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Studio Makkink & Bey: The Crate Series at Spring Projects

PUBLISHED 10 Nov 2010 - 4:13pm

AUTHOR: William Shaw

'The container becomes the content'

'The container becomes the content'

Dutch-based design team Studio Makkink & Bey are exhibiting their Crate Series at London's Spring Projects gallery. Architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey and their team have been creating objects incorporating repurposed shipping creates, transforming them into 'containers for the living'. The Crate Series was inspired by a trip to India in which Rianne Makkink notice how people reused the crates for a huge variety of purposes. 'The result,' announce Makkink & Bey, 'plays with our ideas of value; the container becomes the content, a by-product is metamorphosed into the content.'

Pictured above and below, The Crate Series, photographs by Stijn Brakkee

Studio Makkink & Bey were recently asked by Living Architecture to create the interior for MVRDV's first British commission, the Balancing Barn, pictured below.

The Crate Series is at Spring Projects Gallery until 16 December 2010.

Studio Makkink & Bey
Studio Makkink & Bey at Spring Projects Gallery

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