All I Want for Christmas / Aldo Bakker
Laureline Galliot, 'Piggy bank', 2013
By TDE Editorial Team / 8th December 2020
THE INIMITABLE ALDO Bakker, the Dutch designer for whom inventive form precedes function, is our next Christmas wish list interviewee.
Aldo Bakker COURTESY: Carpenters Workshop Gallery /
PHOTOGRAPH: ©Erik & Petra Hesmerg Courtesy
Which collectible design object would you like Father Christmas to bring you?
I would love a work from Laureline Galliot, or Thomas Nathan.
Laureline Galliot, ‘Piggy bank’, 2013
COURTESY: Laureline Galliot Studio
Why these objects?
Because Laureline has a voice of her own – and Thomas did a beautiful project based on a lump of clay. Each lump carries his personal fingerprint, he presses them into a mould and builds bowls and plates like this, so the uniqueness in each lump collectively takes the form of the mould.
Thomas Nathan, ‘Cylindrical Red Brown’ from the Lumps Of Clay series, 2018
COURTESY: Thomas Nathan Studio
You’ve made many pourers, carafes and other jug-type objects in your career, but which ones will find themselves on your table during Christmas Dinner? Yours, or someone else’s?
Hopefully, one of the new pouring vessels we did for J Hill’s Standard, they’ll be ready very soon!
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