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08 muller van severen

14 objects

15 table + lamp

16 rack + table large

17 new writing desk

18 rack + table small

21 rack + table small + brass

24 table s

25 table s + marble

26 first chair

28 low table + lamp

30 duo seat + lamp

32 seat red/pink

33 seat blue/green

34 first rocking chair

35 rocking chair

36 rocking chair

37 rocking chair

38 rack + seat

39 installation s

40 installation s

41 installation s

45 hanging lamp nº 1



51 standing lamp nº 1

52 cutting boards

55 coasters

56 valerie objects

58 contact

In 2011, photographer Fien Muller (°1978) and sculptor Hannes

van Severen (°1979) made their debut as a design duo at

Galerie Valerie Traan. What was perhaps at first a pleasant little

diversion for the two visual artists into that frontier zone between

art and design, quickly took on a different dimension.

Their joint furniture project attracted international attention

virtually immediately and their furniture sculptures can be seen

in leading galleries and museums in Belgium, as well as in

London, Berlin, Milan, Copenhagen, Paris and New York.

A broad selection of their work has now been collected as part

of the new valerie objects label, an initiative by Veerle Wenes,

Axel Van den Bossche and Frank Lambert.

This marks a promising sequel to their much-noted entry into

the world of design. Fien and Hannes have been on an inspired

quest for sculpturally interesting furniture objects since 2011

– items that are spontaneous and produced with apparent

effortlessness. The universe that they create together dovetails

very naturally with their work as separate artists.

muller van severen

08 – 09

The crucial difference lies in their functionality. Their artistic

vision influences their view of how objects can be placed

and used within a space. Their furniture sculptures can

be used by different people together, separately or all at

the same time. They also usually offer additional functional

possibilities, such as combining seating, storage, working

and lighting into the same object. But for the artists, the

starting point and finishing touch at all times is the question:

would we want to live with it ourselves?

Their fascination for certain materials and the properties they

offer, their individual feeling for colour and the characteristic

tension between the taut and the playful, the static and

mobility create continuity and identity for their work. At the

same time, new associations and interpretations deliver the

necessary surprises.

Their much-praised use of colour stems partly from the

artists’ characteristic way of working. As do their fine,

dynamic lines. They enjoy working – including as artists

– with “found” building stone, such as existing, standard

materials with their typical colours, shapes, properties

and dimensions. They love assembling their prototypes

themselves in a simple, intuitive manner, without involving

cumbersome technical processes. They don’t do too much

preliminary design on paper, but prefer to start working

directly with spatial profiles. They see welding as a sort of

three-dimensional, life-size sketch.

A major strength of Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen

is that they produce items of furniture that are both visual

and sculptural by creating many more dimensions in space,

as well as in other ways. The beauty is that this injection of

poetry is also transposed into innovative, functional added

value.

Words based on the text of Chris Meplon.

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objects

14 – 15

lacquered steel/polyethylene

200 × 100 × 100 cm

78,7 × 39,4 × 39,4 inch

table + lamp

black frame/green

V9015001G

black frame/blue

V9015001B

black frame/light blue

V9015001LB

white frame/green

V9015002G

white frame/blue

V9015002B

white frame/light blue

V9015002LB


190 × 80 × 155 cm

74,8 × 31,4 × 61,0 inch

V9015008

rack + table large

16 – 17

lacquered steel/polyethylene/marble

152 × 180 × 45 cm

59,8 × 70,9 × 17,7

V9015010

new writing desk


152 × 180 × 45 cm

59,8 × 70,9 × 17,7 inch

V9015009


190 × 180 × 45 cm

74,8 × 70,9 × 17,7 inch

Table top blue

V9015023A

rack + table small

Table top yellow

V9015023B

Table top green

V9015023C

18 – 19

20 – 21

brass/polyethylene

190 × 180 × 45 cm

74,8 × 70,9 × 17,7 inch

Table top green

V9015022A

Table top yellow

V9015022B

rack + table small + brass

22 – 23


73 × 70 × 70 cm

28,7 × 27,6 × 27,6 inch

table s

yellow

V9015003Y

green

V9015003G

pink

V9015003R

light blue

V9015003L

24 – 25

lacquered steel/marble

73 × 70 × 70 cm

28,7 × 27,6 × 27,6 inch

table s + marble

red/red brown

V9015004R

grey

V9015004G

white

V9015004W


80 × 38 × 49 cm

31,5 × 15,0 × 19,3 inch

first chair

light blue/pink

V9015005PL

green/yellow

V9015005YG

pink/red brown

V9015005BP

light blue/green

V9015005GL

pink/yellow

V9015005YP

green/red brown

V9015005GD

green bright/blue

V9015005GB

light blue/red brown

V9015005LD

26 – 27

white frame/marble tabletop

163 × 100 × 100 cm

64,2 × 39,4 × 39,4 inch

V9015025

white frame/green tabletop

163 × 100 × 100 cm

64,2 × 39,4 × 39,4 inch

V9015026

low table + lamp

28 – 29

brass/polyethylene/green

163 × 100 × 100 cm

64,2 × 39,4 × 39,4 inch

V9015024

lacquered steel white/leather

V9015016W

lacquered steel red/leather

V9015016

unlacquered steel black/leather

V9015016B

duo seat + lamp

61 × 182 × 62 × 170 cm (lamp)

24,0 × 71,7 × 24,4 × 67,0 inch

30 – 31

lacquered steel/textile

65 × 180 × 60 cm

25,6 × 70,9 × 23,6 inch

V9015017RP

seat red/pink

32 – 33

lacquered steel/textile

65 × 180 × 60 cm

25,6 × 70,9 × 23,6 inch

V9015017BG

seat blue/green

lacquered steel green/leather

65 × 81 × 60 cm

25,6 × 31,9 × 23,6 inch

V9015018

first rocking chair

34 – 35

brass/textile pink

65 × 81 × 60 cm

25,6 × 31,9 × 23,6 inch

V9015021

rocking chair

lacquered steel mustard/textile yellow

65 × 81 × 60 cm

25,6 × 31,9 × 23,6 inch

V9015020

rocking chair

36 – 37

lacquered steel white/textile red

65 × 81 × 60 cm

25,6 × 31,9 × 23,6 inch

V9015019

rocking chair

unlacquered steel/leather/polyethylene

140 × 92 × 80 cm

55,1 × 36,2 × 31,5 inch

V9015012

rack + seat

38 – 39

(un)laquered steel/leather/polyethylene

180 × 121 × 80 cm

70,9 × 47,6 × 31,5 inch

installation s

lacquered white frame

V9015011W

unlacquered frame/

table top green

V9015011U

installation s

(un)laquered steel/leather/polyethylene

180 × 121 × 80 cm

70,9 × 47,6 × 31,5 inch

unlaquered frame/table top black

V9015011B

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installation s

brass/leather/polyethylene

180 × 121 × 80 cm

70,9 × 47,6 × 31,5 inch

table top green

V9015011M

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44 – 45

brass

70 × 158 cm

27,5 × 62,2 inch

V9015014M

hanging lamp nº 1

46 – 47

lacquered steel

unlacquered steel

140 × 175 cm

55,1 × 68,9 inch

unlacquered

V9015014U

green

V9015014G

blue

V9015014B

black

V9015014Z

curry

V9015014C

hanging lamp nº 1

235 × 75 cm

92,6 × 29,6 inch

hanging lamp nº 2

unlacquered

V9015015U

green

V9015015G

blue

V9015015B

black

V9015015Z

brass

V9015015M

curry

V9015015C

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50 – 51

lacquered steel

190 × 100 × 120 cm

74.8 × 39,4 × 47.2 inch

blue

V9015013B

green

V9015013G

brass

V9015013M

curry

V9015013C

light grey

V9015013LG

black

V9015013Z

standing lamp nº 1

polyethylene/brass

70 × 33 × 9 cm

27,6 × 13,0 × 3,6 inch

set/4

set a

V9015006A

set b

V9015006B

cutting boards

set c

V9015006C

set d

V9015006D

set e

V9015006E

a

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b c

d e

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lacquered steel

50 × 30 cm

19,7 × 11,9 inch

set/4

coasters

different colours

V9015007A

black

V9015007B

about valerie objects

When Axel and Frank (Serax) and Veerle (Valerie Traan Gallery)

first met, they discovered that joining forces could be highly

productive for them. Combining their own, sometimes intuitive,

and personal taste for the good and the beautiful and their volition

to communicate pieces from designers and artists to appropriate

audiences, they decided to start up valerie objects.

Valerie objects is going to be launched (summer 2015) with

“The Cutlery Project” and a fine selection of Muller Van Severen

pieces. The Cutlery Project is brand-new cutlery by international

designers Jinhyun Jeon (KR/NL), Muller Van Severen (B),

Maarten Baas (NL), Studio Simple (B/NL), Koichi Futatsumata

(JPN) and Studio Wieki Somers (NL). To be launched in June

2015 at le Musée des Arts Décoratifs – Paris.

Valerie objects shapes its collection by working with designers,

architects and artists. The aim is to translate the signature works

of these creative minds into tangible objects. Pride of place will

always go to authentic thinkers, to pieces that have been carefully

thought about, designed and fashioned by intelligent hands.

But valerie objects also goes looking for those objects that

already exist, but which have not yet seen the light of day. Pieces

that have not found their way at the right time, right place or to the

right person. It’s a form of “recycling” ideas. A sustainable quest

for hidden talent.

These pieces will come into the collection when the time is ripe

for them. When the hands that made them are ready and when

everyone can see that they are good.

valerie objects

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about the art director

Veerle Wenes is independent curator and the owner of

Valerie Traan Gallery in Antwerp (B). She has staged

20 exhibitions there since 2010. All of them totally out

of the box. “Valerie Traan Gallery is a place for objects

and subjects, for topics and themes, for functional and

subjective ways of looking at things,” says Veerle Wenes.

“I often walk a fine line between design, architecture and

art. Each one of the artists, architects and designers

whom I exhibit is a genuine thinker with whom I feel a real

connection.” For Grand Hornu (B), she was the curator

of Le Fabuleux Destin du Quotidien (2010) and the family

stories of Le Labo des Héritiers (2014) featuring the

Vermeersch, Scarpa, Bakker and Van Severen families.

She is part of the expert and advisory board at the Ghent

Design Museum.

about the owner Serax

Axel Van Den Bossche and Frank Lambert are successfully

putting Serax on the international map. Today, Serax has

no fewer than 4,000 interior objects, ranging from original

glasswork and elegant dinnerware to items of interest

and contemporary furniture. Serax is all about innovative,

accessible and affordable design and works with leading

designers from home and abroad. Valerie objects operates

as a new, exclusive and independent label within this

dynamic group.

contact

Veldkant 21 2550 Kontich Belgium

T +32 3 458 05 82 F +32 3 458 05 84 [email protected]

www.valerie-objects.com

photography

Fien Muller

Except photo’s on page 35 and 36

Page 35: Frederik Vercruysse

Page 36: Heidi Lerkenfeldt

graphic design

undercast thanks to

maff and Sven Beirnaert

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15 table + lamp

V9015001G

V9015001B

V9015001LB

V9015002G

V9015002B

V9015002LB

16 rack + table large

V9015008

17 new writing desk

V9015009

V9015010

18 rack + table small

V9015023A

V9015023B

V9015023C

21 rack + table small + brass

V9015022A

V9015022B

24 table s

V9015003Y

V9015003G

V9015003R

V9015003L

25 table s + marble

V9015004R

V9015004G

V9015004W

2900

2900

2900

2900

2900

2900

3800

3300

4200

3800

3800

3800

4200

4200

1200

1200

1200

1200

1800

1800

1800

26 first chair

V9015005YG

V9015005BP

V9015005GL

V9015005YP

V9015005GD

V9015005GB

V9015005LD

28 low table + lamp

V9015025

V9015026

V9015024

30 duo seat + lamp

V9015016W

V9015016

V9015016B

32 seat red/pink

V9015017RP

33 seat blue/green

V9015017BG

34 first rocking chair

V9015018

35 rocking chair

V9015021

36 rocking chair

V9015020

37 rocking chair

V9015019

490

490

490

490

490

490

490

4200

2900

3400

3900

3900

3900

2900

2900

1800

2200

1800

1800

recommended retail price list 2015

38 rack + seat

V9015012

39 installation s

V9015011W

V9015011U

40 installation s

V9015011B

41 installation s

V9015011M


V9015014M


V9015014U

V9015014G

V9015014B

V9015014Z

V9015014C


V9015015U

V9015015G

V9015015B

V9015015Z

V9015015M

V9015015C

hanging lamp n°3

V9015030Z

V9015030R

V9015030I

4000

4500

4500

4500

5500

900

680

680

680

680

680

680

680

680

680

900

680

690

690

690

hanging lamp n°4

V9015031Z

V9015031B

V9015031M

hanging lamp n°5

V9015032Z

V9015032B

V9015032G

V9015032I

V9015032M

51 standing lamp nº 1

V9015013B

V9015013G

V9015013M

V9015013C

V9015013LG

V9015013Z

52 cutting boards

V9015006A

V9015006B

V9015006C

V9015006D

V9015006E

55 coasters

V9015007A

V9015007B

680

680

680

590

590

590

590

590

1250

1250

1800

1250

1250

1250

690

690

690

690

690

100

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