vitrine, Cozijn van Leeuwen |
De ultieme kijkkast is natuurlijk de tv ;-). Omdat de volgende clip van Renske Mijnheer ook van papier en karton is gemaakt wil ik jullie die niet onthouden.
Klik hier.
Soap Bubble Box, Joseph Cornell |
Een heel ander soort kijkdozen zijn de 3-dimensionale collages van de Amerikaan Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). Ik moet bekennen dat ik hem pas ontdekt heb, maar de Nederlandse band de Nits schreef in 1992 al een nummer over de 'Soap Bubble Box'. Er is ook een website waar je materialen en een boek kunt kopen om zelf aan de slag te gaan. Zijn kastjes zijn een soort magische curiosa-kabinetjes die me doen denken aan de 17e eeuwse rariteitenkabinetten.
Kabinet Philipp Hainhofer, ca. 1630 |
Muizenhuis, Richard Derks |
Veel papierplezier!
Show boxes and cabinets
It is already a month ago, but this year I visited the Woonbeurs
(a trades fair for living)
in Amsterdam again. It has nothing to do with purple perms and free food samples as my dear colleague Ineke seems to think but is full of new design and is very inspiring. For example the work of Cozijn van Leeuwen was on show in the Paper Cafe, as seen before this year at the Holland Paper Biannual in Apeldoorn. He makes the most wonderful cabinets, all with corrugated board.
The ultimate show box is of course the television ;-). Because the clip by Renske Mijnheer is made with paper and board I don't want to keep it from you. Click here.
A totally different kind of boxes are the 3-dimensional collages by the American Joseph Cornell (1903-1972). I must confess I only recently discovered him, but the Dutch band the Nits already wrote a number about the 'Soap Bubble Box' in 1992. There is also a website where you can buy materials and a book to make your own. His boxes are a kind of magical cabinets of curiosities that remind me of 17th century cabinets.
Rembrandt had a wonderful collection of rarities of which you can still find a large part in the Rembrandthouse in Amsterdam. But the most special cabinet for me is the one by Philipp Hainhofer, to be found in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The cabinet is for keeping and exhibiting a collection, but is a work of art in itself. It has doors on all sides, with other doors and panels, drawers en compartments behind them. It contains different kinds of wood, bone, marble, copper, textile, ivory, (semi) precious stones, glass, silver and paper(!).
To end this short journey I would like to go back to "normal" cardboard boxes, like the ones by designer Richard Derks on kijkdoos.nu, a great site you will need time to explore for because there is so much to see. The remembrance box for his mother goes back to Joseph Cornell, but I have never seen anything like the "mouse-house", with live mice (on film)!
Have fun!
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