I'm Pete Heineck and I'm a designer but I've chosen to do much more.
The only thing we wanted is to create this environment where we are happy and are able
to create. It wasn't meant to be this big but when we bought the building this was the only one
where the workplace could be in the heart of the company which was important for us so that if
a client walks in you can see how it's designed but you can also see how the products are made
and then we had some additional square meters so everything we wanted to do a little bit
we started doing really big so the lunchroom became a restaurant the collaboration with
young designers became studios we rented the art above the sofa became a gallery and little
things around the counter became a shop and so everything we thought was important to create
our own world became very large. The whole theme always has been that I want to make my own stuff
so when I got my degree at that moment already Eindhoven was the perfect place to produce
at that moment it was less obvious that it was important to realize your designs
so I was one of the few who stayed in Eindhoven and now most of the young designers stay here
for the same reasons as I stayed here 20 years ago so and then well we started working.
In general people know me from the scrap wood products when I started with it that was not
done so it was totally new that in a time where products were all perfect that you introduced
quite a rough product. We started with metal and wood immediately but also ceramics upholstery
and a lot of machines which we use not how they should be but but we just put different materials
on the machine. We have a collection which is called Waste Waste 4040 so it's made of the
leftovers from the leftovers we all of a sudden have a size which determines everything in the
design so the thickness of the surface is either 40 or 80 and the leg is either 40 80 120 so
everything is determined by this 4040 size so this is the next step and each time we set steps
and it's always about the process. The last step we make now is that we even not left overs from
production but really garbage from production or home or or holiday or office and the back on the
on the door there is a plastic bag and everything which is useless which you normally throw away
I throw in this bag and we make boosters with it like the Romans did. This is the rubbish from the
the Tenerife beach so it's the holiday rubbish. I always collect a lot of things on beaches and
when I'm on holiday and the funny thing they're all the children were helping and we made a huge
one of leftovers from the spraying cabin mainly so with the tins and the baskets and the bins
and it's I think it's three and a half meters high so this is the last step we set in the material
um fetishization maybe that's the right word
