Following the Droog Dakar exhibition in 2007, the Dutch Embassy took the initiative to organise a competition on designing trash cans for the island of Gorée. This Spring, the embassy selected eleven Senegalese designers/artists for the project. In close collaboration […]
We live in dynamic times in which boundaries are dissolved and smart solutions are integrated with traditional styles, materials and techniques. It is a time of craftsmanship, nostalgia, tradition and decoration, but also of globalization, technological innovation and shifting aesthetics. […]
date: 2004 In honour of the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, the Dutch Permanent Representation invited Droog to restyle the bar on the ‘fiftieth’ floor of the Council building Justus Lipsius in Brussels, Belgium. The task of designing a […]
date: 2003 Gollandskaya Komnata, St. Petersburg: the Premsela Foundation for Dutch Design commissioned Droog with the furnishing of the ‘Café Dutch Room’ at the Baltic House Theatre in St. Petersburg. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of he city of St. […]
Abstraction from a forest, cut out of pieces of Tyvek. The deeper you enter the forest, the more suspense you experience as a result of deformed bird calls and animals coming up. The installation works with the silent strengths from […]
date: 2001 Dutch cigar box manufacturer Picus assigns Droog to develop new concepts that exploit its high quality production expertise. Picus used to produce mainly anonymous cheap wooden cigar packaging, with an additional luxury line of exclusive beautifully finished humidors […]
date: 2001 The Dutch architect Jan Hoogstad has designed highrise buildings based on off-shore constructions. The principle of the ‘hybrid’, consists of a durable core that enables flexible interior design and facades with a relatively short lifespan. Hoogstad approaches Droog […]
Fantastical Investments Fantastical Investments—the outcome of Droog Lab’s study of consumption habits in Russia—is an imaginary luxury brand. By Droog with Metahaven, Fantastical Investments was presented on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 with a panel discussion and exhibition at Droog Amsterdam. […]
