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Born in Amsterdam in 1991, Manon Stoeltie is a Dutch designer who studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where she is now based. Her practice centres on experimentation, craftsmanship and the artistic possibilities of material research. Her work has been shown at Collectible in Brussels, at Milan and Paris Design Weeks and at Dutch Design Week, and has featured in Elle Decoration.

Through bricolage, she turns everyday waste, such as polystyrene packaging and aluminium, into functional and singular interior objects. Her Amended series is the most complete expression of this approach. Drawing on traditional techniques such as antique plastering, and deliberately keeping material manipulation to a minimum, she makes sure each piece stays recognisable as the sum of its parts. Her work is driven by the conviction that making and meeting demand have become too closely linked. Rather than producing in response to consumer needs, she favours curiosity and playful making, and keeps adapting her methods to question her own part in mass production. She also draws inspiration from architecture and natural structures, alongside the shapes and textures of the materials she finds.

Between sustainability and craft, Stoeltie turns what is overlooked into objects that question how we consume.