Met deze scriptie wordt gepoogd een beeld te vormen van het uitzonderlijke Huis Kneuterdijk in de onderbelichte eerste honderd jaar sinds de bouw en met name het huis in 1816 aan het einde van de...Show moreMet deze scriptie wordt gepoogd een beeld te vormen van het uitzonderlijke Huis Kneuterdijk in de onderbelichte eerste honderd jaar sinds de bouw en met name het huis in 1816 aan het einde van de bewoning door de familie Van Wassenaer Obdam, waarbij zowel de architectuur en de opbouw van het huis en de relatie met de rest van het perceel en de omgeving uiteen worden gezet en het vaste en het losse interieur aan de hand van de inventaris uit 1816 worden voorgesteld.Show less
Speculative design is a research-based design approach creating artefacts as tools for critical contemplation. The NANO Supermarket is a travelling exhibition of speculative artefacts that...Show moreSpeculative design is a research-based design approach creating artefacts as tools for critical contemplation. The NANO Supermarket is a travelling exhibition of speculative artefacts that theoretically use nanotechnology. The products are designed and presented to engage the public on the impact of nanotechnology on everyday life. This research draws on the various visual techniques and conceptual approaches used by speculative designers in relation to the science of nanotechnology in order to understand how the NANO Supermarket engaged a public audience. This thesis analyses approaches to the medium of speculative design as a process of engagement. From this analysis and theorisation of the practice, we situate the case study within the history of critical design.Show less
In 1951, the clothes sewn from bold and colourful printed fabrics of the textile and fashion company Marimekko were presented for the first time at the Kalastajantorppa Hotel in Helsinki, Finland....Show moreIn 1951, the clothes sewn from bold and colourful printed fabrics of the textile and fashion company Marimekko were presented for the first time at the Kalastajantorppa Hotel in Helsinki, Finland. During the next decade it appeared that Marimekko did not plan to remain as a manufacturer of fabrics and clothes, but aspired to create a whole lifestyle around the brand. In 1963 the company took its first step towards the world of architecture by launching the utopian project of Marikylä (Mari Village), which initially aimed to create a residential community for the company’s employees. In 1966 the first building of the village, the Experimental House, was created in collaboration with the Finnish architect Aarno Ruusuvuori (1925-1992). This modern, pre-fabricated building contrasted greatly with another house that is closely associated with the company, the Manor House Bökars. Since 1964 this rural and somewhat romantic house had a strong influence on the company’s image as the official residence of Marimekko which was visited by guests from home and abroad. This thesis attempts to shed more light on Marimekko’s venture on the interior design and architecture during the 1960s by analysing these two contrasting houses – the Experimental House and the Manor House Bökars – as realisations of Marimekko’s vision of an ideal lifestyle, while originating from two seemingly different worlds.Show less
De Nederlandse keramist Bert Nienhuis (Groningen 1873 – Amsterdam 1960) liet een veelzijdig oeuvre na. Het toont de ontwikkeling die hij doormaakte: van decoratie en ornament in het platte vlak...Show moreDe Nederlandse keramist Bert Nienhuis (Groningen 1873 – Amsterdam 1960) liet een veelzijdig oeuvre na. Het toont de ontwikkeling die hij doormaakte: van decoratie en ornament in het platte vlak naar driedimensionale uitwerkingen in materiaal, vorm en kleur, van fabrieksmatige productie naar autonome kunstobjecten, van seriewerk naar unica van eigen hand. Dit onderzoek richt zich op de jaren die Nienhuis in de Duitse stad Hagen woonde en werkte. Hier gaf Nienhuis een cruciale wending aan zijn loopbaan - en daarmee aan de keramiekkunst in Nederland. Over deze Duitse periode is niet veel bekend. Dit onderzoek richt zich daarom specifiek op deze zes jaren, om inzicht te krijgen in mogelijke invloeden die richting gaven aan Nienhuis’ ontwikkeling. Op welke manier heeft de Hagener Impuls doorgewerkt in het leven en werk van Nienhuis? Hoe kwam hij tot de beslissing om zijn bestaan in Nederland op te geven voor een toekomst in Duitsland? Kon hij in Hagen zijn ideeën en plannen uitvoeren? Welke rol heeft deze periode gespeeld in zijn ontwikkeling van sierkunstenaar tot autonome kunstkeramist?Show less
In 1876 a new school for industrial arts was founded in St. Petersburg after the foundation of several schools alike throughout Europe. The school was named the Baron Stieglitz Central School of...Show moreIn 1876 a new school for industrial arts was founded in St. Petersburg after the foundation of several schools alike throughout Europe. The school was named the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Technical Drawing, named after the Stieglitz family. Baron A.L. Stieglitz wanted to commemorate his father’s successes in the commercial and industrial businesses and donated one million rubbles to the Russian state. With this money he wanted to found the design school and upon his donation he heard back from Emperor Alexander II himself. The patriotic Stieglitz not only wanted to commemorate his father, but was sincerely involved with the education of Russian students in the arts and crafts. This thesis will focus on the Baron Stieglitz Museum which was attached to the school. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century a lot has happened in Russia on cultural, political and industrial grounds. This thesis will examine whether or not these factors have influenced the Baron Stieglitz Museum. The research questions which will be answered throughout this thesis are: How have cultural and political factors of the nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia determined the outline of the Baron Stieglitz Museum and its collection? What was the position of the Stieglitz Museum within the context of the other European decorative art museums of the nineteenth century? In Europe, several decorative art museums were founded after the International Great Exhibition of 1851 held in London. It turned out that the Industrial Revolution and the abolishment of the guilds had had more impact on the decorative arts than anticipated. Aesthetically and technically there was a decrease in quality. The newly founded schools were supposed to educate craftsmen and future artists. Collections of decorative art were assembled which served the students as proper examples from which they could learn and develop their own objects. These collections expanded and came to stand on their own which required new museum buildings. The decorative art museums and schools from London, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Moscow have been examined in this thesis. These five have influenced the development of the St. Petersburg school and museum of Baron Stieglitz architecturally and educationally. This thesis will begin with a historiography which shows that not much research has been carried out on this subject other than in Russia. Then, chapter two discussed the foundation of the school and museum and the historicist architecture. Also, Russia’s development of a national style, the kustar art movement and its connection to the Baron Stieglitz Museum will be treated. Chapter three discusses the European context of the decorative art museums and in what way the schools and museums in London, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg and Moscow have inspired the Baron Stieglitz Museum and School. Chapter four elaborates on the collection of the Baron Stieglitz Museum with a focus on eighteenth century French furniture, unique tapestries, five paintings by G.B. Tiepolo and a collection of Russian tile stoves. Chapter five gives more information about the changing politics at the beginning of the twentieth century and what the consequences were for the Baron Stieglitz Museum. Finally, in chapter six, an epilogue is provided where more information about the current state of affairs at the Baron Stieglitz Museum is given and chapter seven gives a conclusion where the research questions are answered. The chapter about the collection is devoted to its formation as it was before the 1920s.The collections of Baron A.L. Stieglitz and A.A. Polovtsov were the start collections of the museum, but unfortunately it is not known what they consisted of. The objects were not acquired systematically, but came to the museum through donations or bequests. Also A.A. Polovtsov and M.E. Mesmacher made large acquisitions which they bought mostly abroad. They had good relationships with several antiquarians from whom they bought regularly. They also bought at auctions which probably had been the case with the five large Tiepolo paintings. The Baron Stieglitz Museum has been formed through events that took place in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Nationalism has been of importance to the foundation of the school, since Stieglitz was sincerely concerned with the development of the crafts in Russia. It has also been of importance to the architecture of the museum building. After the Napoleon wars the patriotic feelings of the people were stimulated and when their confiscated objects returned home (after being part of the Musée Napoleon) national museums were founded. The historicist style has been frequently employed to illustrate the summits of history in one building. Halls in museums were decorated in different styles to suite the objects on display. When the visitor went through the museum he was able to determine his own national legacy and compare it to those of the other countries all over the world. The South Kensington Museum was founded after it turned out that the objects of France, presented at the Great Exhibition, were superior to those of all other countries. England believed they should have been the best nation instead. The South Kensington Museum is throughout the nineteenth century considered the most important school and museum and has served as an example for many design schools and decorative art museums that followed. The Baron Stieglitz Museum has never been able to reach the level that the South Kensington Museum and the other museums had in the European economical market. The Baron Stieglitz Museum focused mainly on the national Russian market. The position the Baron Stieglitz Museum held within the other European decorative art museums has been minor even though the collection and building were not inferior to those of the others. Political factors have been of lesser influence to the Baron Stieglitz Museum as the cultural factors. Nationalism and the results of industrialism have played a major role and were the main reasons for the foundation of the school and museum. They have influenced the Baron Stieglitz Museum in a positive way. The political factors on the other hand caused the downfall of the museum. Due to the wars and the changing perspectives in Russia, the museum and its collection were neglected. At some point, the museum needed money to pay for restoration, but was not able to. In 1923 it was decided that the collection came under the supervision of the State Hermitage and in 1927 it was decided that all 12.000 objects should be transferred to the main premises. At the State Hermitage they were divided among the departments and other museums. After the Second World War, some objects returned but only the least valuable ones and copies of original works. The Baron Stieglitz Museum in its original form had ceased to exist two decades earlier: a new museum had come in its place.Show less
