Droog @ Basel

During Design Miami/Basel, Droog will present Red blue Lego chair by Mario Minale, Rietveld Lego buffet and Dawn/dusk mirror by Minale-Maeda, Darwin chair by Stefan Sagmeister, Daily handkerchief by Studio Makkink & Bey, Second hand by Maarten Baas & Franck Bragigand, The Copper Collection by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, Accidental carpet by Atelier Remy & Veenhuizen, Clock inlays and Tool inlays by FormaFantasma and Chest box by Jan Konings.

Closer look on the featured products:

Rietveld Lego buffet

A playfully charming yet serious piece of adult furniture, Buffet is a re-interpretation of Rietveld’s 20th century Buffet made of approximately 26,000 Lego bricks. In line with Reitveld’s manifest for a do-it-yourself method of building furniture from standardized parts, the Minale-Maeda interpretation by its own qualities becomes autonomous and divorced from its parents; the iconic Rietveld and the iconic Lego brick. Using toys to make real furniture for grown-ups, an industrial process of standardization starts to feel more human.

Designer: Minale-Maeda, 2010

Material: LEGO® bricks, frame

Size: W 198 x D 45 x H 104 cm

Numbered edition of 5

Darwin chair

The Darwin chair utilizes a free swinging structure that includes about 200 sheets of attached prints. As the top sheet gets dirty or tired, the user can simply rip it off thereby transforming the chair’s appearance (and the remaining perforation eventually forms a comfortable head rest). All sheets are printed with intricate patterns abstracting the creation of the universe, making their way through the creation of the world, the beginning of plant, animal and human life, all the way to the digital revolution.

Designer: Stefan Sagmeister

Material: Tyvek, epoxy

Size: H 96 x D 92 x W 50 cm

Developed and produced by Grenswerk