Chris Kabel



Chris Kabel combines a fascination for materials and natural phenomena with a sensitive and analytical approach to design objects, furniture and architectural elements. Sensitivity to context and finding relevant design answers prevail trends: “I like to be smart more than stylish”. One way or another, aesthetics always follow suit in an intuitive and poetic way. Chris Kabel (1975) graduated in 2001 from the Design Academy Eindhoven. He lives and works in Rotterdam.




Collaboration and Clients



2121 Design Site, Tokyo; Adidas; Art Institute Melly; Atelier Pro; Basket Club; Beijing Design Week; Chi Ha Paura; Christian Louboutin; City of Seoul; De Key; Design Academy Eindhoven; Droog; Ecal; EPFL/ecal LAB; Eternit; Fogo Island Inn; Fries Museum; Galerie Kreo; Gemeente Amsterdam; Gemeente Hellendoorn; Gemeente Leiden; Gemeente Utrecht; Glasmuseum Leerdam, Goods; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Headlands Center for the Arts; Heijmans; Het Nieuwe Instituut; HfG Karlsruhe; Hotel Arena Amsterdam; HSBC Bank; KNVB; Kvadrat Interwoven; Label Breed; Lane Crawford Hongkong; Lausanne Jardins; Lola Landscape; M3H architecten; MacGuffin Magazine; Marres; Metadecor; Moooi; Moso; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen; NAI Bureau Europa; Oostwegel Collection; Pedder on Scots, Singapore; Portikus Frankfurt; Postmodern; Rijksvastgoedbedrijf; Royal Dutch Mint; Royal van Kempen Begeer; Shanghai University; Sofia Design Week; Stad Brugge; The Plant Magazine; Valerie Objects; Valerie Traan, Antwerp; Vogue Italia; Ymere.




Collections (Selection)


Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; Dutch National Textile Museum; EKWC collection; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Fries Museum; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul; Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen Germany; MAD, Bordeaux;  Mint Museum, Charlotte US; MoMA New York; Nationale Nederlanden Art Collection; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.




Awards, Fellowships, Residencies, Grants


Rotterdam Design Prize, 2003; Red Dot Design Award, 2006; Stichting Stokroos Grant, 2006; Wallpaper Design Award, 2007; New Material Award, 2009; Dutch Design Awards (finalist), 2011; Finalist New Material Award, 2014; Fogo Island Arts Residency, 2013; Material Fellowship, het Nieuwe Instituut, 2015; New Material Award (nomination), 2018; Research Grant, Creative Industries Fund, 2019






Contact


Office:
Schaepmanstraat 23
3027 CC Rotterdam
The Netherlands
+31 6 19 18 60 64


studio@chriskabel.com
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Internships
If you'd like to do an internship at the studio of Chris Kabel and you speak Dutch or English you are very welcome to apply. Please send me a motivated email with your portfolio to studio@chriskabel.com

Thank you: (in order of appearance) Michele Bruni, Daniel Klapsing, Elsbeth Joy Nielsen, Ghita van Bergen, Joie Dewinter, Mieke Cuppen, Jonas Samson, Hila Rawet, Lu Zhou, Andrew Haarsager, Wybrand Boon, Cris Bartels, Zoé Bezençon, Joris Weerdestein, Ségolène Huet, Claudia Schiedt, Manuel Amaral Netto, Béatrice Durandard, Marlene Schmeiz, David Derksen, James Rennick, Lucja Pindor, Per Emanuelsson, Beatriz Fernández Garcîa, Dennis Vedder, Lucy Hall, Dieter Volkers, Phil Procter, Luise Wedel, Sandra Fruebing, Rick Tegelaar, Brynjar Sigurdarson, Amy Wu, Luc Guy Beaussart, Julie Thissen, Maarten Schenkeveld, Sylvain De Rozevire,Lex Reerink, Hanna Maring, Wesley Dudok, Joris de Groot, Yu-Hsuan Hsu, Louise Pédel, Rein Reitsma, Alessandro Squatrito, Tom Payne, Sietze van der Star, Sjoerd Schunselaar, Laurids Gallee, Marlies Kolodziey, Tim van der Loo, Anna Heck, Max Guderian, Gabriele Tommaso Pace, Pawel Szubert, Jorn van Stein, Tim Teven, Jan Cafuk, Hans Peter Lutsch, Oscar Gillet, Luisa Pietrini, Manuel Orhant, Shun Yoon, Sven Abplanalp, Soufyane El Koraichi, Ava Toyloy, TomGolland, David Bühlmann, Johanna Schneider, Esmee Willemsen, Rising Lai, Marius Brunet, Nassimo Rousseau, Massimo Scheidegger, Denise Merlette