Rino Claessens designs modular ceramic furnishings. His work is constructed from primary components, fired in a small kiln, after which assembled to create daring and impactful types that form the areas they occupy. Utilizing accessible supplies and progressive strategies to beat limitations, Claessens has made adaptation a key element to his apply and creativity; fostering a fascination with objects that may be approached in a wide range of methods.
Rino Claessens: experimenting with ceramics
A bit from the Modular Ceramics sequence
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His present mission is Modular Ceramics, a set of enormous stoneware made utilizing his distinctive technique of fabrication. Conceived as a system to extend Claessens’ freedom as a designer, each bit is constructed utilizing a unique choice from a handful of straightforward components, which match collectively like ceramic constructing blocks. Fired individually, and related utilizing hidden bolts inside, Claessens can use totally different mixtures of modules to supply distinctive designs.
Versatile Shaped Desk Mirror for Galerie Scene Ouverte
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It’s a system born from limitation, and Claessens’ innate potential to work with the instruments at his disposal to create on a scale far past their conventional use. As he explains: ‘I used to be making all these objects that have been primarily the identical dimension as my kiln. In order that was actually my restrict in dimension… and the kind of object that I might make. So I designed this technique of shapes that I can join and repeat, to make an infinite quantity of objects.’
Claessens first studied ceramics on the Design Academy Eindhoven, earlier than taking a placement on the Ceramic College of Arita, Japan; the historic house of the nation’s porcelain trade. Working with supplies like kaolin stone, found in Japan throughout the seventeenth century, Claessens was uncovered to all aspects of conventional Japanese porcelain manufacturing. ‘They cowl all of the elements there. They’ve the mines, they domesticate the fabric; all of the steps within the course of… it’s actually refined work.’
Desk lamp from the Versatile Shaped Assortment
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Whether or not exhibiting in Parisian galleries, or inserting his work in home settings, a key element to Claessens’ present apply is having the ability to talk this creativity to his viewers. By interacting along with his ceramics and the method of modular considering, his design encourages individuals to mentally deconstruct and recombine the various components of his furnishings, unlocking new concepts and methods to work together with area. Nonetheless, while producing inspiring work, Claessens is humble about his ambitions. He stays targeted on the practicalities of manufacturing, exploring what will be accomplished along with his supplies, and his private journey with ceramic design.
‘I really feel like I’m getting nearer and nearer to only having the ability to execute my concepts, as near the concept as doable. I feel that if I can do this, or if I can come near that, it might be a victory.’
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Intersecting Quantity Bench in stable walnut designed for Monde Singulier
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