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CURATED ATLAS FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
(The Hague, The Netherlands)(Multi)(Design Directory)2024-08-16

Rutger de Regt

Multi-disciplinary designer Rutger de Regt is a maker, a modern craftsman whose urge for creation has led to a highly individual body of work.

Multi-disciplinary designer Rutger de Regt is a maker, a modern craftsman whose urge for creation has led to a highly individual body of work. 

"The narrative of my work is abstracted by the observations and interest in social constructs, inter human relations and the contradictions inhabited in the conventions we subject ourselves to."

Driven by an intuitive approach, de Regt works in a vast range of materials, exploring different techniques and mediums by constantly pushing the limits of design. From molding bio-plastic with balloons, using his hands to create ceramics to welding and cutting of metal. Rutger de Regt has collaborated with the gallery The Future Perfect in New York. His Happy Misfits Armchair is part of the Vitra Design Museum while his impose vessels reside in various private museums and in the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.

A playful exercise transforming off-the-shelf materials varying from wood, metals and plastics info functional objects. Using a minimal amount of manual labour to come to a pure and logical object derived from the materials characteristics.
A playful exercise transforming off-the-shelf materials varying from wood, metals and plastics info functional objects. Using a minimal amount of manual labour to come to a pure and logical object derived from the materials characteristics.
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Handmade Industrials, Impose Series
Handmade Industrials, Impose Series
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The Happy Misfits were inspired by bodybuilders’ ability to shape their body. Rutger de Regt developed a flexible moulding system using a balloon and polystyrene pearls. Applying restrictions to the mass enables him to sculpt and form each Happy Misfit individually as a unique handmade object. The Happy Misfits Armchair is part of Vitra Design Museum, 2010
The Happy Misfits were inspired by bodybuilders’ ability to shape their body. Rutger de Regt developed a flexible moulding system using a balloon and polystyrene pearls. Applying restrictions to the mass enables him to sculpt and form each Happy Misfit individually as a unique handmade object. The Happy Misfits Armchair is part of Vitra Design Museum, 2010
‘Mommy I made an ashtray’ is a collection of brightly coloured ceramic objects. The idea behind the collection is highly personal. Rutger de Regt goes back to his earliest memories of working with clay and creating objects based on intuition, naivety and playfulness. To translate the childlike imagery into large scale ceramic objects, he developed a new clay building technique, based on his inventive balloon sculpting process.
‘Mommy I made an ashtray’ is a collection of brightly coloured ceramic objects. The idea behind the collection is highly personal. Rutger de Regt goes back to his earliest memories of working with clay and creating objects based on intuition, naivety and playfulness. To translate the childlike imagery into large scale ceramic objects, he developed a new clay building technique, based on his inventive balloon sculpting process.
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