LINDE FREYA TANGELDER
- Date of birth
1987
- Nationality
Dutch
- Distinguishing features
YOUNG DESIGN TALENT OF THE YEAR 2023, this designer strives for sensory relevance and cultural value in detail and on a larger scale. Her works have a sculptural and architectural character, and balance between contemporary and traditional elements.
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Biography
Linde Freya Tangelder is a Dutch designer/artist and founder of the studio Destroyers/Builders in Antwerp, Belgium. Inspired by architectural shapes, the studio’s furniture pieces highlight the field between industry and human, through diverse materials. Constructions are scaled down to human sizes, resulting into sculptural gestures. Both low and high-end materials get revalued, reconsidered and transformed. The interventions and finishes by hand give these architectural objects a tactile aspect. The contrast in materials, the touchability and the human traces that are still visible in the object, explain the method of Destroyers/Builders.The urge to situate the works in a spatial context, in which the specific architectural space will start a dialogue with the objects, is the main focus of the studio. Integrations and relations between the context and the work, whether it is a sculpture, a furniture piece or an architectural fragment, result into inseparable connections between the disciplines.
Destroyers/Builders takes on projects that range from commissions to self-initiated projects and extend across the realms of both architectural furniture and interior projects.