Boonzaaijer & Mazairac

Design duo Pierre Mazairac and Karel Boonzaaijer created the Vision storage concept in the 1980s. Its impeccable design, which combines aesthetic simplicity with technical craftsmanship, has an important place in Dutch design history.

Pierre Mazairac and Karel Boonzaaijer did not realizethey were about to rewrite design history when they sat down at the drawing board in the early 1980s. But they did know that they wanted to do something new. It was 1984, and postmodernism was at its height. The strict rules of modernism had been abandoned by many designers in favor of playfulness and irony. It was the time when Memphis flourished, and interiors were full of bright colors, geometric shapes, patterns, curls, and twists. The frivolity of this movement provoked a reaction from Mazairac and Boonzaaijer, designers who had been working closely together for years and had already won several prizes and awards. The duo searched for a design language that would return to the essential, bringing calm to the interior while challenging and stimulating the imagination. Continue reading

Text credits: Elsbeth Grievink

Photo credits: Koen Castelijn