Roots at Play - contemporary design and art

Lamps, furniture and art rooted in conscious ideas and materials—meet the makers of studio-crafted pieces.

Studio BL—Bastiaan Luijk—presents a shelf concept and a lamp series made with biodegradable PHA in a collaborative exhibition with contemporary makers. Highlights include Karel Bodegom’s reimagined 1930s rocking seesaw and Tim Juffermans’ art on the lasting impact of our lifestyle on Earth.
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Thriving Planet
Signature & Collectibe Design
Sustainability
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Hall 14 - D
Daalakkersweg 14-20
5641 JA

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Studio BL w/ Tim Juffermans, Karel Bodegom & more
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Luzon — a circular, modular shelving concept by Studio BL and Circulair Warenhuis

Concept
Form follows nature. Studio BL translates spiral plant growth into design, celebrating the beauty of natural order in everyday objects. The studio’s lamps and objects draw on the spiral phyllotaxis pattern—familiar from sunflower heads—using parametric design, mathematical rules, and 3D printing to generate precise geometries. In Luzon, these free‑form digital methods meet circular panels from Circulair Warenhuis, scaling a natural logic into furniture. The shelf’s “random” openings are in fact an enlarged, mathematically defined cell structure derived from spiral phyllotaxis. The variations in shape are resolved in the joints - designed for digital fabrication.

Materials
Circulair Warenhuis supplies high‑quality furniture panels made from wood items that are no longer saleable in thrift stores. Joints are 3D‑printed from recycled PETG sourced from European industrial waste.

Other work by Studio BL
Lamp concepts created with parametric design and digital production techniques--lamp series made from biodegradable PHA.

Unnatural Selection

Over the last 15 years Tim Juffermans has developed a powerful post-apocalyptic vision of the future in which nature has appropriated what humanity has produced. The remains of human civilization are not simply overgrown by wilderness and forgotten; instead, new biotopes have emerged among the ruin where surreal life forms, half animal and half machine, are crawling and buszzing, nesting and hunting. Juffermans’ works explore the interplay between utopia and dystopia and offer an original, thought-provoking perspective on one of the central issues of our time: the lasting impact of our lifestyle upon the earth. The result is a world of vivid images that are both disturbing and strangely charming, both alienating and shockingly familiar.

Reimagined 1930s Rocking Seesaw

Karel Bodegom revisits a 1930s rocking seesaw with contemporary craft and engineering, transforming a classic into a studio‑crafted piece built for interaction.

Explore balanced motion, refined details, and purposeful construction with smooth finishing by furniture maker Niels van Bergeijk —then try it: sit, rock, and feel the movement.

Meet the makers—each with their own specialty.

Luzon shelf - by B. Luijk w/ M. Perquin
Luzon shelf - by B. Luijk w/ M. Perquin
B. Luijk
Masked Red Fox by Tim Juffermans
Masked Red Fox by Tim Juffermans
T. Juffermans
Redesign 30s rocky K.C. Bodegom + N. van Bergeijk
Redesign 30s rocky K.C. Bodegom + N. van Bergeijk
K.C. Bodegom
Bastiaan Luijk (Studio BL) with his lamp designs
Bastiaan Luijk (Studio BL) with his lamp designs
S. Boldeanu
Participants

Hosted by Studio BL w/ Tim Juffermans, Karel Bodegom & more

Bastiaan Luijk (Studio BL) is a designer with an architecture background (TU Delft, 2013). Based at Haagweg 4, Leiden, he presents year‑round at Galerie Zône (member since 2021) and has shown work at Dutch Design Week and Milan Design Week. For enquiries or visits: info@studiobl.nl.

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Artist, Graphic designer
Tim Juffermans (Studio 071)
Designer
Bastiaan Luijk (Studio BL)
Interieur Architect
Karel Bodegom (Bas van Pelt Binnenhuisarchitectuur)
Artist, Graphic designer
Tim Juffermans (Studio 071)
Manager werkplaats, Maker
Martijn Perquin (Circulair Warenhuis)
Interieur Architect
Karel Bodegom (Bas van Pelt Binnenhuisarchitectuur)
Maker
Niels van Bergeijk
Manager werkplaats, Maker
Martijn Perquin (Circulair Warenhuis)
Maker
Niels van Bergeijk