Dutch designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings have ceased working together under the studio name Scholten & Baijings after nearly two decades as partners.
Amsterdam-based designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings announced on Tuesday that they will no longer work together as design studio Scholten & Baijings.
In an email addressed to "business partners" and "friends", the pair said that from now on both designers ? who are also married ? will work under their own respective names.
"After a rewarding collaboration of 19 years, Scholten & Baijings designers Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings will part ways to pursue new creative challenges individually," the email read.
The designers created an installation for Fortnum & Mason during London Design Festival 2018 According to the designers, the Scholten & Baijing brand will continue to exist and will house all current collections.
For an initial two-year period of transition, the newly established Studio Stefan Scholten will supervise the existing Scholten & Baijings portfolio of products.
Scholten & Baijings was established by the husband-and-wife team in Amsterdam in 2000.
It is well known for its distinctive use of colour, for example in an installation for Fortnum & Mason at London Design Festival last year that played on the London department store's signature eau de nil branding.

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