Small, minimal lamp, made from the essential components of a lamp. They compose of a square wood base, a circular hand crochet videotape (VHS) lampshade hanging from a brass tube bent at a 90-degree angle and a light bulb.
Length 19 cm
Width 19 cm
Height 32 cm
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Gilles Werbrouck
- Knitter
- Brussels, Belgium
- Rising Star
Contact
French, Dutch, English
Hours:
By appointment only
By appointment only
Phone:
+32 475625322
+32 475625322
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Yearning for yarn
- • Gilles uses VHS tape in his murals and lamps
- • Knitting offers him the freedom he craves
- • He is part of a new generation of innovative knit designers
Gilles Werbrouck started by creating garments with ready made fabrics, but the limitations of this material quickly frustrated him. “I couldn’t do exactly what I had in mind with them,” he says. He then discovered the possibilities of knitting. “As a knit designer, you get to choose the yarn, the colours, the way you will knit it. It offers great freedom.” After working for some time in fashion, he felt the need to express himself in another way. “I realised that knitting is barely used for interior design, even though it’s a perfect medium for it.” Werbrouck decided to focus on murals and lamps. In 2017, he opened his own workshop. “At first in my former flat. It was just me, my yarn and my tools.” Shortly after, he established his current studio in Brussels.
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Rectangular wall panel made from black, organically shaped hand crochet videotape (VHS). An opening offers a glimpse of the petrol-blue painted canvas that the tape is covering.
Length 60 cm
Width 80 cm
Height 2.5 cm
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Square wall panel made from black, organically shaped hand crochet videotape (VHS). From afar, it gives the illusion of strong, sculpted waves, while being light and airy up close.
Length 60 cm
Width 60 cm
Height 5 cm
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Rectangular wall panel made from beige and black cotton, wool, linen yarns and polyester raffia. The pleating is created by knitting individual strips of fabric and manually moving the stitches every six rows.
Length 80 cm
Width 60 cm
Height 2.5 cm
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Lamp Project Gilles Werbrouck x Hugues Loinard
Black hand crochet videotape (VHS) cylinder, immersed in white jesmonite. The videotape appears randomly on the surface of the jesmonite and ultimately emerges from it as a lampshade in different organic shapes.
Diameter 8 cm
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