ibis Styles Rotterdam Ahoy is now open

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Adjacent to the Rotterdam Ahoy concert venue and convention centre the new ibis Styles Rotterdam has opened its doors in Rotterdam-Zuid. This stylish hotel offers 250 contemporary and spacious rooms. Together with the chic Italian restaurant, Giacobbe Aperitivo e Cucina, this stylish hotel promises an unforgettable experience. In Rotterdam, the typical ibis Styles features are reflected […]

The city collection of Rotterdam comes to life

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Unfolding across a 66-metre window display, a new pop-up exhibition tells the story of Rotterdam through over a hundred artefacts from the Netherlands’ largest historical city collection (containing 115,000 items). Despite there currently being no city museum to showcase these unique pieces, beautiful images, and moving stories, this exhibition’s setting perfectly encapsulates Rotterdam’s spirit. Situated […]

OMA unveils PRINCIPLES

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Rotterdam-based architecture firm OMA has worked together with UniFor to create PRINCIPLES. The fundamental concept of PRINCIPLES is to provide furnishings that can be used by anyone, at any time, to best support the flow of operations and communications required by the contemporary workplace. PRINCIPLES was awarded with iF Design Award. The collection is composed […]

The New Raw crafts plastic waste with robots

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The New Raw is a research and design studio based in Rotterdam and was founded in 2015 by architects Panos Sakkas and Foteini Setaki with the ambition to give new life to discarded materials through design, robots and craftsmanship. The New Raw already introduced several meaningful products that are 100% circular. The Knotty is their newest […]

Visit the world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship

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Götheborg of Sweden is the world’s largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, an 18th century replica of the original Götheborg that sank outside of Gothenburg in 1745. May 11 it moors at the Holland Amerikakade. The ship can be visited until May 14.    Rotterdam is a stopover for the ship en route to home port […]

Rotterdam-based Lex Pott designs for Vero

Lex Pott for Vero

Vero is a young furniture brand advocating a new era of Italian design. It believes in the values of informality and transparency. The brand asked Rotterdam-based Lex Pott to design for them. Pott employs a raw and intuitive method. In his work, he returns to the origin of the materials he uses most: wood, stone […]

Smart electric vehicle company NIO parks at the Meent

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NIO is a new car company. It designs and develops smart, high-performance, electric vehicles but also wants to build communities. By opening NIO houses in big cities for example. There now is a NIO House in Rotterdam, at de Meent.    At the outpost, NIO wants to offer a pleasant, welcoming space for (new) users to […]

Let’s have a Kunstenaarsbal, the official afterparty of Rotterdam Art Week

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The Kunstenaarsbal will close out Rotterdam Art Week with an arty afterparty at De Doelen. On Saturday, February 11, the Kunstenaarsbal offers a unique and multidisciplinary evening and night full of visual arts, photography, performance, theatre, audiovisual art, and music. It’s the first edition in Rotterdam and brings different generations, disciplines, and groups from all […]

Rotterdam-based interior designer Lotte Faassen presents the Benson Sofa Collection

Lotte Faassen is an innovative young interior designer from Rotterdam. She works with a feeling for beautiful, luxurious and innovative materials and already has several award-winning projects. Rapture Interior Luxury has asked her to design the Benson Sofa Collection.

Lotte Faassen is an innovative young interior designer from Rotterdam. She works with a feeling for beautiful, luxurious and innovative materials and already has several award-winning projects. Now, together with Rapture Interior Luxury, Lotte created the Benson Sofa Collection. Lotte Faassen has been working independently as a designer for Studio de Blieck, her mother’s interior […]

Luxury Watch Brand IWC Schaffhausen opens newest boutique in Rotterdam

Leading luxury watch brand IWC Schaffhausen has opened a new state-of-the-art boutique in Rotterdam. This marks the first boutique in Europe with an updated architectural concept from the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer. The boutique at Kruiskade 61 has a fully immersive environment centering around its most iconic product lines and highlighting key aspects such as […]