Lenny Stöpp

Lenny Stöpp is a Dutch designer working from Rotterdam on objects and materials that sit between craft and production. His practice starts from the details most people overlook: the tactility of non-noble materials, the traces a maker leaves in a piece, and the quiet beauty of things arranged without pretence. He is drawn to processes fading from use and gives them a new purpose.

That approach produced the Twirl Bowls and Cornice Vessels, ongoing collections made with the centuries-old technique of running cornice, in which a hollow mould and alpha crystalline gypsum replace traditional plaster so each piece can be reproduced while keeping its own roughness. Other work includes the Black Motion textiles and Tactile Materials research.