Much of what we know about the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh in fact, comes straight from the artist himself. A new book from Yale University Press highlights 265 (from a collection of over 800) of Van Gogh’s written letters, giving the reader not only an autobiography of the troubled artist’s life but also insights into his motivations and values as he regularly pens words …
Designed as an antidote to the piles of steel commuter bikes that line the walks and whiz through the streets of Amsterdam, Van Heesch Design’s Copper Bike—an edition limited to 10—transcends any adherence to drab utility. As copper’s natural patina sets in the bicycle shows off the structural elegance of a familiar object with the handy ability to get you from here to there.
Since graduating cum laude in 2009 from the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven, young Dutch designer Lex Pott has been very busy—first with working for Hella Jongerius and Scholten & Baijings, and then with starting up his own studio. When we stopped by his Amsterdam studio recently (which he had just moved into), Pott was working on a patina concept for Volvo and about “20 other …
