Designers

 

Artifort and designers. How one and one makes three. For more than eighty years now, Artifort has provided major designers from home and abroad with the room to work on innovative designs. They forge together beauty, functionality and form to create a unity that favourably received throughout the world. The foundations of Artifort were laid by classic icons created by designers such as Kho Liang Ie, Pierre Paulin and Geoffrey D. Harcourt RDI. The current generation of renowned top designers such as Patrick Norguet, Khodi Feiz, René Holten, Monica Förster and many other designers are continuing the Artifort DNA. 
 
 

Studio Stefan Scholten


“My goal is to change anonymous mass production into something unique and arrive at an object that stands the test of time.“

Industrial designer Stefan Scholten (1972) has become one of the defining voices in world-renowned Dutch Design after graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1995. He is known for his reductionist design style combined with a unique use of colour. His designs are functional and applicable, but always expressive. Scholten’s approach is also known as the atelier-method-of-working. During the design process, he thinks with his hands as much as possible. He will keep on sketching, drawing and mixing colours until an original and new design emerges. Based in Amsterdam, the studio designs for a variety of well-respected brands, such as HAY, Moroso, Maharam, Cappellini and 1616 / arita japan. In 1998 Stefan Scholten (Copray & Scholten) designed the ‘Relay’ Chaise Longue for Artifort, and for more than 20 years these Relays have been located at various places in the piers of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and used heavily on a daily basis. In 2020, Stefan Scholten (Scholten & Baijings) designed the Soft Facet armchair for Artifort.

Designs of Studio Stefan Scholten