Awards 99

For the very first time, the VIZO is giving its "van de Velde Career Award" to an industrial designer pure and simple: Philip Neerman. This is the logical outcome of the strategic reorientation this Flemish governmental institution has subscribed to. Philip Neerman is receiving this award...

In 1993, Tine Vindevogel (1971) graduated from the Antwerp Sint-Lucas Institute (now Karel de Grote College, Jewellery Department). As she had higher ambitions, she then enrolled at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts, a few blocks away from her old...

When the late Eli Ostyn started manufacturing school furniture in 1960, he probably never imagined that Obumex would one day develop into an internationally renowned company, especially famous for its kitchen concepts.

We visited Sylvie Vandenhoucke (°1969) in her studio before we knew that she was this year's laureate of the Henry van de Velde Best Product Award. What struck us immediately was the way her work resembles her general...

Wim Segers was the winner of the Henry van de Velde Public Award 99 with 'Natal'.