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This pop-up concept store in its own building is a third step towards a fully regenerative museum shop. The aim of New Store is to test and put into practice alternative forms of shopping that make a positive contribution to people and the environment. It will stay at the Nieuwe Instituuut for at least a year and then gradually develop into a permanent shop. During the year, the collection is expanded with new products and research. At this edition, actual products by seven different designers are on sale for the first time.

Much of the interior of the New Store was designed using the OpenStructures (OS) design method, set up by Thomas Lommée in 2007. The eponymous OpenStructures Network explores the potential of a modular construction model in which everyone designs everything based on a common geometric grid. This will design and produce interchangeable parts, flexible objects and built environments that can be modified and scaled up and down over time. It aims to set a new standard for sustainable design that enables reuse and encourages circular use of materials, parts and objects. Jeroen Wand, part of the OpenStructures network and an independent designer and materials expert, designed the New Store together with Thomas Lommée, thus contributing to the search for a sustainable shop.

Studio OS ∆ OOS tries to find the balance between form, material and their relation to the surroundings and the user. For the duo it is the constant search to find the essence in the complex that drives them, taking an initial concept and working it into an object that conveys only what is meant to. The majority of their work borders the line of design (in the industrial/ functionality sense) and autonomous objects; best described as contemporary objects derived from concept, yet rationalized to give them purpose.

"The concept is always our starting point for any new project, much effort goes into this stage to build up a rational reason for the projects existence, it has become one of our major goals and motivation to try and divert the urge to produce works only for the sake of making new work. The conclusion of these efforts results in neither a product nor pure artistic expression but a culmination of the both. A product where art=industry. Lately the studio also moved towards interior design for the retail industry and semi public area’s."

Work by OS ∆ OOS has been commissioned by production partners such as FontanaArte, Please Wait to be Seated and Umbra-Shift, and have their work represented nationally and internationally at prestigious fairs such as Design Miami/Basel, PAD London and Paris, Collective Fair in New York, Fog Fair San Francisco, Design Days Dubai and Collectible in Brussels. Their work has also been included at museums such as the Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, Mac’s Grand-Hornu in Belgium, The Design Museum in London and Villa Noailles in Hyeres, as well as having work acquired by the Vitra Design Museum for their permanent collection.

Studio Jeroen Wand was founded by Jeroen Wand in 2007. The studio specializes in interior design, furniture and products for private clients, business and the industry.

“Familiar materials can suddenly provide us with new insights, just by taking them out of their original context, by reviewing and reusing them in a different situation. Even the cheapest materials have an aesthetic quality that designers can use.”

The studio explores the dynamic raw and unpolished part of design, stimulating the search for alternative forms of what is to be considered beautiful or agreeable. The designs of the studio are not conventional and compliant, but go beyond the predictable.

Studio Jeroen Wand alters, reinvents and modifies traditional combinations of materials and techniques, culminating into unconventional production processes, such as paper laminating or plaster rotation moulding. The works of the studio are the result of experiment and research where the method of production directly influences the form and function.

Jeroen Wand (1985) studied product design at the Academy of fine Arts and Design in Maastricht (NL). In 2008 he graduated with an MA at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam (NL). Currently, Jeroen Wand lives and works in Eindhoven.