About Studio Molen

Confining Studio Molen to a sentence, to a single piece of paper even, is hard. Not just because they make a lot of different things (barbecues, chandeliers, chairs, outdoor installations, interior design, graphic design, water reactive tiles, and that’s just for starters) but because it’s simply to impossible to contain Frederik Molenschot, the founder of Studio Molen. He’s a blur of constant energy, always talking, walking, doing anything but nothing. Go to Studio Molen to talk with him about his work and he simply won’t stop moving, running almost, around his workshop, grabbing things to show you, put in your hands and draw you into his world.

Maybe it comes from his education. He graduated in “Man & Public Space” from the Design Acadamy, Eindhoven and that’s what he does. Connect people and their environment. “If you’re an architect, your world is a building. A graphic designer works on a newspaper or a wall, while a landscape architect plays with nature itself. I try and draw all these worlds together and see what happens when they meet.”

What happens when they meet are projects like The Citylight Chandelier or MolenKitchen. They’re just two of the things pouring out of Studio Molen. For more information, email post@studiomolen.nl. Or pop round to Studio Molen itself. You’ll find it on the banks of the river Zaan in Zaandam, a small town just outside Amsterdam, full of windmills, tulips, dykes and every other Dutch cliché apart from clogs. They only wear those in the North of Holland. Just don’t plan on a short visit. Because when Fred starts talking, he just won’t stop.