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THE NEW DUTCH GOLDEN AGE
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE OF PIET BOON REACHES CHELSEA HARBOUR
By Staffan Tollgård
Chances are you’re already familiar with might have opened a beautiful milled black beautiful glass box in the city during
Piet Boon’s universe. metal tap, poured a long-slung bath or the Milano Fair and wondered whether
stoked a Piet Boon fireplace: a measure I’d made a wrong turn and ended up in
You might have ogled one of his recent of the eponymous design studio’s global someone’s apartment as I avidly explored
New York projects Huys or Oosten, eaten reach and ability to put their unique mark the double-height space, coveting most of
in the Jane restaurant he designed in onto everything they touch and just make the pieces and the effortlessly relaxed yet
Antwerp, relaxed in one of his signature it better. elegant environment they created.
heavy door handle or eaten on one of his I’ve been a Piet Boon fan for well over Since then I’ve used Studio Piet Boon’s
ever-so-tactile dining plates. Recently you a decade, having been enticed into a furniture in many of our own studio’s
pieces of furniture, turned a satisfyingly
Top: DON sofa, KOBE coffee table and KAI side table