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Design agency Clients include the leading brands Droog, Camper, Levi's, Heineken, British Airways, Feadship and Ikea. Tjep. Internationally, Tjep.

Founded by Frank Tjepkema in 2001, the studio has garnered a reputation for delivering outstanding creative work across a broad field of expertise that includes award winning interior, architectural, product, furniture, visual and jewelry design. Spanning both the commercial and cultural sectors, Tjep.’s diverse portfolio of acclaimed work has made it the studio of choice for people and brands seeking a unique and original design perspective. fuse together peerless design with accomplished expertise in the latest production techniques. is recognized for their dedication to uniting strong design concepts, beautiful aesthetics and great functionality. The studio’s hallmarks are amazing people with color-rich designs that make unexpected connections, playing with people's sense of the intuitive and rational.

04/10/2026

The debut. Codrico factory, Rotterdam, four days in September.

Five machines scrolled without pause, and something unexpected happened in front of them: people stopped, and watched. Nobody reached for their own phone. For a few minutes at a time, a room full of visitors stood still while the machines did the scrolling for them.

That was the idea, but we hadn't counted on it working so literally.

Thank you to everyone who came, asked, argued and stayed longer than they'd planned. And to Big Art for giving a new work a monumental first room.

Infinite Scroll — kinetic sculptures in corten, stainless steel and brass. Edition of 8 per material.

Next: Dutch Design Week, Kazerne Eindhoven, 17–25 October.

We created a machine that scrolls, so you don't have to.

26/09/2026

A crowd with nobody in it.

Every face on these screens is generated. None of them exists. They pass by in an endless feed, never repeating, while the machines below swipe them away one by one.

Shown in the Theatrum Anatomicum at the Waag in Amsterdam — a room built four centuries ago for the public dissection of a human body. Social media carries on the same work, only faster: faces opened up, judged, discarded, by the thousand, every day. The scalpel is still here — a steel point, lowered onto a body. Only now the bodies are virtual, and the scrolling is the real thing. And the scrolling has been taken over by the machines. Leaving us free at last.

Infinite Scroll — kinetic sculptures in corten, stainless steel and brass. Edition of 8 per material.

Next: Dutch Design Week, Kazerne Eindhoven, 17–25 October.

We created a machine that scrolls, so you don't have to.

09/08/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 13

Clockwork Love Wings (2010). The mechanical heart takes flight — a winged heart of interlocking cogs, etched in gold-plated stainless steel and kept, like any precious mechanism, with its own miniature key. Some hearts you wind up; this one you set free. Now in the Susan Grant Lewin Collection at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Not a single feather redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.

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08/08/2026

famillyTjep. ❤️ AI — 11

Oogst 1 (2009). A self-sufficient farm for one — a living pod raised on three legs inside its own greenhouse, with chickens, a windmill, solar panels and a mini recycling plant closing the loop on food, energy, heat, oxygen and waste. Oogst is Dutch for "harvest"; in principle, you could live here without ever leaving the house. Shown at the Designhuis Eindhoven in Li Edelkoort's "Boer zoekt stijl".

Not a single pane redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.

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05/08/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 11

Chrysalide Chair (2019). A Louis XIV chair remembered from childhood, caught in the act of becoming something else — soft Alcantara held by bronze limbs that slip out of the frame and keep growing. As we said at the time: "I tried to visualize the aesthetic of metamorphosis in an elegant contemporary furniture piece." A unique piece, unveiled at Masterly The Hague.

Not a single tendril redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.

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04/08/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 10

Clockwork Love Arrow (2010). Desire, built as a mechanism — the Arrow from our Clockwork Love series, where cut and layered elements stack up into what looks like a machine frozen at the moment of impact. First shown at Gallery Ra in Amsterdam, from the same family as the mechanical heart that opened this series. Love here doesn't simply arrive: it is aimed, wound and released.

Not a single cog redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.

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03/08/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 07
Bronze Age Lounge Chair (2014). A deliberate counter-move against digital, technology-driven design — cast in bronze for its endurance, sustainability and recyclability. Sculptural strength drawn from ancient craftsmanship, a classic form retold for an age of climate concern. An edition of 8, now in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and Van Abbemuseum, and held by Philippe Starck and Li Edelkoort.
Not a single line redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.
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02/08/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 08

Darwin Table (2013). Furniture grown from a person's own genetic code — a saliva sample is sequenced, mapped in 3D, and translated by hand into a silhouette no two people could ever share. The first belongs to dancer : her DNA, transformed in solid form. Premiered at Ventura Lambrate during Milan Design Week together with — a form made of the one thing that is uniquely yours.

Not a single contour redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.

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01/08/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 07

Graph (2007). An aristocratic collar for the quantified age — laser-cut from shape-memory stainless steel, its silhouette rising and falling as the same curve that reads our heartbeats, our markets, our performance. No clasp, no chain: the steel remembers its form and holds itself in place. A portrait of a life measured, worn where a ruff once was — do we command the curves, or only wear their imprint?

Not a single peak redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.

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31/07/2026

Tjep. ❤️ AI — 06
Il Treno Fuori (2014). An outdoor dining booth inspired by vintage train travel — anodized aluminium frames, slatted red cedar seats, handlebars and an overhead canopy. Born from our indoor Il Treno at Milan Design Week and rolled outside: personal journeys shared over meals, turning any public space into an intimate compartment for two.
Not a single slat redrawn — the AI only built the world around it.
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Amsterdam Centrum

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Website

http://www.tjep.com/

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