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Alexander Pelikan

Alexander Pelikan head of PeLiDesign, an international design studio and a producer of great concepts and extraordinary products.

With our team we embark on your projects! Apart from serving our clients we initiate design research projects. PeLiDesign is about truth: we love to show the inner beauty of things. Because of that we are interested in long lasting relationships with our customers and clients.
PeLiDesign was established in 2005 by Alexander Pelikan, Dutch designer of German origin and is based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

PeLi about creating:
‘By designing I want to explore new roads and I want to be surprised where these roads take me.’
Experimentation with common and new materials and techniques for example is such a new path. Another one is working with dedicated craftspeople, other designers and innovative companies. While wandering these new ways ideas emerge which are transformed and integrated in my works. In my designs I am embracing coincidence – any detail could be of importance.
I often stroll together with friends through cities and nature for pleasure and input. Back home in my atelier all these impressions are crystallizing via experimentation into new forms.
When I am busy with an assignment or free work, I want to dive into the technique and I want to be able to make it myself or at least understand every single step of the creation…that is very important for me: to identify with “head and hand” with the stuff I create.

A Machine’s Perception

A scanner is only a human, in other words: machines are not that perfect as we see them. With the project ‘A Machines Perception’ a want to go to the fringes of automated reproduction .
A 3D scan is seemingly accurate but indeed it is very much subject to coincidence (we only think these processes are perfect) if you go to the technological frontiers the true nature or the essence of scanning are revealed.
After 3D printing the scans get touchable in a beautiful way.

Alexander Pelikan:

“In CLICFURNItURe I translated the ideas of the modernists into the digital age. The CLICFURNItURe is craftsmanship of the digital age - uniting pure function with material beauty.

The connection of wood (european cherry) and glass (pilkington extra Clear) became only possible by working together with expert craftsmen and by pushing the limits of advanced production techniques (CNC diamond milling). In a world where most products are mere sleek and shiny surfaces it became a necessity for me to recollect myself to the humbleness of craftsmanship. In CLICFURNItURe made from wood and glass, I show the power of what I call ‘digital craftsmanship’. Using everything that is technically possible and combining that with skillful handwork opened up new horizons to create exciting products.
To design a lounge chair and a fitting table was logical for me - while lounging and enjoying your leisure time these products tell their story best.

Biography
Alexander Pelikan / born in Germany 11 december 1974 / living in Frankrijkstraat 110

5622 AH Eindhoven / +31(0)641403687 / peli@pelidesign.com / pelidesign.com

Education

2001-2006 Design Academy Eindhoven / Dept. ‘Het Atelier’ (Hella Jongerius, Dick van Hoff,
Miriam van der Lubbe) BA
2003 Woodcarving /Holzfachschule Elbigenalp, Tyrol, Austria
2000-2001 Drawing classes / Bodo Bremer, Heidelberg, Germany
1999-2000 University of Heidelberg / Cultural Anthropology, Psychology
1995-1999 Cabinet Maker Apprenticeship / Schreinerei Barth, Shreinerei Schroth Gesellenbrief
1987-1995 Gymnasium Heidelberg College / Abitur

Work

2005-today PeLiDesign; Concepts, products (design and production)
2004-today Product development; Maarten Baas
1999-2001Various freelance projects, e.g. interior for a Physician Doctor, with Architect Tobias Scholz, Heidelberg, Germany

Expositions & Projects

2011

Exposition Huize Brabant, Tilburg, with A Machine’s Perception Door Handles
Exposition London Design Week at TuttoBeNe with A Machine’s Perception Door Handles
Expositon/member of Jury TAIWAN World Design Exposition with CLICFURNITURE bamboo
Exposition Istanbul Design Week with Plastic Nature items, and A Machine’s Perception Door Handles
Exposition/Curator 90% Steel at Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven with the Radiolaria Steel chair and tabouret
Exposition at Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven on invitation of ONOMATOPEE with Plastic Nature coffee table
Exposition PAN Amsterdam with the CLICDINER chair TRESPA
Exposition COPY NATURE 2 at ONOMATOPEE, Eindhoven with the UnBearable champagne cooler
Exposition at DIREKTORENHAUS Berlin with the J’Adoube chessboard
Exposition at ICFF at SoHo New York with the CuriosityKitchen white

2010

Exposition/Curator Time of your Life at Artspace Flipside, Eindhoven with CHRONOS
Exposition/Curator of Experience your Creativity for ARPA/TRESPA with the Handle That! collection, CuriosityKitchen, CLIC chess table.
Exposition PAN Amsterdam with the Clicrocker
Exposition/Curator ARPA Curiosity Lab, Milan with the CuriosityKitchen
Exposition Kunstuitleen de Krabbedans, Eindhoven
Project tableware, Royal Goedewaagen

2009-today

Project Exposition and product designs for Broadview Holding and ARPA

2009

Exposition Paper Zoo at MU, Eindhoven
Exposition TNO at DAE, A Machines Perception Handles
Exposition Design Yatra, Mumbai, India
Exposition Design /Basel , CLICFURNITURE GLASS BASEL
Exposition TRESPA Design, New York
Exposition 400 Years Later, PlasticNature stool, New York
Exposition TuttoBeNe, CLICFURNITURE bamboo, Fuori i Salone, Milano
Exposition Object Rotterdam, PlasticNature and CLICFURNITURE GLASS

2008

Exposition DDA, BODW fair, Hong Kong
Exposition Design Miami, the CLICFURNITURE GLASS MIAMI
Exposition PAN Amsterdam , PlasticNature chair
Mart Stam Award for most innovative chair Design of 2008
Exposition 100%Design Tokyo CLICFURNITURE bamboo, awarded best stand design
Exposition, Villa de Grumello, Como, Italy
Nomination for the Dutch Design Award (Audi award) with the PlasticNature
Project and Exposition Virtual Making, A Machines Perception, Eindhoven
Exposition Infected PRIVEEKOLLEKTIE
Exposition PRIVEEKOLLEKTIE, Heusden a.d. Maas
Project Rapid Manufacturing with TNO Eindhoven “Designer Unlimited”
Exposition The Family of Form, Designhuis, Eindhoven

2007

Project DDiD various designs with craftspeople at Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Project 500 CLICCHAIRS for TRESPA INTERNATIONAL

Exposition 22+2, The Plastic Nature chair, table, the Wan Tan lamp, CBK, Dordrecht
Project and Exposition The Laboratory Bazaar, DDW, Eindhoven
Exposition Rapid Manufacturing TNO co-curatorship, Eindhoven
Exposition The New Customizing Paradigm, CLICCHAIR, gallery Intermezzo, Dordrecht
Exposition RICOPERTO – the synthetic jungle, co-curator, fuori i Salone, Milano
Project “22+2” start of participation at the child’s chair project with

2006-today

22+2 participants e.g.: Richard Hutten, Arnout Visser, Ann Maes, Maurice Mentjens, Maria Blaisse

2006

Exposition, CLICLOUNGE, Kunstuitleen, Zwolle
Graduation Show, the Paternoster, Eindhoven
Exposition ITEMS SELECTION ,The PlasticNature stool, De Krabbedans, Eindhoven
Exposition Connection, CLICLOUNGE, Holland Art Gallery, Bijenkorff, Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Amsterdam
Exposition Bewogen door Tijd en Ruimte, CLICDINER set, co-curator, Eindhoven
Exposition Breakdown Milano, The CLICLOUNGE, Salone Satellite, Milano
Exposition AEKI , The CLICLOUNGER, KOP foundation, Breda

2005

Exposition Dutch Design Week, The CLICLOUNGE , Eindhoven

2003

Project Decospan ,The Radiolaria chair, furniture show, Brussels
Project Royal Leerdam / Bombay Sapphire, EGO cocktail glass (expositon in Milan)