Your Choice Droog’s 11th Milan presentation: part 1 Your Choice commented on choosing something consciously or unconsciously from the host of possibilities presented to us in daily life. How many choices does a person want and how many can he cope with? […] 09.04.2003
Play-back Droog’s 11th Milan presentation: part 2 Play-back integrated modern technology in our familiar surroundings. Design masterpieces from the past were brought to the height of modern technology. For instance, a Braun record player designed by Dieter Rams in 1962, was […] 09.04.2003
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Droog & Co. presented a selection of products from the French brothers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec. This was the first time that an overview of their work was shown in The Netherlands. Ronan en Erwan Bouroullec try to bring ‘feeling’ […] 20.02.200312.06.2020
Droog / Bless Jean Pierre Blanc, curator of events in the Villa Noailles in Hyères, France, asked Droog to do a project with Bless, a fashion company established by Desiree Heiss and Inez Kaag. It resides both in Paris and Berlin. Droog and […] 05.02.2003
The Placebo project The English designers Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby try to design the invisible. They think about things like radiation and radio waves as if they were materials. For the Placebo Project they did research on people’s reactions towards electromagnetic fields […] 14.01.2003
Re-inventing rituals Re-inventing Rituals showed tableware that exposes Chinese eating habits which express the underlying attitudes and values of the culture. Michelle Huang from Singapore studied the habits of Chinese people living in the Netherlands. Although they adapt in a way to […] 20.10.2002
House and Home for Abitare il Tempo date: 2002 Abitare il Tempo in Verona, Italy featured a special exhibition on living in the 21st Century. Massimo Morozzi, Ettore Sotsass, Denis Santachiara, Alessandro Mendini, Droog and two other parties were all allocated two hundred square metres to show […] 02.06.2002
Conran Foundation Collection 2002 – Gijs and Renny go shopping Every year Terrence Conran, the director of The Design Museum in London, allows a famous designer to shop for £30.000 worth of products of his or her choice that consequently are turned into an exhibition and added to the collection […] 06.05.2002
Hotel Droog* date: 10 – 14 April 2002 location: Albergo Commercio, Via delle Erbe (Hotel Droog*) In an environment where all eyes were perpetually focused on styled slick products and where ‘new’ was embraced just for the sake of it, Droog looked […] 18.04.200218.06.2020
Videorom for El Mundo Neuvo Valencia Biennial Valencia’s (Spain) first biennial for fine arts in 2001 commissions droog to propose a way to present video art in the streets. During the 123 days of the Biennia, videos of 123 international artists are shown in the ‘Videorom’ that […] 02.08.2001
Villa Droog Invited by Jean Pierre Blanc of Villa Noailles in Hyères, Renny Ramakers decided on her first visit not to use the exhibition space in the basement but to actually furnish the beautiful 1920’s villa by architect Mallet-Stevens. With a broad […] 13.07.2001
Me Myself & You Droog’s 9th Milan exhibition: part 1 Human interaction was the basic theme of the project Me, Myself and You. It dealt with the way in which designed objects influence social behaviour, the perception of personal identity and the experience of […] 03.04.2001
Dry Kitchen Droog’s 9th Milan exhibition: part 2 Droog showed two kitchens, both designed according to the Droog mentality, yet the outcome was entirely different. The tile kitchen by Arnout Visser, Erik Jan Kwakkel and Peter van der Jagt was based upon […] 03.12.2000
Do Create on location Do Create was the title of a project by Droog and publicity firm KesselsKramer. The idea was that a brand can be strong; so strong that KesselsKramer decided to create an entirely empty brand. They called it ‘do’. Within the Do Create […] 02.08.2000
Soft Bathroom Droog exhibits Soft bathroom, one of seven theme bathrooms at Waterlines. ‘Soft’ has to be interpreted broadly. Not only soft in terms of material, but also in terms of character. A bathroom conventionally is the hardest and most impersonal space […] 11.05.2000
Do Create in Milan Droog’s 8th Milan exhibition A brand can be strong, so strong that publicity firm KesselsKramer decided to create an entirely empty brand. They called it ‘do’. Within the Do Create project consumers were invited to interact and play, and thereby […] 11.04.2000