sold. I can see why, they are very cute, but at 1350 Euro, they are a bit expensive.



On the way back to the apartment we found a hidden courtyard. All the houses opened up to the inside which had a park area and an English Reformed Church.