Winifred Wikkeling

Eames and the lure of Zaandam

Winifred — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:55:14 +0000

Via The New York Times

We ruminated on this for sometime. Why did we like it so? Was it that he said “What was appealing was showing off Los Angeles to people who think they know what Los Angeles is all about?” He referred to it as ‘the wizard of oz.’ We agree, there is a hidden magic. But then we understood what interested us so. It was that we had experienced something hidden elsewhere…In Zaandam and the traditional houses that still line its winding dorp-like streets. We loved those houses, and the feel of old Holland still so rich yet mysterious like fragrant air. We enjoyed the tribute made to them by WAM.

Inntel Hotels Zaandam

Via the Guardian

Maybe one day we too will celebrate Zaandam and have the opportunity to take you with us…

3-D Printing and Obsession Unrequieted

Winifred — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:26:31 +0000

The possibilities, never ending. Its creations haunting, exquisite, unfathomable. We, longing, short of breath, craving to touch, dreaming of its beautiful forms. Then along comes a chance for an encounter,

Escapism by Daniel Widrig and Iris van Herpen

Via Dutch DFA

The Centraal Museum, a presentation, 25 of her works, a 3-D printer where the obsessed can watch up close, right there in front of their very eyes, a creation coming to life. And we, not there, but far away, longing, still coveting, our hopes yet unfulfilled. But we know it to be so, only just for now…

The Book of Job – II

Winifred — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:00:44 +0000

Job is like a coach to us, one who sometimes drives us to distress, but always pushes us to take a step further and improve the quality of our work. Sometimes it seems like he…won’t accept limitations. -Jan Tichelaar

Still Life by Studio Job

via Unicahome

We like that – a coach, pushing, no boundaries. Always questioning: what would be possible if…We like vision, seeing what no one else can see, knowing what is truly there. We like the big, bold ones, the shiny Robber Baron pieces. But then we like re-discovering the quiet ones; pressed porcelain. Porcelain re-imagined, so that we can love it again. Still life, transformed life, authentic life…

The Cube as Inspiration for Being Centered

Winifred — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:52:15 +0000

We find it pretty, the way it is tall, elegant, definitively imposing.

The Cube by Orange Architects

Via Dutch DFA

The way that there are many things achieved even with a cool exterior reflecting maybe just one. The way that it has presence drawing us in to look deeper, curious to uncover its secrets; how is it then, those magnificent rotations? Ah, it is the strength of the core that frees each level from any constraints to volume, design, vision, creativity. Throughout the core flow a riches of elements. Some then become alchemists….

Flylight

Winifred — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:39:24 +0000

Inspired by the movement of a flock birds, FlyLight a light installation, reacts to you when surrounded, and by the configurations of those surrounding it.

FlyLight by Design Drift

Via Notcot

If we were were in front of Flylight we would approach slowly, pause, raise our arms, let our head drop back, turn away. We would move back, look over our shoulder, approach again, a scarf in our hands now, trailing us, then move closer, this time to the side. Then we would watch. We would take our dress, hold it in each hand, lifting it ever so slightly off our ankles, and with sweeping motions move around FlyLight, inviting her to join our dance. What would be the light of our duet?

The Book of Job

Winifred — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:01:19 +0000

We had neglected to share with you one of our more recent delights…

We had a desire and then we sighed, releasing it, trusting it would come to us when the time was right.

The time was right shortly thereafter. As unassuming as a falling leaf, it floated into our hands. There – big, heavy, magical, spell binding – it sat before us, as beautiful and beckoning as we had thought it might be. The details, the embossing, the leatheresque binding, the gold overlay, throughout its pages unfolding romance.

We have been smiling ever since. We will share with you, as we are indulging…

Gelukkig Nieuw Jaar

Winifred — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:27:22 +0000

One morning, we woke up

and it was 2011

so we decided to

make

wish

Make a Wish, by Bettina Nissen

Via Designboom

And when we looked up we saw

Interminati

Spazi

…definitely

Srefidensi

Winifred — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:57:06 +0000

Before you there was only darkness,

a perpetual night with only occasional glimmers of light.

Before you there was no reason for anything.

But then you let me in and my life began again, and you filled me

with a joy I never even knew was possible.

A joy I might only imagine

the times when I would dream of you.

Now when I look up and I see you there, I realize

it was you I always wanted.

I waited for you my whole life, I needed you for so long

and I promised that if I were allowed to experience you again,

if destiny should seek for us to be reunited,

I would never stop working to earn your love,

I would never stop working to earn your trust,

I would never stop working to earn your warmth,

your beauty, your many special and unique ways.

I would never stop working to earn the taste you give to me

every time that I am with you.

I would never stop working to earn the fullness that only you can bring.

Nothing before you means anything,

nothing before you exists…

Everything is for you.

Happy Independence Day Suriname!

Tomorrow people, where is your past?

Winifred — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:01:15 +0000

We will always remember that first week, those days before it really sunk in. Those first days when we were transported to our new reality. The days of discovery, where nothing was quite like what we had ever known, but before we knew it never would be again. We will always remember the first taste of Apple Jacks cereal, Velveeta cheese, the overwhelming taste of smooth, rich peanut butter. Those wide streets, all those cars, the very tall buildings, and of course English everywhere. We had landed in America, Spijkenisse we had left behind. This was the future though we did not recognize any of it – not the sounds, not the flavors, nor the landscape. And there was nothing to cradle our passage to the other side. There was no one to speak Dutch to us those first days of school when we did not understand a word that was spoken, a single word written. There was no going back to Nederland. If we wanted to see anyone we had ever known, it would require a 10 hour plane ride to do so. Those early days, when the past seemed irretrievable…It would seem then – now perched 25 stories high, here where the buildings are as tall as ever, the streets as crowded as if each day there was a parade, here where we indulge our many American ways – that the past had left us. Instead it is what we find ourselves continually returning to. We have never felt closer to our Dutch and Surinaams beginnings. We find our beginnings integral to how we chart our course. It defines our soul – we continue to weave it into the pattern that is our walk in life. Thus we question, what happens to the soul when the past is shoved aside and the future becomes some menacing statement as if meant to erase history? What happened to Eindhoven?

massimiliano fuksas: de blob

De blob reminds us of the Stephen King novel, “Under the Dome.” It looks like a force field, dark and foreboding. Eindhoven appears as if it were occupied by something rather than that it had invited in an expansive new design. We wish for Eindhoven not to abandon her story, we wish for her to stay close to it…

Chaos

Winifred — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:19:39 +0000

Fascinated by the secrets and invisibility of water, in particular the antithesis of structure and chaos, Iris van Herpen takes this as the foundation of her collection. Imagine the transformation of water to crystal, soft and fluid as water, opposed to hard, mathematical structures as ice crystals. Seemingly chaos to structured precision.

We do wish for our chaos

to crystallize -

for it to crystallize with precision for us,

and when it does and finds its form

we hope what is revealed

is beautiful,

and that its beauty may startle us

Crystallization by Iris van Herpen

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