Addled Vase Strawberry, LARGE

Nienke Sikkema graduated at the Royal Academy of Arts the Hague after studying history and journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Nienke is known for her playful creations and executes her designs at the Oude Horn, the glassblowing studio of Bernard Heesen. 

She describes her way of working as ‘playing with glass’. She lets the glass drip, stacks it and rolls it into a candleholder or sculpts animals with it. As long as the glass allows it and the material doesn’t have to be forced. Shape, color, transparency and shimmer, all the qualities that glass possesses are used in her designs.

RiRa Objects

RiRa was born as stylist Gijsje Ribbens and fashion agent Bart Ramakers convened for socially distanced walks during Amsterdam’s first lockdown. It is a new destination for extremely cheering contemporary home objects from the Low Countries.