Judith van den Boom
The porcelain chairs by Judith van den Boom
The designer Judith van den Boom prefers to reside in areas, where many of her colleagues would never dare to venture. In her work the product designer explores limits and experi-ments with porcelain.
 
 
 
 
For this her travels are a great source of inspiration.
Judith van den Boom is especially taken by China. She regularly stays there and with each stay intensifies her creative relationship with the fragile material.
The Dutch designer keeps assigning new functions to porcelain.
Van den Boom's designs are characterised by a certain sense of “foreignness to the species”, since she makes one sit on porcelain.

The designer combines this with metal and wood, out of which “Quing Zuo” evolved, a chair whose seat is made out of precious porcelain.
This makes the object appear sleek, the form of the glossy porcelain suggests a soft seat.
“Quing Zuo” is not only an exceptional piece of furniture. The porcelain seat also represents Judith van den Boom's definition of modern design: for her it is simultaneously an experiment, a performance by different materials and an inter-pretation of the perceived surround-ings.

Judith van den Boom wants to stimu-late and stir up the intellectual world of the viewer. And porcelain acts as the elegant instrument of seduction.