Bemelmans design

NUMBER TWO
MONO, FROM WITHIN
BEMELMANS design
THE BOLD COLLECTION
FROM SUNDAY 12.01 —⁠ 01.03
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Bemelmans Design is a Belgium-based studio founded one year ago by designers, and former classmates, Wout Bemelmans and Lode Debackere. The studio focuses on high-end collectible design which is completely made by hand in Belgium. Their first series called The BOLD Collection consists of elementary design objects made of solid wood and vibrant lacquer, intertwining primitive and modernist typologies into contemporary archetypes.

Bemelmans used the condition humaine as a starting point. Being trained as designer and a psychologist, he analysed the current temperature of society and came to the conclusion that people crave for reconnection both on an inter-human and man-to-object level. During his quest to translate this tendency into furniture, he reminisced about the bare furniture his grandfather, a farmer, made for daily use. This heritage would finalise the aesthetics of the young designer.

In terms of composition and construction, Bemelmans’ work marks the conjuncture of brutalist architecture and vernacular design. The materials and techniques of the recent and the far past — woodwork and Danish rope-weaving — are contrasted with rounded corners and a softening lacquer, creating a specific visual identity that provokes feelings of gentleness and humaneness. Furthermore, Bemelmans uses colour as a material. Eschewing pre-existent schemes, he instead searched for meticulous hues that would layer the object instead of covering it. In short, Bemelmans Designs The BOLD Collection bravely sets out to seek balance in today’s current of extremes..

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