(Archive) DUO-TOON-MUBELOBJECTEN

Frida is an independent furniture designer/maker and visual artist, graduated from the Meubileringscollege in Amsterdam and mainly works with wood.
Her workshop focuses on interior projects and furniture objects, the sketch designs combine sculpture with functionality.
Important elements are perspective and plasticity.
Solidity and playfulness (function and drama) combine in the furniture object.
Inspiration
“if the design is based on art, it automatically becomes useful”, is a quote from the Czech Cubist: Pavel Janák from 1910.
Cubism flourished in the 10's of the 20th century with its multifacetedness and a simultaneity of visibly different sides. She opens the attack on central perspective orthogonality and creates movement and interaction. A dynamic is created between empty and filled space, structure comes into motion and the viewer experiences different points of view at the same time.

Since 1991 Frida van der Poel has been an active member of the artists' initiative Galerie Zône for applied art in Leiden.
She also works on commission.
Many furniture objects have now found their way around the world.