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MULLER VAN SEVEREN

Muller Van Severen was founded in the early Spring of 2011. With both Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen being artists, it’s natural that the collection sits somewhere between design and art.

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Bio

The couple has been on an inspired quest for sculpturally interesting furniture objects, always including the space around it, and characterized by a careful research into their shared passion for art, architecture and materials. At the same time Muller Van Severen’s designs appear to be created almost intuitively and with total effortlessness. It looks as if the designers draw with crayons in space.

After winning countless awards and collaborating with prestigious museums (such as Vitra Museum, Centre Pompidou and Musée d’Art Decorative Paris) and galleries (Galerie Kreo, Side Gallery, Valerie Traan Gallery) worldwide, Muller Van Severen is considered to be one of the most image-defining European design teams of today. Their creations are globally identified in both private homes and public spaces.

All of Muller Van Severens own production pieces are handmade by small-scale fabricators and skilled artisans, with an honesty to the rawness and irregularity of the chosen material.

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Objects

Future Primitives

2011

Unlacquered or lacquered steel and natural leather

Wires

2016

Stainless steel or powder coated stainless steel

Cutlery for HAY

Cutlery for HAY, 2024
Brushed stainless steel and painted handles

Ceramic table for HAY

The Ceramic Table is an outdoor table defined by its minimalistic expression combined with bold use of colour. Comprising a round tabletop in porcelain atop a steel tube column and concrete base, the classic table archetype is drawn together by a strong sense of proportions and solid presence of colour in the material. The table’s simplicity, durability, and versatility give it a universal appeal that makes it easy to pair with a wide range of HAY chairs in a variety of outdoor spaces.

Ceramic table for HAY, 2024
Solid porcelain tabletop with high-gloss glaze on top and edge, steel tube with outdoor powder coating and water-based lacquered concrete base with exposed aggregate finish.

ALLTUBES

ALLTUBES, a new series of objects consisting of the repetition of round aluminium tubes. The series includes several cabinets, a bench and a chair and forms a family with the same genes but different characters. There are no hinges, rivets or door openings visible, they dissolve or visually disappear in the circuits of the round profiles. This makes the cabinets more like volumes, a kind of mysterious plinths, stripped of front, back or side. Only by extending the four tubes do these volumes come off the ground, and the tubes become legs or supports that illuminate the whole. They become free-standing objects in the space, characters in a setting.

"The title of the exhibition ALLTUBES refers to the repetition of the material and the material itself, in this case the aluminium tube. A new universe emerges from tubular constructions. The approach is always the same: start from an element to exploit its potential; see how far one can go with it. In the case of the cabinets, the repetitive rhythm of the pipes placed next to each other - causing undulations - makes you forget the coldness of the material. In the bench and the chair, bending the material softens its hardness."

©Fien Muller