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Studio Job
Tilburg, Netherlands
Studio Job is an art and design studio based in the Netherlands and Milan. Job
Smeets (Belgian, b.1969) founded Studio Job in 1998, combining traditional
and modern techniques. At his atelier in the Netherlands, Smeets leads a team
of craftspeople to produce monumental sculptural art works, working mostly in
bronze but also uses marquetry, stained glass and other crafts.
Smeets has had collaborations with other artisans, such as Moooi in the
Netherlands, Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum, Swatch, Landrover and Swarovski
in Austria.
Studio Job has been nominated for several awards, including the Dutch Culture
Prize in 2000 and the Rotterdam Design Prize in 2001, and the studio has
won several awards, including the Bombay Sapphire prize in 2004, the Elle
Decoration Intl Design Award in 2005, the Paper Chandelier Elle Decor Intl
Design Award in 2007, and the Rotterdam Design Prize in 2009. Their work has
been shown all over the world in numerous museums and galleries, including
the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria & Albert
Museum in London, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, the Dutch Textile Museum in
Tilburg, the Salon del Mobile in Milan, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Museum
at FIT in New York, the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan, the NRW Forum
in Düsseldorf, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris, the San Francisco
Museum of Craft+Design, and the Groninger Museum in Groningen.
Smeets is the only non-Italian member of the Non-modernists, a group of
creatives including Maurizio Cattelan and Charley Vezza.
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