Kranen/Gille’s latest releases
reflect the organic growth
of the studio’s relationship
with Moooi.
Budding
Bond
AS PART OF Moooi’s first set of year-round
international product releases, Moooi More
Moments, Dutch design studio Kranen/Gille
launched The Party collection late last year.
The series of five wall lamps inspired by
masks used to frighten away bad spirits are
hyper-minimal and yet shine with charac-
ter. During Moooi’s ‘A Life Extraordinary’
exhibition at Milan Design Week, The Party
made harmony as a singing chandelier. Not
much later, as Moooi prepared to introduce
the studio’s Plant Chandelier at NYCxDe-
sign, Frame spoke with Design Academy
Eindhoven graduates and ’s-Hertogenbosch-
based designers Jos Kranen and Johannes
Gille about their blossoming relationship
with Moooi.You describe your work as ‘industrial
poetry’ and ‘neo-Art Deco’. How would
you define these styles and how are they
reflected in your work? JOS KRANEN:
We’re intrigued by floral life and the way
nature, seemingly abstract, in fact has a very
rigid order. Just look at photographer Karl
Blossfeldt’s hyper-close-up floral images.
This repetitive, fractal-type order can be
found in industry, but it’s nice to acknowl-
edge that this is just a copy of nature’s logic.Words
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