CARtools

Set of 26 elements in wood for compositions of vehicles. Materials: solid beech painted with non-toxic paints.

Designed by Floris Hovers, 2015

Materials

• Stacking children’s chair. In polypropylene with glass fibre added.

Dimensions

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.