About the work

Through chance encounters and discoveries, he who presents himself as a designer, artist and architect offers to glean from local resources in order to compose the organisation of a room or to create a functional piece for the home. The identity of the area can be read through the narrative of the objects and natural materials amassed during his wanderings.

He applies this mode of living and creating to each of his projects and pieces, where a dialogue with the inhabitants and the energy of a location are at the heart of an interior design which is coherent and sustainable. Nothing is lost, everything can be recycled. By patiently choosing scraps and refuse generously offered up to anyone who pays attention, he devises new combinations with in nite possibilities. Without any claims of excessive theorisations, he accepts without a critical lter the squandered material wealth and reveals the little treasures that are the spice of life.

-Magalie Guérin

About the artist

RIKKERT PAAUW (b. 1982, Soest, The Netherlands) lives and works in Belgium and The Netherlands.

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