
When I saw this cabinet made by Jan van Mekeren, I knew I should learn more about our Dutch tradition in decorating furniture. It's a beautiful example of the rich culture we had, I say had, because now we buy plain furniture at Ikea.

Not only did we had a rich culture in decorating furniture, we also painted/baked/decorated/embroidered/laced etc. clothing, interior items like tiles, pottery, wallpaper, carpets, we made wooden shoes & we have some pretty, weird but nice traditions like the Bloemencorso (flower parade). More about that in a upcoming post.
On Saturday I was reading the Volkskrant magazine. In it was an short article about the designer Christien Meindertsma. A Dutch designer who loves old-fashion traditional crafts and use them in her work on a new & inspiring way.

In the article they tell about her new project Oak Inside . For this project she works with a familie business called Roosje Hindeloopen, who are specialist in painting the Hindeloopen style. She designed the furniture, they painted the motif.

"In one curly move he painted the flowers. I could never do that", said Meindertsma. But it was her idea to paint the pattern on the wood with wax. So that the shape stayed unpainted, similar as in the technique Batik. (translated freely from the article in the Volkskrant magazine of 24 September)
When I read that line, I knew. The next few months I will try to learn more about our traditional arts & crafts. I found these three books in the secondhand and I already had some books about Hindeloopen. I'll keep you posted!
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