Kate and Joel Booy set up their home and studio in Dordrecht because ‘design is to the Dutch what sport is to Australians’.
Already a subscriber?Australian couple Kate and Joel Booy established studio Truly Truly in the Netherlands after Joel graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven a tad over a decade ago. Since then, they’ve created a small but beautifully formed portfolio of products for the home.
Their Klaar side tables, developed with the Nationaal Glasmuseum, are mouth-blown to allow the colours to organically gloop into functional abstractions.and released that year, is essentially a powder-coated wire frame to which can be added dozens of standard-issue pillows, forming a deliciously squishy seat.
The pair met while studying graphic design at the Queensland College of Art, joining the radical Inkahoots design studio upon graduation. As the desire to move from 2D to three-dimensional design set in, they began considering the best places to deepen their knowledge and practice.
Being based in the Netherlands is a total immersion in design history. Their home and studio may be in the “charming, picturesque” town of Dordrecht on a tributary of the Rhine about a half hour’s drive from Rotterdam, but design “permeates Dutch culture”, says Kate.From the avant-garde modernism of the De Stijl movement to the aesthetic radicalism of the Droog movement of the early 1990s, typified by an ironic playfulness .
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