This Thursday, we celebrated the opening of CTRL Matter during London Craft Week with a private view and conversation featuring Willem Zwiers, hosted in collaboration with @chiselarc and the Dutch Embassy @nlinuk with special guest Dutch Ambassador Paul Huijts.
As part of the exhibition, we took the opportunity to highlight a number of Dutch designers we have long represented and admired, recognising the Netherlands’ distinctive contribution to contemporary craft, material innovation, and technology-led design.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening evening.
#CTRLMatter #LondonCraftWeek #DutchDesign #WillemZwiers #ContemporaryCraft
Mint presents CTRL Matter, an exhibition exploring the evolving relationship between technological systems and organic processes.
Here, bio-based materials meet technology not as opposites, but as points of connection. Bridging matter and code, the works combine traditional techniques with AI-driven methods to question how we see, make, and relate.
Rather than presenting a seamless fusion, CTRL Matter reveals a productive tension, one where imperfect systems remain in constant dialogue.
Image featuring Three Eyed Monster chair by Thanos Paspaliaris
#LondonCraftWeek #CTRLMatter #MintGallery #ContemporaryDesign #CollectibleDesign
Mint’s Spring window display brings together works that blur the boundaries between function and sculpture.
@kimkim_ceramic ’s Salty Fairy Danji draws on Korean traditions of protection and the folklore of fairy rings; @eleonorejoulin reimagines natural forms through sculptural ceramics, informed by art history and gastronomy; and @leoferreiromobiliaqueverve ’s Care furniture translates the spirit of Brazilian jangada boats into sculptural pieces.
#SpringDisplay #WindowDisplay #ContemporaryDesign #CollectibleDesign
#LondonDesign
Carrara marble shines bright in this spring sunlight.
The Emersa console by @paoloulian for @bufalinimarmi turns what’s usually hidden into the main event, carved to reveal a honeycomb structure that feels impossibly light for solid stone. Centuries of craft meet a fresh way of thinking about form, where tradition and experimentation sit side by side.
On view as part of Break With Care, Mint’s early spring show.
📷 Images by @ingeeee
#CarraraMarble #ContemporaryDesign #CollectibleDesign #SculpturalFurniture #ItalianDesign
#MantaPiltiDrySandCredenza, American walnut and brass, 2023.
By #TanyaSinger and #TrentJansen.
Edition of 3, 2 remaining.
Available through @trentjansenstudio in Australia, @galleryallart in China, @_mintshop_ in the UK, @rossana_orlandi in Europe and @wexlergallery in the USA.
Manta Pilti (Dry Sand) has been designed to communicate the time critical catastrophic effects human induced climate change is inflicting on Country around Indulkana in remote South Australia.
For countless generations, Relational correlations between seasonal patterns of plants and animals have supported life in Indulkana, governing food collection, hunting, totemic relationships, and Law on Country. As the climate changes, these age-old relationships are thrown out of alignment.
Tanya’s references include the Parakeelya flower, a small purple bloom that once blanketed the Indulkana hills and is now seen far less frequently. This once plentiful bloom is now only found in hard-to-spot patches far from the road, because of the increased heat, reduced rainfall and dry, sandy soil caused by climate change.
This fading bloom and the dry sand in which it grows are emblematic of hotter, dryer Country and tangible examples of ecosystem degradation in this region. They form the conceptual focus for the collaboration. Tanya and Trent have used the motif of cracking sand and Tanya’s interpretation of her mother’s favourite flower to inform the design of a furniture collection that can communicate this complex and troubling narrative.
This project has was supported by
@ahec_anz , @creative.gov.au , @artssouthaus , @unswartanddesign , @marukuarts , @ngvmelbourne , @artbankau and @fremantleartscentre .
Maker - #ChrisNicholson
Photography - @fiona_susanto
#DesignAnthropology
CHOPSTICKS 箸, an initiative beautifully curated by Yoko Choy, that brings together 16 creative minds from China, Korea, Japan, Italy and Belgium, to reinterpret this iconic object rootly imbedded in East Asian culture.
#milandesigweek2026 #fuorisalone2026
Re-veneer Cabinet by @studiojeroenwand
Jeroen Wand is a Dutch designer based in Eindhoven whose practice is rooted in experimentation. He challenges conventional ideas of beauty, using raw, unpolished methods that shape both form and function and reveal rather than hide the process of making.
‘Re-veneer Cabinet’ transforms discarded veneer into the structure of the piece itself. By reversing the logic of industrial laminating, the material becomes its own surface and core, forming bold layered compositions that celebrate imperfection and process.
#ContemporaryDesign #CollectibleDesign #FurnitureDesign #MaterialInnovation #DutchDesign
The Dialogue by @z.i.x.u.a.n.zhang
Zixuan Zhang is a CSM graduate and a material-led, multidisciplinary artist working across ceramics, glass, and 3D design.The Dialogue is a collection of ceramic and glass vessels inspired by Qing Dynasty forms. The series explores the relationship between ceramics and glass through 3D printing and mould blowing, creating layered textures that emphasise the interaction between traditional materials and contemporary techniques.
📷 slides 1-3 by @ingeeee
📷 slides 4-5 by @simon_bruntnell_photographer
#ContemporaryCraft #Ceramic #Glass #3Dprinting #collectibledesign
Ceramic Vessels by @eleonorejoulin
Blurring the line between sculpture and everyday object, Eléonore Joulin draws on art history, gastronomy and architecture to create playful, unexpected ceramic forms. From cabbage leaves to courgettes and asparagus, each piece reinterprets historic traditions through a contemporary lens.
Featured in Break with Care, her work gently questions the role of function and domesticity, transforming familiar forms into something quietly surreal.
📷 Images by @ingeeee
#BreakWithCare #EleonoreJoulin #ContemporaryCeramics #CollectibleDesign #Ceramic
