Douwe Jacobs

Douwe Jacobs is a Dutch designer who developed the Flux Chair with Tom Schouten: a chair cut and scored from a single sheet of polypropylene that opens into a rounded seat and folds back into a flat, portable case. The chair was launched in 2009 and is produced by Flux Furniture, the company he co-founded to make and sell it.

He co-founded Flux Furniture to produce and distribute the chair, and in 2015 co-founded APE Amsterdam, an industrial design studio that develops its own products and works with companies on design and engineering. Folding, portability and the question of how little material an object can use run through his work, from seating to lighting developed with APE Amsterdam.