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29/03/2026

This prototype chair begins with a resistance.

A resistance to the distance between design and everyday life. To things becoming polished, controlled, and slightly detached. As if beauty is mainly something to consume. As if it belongs to a few, something exclusive.

I like the idea that a “design” chair could exist at the price of an IKEA chair. That design can be more open and within reach. I believe beauty has a meaningful, inspiring effect. After safety, food, and shelter, it feels close to essential, if it is kept essential.

The starting point is a single sheet of plywood. At the same time it is a limitation. The chair is not fully designed beforehand. It develops through cutting and assembling. Step by step, trying to keep only what seems necessary. Each step is a reduction. At a certain point the relation to the body becomes less clear. It almost fades. For me that is where it starts to become interesting. Less obvious, more open.

What remains is something basic, feels essential, an archetype.

26/03/2026

Big thanks to for these beauts. Adding the final layers to Blackbird and shaping an oasis around it 🍃

20/03/2026

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Thank you so much, .khudo and .amsterdam , for inviting me into your beautiful space and catching up again.

Every visit is inspiring. Your space feels less like a shop and more like a museum, though even that doesn’t quite capture it. “Furniture” almost feels like the wrong word; the pieces exist somewhere between design and art.

It reminds me of what furniture can and perhaps should be: something you choose for life. Objects that are thoughtfully made, that age beautifully, that don’t fade or bore, but grow with you over time. Timeless pieces, created with respect for nature and craftsmanship. Made with care, with intention, with love. Everything carries a certain presence. You can feel it.
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19/03/2026

A Celebration of Aging

In Princelet Street and Wilkes Street, time doesn’t move in a straight line. Instead, it floats.

The houses are not preserved as polished objects, but treated as living organisms. Paint peels, timber shifts, window frames carry marks of rain, sun, and touch. What would be considered imperfection (to some) is carefully held onto here, not out of nostalgia, but out of respect and care, and it is beautiful…

What makes these streets special is their balance. Interventions have been made, but never excessively. Repairs are visible, replacements are rare. Each decision seems to hover around an invisible threshold: how far can one go without erasing the past? Exactly at that tipping point, between decay and preservation, the houses find their character.

The colors deepen this atmosphere. Like an old painting, there are no sharp, fresh tones, but carefully chosen muted hues that feel as if they have been shaped by time itself.

Age is not a problem to be solved, but a quality to be embraced. Imperfection not a flaw, but evidence of life. It is an architecture that does not try to stand still, but instead reveals that it is constantly, quietly in motion, and respects its cultural history.

In a world that often strives for the new and the flawless, these streets offer a quiet resistance. They remind us that beauty is not found in erasing time, but in allowing it, carefully, respectfully, to remain.

A celebration of aging.

10/02/2026

Some 2025 (and early 26) musical highlights put a big, big smile on my face, and made me realise that everything is connected..

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23/01/2026

Watch the video here : https://binnenstebuiten.kro-ncrv.nl/wonen/video/wonen-in-een-tiny-woonboot-in-amsterdam (or Google: video tiny woonboot amsterdam)

Had so much fun working on this tiny 24 m² floating home with the amazing and lovely and Tristan Aikman. Every inch has been carefully optimised, proving that small spaces can still feel like a complete, functional home.

One tiny detail still to come: the roof. The solar panels and the saw-tooth roof will be added later, once the canal renovation is complete. The houseboat will need to move temporarily, which means the roof has to be dismantled and rebuilt at a later stage.

23/12/2025

Wishing you all happy holidays and a happy and healthy New Year.

I’m looking forward to a creative and constructive year.

To construct in a seemingly destructive world.
To bring light into a seemingly darkening world.
To connect in a seemingly disconnected world.
To be real in an increasingly unreal world.
To grow in a seemingly withering world.
To encourage diversity in an increasingly monotonous world.
To inspire in a seemingly discouraging world.
To love in a increasingly hateful world.

16/11/2025

Day 5 - Cairo, Unas, Djoser, Bent Pyramid, Red Pyramid, GEM

We started with the tomb of Unas - a small but remarkable structure with a house-shaped profile, its roof wider than its walls, beautifully resolved. Every temple or tomb offered something unique.
Then we continued to the Djoser Pyramid - the OG pyramid, essentially stacked mastabas forming the first large-scale stone monument.
Next, the Bent Pyramid - never intended to bend, but forced to change its angle during construction to prevent collapse.
The journey inside felt almost cinematic. The climb is challenging: descending an 85 meter steep shaft, then a 10 meter ascent to the first chamber, followed by a 15 meter crawl through a narrow inclined tunnel to the second chamber. Some remnants of early booby-trap systems remain. Ending in the main chamber was a surreal experience.
The Red Pyramid - the first true flat-sided pyramid.
The mastaba was the metaphorical seed; the pyramid the sun. A symbolic stairway for the soul to ascend. Its geometry reflected the rays of the descending sun - a path between earth and sky.
For the ancient Egyptians, the afterlife was not an ending but a continuation in another realm. Architecture became a cosmology in stone - a movement from the horizontal world of the living toward a perfected, eternal form. The shift from mastaba to pyramid expresses the transition from the human to the divine - from earthly chaos to cosmic order.
All major pyramids were built on the west bank of the Nile - the realm of the setting sun, the land of the dead. Each pyramid acted as a cosmic machine - a pathway for the pharaoh’s soul to join Ra and live forever.

Day 6 - Giza Necropolis

Ending the journey with an apotheosis.
The pyramids of Giza - Cheops, Chefren, Menkaure, and the three Queens’ pyramids - are simply extraordinary. The massive rock plateau beneath them, serving as their foundation, feels as though it always awaited these structures.
We went inside the Menkaure Pyramid - hewn deeply into the bedrock, giving the sensation of standing inside a sculpture.
Mortality and immortality woven into stone.
Man fears time, but time fears the pyramids.

16/11/2025

Day 3 - Valley of the Kings, Karnak

Early morning at the Valley of the Kings - truly magnificent. Experiencing ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife and the underworld, expressed through beautiful art and hieroglyphs hidden in a dramatic rock landscape, built for the gods and meant to remain unseen.
Karnak in the late afternoon - the temple of Egyptian temples. Overwhelming at sunset, the hypostyle hall with the sun cutting between the ~20 meter columns, feeling small and astonished.
A smaller, simply formed temple of Thutmose was equally impressive in its clarity and proportions - extremely sculptural, it reminded me of the work of Dom Hans van der Laan.

Day 4 - Hatshepsut, Ramesseum, Deir el-Medina, Luxor Temple

We woke up early to see Hatshepsut’s temple lit by the sun god Ra. An extraordinary sequence: three terraces connected by ramps leading to the upper enclosed courtyard and sanctuary, aligned precisely with the rising sun - something we were lucky to experience.
The architecture, partly carved from the mountain and partly built from its stone, finds a rare balance between landscape and human intention - between mortality and the search for the eternal.
The smaller Ramesseum temple, with its fallen monolithic sculpture of Ramesses II - originally about 18 meters tall - had its own striking presence. Each temple is different; each one astonishing in its own way.

Deir el-Medina - beautifully proportioned, intimate.

16/11/2025

Day 1 - Aswan, Abu Simbel

After 1.5 days of travel we arrived at Abu Simbel, and the exhausting long journey vanished in one first glance. Immense statues carved directly out of the rock; a single monolithic mass with no room for mistakes. It reminded me of Michelangelo’s quote: “The sculpture was already there; I only needed to carve away the stone.”
Aswan in the evening - a vibrant city. Walking through narrow streets and alleyways, past food stalls and tiny shops, sandy roads, and our first encounter with the warm and friendly people of Egypt.

Day 2 - Kom Ombo, Edfu, Luxor

From Aswan we drove to Luxor, with stops at Kom Ombo and Edfu - both beautiful temples.
Inside, the spatial sequences are subtle yet overwhelming: floors gently rising, ceilings lowering, one space leading into another, a progression culminating in the most sacred room. It felt like walking through a carefully composed piece of music.
After a long day, we arrived in Luxor. Our stay was across the Nile in a more rural, quiet area - a welcome change after the continuous noise of Aswan’s city center, its constant murmur replaced by the sound of nature.

02/11/2025

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