Our lab is an experimental playground set up to tinker with a diverse range of cases with the aim to shape the future in collaboration with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other young motivated people. We want to show the beauty of how things could work using our imagination, plain logic and a sense of poetry to create objects or installations full of content that bare a promise and eventually contribute.

Most manufacturing of our experimental work is done in-house since we refuse to believe things can't be done. We aim to develop and design industrial translations of these and other useful products and ideas in collaboration with companies like Flos, Vitra, Swarovski, Droog, Jaga and more.

The lab was set up in 2004 by Joris Laarman and partner and film maker Anita Star. They both were born in the rural countryside of the Netherlands in 1979. In 1998 after one year of fine arts Joris attended the Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated cum laude in 2003. He gained first notoriety with his functional rococo radiator heatwave that was first picked up by Droog and now also produced by Jaga. He contributed in articles and seminars for Domus magazine and he was a guest teacher at European universities like the Architectural Association London, Rietveld academy Amsterdam and the DAE. After her study film and documentary Anita joined forces in 2004 to set up a production house where anything can be created. From design to film to writing.

Our lab is an experimental playground set up to tinker with a diverse range of cases with the aim to shape the future in collaboration with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other young motivated people. We want to show the beauty of how things could work using our imagination, plain logic and a sense of poetry to create objects or installations full of content that bare a promise and eventually contribute.

Our lab is an experimental playground set up to tinker with a diverse range of cases with the aim to shape the future in collaboration with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other young motivated people. We want to show the beauty of how things could work using our imagination, plain logic and a sense of poetry to create objects or installations full of content that bare a promise and eventually contribute.

Our lab is an experimental playground set up to tinker with a diverse range of cases with the aim to shape the future in collaboration with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other young motivated people. We want to show the beauty of how things could work using our imagination, plain logic and a sense of poetry to create objects or installations full of content that bare a promise and eventually contribute.

Our lab is an experimental playground set up to tinker with a diverse range of cases with the aim to shape the future in collaboration with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other young motivated people. We want to show the beauty of how things could work using our imagination, plain logic and a sense of poetry to create objects or installations full of content that bare a promise and eventually contribute.

Our lab is an experimental playground set up to tinker with a diverse range of cases with the aim to shape the future in collaboration with craftsmen, scientists, engineers and many other young motivated people. We want to show the beauty of how things could work using our imagination, plain logic and a sense of poetry to create objects or installations full of content that bare a promise and eventually contribute.

At the moment the lab works with a permanent staff of 6 and a continuously growing group of free lancers with their own specific talent who make everything possible.