Roots at Play - contemporary design and art

Luzon — a circular, modular shelving concept by Studio BL and Circulair Warenhuis

Concept
Form follows nature. Studio BL translates spiral plant growth into design, celebrating the beauty of natural order in everyday objects. The studio’s lamps and objects draw on the spiral phyllotaxis pattern—familiar from sunflower heads—using parametric design, mathematical rules, and 3D printing to generate precise geometries. In Luzon, these free‑form digital methods meet circular panels from Circulair Warenhuis, scaling a natural logic into furniture. The shelf’s “random” openings are in fact an enlarged, mathematically defined cell structure derived from spiral phyllotaxis. The variations in shape are resolved in the joints - designed for digital fabrication.

Materials
Circulair Warenhuis supplies high‑quality furniture panels made from wood items that are no longer saleable in thrift stores. Joints are 3D‑printed from recycled PETG sourced from European industrial waste.

Other work by Studio BL
Lamp concepts created with parametric design and digital production techniques--lamp series made from biodegradable PHA.

Unnatural Selection

Over the last 15 years Tim Juffermans has developed a powerful post-apocalyptic vision of the future in which nature has appropriated what humanity has produced. The remains of human civilization are not simply overgrown by wilderness and forgotten; instead, new biotopes have emerged among the ruin where surreal life forms, half animal and half machine, are crawling and buszzing, nesting and hunting. Juffermans’ works explore the interplay between utopia and dystopia and offer an original, thought-provoking perspective on one of the central issues of our time: the lasting impact of our lifestyle upon the earth. The result is a world of vivid images that are both disturbing and strangely charming, both alienating and shockingly familiar.

Reimagined 1930s Rocking Seesaw

Karel Bodegom revisits a 1930s rocking seesaw with contemporary craft and engineering, transforming a classic into a studio‑crafted piece built for interaction.

Explore balanced motion, refined details, and purposeful construction—then try it: sit, rock, and feel the movement.

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