Wonder Club House

Furniture composition & Photography for Wonder Festival 

Designers: Antonino Triolo, Aurélien Veyrat, Hélène del Marmol, Leto Erin Keunen, Merlijn Troch, Minjung KIM, Paul Schaffer, Rebecca Ackaert, Rutger de Regt, Seppe Dombrecht, Xavier Servas 

 

For WONDER, Dijkstra brought together nine Belgian design brands and eleven designers in Cohousing Ten Broele. Their work is diverse, yet united by an experimental approach to
material. They embody craftsmanship, explore boundaries, and find form through making. Dijkstra plays with their work as he does with space. Function fades, form speaks. What
emerges is more than a composition: it’s a conversation between objects, materials, and people. A reminder that design is not only about beauty, but about what moves us. And that,
thankfully, it can also be fun.

Berry Dijkstra composes still lifes with design objects and furniture. In his installations, functionality takes a back seat to material, form, and colour. He calls it painting with furniture:
playing with design, and showing that far more is possible than most people imagine. He selects, stacks, and shifts. His approach may seem intuitive, yet it’s never accidental. He combines worlds into installations that play with balance, tension, and dialogue, often with a touch of friction, mostly with a wink. Art that chafes, as long as it’s real. The space itself joins in. His canvas is an old classroom with high ceilings, original details and a monumental fireplace - the starting point for his work. Nothing is hidden away: missing tiles, that’s just a part of the whole, cables are given striking colours. Everything you see belongs to the story.