Studio Barbara Vos gives a lecture about her studio, her tex-tiles and her experience at EKWC (European Ceramic Work Centre) as an inspiration for setting up a fablab at 4Havens, Rotterdam.

Tex-tiles are submitted to the material library of Centro Stile Fiat Group Automobiles, as an innovative inspirational material for the design team of the automotive industry.

Centro Stile Fiat is nowadays called Centro Stile Fiat Group Automobiles and is located near the research center Elasis CRF in Orbassano since 2007. The design departments of the brands Fiat, Lancia, Alfa Romeo, Abarth, Maserati and Fiat Professional are all joined together at this location. The old Officina 83 in sector B of Mirafiori was only used by Fiat for press introductions and presentations of new design projects over the last years.

Centro Stile Fiat, once one of the biggest design departments in the world, has recently changed owners for an amount of 3,4 million euros (4,5 million dollars or 3 million pounds). Enthusiasts of the Italian brand will remember the building as ‘Officina 83’. Fiat already sold it to the town and region Piemonte in 2005. The city of Turin already owns multiple divisions of this big Mirafiori-complex under the name of ‘Torino Nuova Economia’ and is structurally looking for new destinations. Though lots of people have feared for years that useless shopping centers or even theme parks would be built there, this property of 22.000 square meters has now been bought by a supplier of components in the car industry of Lingotto itself.

Tex-tiles are submitted to the material collection of the Material Library of the London Metropolitan University.

Tex-tiles are submitted to the material collection of SCIN Gallery in London. SCIN Gallery is a materials Sourcing and Advisory Gallery. SCIN Gallery finds new materials and show them to Architects, Designers and Specifiers in an inspirational and informative way.

SCIN have a strong team of Material Researchers, scientists and experts that like to wrestle with a Material problem.

SCIN can provide evidence to assert and help clients in their trend reviews. The format this information is delivered in depends entirely upon the client and their required interface.

During the Elle Inside Design Week Studio Barbara Vos is presenting her Tex-tiles at the showroom of luxuary tile and sanitary store Intercodam at Amstel 135, Amsterdam.

‘tex-tiles’ are now presented at Materia’s Inpiration Centre in Amsterdam. Five different panels will travel around the world with worldwide exhibitions about the newest materials. The panels are showing different colors of LED lights and different structures in the tiles. Tex-tiles are very exclusive porcelain translucent tiles, with a tex-tile relief.

The Meermanno Booklights are bought by the Almagro Festival at the Ciudad Real province in Spain. The Booklights are used to complete the exhibition about the life of Luis de Góngora, a Spanisch poet born in Cordoba.

Haags Werk is participant of the exhibition in Ventura Lambrate during the Salone del Mobile, the international furniture fair. Haags Werk is a group of designers from The Hague,  who presented themselves internationally at the fair. Check the pdf below. Haags Werk is initiated by Tiddo de Ruiter, Dennis Slootweg, Geanne Welles and Barbara Vos. 2011-2012.

Studio Barbara Vos introduced 2 new products: the Meermanno Booklight and Tex-tiles. www.tex-tiles.nl