Birdhouse

Emilie Cazin created this Birdhouse in order to attract birds to her balcony and thus stand out from all the piled up apartments with the same windows, same walls, same balconies. The uniform balcony is transformed into a lookout for bird watchers. Birdhouse is an invitation to the city's birds to nest close to one's window.

Designer: Emilie Cazin (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Inspired By: Nature in the city
Material: Oak
Colours: Natural
Price: 275€

Backless Chair

What do you do when your chair back is broken? Throw it away? Not according to Leon Ransmeier who has become the great defender of all creatures that are mistreated forgotten or neglected by others. Birds, basic flooring, trees that have been sawn to pieces and even backless chairs. Despite the absence of a back, his "Backless Chair" is still easily recognisable as a chair because he has kept all the typical "essence" of a chair, including the incline.

Designer: Leon Ransmeier (United States)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Steel with coating
Colours: Nearly black, nearly white, pistachio, yellow, sandy brown, midnight blue
Dimension: 42 x 48 x 46 cm
Price: € 255

5x1

The mirrored interior of this box creates complex reflections of the user and/or the objects placed within it.

Designer: Ransmeier & Floyd (United States)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Teel with coating and mirror
Colours: Nearly black, nearly white and yellow
Dimension: 42 x 31 x 15.2 cm
Price: € 185

Drawer

Drawer which slides, like a matchbox, and can store i.e. 200 cd’s.

Designer: Casimir (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Inspired By: Matchbox
Material: Steel with coating
Colours: Nearly black, nearly white, pistachio, yellow, sandy brown, midnight blue
Dimension: 100 x 38,2 x 19,3 cm

Hardwood Rug

A small and portable piece of hardwood flooring on rubber, which because of its iconic shape is immediately associated with a rug. It has been created to help domesticate industrial spaces or areas with basic flooring. It can be easily rolled up to transport.

Designer: Leon Ransmeier (United States)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Beech and cork
Colours: Natural
Dimension: 75.5 x 150 cm

Brackets Included

The inspiration for Brackets Included came from a scene in the movie Barton Fink, in which the temperature in the hotel room rises so high that the wallpaper starts to peel off the walls. “I wanted to create the same effect by melting a rack and its brackets together, while keeping everything rough and leaving the visible traces of that process. I like that kind of honesty, showing the traces that indicate how something is constructed.”

Designer: Sylvain Willenz (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Inspired By: The movie
Material: Steel with coating
Colours: Nearly black, nearly white, pistachio, yellow, sandy brown and midnight blue
Dimension: 80 x 15 x 20 cm

Dish n°3

Dish n°3 is an exact copy of a tray that resembles a somewhat excavated slice of a ball and that had been produced earlier by Casimir in solid oak. But while the other materials were surprisingly heavy, this one is remarkably light due to its material – EPP – Expanded Polypropylene.

Designer: Casimir (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: EPP – Expanded Polypropylene
Colours: Black
Dimension: Diameter 50 x 12 cm

Jigsaw

One flat piece of metal, in a L-form, with the ends of both legs welded in such a way that they join together again to form a cube and a table. An infinite number of puzzels can be linked, to any sort of constellation.

Designer: Linde Hermans (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Steel with coating
Colours: Nearly black, nearly white, pistachio, yellow, sandy brown, midnight blue
Dimension: 35 x 35 x 36 cm

Oak Coat Rack

The Oak Coat Rack comes from a reflexion on how to hang clothes using one piece of solid wood. The simplicity of the object and the fact that no gluing or assembling is used to produce it put emphasis on the quality of the material. It doesn’t need any installation and the way it works is somehow a reminder of how construction site workers hang their jackets on their shovels at lunch break.

Designer: Big-Game (Switzerland)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Oak
Colours: Natural
Dimension: 175 x 12 x 12 cm

RendezVous 2

These “naughty” patterns take their inspiration from those repetitive floral garland patterns which so many of our forebears were exceptionally fond of. It is only upon re-focussing your eyes, inclining your head slightly to the left and humming the Brabançonne that you may discover yourself surrounded by intertwining figures, salaciously winding themselves around your walls in never-ending twists and turns of shameless sensuality. (written by Carmen Devos for Tickle magazine)

Designer: Atelier Blink (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Vinyl paper
Colours: Red on red, black on beige and silver on beige
Dimension: 0.53 x 10 m per roll

Internal Watch

The Internal Watch is encased in leather, rendering it non-functional as a timepiece. The hidden watch transcends typical associations of status by isolating the emerging form rather than acting as a flashy signifier.

Designer: Leon Ransmeier (United States)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Leather
Colours: Natural, black and white
Dimension: 23.5 x 5 x 1.5 cm

BootBag

Born in 1986, Saskia Marcotti is probably the youngest Belgian designer in history to have had a product in production. BootBag is a perfect example of good design and combines a minimum of effort with a maximum effect. Simply by making a hole in a rubber boot, the boot becomes a most original bag – even the dullest looking person instantly becomes someone attractive and funny. BootBag kicks the ass of all other bags.

Designer: Saskia Marcotti (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Rubber
Colours: Blue, red and yellow
Dimension: 9 x 24 x 26 cm

Moose

Big-Game aims to edit each new year a series of objects that are linked to a self-imposed theme. The first year’s theme is the reinterpretation of the codes of bourgeois furniture. The Moose & Deer Head are part of this series: a modernised, somehow abstract version of the trophy head, executed in triplicate. “We wanted something light to stress the heavy drama that is usually associated with this object – the killing of the animal and the stuffing of the head.”

Designer: Big-Game (Switzerland)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Beechtriplex
Colours: Natural, black, white and gold
Dimension: 96.3 x 61.8 x 86.2 cm

Roedeer

Big-Game aims to edit each new year a series of objects that are linked to a self-imposed theme. The first year’s theme is the reinterpretation of the codes of bourgeois furniture. The Moose & Deer Head are part of this series: a modernised, somehow abstract version of the trophy head, executed in triplicate. “We wanted something light to stress the heavy drama that is usually associated with this object – the killing of the animal and the stuffing of the head.”

Designer: Big-Game (Switzerland)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Beechtriplex
Colours: Natural, black, white and gold
Dimension: 12.1 x 17.6 x 30 cm

RendezVous 1

These “naughty” patterns take their inspiration from those repetitive floral garland patterns which so many of our forebears were exceptionally fond of. It is only upon re-focussing your eyes, inclining your head slightly to the left and humming the Brabançonne that you may discover yourself surrounded by intertwining figures, salaciously winding themselves around your walls in never-ending twists and turns of shameless sensuality. (written by Carmen Devos for Tickle magazine)

Designer: Atelier Blink (Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Vinyl paper
Colours: Red on red, black on beige and silver on beige
Dimension: 0.53 x 10 m per roll

Leather & Plastic Chair

The white plastic chair is the most common chair in the world. It has no known designer and costs only a few Euros. Front has combined it with a leather seat, to create an exclusive armchair.

Designer: Front Design (Sweden)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Leather and plastic
Colours: Black and white
Dimension: 50,5 x 55,5 x 72,5 cm

Money Box

Ceramic eggs to save coins.
If you really need the money you have to sacrifice the eggs; all we know is that its destiny is to be broken.

Designer: Kensaku Oshiro (Japan)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Ceramics
Colours: White
Dimension: Diameter 8 x 11 cm

Icon

Contemporary crucifix for a modern faith, the Icon is a set consisting of a rubber Jesus figure and 4 nails. The end user is invited to reproduce the crucifixion on his own wall in order to get the full use of the Icon. Following 2000 years of Religion-based Art history, the Icon is introducing the topic in the world of Design as a statement on consumerism.

Designer: Eric Morel (France)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() Belgium
Material: Polyurethane
Dimension: 38 x 23.5 x 6 cm

deer

Big-Game aims to edit each new year a series of objects that are linked to a self-imposed theme. The first year’s theme is the reinterpretation of the codes of bourgeois furniture. The Moose, Deer and Roedeer Head are part of this series: a modernised, somehow abstract version of the trophy head, executed in triplicate. “We wanted something light to stress the heavy drama that is usually associated with this object – the killing of the animal and the stuffing of the head.”

Designer: Big-Game (Switzerland/Belgium)
Manufacturer: Vlaemsch() (Belgium)
Material: Beechtriplex
Colours: Natural, black, white and gold
Dimension: 52 x 25.5 x 70 cm

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