Overview

Dutch designer, Petra Vonk, launched her Amsterdam design studio in 1990 after graduating from the Eindhoven Design Academy. Collaborating closely with architects and interior designers has resulted in innovative textiles and their uses. Playing with the characteristics that are bound within specific materials and techniques, Petra creates often new and unexpected concepts and applications. Through the use of repetition in abstract pattern designs, her designs experiment with transparency, while contrasting materials and progressive techniques arouse curiosity. Design objects display expressive visual and tactile qualities with an emphasis in functionality, be it to enhance the acoustic properties of a space or offer intimacy to an interior by means of impenetrable graphic patterns.