Gingko Biloba tree in Kumiko Frame. Handcrafted cut outs in lime wood.. 

 "The Crane bird and the Snake", Wooden lamp with white lace. Cutout handcrafted.

 "Sleeping Beauty and the Raven". One side of  four of the Fairy Tale lamp next to "The Wolf and Snow White".

 "The Wolf bites Snowwhite" see text next lamp.

 "The Snake and Little Red Riding Hood". We are under the spell of light. This lamp we made recently out of  sawed out triplex together with lace. It has 4 different sides with images about old fairy tales. (I put them together in a different story:)

 Lightobject The "Bulb". One table leg cut in four pieces and a wine distilling barrel.

 The "Distillator"and the "Micky Mouse".  Two light objects made of distellator glass. Circulair usage of these barrels, earlier used for distilling precious metals from mobile phone parts.

 Lightobject, Japanese inspired. Teak with rice paper.

 One of seven lightobjects with Haiku text.

 Corncircle light object with Icosahedron, eightpointed star and grasswood ball.

 Ïcosahedron". Twintigvlak, twintig gelijkzijdig verlijmde driehoeken tot een bol gedraaid op de draaibank. Eco grasswood and multiplex.

Accompanied by an eight pointed star. Sacred geometry: Leonardi da Vinci:"Realise that everything is connected to everything".

 The Tower installation. Main part of the Wall Story. Now it is also part of a new project: "The Creation".

 "The White Wall Installation"in Castellum Theatre Alphen aan den Rijn. 05-05-2017. With dance and performance.

 "The Milk". Lamp made of a milk collector used in a farm. Recycleart is one of our specialities. With hemppaper and teak wood from an old table leg.

The Eightpointed Star, (the shadow reaches far). Design inspired by the eightpointed black star in the flag of Alphen aan den Rijn.

Eight cores counts Alphen aan den Rijn, it is the definitive size of the city: Alphen, Boskoop, Hazerswoude Rijndijk, Hazerswoude Dorp, Benthuizen, Koudekerk, Zwammerdam, Aarlanderveen. Eight villages are together a city in the Green Heart of the Netherlands, as a binding element.

It is a maquette for a black steel frame with 8 glass trappeziums, which form a star also.

The first design.

"Bankgebouw" (Bankbuilding). Plywood. Wooden object/bench for our shop Dreespassage 7 in the Doorloop Alphen aan den Rijn. Rooftops reflected in the canal (bottom of the bench). Design Wharfworks, technic ART2B2.

WHART had the assignment in 2016 to redesign the artist-room in Castellum theatre Alphen aan den Rijn. We used vintage leather chairs and a sixties table in the tv corner.

Everything vintage, except the corten steel Wall lamps. I designed a sort of skyfy face and Ton did the technical work together with a welder. Also the two tables are WHART handmade from teak.

The very large teak table (6 mtrs.) we found in a antiques farm. The VIP 2000 fauteuils from Marcel Wanders were already there . Behind the table the Cartoon Cast with the artist year-book and possibilies for artists to draw on a canvas for the Wall.

Cartoon Cast. Special made from an old cupboard for the artist-room in  theatre Castellum Alphen aan den Rijn by WHART (2016).

Rap&Graph Gallery in Castellum Theatre Alphen aan den Rijn. We made a wooden table, bank, bookcase and wall with a theatrical wink.

This huge lamp we made for the Rap&Graph Gallery in Castellum Theatre Alphen aan den Rijn. Handmade paper with dried flowers inside and the same flower forms in the wooden shade.

The Cabinet that we made a year ago, is now totally

integrated in our home. Full of memories of Ton's journey to Australië in May this year.

"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter". Installation for Keramix 2015 Zoetermeer. (7 t/m 29 november, za/zo 13-17)

Pottery made by ceramist Anke van der Kwaak. The Japanese signs stand for the four seasons. Ton and I made four new whitewax boxes with the seasons in fretwork covered by Japanese ricepaper.The whitewash paint is actually oil, lineseedoil, which is environmental friendly. The boxes are made from ecoboard "grasswood".The tablelegs are recycled.

By order of Stichting Orion, a health facility for people with a disability in Rotterdam, ART2B2 designed a cabinets wall, intended for the delivery shop. Ton has the supervision of the rebuilding of the office and the workshops for daytime activities. The body of the cabinets is made of chipwood. Ecoboard (grasswood) is used for the doors. Through the white paint the beautiful structure of the grasswood is visible. Nice to see that WHART's eco investigations lead to use in practice!

Grasswood Ecoboard table with grasswood cubinets in the show-window of Galerie Beeldverhalen.

The table legs are stainless steel, designed to get a fragile image.

Daylight shining through the fretwork leaves.

The cube in the middle is a lamp.

The ecoboard top we polished with Epifanes for boats, very strong and shining. The table legs are treated with varnish for steel.

Notice the sign of the bamboo branches!

Which you can see here, daylight shining through.

The Dragon and the Koi.

At 11th of April I visited the Cherry Blossom Festival in Amstelveen. (See pictures at Blog Beeld). From that moment the story of the carp and the dragon came to me. The myth tells that the carp stands for strengh, wisdom, perseverance and luck.

"At the source of a river, behind a huge waterfall, there lived a big black dragon. This dragon terrorized the whole world. Nobody could beat the dragon. One day a big carp swam up against the river and was capable to reach the top of the waterfall.

When the carp arrived there, it changed into a white dragon. And the white dragon succeeded to defeat the black dragon after a strong fight.  From that moment the carp became a holy fish for as well Chinese as Japanese people!"

The Koi, the Matisse and the Dragon in living room setting. Moon (from Billy und Hells) on top.

Asian aesthetics fascinates us. Japanese culture, design, gardens, film and food. Attention for details, the refinement.

"La Peruche et La Sirene", famous work from French painter Henry Matisse. When he was too old to be able to paint, he made a huge work on paper, a garden from paper leaves, a bird and a female figure.

Because I made a study from his work during my Art Academy time and because there is an exhibition coming in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, I honoured him with this light object.

This light object is a prototype, a study for a series of these lamps. It looks like the Lotek from Benno Premsela, a Duth designer. But finally it has the looks of a Chinese lantern. And we are inspired by Chinese culture since a long time. The Tao, Tai Chi, it has no secrets for us! In our filmcollection there are beautiful Chinese artistic lessons about wisdom and the human mind. Asian aesthetics fascinates us, Japanese expression in film, culture, design and food!

My design and idea, but I am hopeless without the great construction skills Ton has: fretwork, black lace, coloured hand made paper and an electric installation!

When there is no light on or sun shining, the lantern looks neutral.

Four sides, the colours of Matisse'work: blue, pink, green and orange.

"The Red Memorial" 02/02/2015

Artist painted multiplex. High polished, doors covered with silk embroidery. Height: 160 cm.

Within the Red Memorial we made a removable gate-installation.

The China inspired cabinet became a memorial because of this gateway.

Side of the Red Memorial

The gate installation.

The Red Memorial with the little example from the year 2004.

The little one has a surprise inside. Two figures and a text. .

And the text points out the big red one!

Experiment with multiplex, inspired by Nienke Janssen, (3D Design HKU and 4 years furniture craftschool). She made a collection furniture from multiplex , the plates were sticked together and shaped after that.

Second craftwork Ton made is a multiplex Toyota, which goes to Australia.

Fresh root from an appletree. Cut and turned by Ton.  It is still "working"

All kinds of wood...

Fresh wood inside from trees cut by Ton in the Achterhoek Holland 2014.

After that turned into experimental forms.

Grasswood Ecoboard Cubinet with bamboo design, front side. (01/2015)

The cubes are removable.

Ecoboard is environmently friendly board made from natural rosin and grasses. It gives a beautiful golden gloss.

Cubes turned.

The fretwork forms are covered with hand dipped rice paper.

Light inside the cubes makes it all a lightning object!

Grasswood Ecoboard Cubinet with fern design.

The legs of the side table are recycled and made from 4 diner table legs.

"Cubinet". Prototype of our first chipwood cabinet.  The cubes, on a sidetable with recycled oak legs, are removable.

At the moment we are busy with our second design: a grasswood Cubinet. Grasswood is our name for Ecoboard, environmental friendly board with a number of good qualities.

(12/2014)

The cubes always fit exactly in all directions. In proportions of cm.: 15/30 15/45 30/30 30/45-40 deep.

Every day another Cubinet.

Our Cubinets can be used as a storage for books, lp's, or a collection of treasures. But it is also just a monument, architectural.

Fretwork leaves in some of the cubes filter the light.

Our designs are made with respect for, but also inspired by nature.

The Tower installation. This is the Tibetan, inspired by Lhasa Tibet. (2004). There are eight towers now, all part of The Wall installation. The last one we have finished this year and is called The Minaret.

 TheTibetan inside. An Esscher inspired staircase labyrinth.

The Cathedral with rose window.(2004) Part of The Towerinstallation.

Also with Esscher inspired stairway to heaven.

The Pyramid. A Green Temple with a golden heart. (2002).

Design for a green durable building.

Golden mirror inside, reflecting a corncircle.

Little green Altar cupboard (2004).

Little red Altar cupboard (2004)

Poetry Altar cupboard, (2003).

Theo's Tabernacle, (2004) The speaker inside.

Theo's Tabernacle, (2004) This object we made because of the death of Theo the Speaker in Amsterdam.