Bertjan pot

During a material experiment, Dutch designer Bertjan Pot, along with his fellow designer Vladi Rapaport, discovered a technique for stitching together lengths of brightly colored rope to create interesting face masks. Though reminiscent of tribal masks and seemingly full of meaning and individual narratives, Pot says that the faces came from a less-than-successful attempt at making rugs. When trying to turn the rope into rugs, Pot found that the material would not stay flat. More

Click to enlarge With Halloween just around the corner, these seemed appropriate. Dutch designer Bertjan Pot has a fascination for textiles and materials in general. While working and playing with …

'big string-sofas' by bertjan pot 'big string-sofas' by bertjan pot were developed for the audax textile museum in tilburg. the sofa’s are made from big

Bertjan Pot's most well known product is probably the Random Light (1999). The Masks he makes out of colourful rope have also drawn quite some attention. Both the Random light and the Masks started as a material research, which is basically the starting point of each product created by Bertjan Pot. The outcome is usually an interior product showing a fascination for techniques, structures, patterns and colours. Most experiments start quite impulsively by a certain curiosity for how things…

These rather great (and not at all creepy) masks are a product of the wonderful Bertjan Pot studio: the destination of a sideways approach to materials and the forms they reveal. They exist in the miscellaneous section of the site, right by "_Font of the Loom_":http://www.bertjanpot.nl/?p=2570 and "_The Nylon Garland_":http://www.bertjanpot.nl/?p=985 (both great) and are made from a creative happenstance when some rugs made from stitching ropes together "got curvy."

SAVING FACE These intriguing masks were created by Studio Bertjan Pot. An idea that got a little curvy! "Although seemingly these masks tell stories, this again started out as a material experiment. I wanted to find out if by stitching a rope together I could make a large flat carpet. Instead of flat, the samples got curvy. When I was about to give up on the carpet, Vladi came up with the idea of ​​shaping the rope into masks. The possibilities are endless, I’m meeting new faces every day"…

Bertjan Pot (@bertjanpot) • Photos et vidéos Instagram

#DesignStudioTextielMuseum | In the Design Studio of TextielMuseum you can be a designer for a day. Here you can create your very own personalized socks and scarves. For the first edition we've worked together with Dutch product designer Bertjan Pot. | photograph by Marie Wanders