{"id":156001,"date":"2018-10-18T17:21:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=156001"},"modified":"2018-10-18T17:21:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T15:21:46","slug":"os-%e2%88%86-oos-ddw-hidden-gem-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/os-%e2%88%86-oos-ddw-hidden-gem-8\/","title":{"rendered":"OS \u2206 OOS: DDW Hidden Gem #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design festival in Northern Europe. Every year we pick nine designers that we think are this year\u2019s hidden gems<\/a>. You can read their stories here. Today: OS \u2206 OOS and their Body of Work
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Marking the fifth year they worked and operated in Eindhoven, OS \u2206 OOS<\/a> wish to present their \u2018Body of Work\u2019 this DDW. The studio is known for its lamps, mirrors and other objects that are almost works of art in themselves. The duo also designed the interior of various Ace & Tate shops. How do they look back at the past few years? \u2018Traffic flows in shops? It was all new to us.\u2019<\/p>\n

It is a warm Tuesday afternoon, about two weeks before Dutch Design Week is coming to Eindhoven again, when Sophie Mensen and Oskar Peet have a break at the wooden table in front of their studio. We are at the edge of Strijp-T. Opposite the studio is the renovated TQ building, next to it the recently opened office of Additive Industries. A little further down the road is the immense Innovation Powerhouse, which opened last year after a major renovation. \u2018The city is slowly moving towards us\u2019, notes Oskar.<\/p>\n

Studio OS \u2206 OOS has been here for about four years now. A small office in a former Philips building with a large workshop attached to it, which they share with a number of other makers on the site. They don\u2019t have a lot in stock, Sophie explains. \u2018Our designs are launched in limited editions and most of our products are only fabricated once they are sold’. Oskar describes their ‘handwriting’ as layered. \u2018We play with transparency and optical effects and we work a lot with glass and aluminium, but it is mainly the combination of different materials that defines our style.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Oskar Peet en Sophie Mensen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sophie and the Canadian born Oskar got to know each other at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. During their studies, they already recognize the same sense of aesthetics in the other person and they help each other with projects. \u2018Sometimes it wasn’t really clear what it was going to be, but we both knew immediately what the atmosphere and style of the product should be.\u2019<\/p>\n

The first thing they make as OS \u2206 OOS is the Syzygy lamps series, which are later taken into production by the Italian brand FontanaArte. It is still one of their favorite designs. Another favorite are the large room dividers ‘Perspectives no.1 & no.2\u2019, a project supported by gallery Roerhs & Boetsch, Zurich. ‘I think it’s our most autonomous piece of work\u2019, says Sophie.<\/p>\n