Paulien Berendsen and Eric Sloot >>

Studio Parade Paulien Berendsen and Eric Sloot >>
Paulien Berendsen and Eric Sloot are a prolific designer duo who have been working together ever since their graduation from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in the early 1990s. Their name Studio Parade is a reference to the meaning of a parade as a procession of beautiful things, which is what they aim to accomplish with their multi-disciplinary design studio. Besides outdoor furniture, this versatile team also designs street furniture, styles exhibition spaces and designs project interiors and public spaces. In recent years they have started their own line of interior furniture called Lente. Their list of successes with Val-Eur is impressive. They were the first designers Val-Eur com-missioned work from in the early 1990s and their Capers model was a real eye-catcher in the market for outdoor design furniture. But they also broke the mould for all-teak furniture design with the Manhattan collection. This was the first truly elegant all-teak collection of chairs and benches. Its slender lines and round curves made it a trendsetting design in that market seg-ment. And more was yet to come.“The Soho is the apple of our eye in the Val-Eur collection. We’re really pleased with its pure lines and with the result obtained by the areas of fabric and the perfectly proportioned alumi-nium frame. It’s a good example of how our designs have evolved. We always start designing by making a silhouette of a chair we’re working on to discover its lines. This helps us draw out its essence. Then we refine the lines and shapes we’ve discovered. And that process mostly involves leaving things out. As we’ve become more experienced this has become a distinctive feature of our designs: doing away with aspects of the design that are superfluous.” >>designers >> 17