Hella jongerius biography of william

Hella Jongerius’ (1963, the Netherlands) work combines the traditional with the contemporary, the newest technologies with age-old craft techniques.

Hella jongerius biography of william

She aims to create products with individual character by including craft elements in the industrial production process.

Jongerius sees her work as part of a never-ending process, and the same is essentially true of all Jongeriuslab designs: they possess the power of the final stage, while also communicating that they are part of something greater, with both a past and an uncertain future.

The unfinished, the provisional, the possible – they reside in the attention to imperfections, traces of the creation process, and the revealed potential of materials and techniques. Through this working method, Jongerius not only celebrates the value of the process, but also engages the viewer, the user, in her investigation.

In 1993 she founded the Jongeriuslab studio, where independent projects are devel