Work Clock Dick Van Hoff for Royal Tichelaar Makkum. Ceramic and Oak. 32x 16x 8cm. Battery driven quartz. In great condition. No missing parts, cracks or damages. Included original box. Self-styled "industrial tailor" Dick Van Hoff has created a collection of desk products for Dutch ceramics company Royal Tichelaar Makkum. The collection - called Work - consists of lamps, a clock, a vase and a pen tray made of ceramic and wood. The result: a series called ‘Work’, including five desk ornaments: two desk-lamps, a clock, a vase and a pen tray. New is also that all objects are made of ceramics and wood. The ceramic products have oak parts, which they would not be able to do without for functioning properly. The oak parts actually make the difference between ornament and tool. Royal Tichelaar Makkum again managed to widen the use of ceramics and illuminate it from a different perspective. This first batch items were produced by Royal Tichelaar Makkum and were marked, Tichelaar, at that time stopped producing design items so Van Hoff produced the items himself using the same molds and techniques and therefore these items aren’t marked. Royal Tichelaar Makkum likes working with like minded artists. In recent years these were Hella Jongerius, Studio Job, Marcel Wanders and Jurgen Bey. Dick van Hoff, a versatile artist with a remarkable feeling for design and material, and great affection for industrial and traditional technology, is a logical choice for Tichelaar. His work is collected by the famous Boijmans van Beuningen art museum of Rotterdam and various Van Hoff products can be found in the Droog collection. For Dick van Hoff, the production process, even more than the design from which he starts, is essential for his art. Consequently his work has an organic way of evolving, which lends it an authenticity that appeals to many connoisseurs’ imagination. This item might be interested for collectors of Dutch designers and architects such as Maarten Van Severen, Studio Job, Hella Jongerius, Maarten Baas, Irma Boom, Richard Hutten, Makkink & Bey, Bertjan Pot, Scholten & Baijings,