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BERTJAN POT is a pioneering Dutch designer renowned for his innovative approach to furniture, lighting, and home products. With a fervent dedication to showcasing materials as the centerpiece of his creations, Pot emphasizes the transformative potential inherent in material experimentation. His design philosophy underscores the significance of structures, patterns, and colors, guiding his work towards captivating and unconventional outcomes.

Driven by curiosity and a penchant for impulsive exploration, Pot embarks on each project with a relentless pursuit of novel functionalities and aesthetic expressions. Whether collaborating with manufacturers or independently pushing boundaries, he embraces challenges as opportunities for growth and discovery.

Pot’s visionary designs have earned him international acclaim, with his creations prominently featured in prestigious institutions such as The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Notable collaborations with industry giants including Arco, Cassina, Febrik, Hay, and Nike further underscore his influential presence in the design world.

If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make. 

Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.