“The cupboards are sketches, 3d sketching with old and new materials. Try to find the right balance for a new product, what is authentic and would work with that in new materials. One antique cupboard became after cutting and glue-ing several new cupboards, like a collage models. When does the new product visual flips over from old towards a new style, how strong is this old cupboards on our memory, what if the new parts have decoration integrated in an artificial material. This project is a form and material study with trial and error method, just a step for searching in a new language. Cut and past is a theme what I’m working on at the moment. (…)”

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Hella Jongerius, July 2005