Droog

Droog is a Dutch design label and cultural platform founded in February 1993 by Renny Ramakers and Gijs Bakker, who joined forces to show young Dutch designers at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The word means dry in Dutch, and the work that defined the label used everyday and reused materials with a down-to-earth, often humorous attitude, giving shape to what would be called Dutch Design.

The collection includes Tejo Remy’s Rag Chair and Milk Bottle Lamp, Marcel Wanders’ Knotted Chair and Rody Graumans’ 85 Lamps, shown and archived across three decades of exhibitions. Droog keeps its archive and commissions alive at @droog on Staalstraat in Amsterdam, a building that combines gallery, café, event spaces and hotel rooms, and has published and toured its projects internationally.