Atelier NL co-founders Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyk explain how they will use London clay to create the trophies for the inaugural Dezeen Awards, in this movie Dezeen filmed at their Eindhoven studio.
Dutch designers Sterk and van Ryswyk, who run their studio Atelier NL from a converted former church in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, will make the trophies for the inaugural Dezeen Awards from London clay.
The material underlies much of Dezeen's home city and has been used for centuries to construct buildings in the UK capital.
Atelier NL will use London clay to produce Dezeen Awards trophies
"Dezeen asked us to design the trophy for Dezeen Awards, and we were very excited by that," Van Ryswyk explains in the movie, which Dezeen filmed in Eindhoven. "Since Dezeen is founded and located in London, it was a very obvious choice to work with London clay," Sterk adds.
London clay has been used for centuries in the English capital to create bricks for building construction
Atelier NL sourced the clay from London stock brick manufacturer Smeed Dean. They will now work with the material to develop the design for the trophies, which will be handed out to Dezeen Awards winners at the ceremony in London on 27 November 2018.
"We found a very nice brick factory which is still producing these typical yellow London bricks using the old techniques," Sterk explains.
"Now we're going to look at the clay, feel the clay, smell the clay and start developing ...