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Surface

Vincent Van Duysen

2015
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Description

Geometric and linear, the Surface storage units with drawers stand out for their reduced forms, essential materials and colour choices – sober features that never issue from simplification, but rather from a subtle quest for balance. With their vast customisation possibilities and combination of materials, they are truly iconic pieces of modern furniture.

Concept

“Aesthetically, they recall a Piet Mondrian painting and the form of a sculpture by Donald Judd,” this is how Vincent Van Duysen describes the sources that inspired him to create this minimal, geometric and linear product. Almost modular and highly customisable, it has become an iconic object of modern furnishings produced in Italy.

Surface expresses a poetic design that moves between reducing forms, essential materials and natural colour choices. These sober features never derive from simplification, but rather from a subtle quest for balance.

Technical information

Storage unit frame 
veneered wood particles panel

Storage unit frame with section and extractable shelf
solid wood, veneered wood particles panel

Section and drawer front 
MDF wood fibre panel

Side and baseboard 
HPL stratified laminate panel

Drawer frame 
panels in MDF wood fibre, bottom in refined wood particles

Adjustable feet 
steel and plastic material

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Vincent Van Duysen

Vincent Van Duysen was born in Lokeren, Belgium, in 1962. After earning a degree from the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Ghent, he worked with Aldo Cibic in Milan, followed by a collaboration with Jean De Meulder in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1989, he established Vincent Van Duysen Architects. Today, the firm has grown into a team of about 40 collaborators with work ranging from product design for numerous international brands, to commercial and large-scale architectural projects, with a focus on high-end residences.

From the outset, a definite relationship between architecture, interior and product design has been the driving force behind the conception of projects inspired by subtle transitions between these disciplines and combined with a spatial design attitude, constantly striving for the essence. The use of pure and tactile materials translates into clean, timeless design. With respect to context and tradition, it’s an approach within which the senses, and the physical experience of space, textures and light place the integrity of the user at its core. Functionality, durability and comfort are the prime components of the work, an architectural language not shy to convey aesthetics, but prone to eschew fashion and trends.

During his career, Van Duysen has received multiple awards among which the Flemish Culture Prize for Design, the Belgian Designer of the Year, the Henry van de Velde Lifetime Achievement Award, and an EDIDA for Best Interior Designer of the Year. In 2021, his project Winery VV has been nominated and shortlisted for the Mies Van Der Rohe Award.

For many years, Van Duysen’s work has been appearing on a number of prestigious international publications. Starting from 1994, his projects and realizations have also been featured in different monographs among which those edited by the renowned publishing house Thames & Hudson. In 2024, “Vincent Van Duysen: Private” has been published by Rizzoli.

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