aesthetic irony

if you don't already know them ....Studio Job is job smeets and nynke tynagel, a young belgian/dutch duo whose peculiar work balances between design and autonomous art. the twosome’s 'rock furniture' is an array of cast aluminium seating with a baroque, crystalline form, an intllation created for milanese manufacturer dilmos which stood out in a milan summer show in 2005. they incorporate ‘insects’ in pieces depicting unsettling two-tone patterns of bugs printed on wall coverings, tiles and fabrics. for years form influenced the function, but studio job seemed to move in a whole different direction so that they astounded the onlooker with enchanted and decorative elements. a dark side of studio job's composition is hidden behind the cartoon shapes full of humour and beauty.
'still life insect tile's' rendered in black and white from 2003 are produced by koninklijke tichelaar makkum in the netherlands. it is a glazed porcelain tile, 5.25" square, available in four patterns and can be arranged anyway you like. $20.00 US each available at moss nyc. what is even more remarkable is that as clever, amusing and insightful Job Smeets is, studio job is amongst the most fascinating interpreters of a trend whose forerunners have been the Droog: to design, prototype, sell, sanctify ideas.


their work is neither art, nor industrial design, production design, nor craftsmanship but a novel conduit, a language, a personality. this communicative path brings Studio Job to develop directly for exhibitions, museums, architects. job classifies their way of working as an expression "writing with shapes" and we are to recognize that their hands are blissful, generous, and tongue in cheek. sometimes it formulates common objects and transforms them and their dimensions, materials, functions into the “modular cabinet” or a bronze hammer becomes a toy. take a simple object like a lamp for instance; designed specifically for the 2005 council of fashion fesigners of america awards by studio job, the limited 50 edition set was manufactured by swarovski. a gold-anodized aluminum base is laser-cut, and sprinkled with red and peridot-colored swarovski crystals $2 900.00 US with a certificate of authenticity, signed by Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel available via moss nyc.