Pasta, toy soldiers, forks and balloons are just a sampling of the materials Stijn van der Vleuten, Marcia Nolte and Bob Waardenburg use to make…carpets. As the design team behind “We Make Carpets,” the trio creates temporary floor coverings based on the shape of their chosen material. Their combination of unexpected supplies and traditional uses of symmetry has made their creations a blanket success. And with endless material possibilities, the We Make Carpets team is just getting started. Get floored by what inspires these creative visionaries in each of their 10 ANSWERS below.
Stijn van der Vleuten
1. How would you describe your work in three words?
Site-specific useless objects.
2. Who is your creative role model?
Frank Havermans, in both his three dimensional objects and his drawings.
3. If you had an extra hour each day what would you do with it?
I’d probably be sleeping. Because I love my work, it’s always hard to stop in time for rest.
4. What place in the world most inspires you and why?
Cappadocia, Turkey. The best combination of nature and architecture. It’s beautiful how the land got its shape from volcano eruptions. And stunning that people used ash and soft stone to create buildings in the mountains and complete cities underground.
5. If you could do a different job for a day what would it be and why?
I would be an archaeologist.
6. What is your favorite homemade gift to give?
Small scenes made out of miniature toys, like scale dolls/people, barbie’s (or parts of them).
7. What is your favorite object in your home?
My record player and my records.
8. What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
It’s better to regret something you have done than to regret something you haven’t done.
9. What websites do you use for inspiration?
Wooster Collective.
10. When do you consider a piece of your work complete?
That’s just a feeling…
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Marcia Nolte
1. How would you describe your work in three words?
Daily, intuitive, inspiring.
2. Who is your creative role model?
I never had any life long idols. Certain people inspire me in a certain period of my life/work.
For the last period in my work, I would say Charles Darwin was influential.
3. If you had an extra hour each day what would you do with it?
Go to the market. Look at all the lovely fruits and vegetables and buy all the nice and tasty ones.
4. What place in the world most inspires you and why?
Lago di Barrea, at the campsite of Stefano in Italy. I used to live in Italy to learn the language and their way of living. It really has everything, mountains, lake, food from the farmers. Stefano really shows you the way of living in Italy and that everything can be so tranquilo. The inspiration is maybe that it clears your mind.
5. If you could do a different job for a day what would it be and why?
International field-hockey player. I used to play hockey a lot. I can put all my energy and emotions into it. I would like to make money while being physical.
6. What is your favorite homemade gift to give?
A homemade card, in which I write down an invitation to have dinner at a nice spot in Amsterdam.
7. What is your favorite object in your home?
All the plants I have. I really like seeing them grow, especially when they almost die, but then you get them alive again.
8. What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
Keep talking with your closest environment.
9. What websites do you use for inspiration?
I don’t. I prefer books.
10. When do you consider a piece of your work complete?
When I checked all the details are right and have a happy feeling in my body.
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Bob Waardenburg
1. How would you describe your work in three words?
Temporary contemporary carpets.
2. Who is your creative role model?
I try to look as little as possible to other artists, I am always afraid I will unconsciously copy them. However, I really like Sol LeWitt’s approach to art and his way of making it.
3. If you had an extra hour each day what would you do with it?
I probably wouldn’t even notice. That is the good thing about my job. It doesn’t count hours, it counts finished works and projects.
4. What place in the world most inspires you and why?
Nature, any nature. I don’t understand it and that makes it very nice to look at. The fact I see something very beautiful and can’t grasp why it’s beautiful…I try to approach that as much as possible in my work. Being in nature makes me feel like I want to do and make a lot of stuff.
5. If you could do a different job for a day what would it be and why?
I would be a pilot in an Apache helicopter. A good friend of mine would be the board shooter. This is something we decided a long time ago. How great would it be to fly around and shoot stuff: evil villains and other bad and/or ugly stuff wouldn’t survive long… I think it’s good that this is a hypothetical question.
6. What is your favorite homemade gift to give?
As we speak I am working on a homemade limoncello. At the moment, I cook a lot for people and I like to tell stories.
7. What is your favorite object in your home?
My sound system, no life without music.
8. What is the best advice you’ve ever received?
Leave the music on when leaving home, so that it’s playing when you return.
9. What websites do you use for inspiration?
There is not much inspiration for me on the internet. However, I use torrentz.com for movies. Movies are the greatest thing after music. I watch movies and listen to music and get a good feeling, which is better inspiration. Unless of course getting a good feeling is the same as inspiration.
10. When do you consider a piece of your work complete?
When I don’t know what to do anymore, but as the carpets concern: when it is square and has a dimension of approximately 1:1,5.
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