Ingeborg de Roode, Miegiel Loeffen

Nest
Design for the interior, proposal for municipal art acquisitions 2004

Design: Gesina Roters, Gilian Schrofer , leporello, Illustrated (color and b/w), 53 pages, 30 x 21 cm
Text in English and Dutch, ISBN 90-5662-452-0, € 19.50 OUT OF PRINT

NAi Publishers in association with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
With support of the Municipality of Amsterdam
Exhibition: 18 February - 15 May 2005, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam (TPG building)

This year the annual exhibition for municipal art acquisitions focuses on the discipline of 'design'. The national call for submissions specifically asked for design for the interior, from the period 2000-2004. From around 500 entries, the jury selected 94 designs by 51 designers or studios. Their choices vary from almost autonomous objects to industrially produced appliances. The final selection of objects to be included in the Museum's collection will be made during the exhibition.

The title of the exhibition, 'Nest', is derived from the 'Vogelkasthuis' (Nesting box) by Jurgen Bey, a sort of indoor cabin in which children can play or nap, and the seating object 'Tak' (Branch) by Frank Tjepkema and Janneke Hooymans, which looks like a nest - and, of course, because the designs are all for the interior. Among them are appliances like the vacuum cleaner by npk industrial design ('Art by Miele'), a mobile kitchen by Maxime Ansiau, and the steel 'City System' furniture programme by Marcel Wanders, for the 'moooi' trademark. In addition to these and other renowned designers like Marijke van der Wijst, Bruno Ninaber van Eyben, Ineke Hans and Claudy Jongstra, the new generation is also liberally represented in 'Nest', with Maarten Baas, Bertjan Pot, Wouter Nieuwendijk, Wieki Somers and others.

The proposals for acquisition were chosen by a jury comprised of Ward Schrijver, exhibition and interior architect, Hester Wolters, editor-in-chief of Vormberichten (magazine of the BNO, Association of Dutch Designers), Aaron Betsky, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute, and Sophie Krier, designer and instructor at the Designlab at the Rietveld Academy. The jury was chaired by Ingeborg de Roode, curator of industrial design at the Stedelijk Museum.
In consultation with the curator of industrial design, the Director of the Stedelijk Museum will make his choice from the proposals. The final selection will be announced during the exhibition.

The publication 'Nest', which directly represents the arrangement of the exhibition is designed by Gilian Schrofer, together with Gesina Roters. 'Nest' is introducted by Ingeborg de Roode. The foreword is from Gijs van Tuyl, director of the Stedelijk Musem, Amsterdam.