Onno Adriaanse.

Onno Adriaanse is an Eindhoven-based designer and artist whose studio creates sculptural design objects, art objects and interior applications rooted in landscape, natural structures and geological process. His work often appears eroded, grown, compressed or excavated rather than merely designed.

Born in the Netherlands in 1991, Adriaanse graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven and founded Studio Onno Adriaanse in 2016. The studio works across commissioned and self-initiated projects using wood, natural stone, composite materials and experimental surface processes, placing function in direct relationship with emotional and tactile experience.

The studio's visibility includes representation through several international galleries. His work was recently presented in an extensive exhibition in Milan with Dilmos Gallery, and will later this year be shown during PAD London and PAN Amsterdam. The studio's broader body of work includes collections and commissions such as Hedera, Fossil, Dawn, bespoke furniture and stained kitchen projects. His work has been published in magazines such as Architectural Digest, ELLE Decoration, and Domus.

For Project Materia, Adriaanse continues his exploration of design collections inspired by geographical processes. In his new collection, titled Pyrite, he brings together a close relationship between natural reference, contemporary craft, and tactile interior objects. During 3 Days of Design, he will present his latest work: the Pyrite side table, made from Matek material. Through an optical effect, a three-dimensional form emerges from flat sheet material, creating the illusion of multiple shapes fused together, a reference to the cubic pyrite crystals that form in nature.