Studio Job
| Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel | |
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Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel
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| Born |
Job Smeets / Nienke Tijnagel 19 December 1969 26 May 1977 Bergeijk, Hamont, Netherlands |
| Residence | Amsterdam, Netherlands, Antwerp, Belgium |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Education | Design Academy Eindhoven |
| Occupation |
Product designer Interior designer Designers |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Known for | Rock series, Paper series, Burj Khalifa King Kong sculpture, Faena and many more |
| Home town | Antwerp Amsterdam |
| Children | No |
| Website | [1] |
Studio Job is a design studio based in Antwerp and Amsterdam. The items designed by Studio Job have been shown in museums and galleries all around the world, and have won various design awards. Studio Job’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum London, FIAC, Cooper-Hewitt, Guggenheim, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, NRW Forum and several major Dutch museums including the Groninger Museum and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
They are known for their rebellious, limitless way of creating their own universe. The objects are often based on personal fascinations varying from unique pieces, editions, installations, interiors and assignments for public space. The way Studio Job is walking a tightrope between design and art gave their works an autonomous position in the world design internationally. More than once Studio Job provoked a fresh discussion on the existing norms of the contemporary design field.
The leading designers of Studio Job are Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, who met while attending the Design Academy Eindhoven. Studio Job was formed by Smeets after his graduation in 1998; Tynagel joined him after her graduation in 2000. Studio Job also employs a team of young designers to assist Smeets and Tynagel.
In 2010 Studio Job exhibited its collection entitled 'Industry' at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London. "Studio Job's iconography treats industry nostalgically, laying it down as another archaeological layer alongside those fossilised animal skeletons. It's hard to tell whether they are celebrating industry's demise or simply aestheticising it", - writes The Guardian.
In 2014, at Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s booth at Design Miami/, Studio Job presented 'Landmark'. The selection was made in collaboration with Loic Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, the founders of Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris and London.
This is a collection in polished and patinated bronze, hand-blown glass, aluminum, marble and gold and silver leaf, which takes on the world’s architectural icons: an English double-decker bus sits atop the Big Ben clock, Chartres Cathedral tipped over on its side is transformed into a cabinet resembling an altarpiece, the Eiffel Tower bends under invisible pressure to become a desk lamp, the Taj Mahal is flipped upside-down so its four minarets form the legs of a table and the Burj Khalifa has none other but King Kong scaling it instead of the Empire State Building, with the Treasury of Petra housing a clock as its base. Architecture is what connects the exhibition. Cast in bronze, monumental interpretations of world famous buildings. But these icons are positioned anew, and find themselves in a vulnerable position, blown up or reduced to a simple lamp.
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