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17-25 October 2026

Multiplyer

To multiply (verb): to increase or cause to increase greatly in number. The result being much more than the sum of the parts.

Hosted by Sam Berghuis Vormgeving

This project is now archived and was part of DDW19

Event type

Exhibition

Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Photo: Sandra Bergsma

What you see is not just furniture. It is the outcome of a process, the answer to a question: why use new wood, when there is an overwhelming abundance of discarded (ply)wood? The Multiplyer Project is my answer to this question.

As a furniture maker, i love to work with wood. As a human being, i love trees. This raises the question: why do we still cut down trees when there is so much good quality wood being discarded? The Multiplyer project is an ongoing search for new use of

Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Photo: Sandra Bergsma
Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Photo: Sandra Bergsma
Sam Berghuis Vormgeving
Sam Berghuis Vormgeving

About Sam Berghuis Vormgeving

Sam Berghuis Vormgeving is a one-man furniture workshop, based in Amsterdam. Sam is both designer and maker of furniture, made almost entirely from discarded wood. You could say he is the most expensive garbageman of Amsterdam and surroundings, or the most creative waste processor; it all depends on your point of view.