Cor Unum celebrated in 2023 the 70th anniversary with an extensive plate collection “Legends & Legacy”

To celebrate its 70th anniversary, ceramics producer Cor Unum invited 70 young and renowned designers to design a plate for the Legends & Legacy collection.
The presentation can be seen in the Cor Unum store ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
This Legends & Legacy collection was first shown at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2023 in Milan, Italy.

Photography: Dana Savic

Participating artists:
Maarten Baas – Gijs Bakker – Syrco Bakker – Carole Baiijngs – Inge Bečka – Ben van Berkel – Paulien Berendsen – Joost van Bleiswijk – Sofie Boonman – Arian Brekveld – Zeynep Dag – David Derksen – De Makers Van – Kiki van Eijk – Mae Engelgeer – Bruno Ninaber van Eijben – Atelier FIG. – Ineke Hans – Sergio Herman – Floris Hovers – Richard Hutten – HUMADE – Thom de Jong – Claudy Jongstra – Kranen/Gille – Joost Gijzel – Vivian Heyms – Studio Kluif – Klaas Kuiken – Teun Kunen – Guus Kusters – Charlotte Landsheer – Zweitse Landsheer – Marloes de Laat – Geke Lensink – Alberto Meda – Alessandro Mendini – Winy Maas/MVRDV – Marc Mulders – Barbara Nanning – Marc Newson – Atelier NL – NOMADE – Ted Noten – Kirstie van Noord – NL architects – Marga van Oers – Jorine Oosterhoff & Bert-jan Lam – Satyendra Pakhalé – Nathalie du Pasquier – Ruudt Peters – Yuri van Poppel – Simone Post – Benno Premsela – Yon Prust – Studio Rens – Marlies Rohmer – Laura van Santen – Bryan van Schooten – Eric Sloot – Beppy Schut – Job Smeets – Roland Pieter Smit – George Sowden – Pieter Stockmans – Birgit Verwer – Claire Vos – Renate Vos – Roderick Vos – Jeroen Wand – Alex de Witte – Carolina Wilcke – Floris Wubben – Truly Truly – Piet Hein Eek – Parklaan bijzondere projecten – Roel Vaessen – Visser & Meijwaard

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Transmutation

2005-2006

With this serie I no longer use the coloured sand coating. What was concealed beneath the beautiful surface is now revealed. I want to show the inside, the body and the organs, how they relate to each other, how they all flow and meet.

Botanica

1996-2007

Terra

1991-1996

Galaxy

1989-1993

It was my fascination for millennia of motion, the spinning around of the planets, stars and molecules and my desire to record the essence of this motion that resulted in these objects. I consider the turns in my ceramics like a wave that moves towards its highest point – the rising tension, just before the moment when the wave breaks.

That presentation not only resulted in her being awarded the 1990 Ceramics Prize but also in an invitation from a Japanese delegation to take part in the opening exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Shigaraki, Japan.

Fossil forms

1988

Barbara found the inspiration for her Fossil forms in Cappadocia, a chalk-white Turkish landscape with dwellings hewn from the cliffs and weather-eroded masses of rock.

“The barrenness, the monochrome quality, the purity appealed to me enormously. These impressions led to unglazed, turned pots and vases, which were circumvented with rope, causing bulges to arise between the constrictions. This was the beginning of the series of Fossil forms, which emerged from a sort of spiral shape. First the cylinder of wet clay, wrapping a rope around it and then turning the clay outward through the pressure of my hands. In a subsequent phase I cut out the bottoms and laid these turned forms on their sides, so that a pot or vase became a free object.”

Soft ceramics

1979 – 1983

Between 1979 and 1983 I placed the emphasis on applying colour to turned pots. I based my methodology on the colour theory of the Bauhaus, in particular that of Johannes Itten. In the second stage bowls and vases in which coloured threads, brought from Mexico, are added as a decorative or constructive element.