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In October 2009, Studio Wieki Somers won the Golden Eye (the award for best Dutch design) at the [[Dutch Design Awards]] with the ''Merry-go-round Coat Rack'', designed for the [[cloakroom]] of [[Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen]] in [[Rotterdam]]. By pulling ropes, coats are raised onto the [[carousel]]-like construction, making them appear to be floating in space.<ref>[http://www.dutchdesignawards.nl/nl/nieuws/actueel/Studio+Wieki+Somers+winnaar+Golden+Eye+2009.html?id=1174 "Studio Wieki Somers winnaar Golden Eye 2009",Dutch Design Awards]</ref> The coat rack was also nominated in 2009 at the [[Design Museum|London Design Museum]]'s [[Design Museum's Designer of the Year|Designs of the Year]] awards.<ref>[http://www.designsoftheyear.com/2008/12/18/weiki-somers-cloakroom-boijmans-museum-rotterdam/ Brit Insurance Designs of the Year]</ref>
While some work is outsourced, designing and prototyping in her workshop allows Somers to iterate and apply research for herself.
The Rotterdam-based design centre VIVID showed an exhibition of her work from November 2005 to January 2006.<ref name="vivid" /> From December 2008 to February 2008, the [[Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch]] in [[Den Bosch]] presented the exhibition ''Studio Wieki Somers : thinking hands, speaking things''.<ref>[http://www.sm-s.nl/ Stedelijk Museum ’s‑Hertogenbosch]</ref> And in January–March 2010, [[Galerie kreo]] in [[Paris]] presented ''Wieki Somers: Frozen in Time'', an exhibition of objects designed by Somers that were inspired by photographs of an ice-storm in the northeastern Netherlands on March 2, 1987.<ref>[http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/8668/wieki-somers-frozen-in-time.html "wieki somers: 'frozen in time", designboom]</ref>
Somers work was also showcased in an exhibit curated by Droog Design, a Dutch design group, to create From Lillie With Love.
Somers graduated from the [[Design Academy Eindhoven]] in 2000 - a generation after Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, and Marcel Wanders. Breaking out from her modernist ideals, taught in school, Somers approaches design as a means of self-expression.
In addition to her previous design study, she now teaches at Design Academy Eindhoven.<ref>[http://www.wiekisomers.com/ Wieki Somers's Web site]</ref> Somers was honored by the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch with a survey of her projects, from December 13, 2008, to February 15, 2009.<ref name=":0" /> Somers is the new addition of 30 artists represented by Didier Krzentowski, an acclaimed accumulator of art and gallery owner in Paris, France.
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