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NEW YORK TAXI Yellow 5034 14 × 4,5 × H 4,2 POLICE CAR Brilliant Blue 5051 13 × 4,5 × H 4,2 SCHOOL BUS Melon Yellow 5077 19 × 4,5 × H 5,7

Designed by Floris Hovers, 2013

Materials

• Car 1. Car models. In steel profiles painted in epoxy resin.

Dimensions

Available finishes

• CAR 1 Green 5037 15 × 4,5 × H 4,2
• SPORT CAR Blue 5052 15 × 4,5 × H 3
• AMERICAN CAR Pink 5086 16,5 ×5 × H 2,7
• NEW YORK TAXI Yellow 5034 14 × 4,5 × H 4,2
• LONDON TAXI Black 5130 12 × 4,5 × H 5
• POLICE CAR Brilliant Blue 5051 13 × 4,5 × H 4,2
• HEARSE Black 5130 18 × 4,5 × H 4,7
• LONDON BUS Red 5081 18 × 4,5 × H 8,2
• SCHOOL BUS Melon Yellow 5077 19 × 4,5 × H 5,7
• DUMP TRUCK Orange 5079 15,5 × 5,5 × H 6,1
• TOW TRUCK Yellow 5034 14 × 4,5 × H 6,5
• US TRUCK Grey 5124 White 5105 26,5 × 4,5 × H 6,6
• BULLDOZER Orange 5079 11,5 × 5 × H 7,5
• GARBAGE TRUCK Orange 5079 15,5 × 4,5 × H 6,6
• ARMY JEEP + CANNON Olive Green 5036 23 × 4,5 × H 2,5
• ARMOURED VEHICLE Olive Green 5036 13,8 × 4,5 × H 3,7
• SMALL TRUCK Orange 5078 11,5 × 4,5 × H 6,6
• MILK TRUCK White 5105 15 × 4,5 × H 3,8

About the designer

Floris Hovers

Designer and artist Floris Hovers has built up a colourful, playful and surprising oeuvre over the past sixteen years, with a completely unique signature. Floris Hovers graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven and has since been an independent designer of a wide range of products including toys, furniture and other interior products and unique items. His designs are produced and marketed by himself or by reputable producers. With his autonomous work, prototypes, miniatures and product designs for the industry, Floris Hovers invites the viewer time and again into his almost perfectly simple world, where there is plenty of room for the observer’s own imagination.

A somewhat basic, simple approach to techniques and materials are important for designer Floris Hovers to communicate his vision and way of working. Knowledge and intuition go hand in hand, just like man and machine.

In his work he is constantly looking for the fundamentals, simplicity and a balance in function and aesthetics. He himself calls it the “evaporation” of excess. He strives for work that is not complex but has enough in it to arouse wonder and sympathy. Hovers’ works have a sense of familiarity about them because they often reference the past while resisting the iconic. For example, the products often allow themselves to reveal how they are made. Legibility is essential to his design, allowing the user to follow it, so that it appears honest and open.