People / Leendert De Vos
Architect, interior and furniture designer based in London. My approach to design always stems from a playful use of the everyday, creating work that is sustainable, sensitive, adaptive, and elegant. I grew up in Belgium and graduated as an civil engineer in architecture in 2017. After a year of designing and making furniture at Atelier Ternier in Ghent, I moved to London to work for Caruso St John Architects. In 2022 I started my studio, pursuing furniture and object design, architectural interventions, and scenography.
Scale Scoop Candle Holder
I use existing objects as my source material. It’s a lot of looking around on the streets, hardware stores, online… and imagining a different use for them by making assemblies of these found parts. It’s a way of shining a light on some of the common objects around us, saying that many things we might take for granted are actually quite beautiful. Aside from being a fun game to play my approach is also about material scarcity. As we’re depleting natural resources at a fast pace we have to become a lot more resourceful with the things that are already around us. Lastly it’s a way to avoid expensive prototyping, which can be a road block for many emerging designers. By using existing objects as a source material and putting them together in a way that requires minimal labour I can make objects that are affordable and easy to produce in bigger batches.