Bipool - 2007
The table is a design by Maurice Mentjens (NL) and Bram Boo (Bel). Artistic coordination: Jan Boelen Z33 and design platform Limburg (Bel).
A table is the meeting place par excellence, and thus also the perfect meeting place for the provincial governments of the two Limburgs and other partners from the Euregion. A table is where people talk, eat, drink and laugh.
Children see a table as a house in which to play. “Big kids” like Bram Boo and Maurice Mentjens see it as a place in which, on which and around which to exhibit. This design becomes the playground of the various designers from the two provinces of Limburg. The featured designers have been selected according to the same criteria: imagination, surrealism, dreams, stories, … these all form starting points for their work.
Like Bram and Maurice, with their table design, they give a certain twist to an existing object or a familiar shape. Two worlds meet: the real world and the world of dreams, Belgium and the Netherlands, Bram and Maurice, applied arts and free arts, unique items and duplicates, industry and traditional craftsmanship, old and new …
Designers presented in the installation
Studio Job, Kiki van Eijck, Piet Stockmans, Casimir & Vlaemsch, Roel Vandebeek, Patrick Reuvis.