Ineke Hans: N34 furniture

Ineke Hans designed N34 road marking and links for art projects and resting spots that all have the same base, but turn into milestones, information poles and seats where needed.

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The N34 finds its origin in an old traderoad to the north of Holland: via Coevorden to Zuid Laren.

In old times starting villages or remarkable spots became resting spot for travellers and horses to find refreshments. Often these baiting places ended up with beautiful names like: the green pheasant, the black ox, the white elephant, the red bear, the golden lion....

Recently the N34 got some prestiges artworks on these spots. Ineke Hans, who was asked to mark and link these works by reknown dutch artists, designed elements that all have the same base, but turn into milestones, information poles and seats where needed. The single seats become a bench or picnic table depending on how they are positioned.

The seat, table surfaces and other basetops are made of Nabasco: a new high impact nature based composite strengthened by natural fibres like flax and hemp. These materials more or less ‘belong’ to the Provincie Drenthe and fit to the ‘green heart’ this province likes to affiliate itself with.

Next to that artistic interventions there are still many remarkable things along the road: from Goose-market to Horse-market, from temporary living space of Vincent van Gogh to dolmen and mammoth excavations and sheepfold. The animals on the informationpoles became now metaphores for facts, sights and the diversaty of the N34 surroundings: trips & markets (horse), prehistory & iceage (mammoth), forests & puddles (bear), heath & peat (sheep), culture & peace (pigeon), folklore & crafts (goose).