FRANCON’s ‘Scene’ retail installation stands as a testament to the brand’s dedication to quality and an unconventional approach to fashion. The team detaches its development process from traditional fashion industry timelines, producing limited-edition pieces that focus on settings rather than seasons. Their designs resonate with distinct occasions and moods. New items are introduced on the team’s schedule, creating a continuous body of work. Production takes place in small family-owned factories and ateliers in Italy, Poland and The Netherlands.

An impressive light installation by artist Arnout Meijer adorns ‘Scene.’ The temporary, site-specific light artwork, ‘Second Sun,’ bathes ‘Scene’ in the deep ,warm glow of the sunset. This dynamic installation mimics the slow but grand transformation of the sky during twilight. In the dark days of December, the light can create an intriguing effect, as the sun seems to set in an unconventional direction. At night, the light engenders a powerful image that varies with each visit to the Lobby.

Exhibition

Art Rotterdam 2024

2024

January 31 – February 4, 2024

Van Nelle Fabriek, Rotterdam

Milan Kunc
Peter Angermann
Bob Bonies
Sigrid Calon
Wouter Dam
Arnout Meijer
Jonas Lutz

Exhibition

New Store – Dezeen

2023

Cultural centre Het Nieuwe Instituut is rethinking the archetypal museum shop with a pop-up at Dutch Design Week, designed to encourage more ethical, resource-conscious consumption.

Diners were asked to provide their own illumination as the sun goes down, in a bid to make them aware of our overconsumption of energy and the adverse effects our light pollution has on the natural rhythms of other animals.

For this purpose, Meijer designed two wall-mounted fixtures inside the New Store that have no internal light source and are simply composed of discarded glass shards topped with wooden shelves made from old beams.

If they require more light, guests have to place their phone on this ledge with the flashlight on, funnelling light onto the glass shard through a narrow slit in the wood.

This reflects and refracts light around the space while revealing various crescent moon shapes engraved into the glass in a nod to the circadian rhythm.

“It’s really about our dependence on the constant supply of energy,” Troeman said. “Can we embrace the dark and hence be more environmentally friendly? It has benefits for everyone and everything.”

Exhibition

Nieuwe Instituut

2023

New Store 1.0

21 October 2023 – 29 October 2023

Black Marble

Through Black Marble, the New Store questions your relationship with the energy you use. Are you happy in the dark? Is it cosy? Or do you prefer light? If so, are you prepared to contribute light to Residency for the People, using your own energy supply?

Why at the New Store?

Black Marble imagines a future where we, as consumers, have to contribute our own energy sources if we want more light. But how much light do we really need when darkness has its own special qualities? Darkness creates a cosy atmosphere, prepares people for sleep, does not disturb animals and consumes no energy. These are natural qualities that can benefit humans and more-than-humans alike. 

The two light installations of Black Marble illuminate the space while giving darkness visibility. The intensity is not static, but is dynamically controlled through gradual dimming and the use of visitors’ light sources. As a result, less energy and materials are used. “Engravings referencing the moon, a symbol of an unspoilt landscape, have been set into discarded glass shards that are hold by sanded old beams.” In one installation, the engraving is illuminated by discarded electronics; in another, the flashlight function of visitors’ smartphones is used.

The human eye automatically adjusts to light and dark, so slow changes are not immediately noticeable, but it also becomes clear that we do not need so much light. “The light installations are functional, but at the same time they point to over-consumption and light pollution.”

About the project

Designer Arnout Meijer sees darkness not as a lack of light, but as a quality in itself. Darkness is necessary for human biorhythms, creates a cosy atmosphere and provides tranquillity. For many creatures, including bats, moths, foxes and deer, a dark night is essential. Light pollution can disrupt (animal) behaviour and entire ecosystems.

The title of the installation, Black Marble, plays on the “Blue Marble” nickname given to Earth after the now-famous image of our planet was taken on 7 December 1972 by the crew of Apollo 17, from some 29,000 kilometres away. Illuminated by the sun, the Earth indeed appeared as a blue sphere; however, its other side, in darkness, was black.

Solo Exhibition

Opening VIVID

2023

Podcast

Design Platform Rotterdam

2022

Designers talk van Design Platform Rotterdam met Arnout Meijer en Cesare Peeren

Moderator: Yassine Salihine. Aug. ’22

Light Sculpture | Lighting

Pendry Park City Hotel

2022

Publication

Frame

2022

Frame article on the Second Sun System project in ‘RANDOM STUDIO’S NEW POROUS AMSTERDAM HQ’, march 2022.

Publication

Woth Magazine N20

2022

Exhibition

Buitenplaats Doornburgh

2022

The Thanks for the Sun wall lamp is part of exhibition ‘Vorm aan de Vecht’ in Buitenplaats Doornburgh by Dom Hans van der Laan. Curation by Nicole Uniquole. Exhibition Design by Stefan Scholten.

Light Sculpture | Lighting

Pendry Chicago Hotel

2021

Essay | Publication

Essay publication

2021

Architecture | Installation

18 Septemberplein

2021

In collaboration with UNStudio, ABT and SI-X, Arnout Meijer Studio created a permanent light installation at the 18 Septemberplein in Eindhoven. In four glass boxes, that suspend on the facade of the building, holographic light creates an interactive experience that relates to the movement of the sun throughout the year.

Installation

Into The Great Wide Open

2019

Exhibition

Looiersgracht 60

2019

Exhibition

Dutch Design Week

2018

Exhibition

Frans Hals Museum

2018

Frans Hals plays the starring role in the Frans Hals Museum’s permanent collection. It could hardly be otherwise. But this role is extremely varied. Hals will feature in this experimental collection exhibition in many ways.

To celebrate the opening of the new-look museum the meeting between original and imaginary paintings by Frans Hals and interpretations by art experts and artists are the central themes in Hof and Hal. A choir of different voices will resound throughout the exhibition: painters and photographers, curators and art historians will respond in individual and subjective ways to the paintings by the Haarlem virtuoso.

Contemporary artists like Anton Henning, Jasper Hagenaar, Shezad Dawood and Nina Katchadourian will use various paintings by Hals as starting points for new work. Rendezvous with Frans Hals will show how well Frans Hals’s civic guard paintings and portraits translate to the present.

The exhibition has been made possible by the Van Toorn Scholten Foundation and Mondriaan Fund.

Contributions to this exhibition by:
Laurence Aëgerter, Mieke Bal, Pierre Bismuth, Koos Breukel, Ann Demeester, Pavèl van Houten, Kerry James Marshall, Melvin Moti, Cédric Noël, Saskia Noor van Imhoff & Arnout Meijer, Raúl Ortega Ayala, Batia Suter, Pieter Vermeersch, Riet Wijnen, Luuk Wilmering

Exhibition

Kazerne | Eindhoven, October 2018

2018

Exhibition | Installation

Vizcaya Museum

2018

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens presents Overload, a new Contemporary Arts Program (CAP) exhibition on view December 6, 2017 through April 2, 2018. Four artists have been commissioned to explore the activation of the senses in this immersive exhibition created for the estate. Artists include David Brooks (NY, NY), Orlando Jacinto Garcia (Miami, FL), Arnout Meijer (Amsterdam, NL) and Tanja Smeets (Utrecht, NL). The artists’ work emphasizes engagement and considers how the activation of the senses can alter the experience of a space.

Architecture | Installation | Lighting

Amsterdam Airport Schiphol Terminal

2018

KL AIR, consisting of KAAN Architecten, Estudio Lamela, ABT and Ineco, with the support of Arnout Meijer Studio, DGMR and Planeground, has won the commission to design the new terminal at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The building will be located at Jan Dellaert Plein, south of Schiphol Plaza, the main airport meeting area and arrival point for passengers via Schiphol train station and the A4 highway. The new terminal is to be completed by 2023.

Exhibition

Victor Hunt – Design Miami

2017

‘One Point Perspective’ in Miami during Art/Design Miami 2017 at Victor Hunt Gallery.

Exhibition

VIVID – Design Miami

2017

New work at Art/Design Miami 2017 with Gallery VIVID.

Exhibition

Kazerne

2017

Dutch Invertuals – Fundamentals

Exhibition

Dutch Invertuals

2017

Dutch Invertuals – Fundamentals

Collaboration Saskia Noor van Imhoff | Exhibition

VITRINE Basel

2017

The group show “Identify your limitations, acknowledge the periphery ROUND 2″ is curated by Chris Bailey and Alys Williams at VITRINE, Basel, during Art/Design Basel. Saskia Noor van Imhoff and myself will show some collaborative works.

Collaboration Saskia Noor van Imhoff | Exhibition

Galeria Francisco Fino

2017

The work Second Spade, a close collaboration with Saskia Noor van Imhoff, will be part of the group Show “Morphogenesis”, curated by João Laia in the new gallery of Francisco Fino in Lisbon, Portugal.

15^th May – 28^th July, 2017
Rua Capitão Leitão, 76
1950-052 Lisbon
Portugal

Publication

De Groene Amsterdammer

2017

Story by Rudi Fuchs in ‘De Groene Amsterdammer’ about Second Spade, in collaboration with Saskia Noor van Imhoff.

Saskia Noor van Imhoff & Arnout Meijer, Second Spade 03, 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Exhibition | Solo Show

Solo Show Gallery VIVID

2016

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First solo show of Arnout Meijer at Galerie VIVID in Rotterdam.

opening Friday, 3 February 2017, 5pm

Publication

W Magazine

2016

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Publication

Disegno

2016

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Publication

TL Magazine

2016

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Publication

Eigen Huis & Interieur

2016

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Collaboration | New work | Sculpture

Zuiderzee Museum – Thomas Eyck

2016

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New work for the upcoming exhibition 10 years Thomas Eyck at the Zuiderzee Museum. A close collaboration between Saskia Noor van Imhoff and Arnout Meijer.

Exhibition | Light Sculpture | Lighting Series | New work

Victor Hunt – Design Miami 2016

2016

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Arnout Meijer will be showing several new works with Gallery Victor Hunt at coming Art/Design Miami. Stay tuned!

photography: Lee Wei Swee

Exhibition | Light Sculpture

VIVID – Design Miami 2016

2016

Upcoming Art/Design Miami 2016 Arnout Meijer will be showing a new work for Gallery VIVID.

Exhibition | Installation

Brussels Design September

2016

Exhibition 196 m3 magenta green during Brussels Design September, made possible by Panerai.

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Exhibition

Design Basel 2016 – VIVID

2016

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June 13- 19, 2016

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Gerrit Rietveld
Aldo Bakker
Vincent de Rijk
Emmanuel Babled
Janne Kyttanen
Christie van der Haak
Richard Woods
Ettore Sottsass
Andrea Branzi
OMA / Rem Koolhaas
Lebbeus Woods
Andries Copier
Geert Lap
Antonin Raymond
Arnout Meijer
Olivier van Herpt

Exhibition

Kazerne ‘NEXT UP – Jeroen Junte’

2016

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Exhibition

Galerie VIVID

2016

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Exhibition

ARCAM

2016

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Publication

Forbes

2016

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Exhibition

Design Miami – VIVID

2015

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Exhibition

GLOW Next

2015

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Publication

Top 25

2015

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Exhibition

6th Moscow Biënnale

2015

Arnout Meijer Studio is part of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibiting the Thanks for the Planets at the National Centre for Contemporary Art (NCCA).

TO SEE THE SOUND has been included in the Special Program of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. The co-organizers of the festival are the international Todays Art Festival (The Netherlands) and Moscow City Galleries Network.

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Exhibition

In No Particular Order

2015

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Exhibition

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

2015

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Exhibition

Northmodern

2015

Every Light Series and the Thanks for the Planets on show at Northmodern.

004A / Bella Center
Copenhagen

13-15 August 2015

Exhibition

Transnatural

2015

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Every Cylinder and Every Cone on show at Visual Vibrations.

Transnatural

June – September 2015

Exhibition

Design Parade 10

2015

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The Every Light Series was part of the Design Parade 10 competition.

Villa Noailles /
Hyères

July 2015

Exhibition

Het Nieuwe Instituut

2015

Light is a vector projecting a line and the Star Polygon Lamp are part of the exhibition ‘GLASS’.

Het Nieuwe Instituut / Rotterdam

April – August 2015

Exhibition

D’ DAYS Paris

2015

Every Light Series with Dutch Invertuals at D’ DAYS in Paris.

Paris

1 June – 7 June 2015

Exhibition

Design Basel – VIVID

2015

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Thanks for the Sky at Galerie VIVID during Design Miami/Basel 2015

Basel

15 June – 21 June 2015

Exhibition

Kazerne

2015

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Every Torus and the Every Cylinder at the Kazerne during the Dutch Technology Week

Kazerne / Eindhoven

31 May – 6 June 2015

Publication

Eigen Huis & Interieur

2015

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Publication

Volkskrant Magazine

2015

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Exhibition

Dutch Invertuals

2015

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The Every Cone, Every Torus and Every Cylinder lighting series are part of the group exhibition ‘BODY LANGUAGE’.

Dutch Invertuals / Via Pastrengo 12, Milan

14 -19 April 2015

Exhibition

Rosanna Orlandi

2015

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The Every Torus Light and Every Cylinder Light will be exhibited at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi.

Spazio Rosanna Orlandi / Via Matteo Bandello 14, Milan

14 -19 April 2015

Exhibition

PROOFFLab

2015

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The Every Cone Light on show at ‘PROOFFLab Magazine’

Atelier Clerici / Via Clerici 5, Milan

14 – 19 April 2015

Exhibition

Transnatural

2015

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The Thanks for the Sun Wall Lamp is part of the Art & Design label of Transnatural.

Transnatural / Via Ventura 6, Milan

14 -19 April 2015

Exhibition

OPEN WORLD

2015

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Light is a vector projecting a line is part of the exhibition OPEN WORLD at the Kazerne.

Publication

WIRED

2015

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Exhibition

Domestic Affairs

2015

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‘Domestic Affairs’, a group exhibition at the PASSAGE during imm Cologne, January 2015

Exhibition

Design uit het land van de aardappeleters

2015

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The Thanks for the Sun wall lamp is part of the exhibition ‘Design uit het land van de aardappeleters – vormgevers ontmoeten Van Gogh’.

Noordbrabants Museum / ‘s-Hertogenbosch
January – April 2015

Exhibition

SOLO

2015

The Thanks for the Planets going ‘SOLO’.

Gallery OODE / Singel 159 Amsterdam
January – April 2015

Publication

Eigen Huis & Interieur

2014

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Publication

Zeit Magazin

2014

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Publication

LICHT

2014

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Exhibition

Cohesion – Dutch Invertuals

2014

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Exhibition

Open Mind

2014

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Exhibition

Design in Full Colour

2014

The ‘Thanks for the Sun’ table- and desk lamp are part of the group exhibition ‘Design in Full Colour’ curated by Scholten&Baijings during the Dutch Design Week 2014.

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Exhibition

Dee Dee Wee Doom Pa Di Dee

2014

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Exhibition

Galerie VIVID

2014

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Arnout Meijer Studio is part of the group exhibition ‘Goodness’ at Galerie VIVID in Rotterdam from July 13 – August 31, 2014.

Gerrit Th. Rietveld
Aldo Bakker
Richard Woods & Sebastian Wrong
Lily van der Stokker
Ted Noten
Wim Crouwel
Joost van Bleiswijk
Minale-Maeda
Jaime Hayon
Pieke Bergmans
Babs Haenen
Glithero
David Derksen
Richard Hutten
Arnout Meijer
Iwan Baan

Publication

AD Germany

2014

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Publication

Frame Magazine

2014

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Publication

ELLE Decoration

2014

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Thanks for the Sun Series featured in the ELLE Decoration issue of april/may.

Exhibition

‘O’ at Salone del Mobile 2014

2014

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Together with Brit van Nerven & Sabine Marcelis Arnout Meijer Studio presented the collaborative exhibition ‘O’ during the Salone del Mobile 2014.

Exhibition

‘Self Unself’ at Salone del Mobile 2014

2014

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Arnout Meijer Studio was part of the group exhibition ‘Self Unself’ of the Design Academy Eindhoven during the Salone del Mobile 2014.

Publication

Schöner Wohnen

2014

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Arnout Meijer is featured together with the ‘Thanks for the Sun’ Series at imm cologne by Schöner Wohnen, the largest printed design magazine of Europe.

Exhibition

PAD Paris by ToolsGalerie

2014

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Tools Galerie will be presenting the Thanks for the Planets at PAD Paris.

EXHIBITION DATES

27 MARCH – 30 MARCH 2014

ADDRESS

Esplanade des Feuillants
Facing 234 rue de Rivoli
Opposite rue de Castiglione
75001 Paris
Métro : Tuileries

OPENING HOURS

11AM – 8PM

Sunday, March 30 – 11AM – 6PM

Night Opening

Thursday, March 27 11AM-10PM

Exhibition

OBJECT Rotterdam

2014

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Publication

Dezeen

2014

Exhibition

imm cologne

2014

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Publication

AD Germany

2014

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Publication

Volkskrant Magazine

2013

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Arnout Meijer Studios ‘Thanks for the Sun’ Series is featured by Jeroen Junte in the Volkskrant Magazine, one of the largest quality-newspaper of the Netherlands.

Exhibition

Dutch Design Year

2013

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‘Thanks for the Sun Wall Lamp’ and ‘Get ready for the Launch’ on display at Dutch Design Year in the Beurs van Berlage.

Publication

Eigen Huis & Interieur

2013

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Arnout Meijer Studio’s Thanks for the Sun-series in Eigen Huis & Interieur. On the cover of the supplement ‘het Katern’.

Exhibition

Priveekollektie

2013

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The Thanks for the Sun Serie is at the group exhibition “Object / Non-Object” at the gallery Priveekollektie in Heusden aan de Maas.

Exhibition

Inside Design by Gallerie Lemaire

2013

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During ELLE Inside Design Galerie Lemaire exposed, next to tribal art, work of Tejo Remy & Rene Veenhuizen, Arnout Meijer Studio and Vincent Mensink. All designers showed their work in combination with ethnographical pieces. Arnout Meijer Studio exhibited the Thanks for the Sun Series next to Oceanic tribal design, armaments with corresponding shapes and graphics.

Publication

Frame

2013

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Mocoloco

2013

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Wallpaper

2013

Exhibition

Dutch Design Week 2013

2013

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Publication

NRC Handelsblad

2013

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Arnout Meijer Studios ‘Thanks for the Sun’ Series is on the cover of the lifestyle supplement of the NRC Handelsblad, one of the largest quality-newspaper of the Netherlands.