Party prep!

It took us months and months of hard work and a lot of hard lessons, but finally: Waterworks will be officially launched this Saturday!

We're now prepping the studio to make it the best launch party location ever, which includes impromptu garlands and a lot of greenery.
Better get back to it...

See you there?
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"Irrigatie via een gloeilamp"

Een heel leuk stuk van Mathieu op zijn blog Tuin en Balkon (tuinieren in de stad).
Klik hier om het hele artikel te lezen.

'Poltrona da bagno' | Designstreet.it

We discovered this online publication of Thomas' bathtub via Pinterest  (Thank you P.F.).

To read the full (Italian) article visit Designstreet.it.

And the nominees are...

Crates full of glass

It took a while (remember?) and it involved a lot of e-mailing back and forth as well as sending the occasional model to the other side of the world, but the moment is almost there:  the first batch of glass reservoirs will be shipped to the Netherlands soon.

photograph by Ravikumar

If all goes according to (often adapted) plan, the glasswork should be on its way to the airport by Friday, which means it's at our studio next week Thursday (-ish).

We're trying to get some work done while keeping our fingers crossed, hoping all will be well.
Will keep you posted!

-edit Monday July 7th: sadly the glass had not been shipped yet, but it should be picked up at the factory Tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

Other things: 30 hours in Geneva

Although Waterworks takes up a lot of our time at the moment, we do have other things to work on as well, things that take us out of our workshop every now and then.

Studio Thol's bathtub needed to be installed last week, for example.

In Geneva.

We were only there for a little over 30 hours: Flying in Friday morning and back Saturday afternoon. The mansion where the installation took place is not finished yet, so after installation we packed the bathtub back up. Sadly no pretty pictures of a finished bathroom.
A few photographs of the work:

Lovely, no? Did you catch the view?
It turned out the whole city of Geneva is lovely.
I guess this cloud pretty much says it all:

The story of the cone | part II

finished cones

Remember we had to set up our own terracotta production line (click)?

Well, it's up and running now!
It takes a lot of work and involves a lot of going back to the studio at night to prepare batches for firing, but so far all is going pretty well and we're close to the number we need to cover the first orders.

That said, we're still looking for a production facility for future batches, and we're hoping to have more news about that within the next couple of months.
Meanwhile, a couple of snapshots of the cones in the kiln, before and after firing, and (above) the first boxes full of finished cones.