Hi fatorangecat,
Thank you for an interesting question.
Jurgen Bey is an artist who was born in 1965 in the Netherlands. The
artist lives and works in Rotterdam, Holland.
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F0EA-BBCF-11D4-A93500D0B7069B40
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http://www.framemag.com/articles/article,2013.html
"In the early '90s Bey attended the Academy of Industrial Design in
Eindhoven (currently the Design Academy), after which he worked with
designer Jan Konings for several years. The Dutch organisation Droog
Design promoted their work from the very beginning. Along with a
handful of young colleagues, Bey and Konings were to shape the image
of Dutch design on an international level. What makes their designs
noteworthy is the mentality they express, a mentality that merits the
brief description 'unconventional, no strings attached'."
(see entire article for more information)
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Jurgen Bey (see photo)
http://www.brightmindsbeautifulideas.org/bey.html
"Jurgen Bey (1965) is driven by the ambition to understand the world.
He is able to question it in a unique manner. According to him,
wanting to think or create something new is bizarre, for every thing
or solution we can possibly dream of does already exist in the world
around us. It is just a question of recognizing it and then of being
able to translate it into something people want to use. Therefore, Bey
is continuously busy analyzing the real qualities and hidden values of
phenomena and things around us. He even analyses phenomena like dust
or waiting, that no-one else is interested in but which could be of
huge value - as soon as we understand how to use it.
Being deeply interested in the emotional meaning of things, Bey
creates new images and works that provoke thinking and discussions
about the value of the contemporary production machine. Besides its
plain functionality his conceptual work is part of the international
discussion around the role of design and the designer."
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/search.asp?q=Jurgen+Bey&refid=kunstnet
(5 pages, click Next)
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Bright Minds, Beautiful Ideas Parallel Thoughts In Different Times:
Bruno Munari, Charles & Ray Eames, Marti Guixe And Jurgen Bey
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9063690622/qid%3D1100900346/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-0373637-6050507
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http://www.oneplusoneequalsthree.com/2004/10/
(Scroll to slightly past half-way down the page to: I've Got You
(Under My Skin): Nanette Carter
(see image of 2 chairs)
"In 1997 Dutch designer Jurgen Bey began combining pieces of classic
mass-produced furniture and coating them with a tight plastic skin.
Called the Kokon (cocoon) series , it comprised two or more pieces
enveloped in PVC using the ?spiderweb? technique used in aircraft
construction to cover open parts. His approach to design inverts the
early 20th century concept of ?typenmobel?, the ideal of developing
furniture archetypes - the ?chair to end all chairs?, that would make
obsolescence obsolete. Bey reworks stylistically redundant objects
sending them spinning back to the realm of the imagination. It is
simultaneously a Surrealist-influenced collage of two or more objects
to create a new and unsettling third, and a fertile way of
approaching..."
(see rest of article)
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See photos on right and left side of page:
http://www.house-of-design.nl/spot2003/maart.htm
See photos of 5 designs:
http://www.frozenfountain.nl/html/jurgenbey.html
Design: Jurgen Bey - Tree Trunk Bench, 2002
http://www.designmuseum.org/designerex/droog.htm
More works:
http://www.oneplusoneequalsthree.com/2004/10/
Droog Design - Jurgen Bey
http://www.sharedutchdesign.nl/milan/2004/jurgenbey.htm
Chair Coffeshop Dutch Room
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Best regards,
tlspiegel |
