Take a Stance by Hella Jongerius – Hannah

‘Taking a Stance- 8 critical attitudes in chinese and dutch architecture and design’ presented works of four Dutch and four Chinese designers. For this exhibition in the Dutch Cultural Centre in Shanghai, Hella Jongerius designed an interactive cupboard that gave a representative overview of her work and the themes she deals with: craft and industry, options, archives and imagination. 

Hella Jongerius has designed a cupboard with flexible moving sections that sits with her Coloured Vases. The Cupboard is made of multiple materials; the frame is metal with 15 moving wood boxes in each, the boxes are covered with different materials and each of them holds a ceramic colored vase in them.

Hella is known for using abstract and intriguing design materials, methods and fabrications but no websites or articles went into detail on how the cupboard was constructed.

Images include: detail of vases, construction, final close up and full front and back photos: