DRIFT
They look to the future, not to the past. They find their inspiration in nature as well as in high-tech processes and science.

Their inspiration is the idea of the future. And their wish is to create something innovative.
 
 
 
 
In 2006 the young diploma designers Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn got together in Eindhoven and founded DRIFT.
Both are passionate observers of human behaviour.
With their designed furniture the 31 year old Ralph Nauta and 29 year old Lonneke Gordijn want to break up the usual design spheres.
Consequently the two designers look not only to the future but also find inspiration within themselves.
Their conceptual approach can also be understood as a kind of introspection. With their “Ghost Collection” they literally trace the spirit of a piece of furniture and dissect its inner life.
The outer plexi glass cover stays clear in its form and above all transparent. The interior of the object is made up of innumerable small bubbles which slip and float through the seating furniture.
Anyone who sits down on them can feel the Anima, which is sustained through the outer composition.
In their designs DRIFT do not keep spirits trapped, as in the famous bottle. In high-tech form their furniture merely makes visible that of which we are all a bit afraid: a piece of ourselves.
One never knows on which sphere one is seated.

The design duo DRIFT leads into eerie realms. Welcome to the haunted house.