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COVO Collections 2011
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COVO COSE NON COMUNI 2011
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COVO Not Common Things 2012
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Netherlands
“Traditionally design is about solving a problem. I don’t solve problems; I create possibilities” Rotterdam based Richard Hutten is well known for his conceptual, sustainable and playful designs. As a true innovator, he has established himself as one of the leading international figures in the field, continuously pushing the boundaries of design. As an expert on the Circular Economy, sustainability is a second nature in Hutten’s designs. Born in The Netherlands in 1967, Richard Hutten graduated of the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 1991, the same year he started his own design studio. As a founding member of the famous Droog design movement, back in 1993, he established his name in the forefront of design right away. With a team of experts he is working across furniture, product and interior design. Many of his products have become successful design icons His famous Dombo mug sold over 1.000.000 units world wide, and still counting. His work is held in the permanent collections of over 50 museums around the world making him, arguably, one of the most collected living designers. The list includes MoMA New York, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Vitra Museum Weil am Rhein, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Design Museum London, Design Museum Gent, Chicago Art Institute and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. His work has been exhibited in even more museum, including MoMA New York, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Kunstmuseum The Hague, Zuiderzee museum, Enkhuizen, Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, Design Museum Holon, Moti Museum Breda, Triennale Milan, Louisiana Museum Copenhagen, Übersee Museum Bremen, Alvar Aalto Museum Finland, Kunsthal Rotterdam. His impressive list of clients are leaders in their field and include Moooi, Muij, Offecct, Christofle, Artifort, Japth, Ghidini 1961, Qeeboo, Lensvelt, KPN Telecom, Moroso, Muji, Rabobank, The Standard Hotel NYC, Lloyd hotel, I+I Milano, DSM, Skultuna as well as Gemeentemuseum The Hague, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Karl Lagerveld and HRH Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 2008 he became the Art director of Holland’s second largest furniture brand Gispen. He is also the Art Director of CS rugs and Dutch Originals. Hutten’s designs won numerous international awards, such as the Red Dot Award, LAI interior award, Frame magazine / The great Indoors award and the German Design Award.
À propos de Covo
The “not common things” by COVO return to enrich the design “dictionary”. Simple and wise objects made of few signs, but capable of being remembered. In the contemporary saturated condition, we find ourselves surrounded more and more by a world of “things”. Material and immaterial things, real and imaginary things, sacred and unholy things, things which are useful and things that are not, good and bad things. The Design takes care of these things and can do it in many ways: rethinking, reinventing, copying, covering, playing around or being serious. Otherwise, like COVO tries to do: by observing.
Observing the world of “things” which surrounds us and trying to imagine new objects which will take their places in the empty spots of our imagination. Objects born therefore, from the careful exploration of the material landscape, thinking of our world as a sheet full of signs which too often are confused, and loose their meaning….
As it happens in children drawings, or in prehistoric graffiti (humankind’s own infancy), where few lines describe worlds and stories; the “not common things” by COVO try to offer simplicity, erasing confusion and focusing on emotion rather than reason. Therefore, between clothes hangers resembling tree branches, tables like hedges, chairs like flowering fields, seats that embrace, “magic” lamps that raise, photo frames like strings stretched on the wind and soft crystals, our world of “things” becomes a world of “signs”. Simple “signs”, in black and white or in colours, which like emotional codes fill the blank sheet of our gaps. The “not common things” by COVO are autonomous objects, capable of relating with all our landscapes, but are also phrases of a story, the story of COVO.
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