Tejo Remy & René Veenhuizen
Intermediate space as a philosophic perspective
The furniture design by Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen
With Tejo Remy and René Veen-huizen design always also has a tongue in cheek, humorous moment.
Their “Bamboestoel” seems to smile at one.
 
 
 
 
This visual impression is brought about by the use of bent bamboo. Through their design the Dutch designer duo also bestow their unusual armchair with a childlike note. Each bamboo strut forms a round, almost dainty corpus, which is not afraid of gaps. The bent wooden elements look as if they have been very leisurely laid into one another. Remy and Veenhuizen work with the atmosphere and incorporate empty space into their design concepts.

This fondness for staged gaps brings about ever more complexities. “Ladenkast” is an expressionist seeming composition of coloured drawers, which all together make up a chest of drawers.
The separate individual drawers are all held together by a strap. The design consciously embodies something improvised and haphazard.
The element of surprise lies in the fact that “Ladekast” is also functional and can do its job as a piece of furniture. It does not fall apart, just like “Bamboestoel” also does not.
Tejo Remy and René Veenhuizen not only broach the issue of the fragility of the materials and construction in their living objects.

The designer duo goes further and gets philosophical: to be or not to be, that is the question.