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JURGEN BEY • adjective: jurgen bey.

1. Jurgen Bey is a Dutch product, furniture, interior and public space designer.

Jurgen Bey (1965), designer. Bey graduated from the Eindhoven Academy of Industrial Design in 1989 with a specialisation in Man and Public Space. His work gained publicity through Droog Design. He reused existing objects and gave them a new life, such as re-coating a chair with a layer synthetic material (Kokon 1999), or giving old pendants a new covering. For the new office of Interpolis, he designed a new version of the armchair which was taken into production by Prooff, a label he created together with SV Interior group. Together with Rianne Makkink, he is working under the name of Studio Makkink & Bey on various projects and products. Bey has taught at amongst others the Royal College of Art in London and is currently director of the Sandberg Instituut.

Synonyms: silver fox, poetic tom-tom, the talking head, polder knight, progressive office priest, giant in a model world, narrator.

Origin: Low German form of George.

3003 The Glass Curtain partly transparent, 1995
4016 The Healing Chair, 2000
3015 Shopping window installation for Levi’s RED collection, 2000
3006 The Sun-Dial as installed in Amersfoort, 1998
3006 Model of the Sun-Dial, 1998
3037 Jurgen Bey sitting on a Beach Bench, 1998
3037 Model showing the production of Beach Benches, 1998
Exhibition view of Kokon, my Castle, my Home, 2000
3009 Production of the Gardening Bench, 1998
3009 Photograph of the Extrusion Bench, 1998
3014 Kokon Panelling on show in the Centraal Museum Utrecht, 2001
3041 Tokyo Daytripper before coating is applied, 2001
3041 Synthetic coat applied to the Tokyo Daytripper, 2001
3026 One of the suits created for S.L.A.K., 2000
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