Dutch designer Teun Zwets has created a Dutch Design Week exhibition featuring colourful, cartoonish furniture, a grotto-like bed and a bathroom made out of cardboard.
Zwets transformed his Eindhoven studio into a mock home that paired his Splitted furniture collection with custom-designed elements, including various pieces made of cardboard.
All the designs share the playful, crafted quality that has come to define Zwets's design aesthetic.
The installation showcases Zwets's Splitted furniture
"I'm really a maker, so most of my designs start with a material, a tool or a machine," the designer told Dezeen.
"I go into the studio without a plan; I simply start with a material and try to find the beautiful qualities."
His Splitted furniture epitomises this approach. Zwets creates these works by splitting open pieces of Douglas Fir with an axe and then using the splintered wood to create a form. The show includes a bathroom made from cardboard
Once the frame is defined, Zwets adds plywood panels in between. He then extensively sands and lacquers the wood, resulting in objects with a high-gloss colour finish.
"We use a drill for a brush sanding technique," Zwets said. "If you used a normal sander, you would remove all the texture."
A grotto-like bed was made using a handheld bag-stitching machine
Zwets presented the first pieces in the Splitted collection at last year's Dutch Design Week.
He has since expanded the collection with larger an...