Featured Designer: Hella Jongerius

Even before Etsy and all the patchworks and handmades boomed, there was Hella Jongerius. Hella (1963) is from De Meeren, Holland and studied at the Academy for Industrial Design at Eindhoven. She firstly gained design fame as one of the members of the renowned Dutch design group Droog Design.

Soft Urn
Silicone

Folded Washtub
PU Rubber

Felt Stool

In 2000, she started on her own with the company name ‘JongeriusLab’ a Rotterdam-based company. There, she continues to make a highly unique collection of products including ceramics, textiles, tableware, and furniture.

Animal Bowls

Porcupine Desk

Embroidered Tablecloth

Frog Table

Her works deliberately show the traces of how they were made, embracing imperfections, "humanizing" the usual cold mass-manufactured products, and her trademark style of fusing industry and craft, high-tech and low-tech, traditional and the contemporary.

Camper

Repeat Sofa

Poof

Polder Sofa

Detail of Polder Sofa