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The first collection FreelingWaters Cabinets was made in collaboration with the Wrong Shop in London. There are two large one door cabinets: Kasimir and Pina (after Malevich and Baush), a couple of tall narrow ones called Titia and Maria after our mothers, a medium low one door piece called Stanley (after Kubrick)  and two bedside tables named William B. (Blake) and William M. (Morris). We created a palette of Mars Black, Titanium White, Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium red middle and Cadmium Yellow Light. All sides, tops and bottoms and interiors are covered with different patterns. Sometimes they follow the carpenters architecture of the piece and articulate all different parts, sometimes they are like a skin that subtly dissolve the three dimensional appearance of the cabinet.

Photography by Peter Tijhuis

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Boymans van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam commissioned us to make four cabinets two present a selection of their extensive ceramics collection in their new public MVRDV Depot building. We proposed to make them completely black and white because the pots and dishes would be colourful and we wanted our cabinets to be wild as always but also supportive to the presentation. We made Leida after the lovable caretaker of our studio building in Amsterdam; Scarlett as a tribute to Johansson’s performance in Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin; a chequerboard one called Magnus (Carlsen) and a cabinet called Amy (Winehouse) filled with crystal bottles.

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The third cabinets collection was commissioned by the Future Perfect. We made a large double door called Anderson (Paak, because we were listening to his tiny desk concert all the time while painting it); a midsized one door called Hadassah after painter Hadassah Emmerich; Lucian and Sigmund (the Freuds) two bedside tables; A tall one door cabinet in warm undulating waves on the outside and lined with crystal bottles we named Octavia (Butler) and Frances (McDormand) decorated with verbalised bird sounds. The pigments are Cadmium Orange, Ochre, Emerald Green, Ultramarine Blue, English Red, Mars Black and Titanium White.