Design team: Frank Tjepkema, Leonie Janssen, Jeroen van Laarhoven
Client: Fabbrica, Rotterdam
Materials: Divers
Location: Velp, The Netherlands
Builder: Kloosterboer
Photography: Yannic Alidarso
Realisation: October 2011
Frank Tjepkema (1970) grew up in Geneva, Brussels and New-York. After experiencing a variety of cultures during his youth he settled in the Netherlands in 1989 to study industrial design. He graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 1996. Tjep.'s graduation project based on artificial nature drew immediate attention and was selected for the Droog Design collection. His relation with Droog led to even more notable projects like the Do Break in 2000, the award winning British Airways Executive Lounge at Heathrow in 2004 and the Chair of Textures presented during Art Basel Miami Beach 2006, a Droog project in collaboration with gallery Friedman Benda.