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Gerard de Hoop — Modulate

Modulate is a lounge chair assembled from distinct volumes — seat, back, arms — that read as slabs set against one another rather than joined into a single mass. The geometry is elementary; the effect is not. Set low and deep, it holds a body without ceremony and reads, from across a room, as one block of colour.

Gerard de Hoop is a Dutch product and furniture designer based in Groningen, trained in architectural and interior design at the Minerva Art Academy. His work is minimal, functional and conceptual, built from simple geometric shapes arranged until they produce a certain tension — the element of surprise he consistently works toward. His furniture is held by Pols Potten, Gelderland, Castelijn, Casala, Odesi, Moome and Monoprix.

Jan Willem van Elten — Shift

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Shift is a dining chair on a slender steel frame, its upholstered seat and back held slightly apart from the structure that carries them. That small separation is the design: the chair stays visually light from every angle while remaining braced for daily use at a table.

Jan Willem van Elten is a Dutch product designer and maker, trained in product design and engineering. He works from sketch to three-dimensional model, searching for the one detail that gives a product its character, and considers a design successful only when client, manufacturer and end user are all served by it — with the smallest possible burden on the environment.

Marc Th. van der Voorn — Serve, Dine & Conference

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Three tables in furniture linoleum, one logic. Serve stands on a single column sized for two. Dine sets its top on a folded, wrapped base that conceals where the structure begins. Conference carries the same thinking to the length of a room. The linoleum is not a finish but the argument: matte, warm under the hand, its colour running through the material rather than laid across it, and made to survive being used every day.

Marc Th. van der Voorn is an established, award-winning Dutch furniture designer working from Everdingen. His approach is practical, hands-on and collaborative; self-initiated projects let him experiment with materials and push production processes that later find their way into commercial work. He has been involved with Ignore since the beginning, and his designs consistently carry an element of surprise — a floating edge, opposing legs, a carefully wrapped base.