Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel are Studio Job

Meet Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel

Nynke Tynagel and Job Smeets

Interview with Studio Job 

Studio Job website: http://www.studiojob.nl/

E mail:  office@studiojob.nl

About Studio Job

A quote from the Bavaria Collection catalog written by Jane Withers : 

"Graduates of the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Job Smeets (b.1970, Belgium) and Nynke Tynagel (b. 1977, the Netherlands), who both live as well as work together, form Studio Job. Having met in 1996 in Eindhoven - she beginning her studies in graphic design and he having just graduated in three-dimensional design – Mr. Smeets proceeded to open Studio Job in 1998 in Antwerp, joined by Ms. Tynagel in 2000, following her graduation. Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel are Studio Job. The dutch couple started working together after graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven in 2000. In the beginning they were often criticised for their expressionistic symbolism, nowadays the designers are in great demand for the same reason. We met them in Milan where they presented the Farm collection, which plays homage to their Dutch homeland including stable tools found in farms such as milk pitchers, pails, spades, forks, cooking pots and frying pans cast in bronze; and their giant Globe for Swarovski's Crystal Palace."

Bavaria Collection

The Bavaria Collection was designed by Studio Job for Moss. 

Bavaria Collection catalog PDF: http://www.janewithers.com/pdfs/Bavaria-Miami-Catalog.pdf

'Bavaria' Collection

Jane Withers: "Inspired by 17th and 18th century Bavarian hand-painted furniture, as seen in the collections of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Studio Job playfully switch mediums and methods, using marquetry, a traditional craft of the ‘applied arts’, to impersonate the ‘fine art’ of painting. In the process, they wantonly dismiss the historic distinctions between the fine, the graphic, and the applied arts, declaring, “In marquetry you are free as a painter; the veneers are like paint and the furniture piece functions as the canvas”.

The 'Birth' Cabinet

The 'Bavaria' Collection

Some blog posts regarding Studio Job's recent designs with marquetry:

• Surface Fragments: http://surfacefragments.blogspot.com/

• Philippa Wagner: http://www.philippawagner.co.uk/blog/tags/wood/

• Dezeen (Design Magazine): http://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/17/industry-series-by-studio-job/

• Design Trends: http://trends.voyce.com/index.php/2010/04/21/marquetry/

• Cool Hunting: Cool Hunting