Curator and owner of Valerie Traan Gallery, Veerle Wenes approached 6 leaders in the design world to create a set of cutlery for Valerie_Objects, a new Antwerp based design label. Featured here are the prototypes of Jinhyun Jeon (KR/NL), Muller Van Severen (B), Maarten Baas (NL), Studio Simple (B/NL), Koichi Futatsumata (JPN) and Studio Wieki Somers (NL) photographed by Frederik Vercruysse. Some of the designers had already experimented with this concept and proceeded to refine their initial ideas while others created them from specifically for the project.
The designs of Maarten Baas (NL) and Koichi Futatsumata (JPN) are the first two sets that have been taken in production.
– Studio Simple –
– Maarten Baas –
– Jinhyun Jeon –
– Studio Wieki Somers –
– Muller Van Severen –
– Koichi Futatsumata –
Photography Frederik Vercruysse
