53 Judson Street
53 Judson Street
Toronto ON M8Z 1A8
Canada
Kooij
The Wandel bowl is a softly sloping, endearingly wobbly vessel. Extruded slowly from buttery recycled plastic, the bowl’s meandering lines melt together to form a shallow basin. Colour ebbs and evolves though the wide printed line. Suitable for use as a generous fruit bowl or playful tabletop sculpture, the Wandel explores the light-hearted, less rigidly functional possibilities of the Kooij workshop.
Like hands cupped to hold water, the Wandel bowl is open and undulating. A single extruded line is gently warmed to give the bowl its shape. The patterning of the Wandel is a characteristic of the studio's recycled plastic source material. Colour gradations will vary from smooth to variegated, depending on the past life of the plastic.
L 17.32" x W 16.54" x H 5.12"
3kg
Recycled plastic, pigment
The Netherlands
In 2009, Dirk van der Kooij founded this studio in the basement of the Design Academy, Eindhoven. His guiding question was seemingly simple: could plastic be an honest, durable material? Six pizza ovens welded together proved that yes, it could. The resulting Elephant Skin series saw recycled plastic wrinkle and contract as it cooled outside of a mould, conjuring a rich, living tactility. The ultimate imitator had finally found an identity of its own.
A decade since this adventure began, Dirk produces a tightly curated range of forever furniture in his Amsterdam-based factory. Select pieces have joined the permanent collections of the Stedelijk museum, MoMA New York, MoMA San Francisco, Vitra Design Museum, Design Museum London, and the National Museum in Oslo.
