Scholten & Baijings
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Scholten & Baijings

Westerdoksdijk 597
1013 BX Amsterdam
Netherlands

T: +31 (0)20 420 8940
F: +31 (0)20 420 8941

www.scholtenbaijings.com
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Biography

Among the typical features of their work is the interplay of colours. Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings see the world more colourfully than many others do. He is a graduate of the Eindhoven Design Academy, she is self-taught; together they established t

he Amsterdam-based design studio that bears their name in 2000. Characteristic of their special feeling for colour are their 'Colour Plaids', which have achieved considerable fame. Their work sells all over the world and is displayed in museums; they have

also gained international design prizes including two Dutch Design Awards and a Wallpaper Design Award.

Articles about Scholten & Baijings

Sit down please!

Sit down please!

6/5/2017

Imagine an arcade or a park without benches. Impossible. The parkbench is as important in urban spaces as salt is in soup. The most exciting models in an overview.

Festa and Fuorisalone

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Festa and Fuorisalone

3/27/2017

At a glance: the most important events, exhibitions and parties at the Milan Design Week.

Wear pine

Wear pine

11/11/2015

Do furniture design and fashion swing to the same rhythm? We had a look round in Cologne, London, Milan, New York, Paris and Stockholm: And started with color.

Four legs and a seat shell

Four legs and a seat shell

6/13/2015

Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.

Pattern seeks partner

Pattern seeks partner

4/12/2015

“Ottoman” by Scholten & Baijings for Moroso

Fresh, but not too sporty, leisurely in shape and color, but not too elegant – a truly fine recliner-cum-seat.

28.280 coloured glassbowls

28.280 coloured glassbowls

10/1/2013

Our recce of the London Design Festival scouts six of the core venues to discover the current design tendencies. On this 16 mile whistle-stop tour from the west to the east of London, we start at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the self-proclaimed design hub of the LDF.

Globalized eating habits

Globalized eating habits

8/11/2013

Enjoying a TV dinner or simply eating with your laptop on your knees? Does either have much to do with cultured meals? And can you use plates, cups and the like made by three Modernist mega-hitters to this end, namely Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Tapio Wirkkala and Timo Sarpaneva? The exhibition on “Vom Stand der Dinge” in Bremen explores these questions, with the help of 11 contemporary designers.

Japanese for everyone

Japanese for everyone

9/21/2012

The traditional Japanese furniture maker Karimoku has reinvented itself as a new label. Karimoku New Standard fields products made of wood with an unmistakable Japanese touch – and collaborates in the process with designers such as Scholten & Baijings.

Decoded DNA

Decoded DNA

5/18/2012

In “Colour One for Mini” Scholten & Baijings have created an installation, that conceptually challenges common conventions in surrounding the car. The Dutch designer duo dissected a “Mini One”, revamping the individual parts with new colors and textures. The outcome created a space where our associations with the past and future of the automobile were free to run wild.

Things that show we are alive

Things that show we are alive

5/11/2010

Dutch designer duo Scholten & Baijings add subtle patterns and colors to forms, make fabric rhubarb stalks objects of communication, envelop design classics with their "Colour Plaids" and reinterpret traditional Dutch items of furniture. At the Milan Furniture Fair, they premiered designs with Established & Sons. Markus Frenzl caught up with the designers in Rotterdam and Milan.

Milan, before the ash came – part 2

Milan, before the ash came – part 2

4/27/2010

Admittedly, the borders of the Zona Tortona are a little frayed at the edges and in the new design district Ventura Lambrate designers are pushing into an area where artists once thronged, but there is a great deal to be discovered here. And, when all is said, when it comes to furniture design, things do tend to go around in productive circles.

The end of Droog

The end of Droog

2/18/2010

Object Rotterdam, the "autonomous design" trade fair, which was held for the second time at the beginning of February, featured in some cases surprising quality: the post-Droog generation of designers would appear to be far more earnest.

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