September 10, 2008
The Netherlands Oldest Company
Makkum is the Netherlands oldest company, quite a feat I might say. The oldest proof of the company's ceramic manufacturing can be found on a Spanish map dating back to 1572. Essentially, these people know ceramics. They use this extensive knowledge of the craft to fashion extremely high quality traditional ceramic pieces as well as some more modern pieces.
In 2007 designer Dick van Hoff was commisioned to use the company's century old techniques to create pracitcal products. He chose then to use the desk as his inspiration. He created "Work," a series of five desk ornaments. Two desk lamps, a clock, a vase, and a pen-tray. It was an instant success, and has gone on to win coutnless design awards and be featured in even more publications. I don't know about you, but I am very excited to see what else this Dutch company has up it's sleeves.
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what a great post and resource. i love their ceramics and the lamps are my fav.
"Essentially, these people ceramics."
What does that even mean?
Once upon a time that sentence read: Essentially, these people know ceramics. Somewhere along the line the "know" was lost. Thanks for the catch.
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