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B Set Small Bowl

c. 1997

by Hella Jongerius

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Hella Jongerius’s B Set Small Bowl proves less is indeed more. Its reduced size suits entic­ing serv­ings of ramen or cereal without extra­ne­ous bulk, just as its clean lines tempt the eye along with the appetite. The bowl joins its Large compan­ion, and duos of beakers and plates, in the B Set series of porce­lain table­ware fired at heat high enough to lend each piece its own patina and form. And all can be found in the perma­nent collec­tions of MoMA, Victo­ria and Albert Museum, and Boij­mans von Beuningen Museum.


Hella Jongerius

Netherlands


Born in the Netherlands in 1963, Jongerius graduated from Eindoven’s Academy of Industrial Design in 1993; after briefly joining Droog, she formed her own studio, Jongeriuslab. Major commissions followed, including a series of color-blocked textiles for Maharam in a tricky fabrication never previously attempted at an industrial scale. In 2007, she became Art Director of Colours and Materials for Vitra and created mainstays like their Polder Sofa and East River chair while developing their Colour & Material Library. In 2012, she joined Danksina as Art Director.

Meanwhile, her own work continued to grow in size and influence. For a collaboration with Rem Koolhaas to redesign interiors of the North Delegates’ Lounge at the United Nations building in New York, she refreshed the modernist landmark with bespoke carpeting and furnishings in bold colors along with a custom beaded curtain of hand-knotted yarn and some 30,000 porcelain beads. A book, 2016’s I Have No Favorite Colour, followed by the following year’s Breathing Colour exhibition at the Design Musuem London articulated her philosophy of hues and tints, while her cabin interiors for KLM airlines put it into practice.

Recently, Jongerius has begun exploring the possibilities of porcelain, in commissions for vases and tableware. Projects throughout her ongoing career and the B Set dinnerware service can be found in the permanent collections of MoMA, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Boijmans van Beuningen Museum.

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