Zaandam (Amsterdam)-based designer Eric Klarenbeek has an impressive portfolio.

Musical Box was part of an investigation on the integration of electronics in our environment. The wooden musical box runs on old-fashioned mechanic principles but opens on a digital video of a ballet dancer (Laura van Hal): old values united with new electronics.

Eye-jewellery is a project investigating artificial objects which are alien to our body, but actually become or belong to it, like contact lenses. The designer tried to give them a closer connection and attention. The eye-jewellery is a contact lens which you can really wear, it has no influence on your sight and you don’t even feel it. So it fuses with the lens and takes over its function, a symbiose of object and body.

The Floating Light lamp heats its surrounding volume of air, to gain the ability of floating. The inspiration came from blowing bubbles, the weightless fragility and the heat of our lungs which can make a bubble float. Despite its big volume, Floating Ligth is extremely light, with a weight reduced to 300 grams (including lamp, wires, construction, material etc.).

Floating Light was picked up by Marcel Wanders, and is now part of the Moooi Collection.

Picture of Floating Light by Maud Rijken, Musical Box by Hans Ober. Other images by Eric Klarenbeek