I am Janneke Ursem, a Dutch designer born in Leeuwarden in 1983. I was trained as a Graphic and Audio Visual Designer and received my degree at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. I developed my illustration skills while working with one of my sisters, Lotte. We presented ourselves as de Krantenkapper and designed quite a large selection of stationery. Along the way I picked up screen-printing again and noticed how satisfying it can become once this technique is under control. Some serious concentration is required and this made me super-aware of myself and how my body should behave while printing. This selection of wallpaper was designed and printed by hand. After every 21 centimetres I pulled the screen up, inked it, measured my developments, rolled the paper out and placed it properly in the grid. I pushed the screen back and the ink through the mesh again. All this twice for two colours. That’s why I love this wallpaper so much. It came out of my fingers from start to finish and picked up some of my excitement along the way.
Thank you for taking your time viewing my work. I sincerely hope you’ll fall in love with these wallpapers too! Each design starts with a sketch. Drawn in a grid to help me visualize how this design should repeat. The sketch mostly turns out to be the actual design when it's traced with a fineliner, scanned and fine-tuned in Photoshop. When the pattern is right. Twisted, turned and scaled to a suitable size, I am ready to prepare my screens. I do this at Atelier Indrukwekkend in Delft. A nice place where I can work the machines myself. I rinse, prepare, illuminate, rinse again and finally dry my silkscreens. Carefully packed, I carry them back to my studio to start printing. Dreaming up a colour scheme for each design can be a tedious task! I aim for three different combinations per design and make sure their hue's match with a world wide colour system. The PMS system mostly. I use acrylic paint for printing and keep a journal with mixing recipies to make sure my mixtures are reproducable.
Since every design has its own repeat and ended up not entirely level on the screen, I spend a lot of time measuring and aligning the design with the paper. It's very rewarding to finnaly have a print that matches perfectly. When everything is prepared. When I have tied my apron in place and ushered all the cats to a safe distance, I can finally grab my squeegy and start printing. My designs usualy measure 52 cm. wide x 21 cm. high. This means for a roll of 10 metres I am lifting the screen about 48 times. I sincerely love this. Creating applied arts with craft. I am interested in lots of things. You can find me in awe about the Universe, I dig for that incredible feeling by listening to lots of music, I can be truly emotional about good old discovery stories such as the Peary Quest for the North pole and I can genuinely appreciate a good piece of art. When I gave these interests a good thought, I realised they were all about masterpieces humans can achieve. A
variety of incredible projects that have a special thing in common, they were executed with some proper attention and devotion. Some devotion put into a product can make me feel delighted. So when I make something I want it to be right and proper and well thought about. It makes me sad to see so many products these days made without attention. They were carelessly designed, hastily produced and almost without a thought consumed. Only to be thrown away with ease after they half-heartedly did their duty. That should change don’t you think? Not only because it is having a bad influence on the environment and circumstances these goods were produced in, it also restrains you from making individual choices, because these products are presented to us en masse. In heaps and heaps of similar goods. So here I am, creating wallpaper. I am at the producers’ side of this chain making sure my wallpaper is not only unique and available in bespoke colours. I also print it, by hand, on request for you.
I have created a vision for my work that implies that I will change as much of the public perception of over-consuming that I possibly can, by creating stunning goods that have a very transparent origin; my very own hands. I believe a welcoming home should welcome you as the one living there and therefore represent your individual choice. This can be achieved by making conscious choices, caring for the things that have memories to you and stay true to your very own taste. I can tell from experience how a nicely balanced interior can represent a sense of purpose which feels very comfortable while wandering through it. Apparently humans are able to create incredible things with so many wide spread talents. Let’s not waste that at assembly lines.Woods WallpaperCole And Son WallpaperEames Lounge ChairsChair EamesComfy Lounge ChairCharles Eames Lounge ChairEames OttomanOttoman 1956Eames EamesForwardEames Lounge Chair looks great against the Cole & Son wallpaper Both available at heals.co.uk
Charles Pfister designed his beautifully proportioned lounge collection in 1971. The timeless appeal and superb craftsmanship reflect his interest in "useful, sculptural, wonderfully constructed objects." *Scroll to "details" for more information on available textiles. Retail price of current configuration: Estimated Delivery: 2-3 weeks Shipping & Delivery Info After earning a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California, Charles Pfister worked on the staff of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s interior design department for 15 years. It was during this period that he created the Pfister Lounge Collection for Knoll, with production beginning in 1971. In 1981, he established his own firm with offices in San Francisco and London. Throughout his career, Pfister earned recognition for his work in interior design, graphics, product design, and architecture, completing multiple global projects, including the Royal Dutch Shell headquarters in The Hague, Deutsche Bank public spaces in Frankfurt, Citicorp headquarters in London, and the United Overseas Bank in Singapore.