Subtle experiences of products, projects and exhibitions by Droog Design digitally preserved over the last 30 years.

2000

Do Frame Tape by Martí Guixé

Martí Guixé Do Frame Tape, 2000 Guixé joined the Do Create project with a touch of playful genius. Do Frame is a roll of adhesive tape dressed up in baroque-style golden decorations, perfect for framing posters, photos, or whatever masterpiece […]

01.01.200018.02.2025

Do Add Short-leg Chair by Jurgen Bey

Jurgen Bey Do Add Short-leg Chair, 2000 In 2000 Droog Design recruited designers to come up with Do products and the results were shown at the Milan Furniture Fair. One of the examples was Do Add Chair by Jurgen Bey […]

01.01.200012.11.2024

Table Tap by Arnout Visser

Arnout Visser Table Tap, 2000 Arnout Visser takes inspiration from inventors and scientists, reimagining laboratory equipment in a new context. Designed as a small water pump, Table Tap echoes the elegance of a perfume atomizer while bringing a scientific touch to […]

01.01.200021.02.2025

1999

Bag design for Mandarina Duck by Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders Bad design for Mandarina Duck, 1999 Droog is commissioned by the Italian Company Mandarina Duck to design a series of technical bags. The project brought together several designers, exploring innovative forms and constructions that challenged conventional ideas of […]

10.06.199912.01.2026

Personal planner 2000 for WE Europe

date: 1999 The PR manager of international clothing company WE approached Droog to design a special product, fitting the trade, but not consisting of clothing. Graphic designers Mevis & van Deursen developed a planner that can be adapted to the […]

02.06.1999

Play House for Bang & Olufsen by Trasst & Gruson

Trasst & Gruson Play House [exhibition design for Bang & Olufsen], 1999 Play House was an experimental installation created by Droog Design for Bang & Olufsen in 1999 and presented during the Milan International Furniture Fair. Instead of a conventional […]

02.06.199912.01.2026

New York Times Competition

date: 1999 New York Times magazine organised a competition to design a time capsule to be opened 1000 years from now, to reveal what living in this day and age is all about. Jurgen Bey took part for droog. He […]

02.06.1999

Orange liquor glass by Martí Guixé

Local traditional specialities have been the inspiration for Martí Guixé, who designs an orange liqueur glass. Its round base is faceted on the sides, which results in four different measures of drink depending on the position in which you lay […]

20.04.199910.12.2024

Earth flower vase by Martí Guixé

The double wall of his earthenware flower vase contains real Oranienbaum soil.

15.04.199912.06.2020

A Touch of Glass for Salviati

date: 1999 The Venetian company Salviati asks Droog to create new artisan glass objects. Designers Matijs Korpershoek, Erik Jan Kwakkel, Arnout Visser and Marcel Wanders explore new ways to shape glass, as well as principles for decoration. Droog shows the […]

14.04.1999

Couleur Locale for Oranienbaum / Cultural Foundation Dessau Wörlitz

The project ‘Couleur Locale, Droog Design for Oranienbaum’ highlights regional design. Oranienbaum is a little town south-west of Berlin in the former Eastern part of Germany. The castle of Oranienbaum, surrounded by a big landscape garden, was built by a […]

26.03.199912.06.2020

1998

Spirit of the Nineties

Book about the philosophy and products of Droog Design, by Roelof Mulder & Annemarie Pruyssen. Full colour images, 139 pages. Last few copies available!

06.09.1998

The Inevitable Ornament

Droog’s 6th Milan exhibition Droog had always been associated with simplicity, yet it likes to change perspective: Droog set up a project called ‘The Inevitable Ornament’, to express that its basic approach could well coincide with decoration. In Droog’s case, […]

12.04.1998

Lightshade-Shade Lamp by Jurgen Bey

Jurgen Bey Lightshade-Shade Lamp, 1998 The two-way mirror lightshade conceals an old, worn out or unfashionable lamp. At daytime, the mirror-foil reflects its environment. Turned on, the hidden lamp appears in new clothes. Bey’s aesthetic chandelier combines traditional form and […]

01.01.199818.11.2024

Tree-Trunk Bench by Jurgen Bey

Jurgen Bey Tree-Trunk Bench, 1998 Three bronze casts of chair backs (tree-trunk excluded) Jurgen Bey designed the tree trunk bench for the park of Oranienbaum. The addition of bronze classical chair backs makes a fallen tree a proper piece of […]

01.01.199806.11.2024

Tablecloth with Bowl by Saar Oosterhof

Saar Oosterhof Tablecloth with Bowl, 1998 A charming tablecloth with a bowl – a smart fusion of design and function. This piece seamlessly integrates a serving bowl into the surface of a tablecloth, making it as playful as it is […]

01.01.199808.04.2025