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Work of Floris Kaayk exhibited at Hôtel Droog

 

Floris Kaayk, Volkskrant Art Prize Winner, in the Courtyard

In 2014 Floris Kaayk (1982) has won both De Volkskrant Art Jury Prize, as well as De Volkskrant Art Audience Award. This is quite unique and happens for the first time in the eight-year-old existence of the Art Prize. Kaayk is a filmmaker and animator, working with online media. To celebrate Kaayk’s prize winning streak, Droog proudly exhibits three of his renowned works in the Droog Courtyard: The Order Electrus (2005), Metalosis Maligna (2006), and Human Birdwings (2012).

From Thursday 22nd of May on view in the Droog Courtyard

www.hoteldroog.com/gallery

Design Column #7 ‘Wasted Matter’ is on view at the Droog Gallery

 

For the second time this year, Boijmans’ quarterly Design Column exhibition travels to Amsterdam after showing in Rotterdam. Design Column #7 ‘Wasted Matter’ is on view at the Droog Gallery from 21 May to 29 June 2014, showcasing the view of young designers on our current use and waste of resources. Droog will also host two public talks with designers and guest speakers; on 12 June (Building on (e)waste) and 26 June (Material ♥ Tax).

Creative solutions for use and waste of resources
Worldwide prosperity continues to increase, standards of living are rising and the world population continues to grow. Despite this situation, it seems that we currently waste around 98 percent of all available energy on this planet. The urgency for a sustainable use of resources grows daily. There is moderate attention for green sources of energy. But new forms of energy are always considerably more expensive than traditional methods of extracting fossil fuels. And so we stick to the existing system. A growing number of designers is concerned with this dilemma. They operate outside the system to look at the problem from a completely different angle. They are creatively using waste and are searching for „new” organic materials, or, are exploring new ways to generate energy.

Ideas that make a difference
Every three months the Design Column focuses on a news item in the form of a small exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and subsequently at the Droog Gallery in Amsterdam. The column is a place where new ideas are made visible, where the power of imagination is given expression. Designers and artists are especially interested in experimental imagination. With their idiosyncratic vision, they see things differently and are capable of bringing about change. The Design Column creates a space for these innovative concepts.

Take a look: Droog interior design

What can Droog do for a home or work space?

We like to share our expertise in interior products and projects in our brand new look book for 2014. The lifelike interiors display our products in inspirational settings for a house, hotel, bar, garden, office or shop.

Modern, economic, extravagant or classical, Droog products fit almost every style and add a timeless value to a home or office. Different exciting and colourful interior settings reveal how small additions and adjustments can turn a tiny space into an environment with deluxe feel. That is the intrinsic value of our well-designed objects.

Who better than the designers that developed your favorite products, can design a space that will wow you even more?

Go ahead and take a look.

Droog wins Amsterdam Business Award 2014

Droog has won the Amsterdam Business Award 2014. Director and co-founder of Droog Renny Ramakers accepted the award at the galadinner at NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky on May 8th. The jury commended Droog for the company’s distinctive course, business instinct and for putting Amsterdam on the global map as a design hot-spot. SkyNRG and Wefilm were also competing for this entrepreneurship award initiated by MeerBusiness Amsterdam, now in its fifth year.

Renny Ramakers: “The Amsterdam Business Award means great recognition for Droog. We go off the beaten track in developing and designing our projects and products, which makes the process really exciting for us. It is very stimulating that our pioneering attitude is both recognized and rewarded”

http://amsterdambusinessawards.pr.co/

Here, There, Everywhere a 4-year journey

Droog releases Here, There, Everywhere, a visual and textual anthology of realistic and imaginative design projects by Droog Lab in collaboration with Winy Maas, Metahaven, Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, TD, Mieke Gerritzen, Erik Kessels, Bas Princen, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and others.

Edited by co-founder of Droog Renny Ramakers and Droog Lab curator Agata Jaworska, and designed by Thonik, the 224-page book is a compilation of 16 projects in nine chapters, with essays, conversations and talks by David Allin, Jurgen Bey, Koert Debeuf, Theo Deutinger, Greg Lindsay, Winy Maas, Justin McGuirk, Heleen Mees, Charles Renfro, Wouter Vanstiphout and Daniel van der Velden.

Here, There, Everywhere is a journey through diverse places of the world, from the Canadian Arctic to the deserts of Dubai, with outcomes ranging from a luxury brand inspired by Russian consumption patterns with Metahaven to an imaginary society with space for a million identities inspired by Belgium’s apparent lack of a singular national identity with Erik Kessels.

The projects are a culmination of four years of self-initiated work by Droog Lab in collaboration with partners, designers and clients. Initiated by Renny Ramakers in 2009, Droog Lab scans the world for emerging developments, exploring the broader relevance of local findings.

Here, There, Everywhere will be available on droog.com and at the Droog store in Amsterdam for 39.00 EUR (ISBN 9789090281735).

Here, There, Everywhere is supported by the Mondriaan Fund.

Win a stay at The One and Only Bedroom at Hôtel Droog

De Bijenkorf will host a special Droog pop up store in Amsterdam from April 14 till the end of June, carrying a range of products for living room, kitchen, bedroom and garden. Get ready to recreate the Hôtel Droog hospitality experience at home, and find new products like the Sticky Lamp White and Glass series AA exclusively at de Bijenkorf pop up store.

Winners stay at the One and Only Bedroom
Three lucky winners were chosen and now get to spend a night at the One and Only Bedroom at Hôtel Droog in the city center of Amsterdam.

The winners are….
Anysa Grammenoudis, Pauline Matsbergen and Imke Kempkes Congratulations!

Check out all the submissions below.
You can still visit our pop up store at de Bijenkorf till the end of June

 

 

 

Droog develops landscape for Department of Design – call for participation NL@WDC2014

Droog develops landscape for Department of Design – call for participation NL@WDC2014

Department of Design opens its doors in Cape Town on July 8th, providing a platform for dialogue, knowledge exchange, matchmaking, and building trade relationships between South Africa and the Netherlands, based on local demand. Droog will develop the design for this temporary hub for the Dutch participation in Cape Town World Design Capital 2014, a spectacular ‘landscape’ called FLOW.

Cape Town put the spotlight on design as a transformative force for South African society and is looking for partners. This creates unique possibilities for Dutch businesses that can contribute to sustainable solutions for improving quality of life. Department of Design will showcase ‘best practices’ of Dutch creative innovation and design thinking that are relevant to local issues in Cape Town, South Africa, and Africa.

FLOW is built from locally sourced, recycled materials, and showing examples of Dutch creative innovation selected for their relevance and convincing appeal; the FLOW landscape offers plinths for models, screens for movies, small cubicles for presentations and one-on-one matchmaking, larger spaces for workshops and lectures, a coffee shop, and free WiFi.

Companies with a clear ambition to enter the South African market, as well as knowledge institutes, NGO’s and governmental bodies looking for or working with South African partners, are invited to join Department of Design and share their best practices in Cape Town from 8 to 27 of July! Respond to the open call before April 18th via http://departmentofdesign.nl/?p=27

 

Droog nominated for Amsterdam Business Award 2014

Droog nominated for Amsterdam Business Award 2014

Droog is nominated for the Amsterdam Business Award 2014 for best entrepreneurship – alongside bio fuel company SkyNRG and commercials production company Wefilm. The three nominees will be judged on achievements in innovation, sustainability, future perspectives, social involvement and spin off to the local economy.  The winner receives a 25,000 euro advertisement budget for De Telegraaf.

The jury consists of chairman Bart Maussen (founder and owner Dutch PR Group), Nico Perdaan (owner and partner Jan Accountants), Philip van Poecke (sales director De Telegraaf), Eric Traa (regional director Rabobank Markt-Centrum Amsterdam), and Arthur van der Kroef (partner Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten). The winner is announced on May 8.

http://amsterdambusinessawards.pr.co/

Droog & TD presentation SZHKSMZ wins Public Choice Award at Biennale Shenzhen

We are very proud to announce that Droog and TD’s presentation SZHKSMZ has won a Public Choice Award at the Urbanism\Architecture Bi-city Biennale Shenzhen. The winners received the most votes from visitors of UABB, which concluded its three months of exhibits and symposium events on February 28th. SZHKSMZ was an imagined Shenzhen Hong Kong Special Material Zone designated to stimulate alternatives to material depletion.

Glass works by Arnout Visser

From March 5th – March 30th, Droog Gallery will present the work of Arnout Visser. A ‘form-finder’ with a love of glass, Visser creates ingenious objects inspired by physical properties and laws. The exhibition will feature the latest results from a series of workshops with master glassblowers from the Czech Republic working in the Netherlands and in Kenya. A selection of pieces will be available for sale for the first time. The exhibition will also feature historical works by Arnout Visser, including works he designed for Droog since the early nineties.

Thursday, March 6th
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner
8:00 – Q&A and exhibition opening
http://www.hoteldroog.com/hoteldroog/events/

MCBW LECTURES – Design connects



Renny Ramakers will present a lecture at the MCBW LECTURES in Munich. In line with the guiding principle of MCBW 2014, Design connects, MCBW LECTURES will serve to illustrate the key role design plays as a moderator and as a motivator, as a questioner and as a consultant. Design connects users with the environments around them. Design facilitates new perspectives for the development of products and services.

Renny Ramakers: the Best of 4 Worlds
February 26th, 2014
5:30pm – 6:45pm

Droog opens new branch in Hong Kong!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Droog is very excited to announce the opening of our Hong Kong branch. Our second location is a small building in the heart of Soho, Hong Kong. The entire building is dedicated to Droog, from ground floor to the rooftop terrace. Next to a store, Droog Hong Kong offers a gallery, dining room, outdoor kitchen, rooftop terrace and The one and only bedroom number #2.

Droog curated several limited edition accessories for its Hong Kong customers. We will introduce one product every two weeks, and each item is limited to 100 pieces. The items include a bomb-shaped candle that reveals three star brooches when it melts. All the items are based on the process of upcycling. Droog Hong Kong will be serving the Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese mainland areas.

We hope to see you soon at Droog Hong Kong. You can find us at:
Droog Store Hong Kong
47 Square Street
Tai Ping Shan Street.

Droog and TD present SZHKSMZ Special Material Zone at 2013 Shenzhen Biennale

At the 2013 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen, Droog and TD present SZHKSMZ – an imagined Shenzhen Hong Kong Special Material Zone designated to stimulate alternatives to material depletion. A sequel to Material Matters as presented in Milan and Eindhoven in 2012, SZHKSMZ aims to stimulate progressive business models urged by material scarcity and to broaden the discussion on material culture and policy. On December 7th Droog director Renny Ramakers will open the Zone, which remains on show until 28 February 2014.

It is predicted that the global middle class will double from two to four billion by 2025. While we are optimistic about the greater access to a “good life”, it is impossible that our world’s material resources will keep up with the growing demand – unless of course we change our modes of material production and consumption.

The Shenzhen Hong Kong Special Material Zone aims to encourage innovation surrounding all dimensions of material culture – from extraction to processing, design, production and consumption – in order to meet our growing demands. The setting is a series of presentations and demonstrations by imaginary companies, each of which deals in an alternative manner with material of the basis of scarcity and creativity.

The 5th Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennial Urbanism / Architecture opens its doors on 6 December 2013 and runs until 28 February 2014. Urban Border, the biennial’s theme, refers not only to the border with Hong Kong, but also to the borders of the discipline of architecture and complex social conditions within the city.

SZHKSMZ was developed as part of Droog Lab, which raises topics and initiates projects in collaboration with designers, clients and partners worldwide with the aim of stimulating innovation and debate in design and society.

A taste of the New Danish Cool at Hôtel Droog

From film and TV to food, fashion, design and architecture, Denmark is currently getting the world’s attention. TV show Borgen has millions of fans, Noma is on everyone’s restaurant wishlist and fashionistas love Henrik Vibskov. Everybody wants a taste of Denmark. Hôtel Droog offers its visitors exactly that from 27 November 2013 until 5 January 2014 with ‘The New Danish Cool’. Taste Danish liquorice dishes in ROOMSERVICE café and tearoom, see in the Gallery what acclaimed architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group accomplished at the Superkilen Urban Park in Copenhagen, take your pick from the selection of Danish design items in the store or the Vibskov collection at Fashion at KABINET and join a talk on why Denmark is in the spotlight.   

‘The New Danish Cool’ kicks off with a talk on Denmark’s cultural rebirth on 27 November. Why are the Danes so successful? What is it that’s triggering this spotlight now? How does the Danish identity manifest itself? Host of VPRO television program Licht op het Noorden, Stine Jensen has conversations with fashion designer Henrik Vibskov (Copenhagen), Peter Sylvest Husted (Lakrids, Copenhagen) and Klaus Bondam (director of the Danish Cultural Institute, Brussels, former mayor of Copenhagen and actor in a.o. Festen).

ROOMSERVICE café and tearoom will feature delicious soups, juices, sandwiches and pastries prepared with Danish liquorice on the menu. On 28 November young chef Arvid Schmidt of restaurant Marius will prepare a 5-course Nordic dinner. Top chef Schilo van Coevorden of Tunes Restaurant (Conservatorium Hotel Amsterdam) will create a special liquorice infusted menu for a very exclusive dinner.

The Droog Amsterdam Store offers a special selection of Danish design products during ‘The New Danish Cool’. Brands on sale include HAY, Kvadrat, Normann Copenhagen, Muuto, Stelton, Lakrids by Johan Bülow, Sort of Coal and Bodum. Fashion at KABINET, located in Hôtel Droog, lets you browse through some wonderful Vibskov pieces.

The Gallery exhibits photographs and videos of the Superkilen Urban Park that BIG architects developed in Copenhagen. Superkilen is home to more than 60 nationalities, and is considered to be one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenged neighbourhoods in the Danish capital. The residents of the area were closely involved in designing the park to make the ethnic diversity remarkably visible.

For information and RSVP please visit the Events page on Hôtel Droog’s website or follow us on Twitter and Facebook.