Laura de Monchy | DeMonchyBeads stands for beautiful, though accessible and simple objects. Laura designs and produces tableware, jewellery, lamps and interior objects inspired by and partly incorporating commonly used objects. She turns objects with an origin in the factory into highly fashionable objects of desire by using a mix of her ingenuity, creativity and craftsmanship.
The new use of these reborn objects bear awe and inspire us to give new values to the things we daily use. Lamps made of plastic containers, cups with a base shaped by container tops, knobs made of left wood, hand-blown glass on wooden pedestals, light objects, hooks and pendants, toothbrush cutlery, porcelain and earthenware vases made from a mould of plastic containers. After her training as a gold- and silversmith, de Monchy came into contact with the world of recycling when staying in India. During her education at the Rietveld Academy and living on an old cargo ship in the industrial city areas of Amsterdam, her current style arose, in which she transforms and designs mass-produced objects into one-off items. Useful, colorful and unrefined. Shaping the lightness in our existence. Worth mentioning is the fact that a number of her designs also serve a social goal: Herebugu bracelets, crockery, candlesticks and her products for Return to Sender and for Hapinezz.
Laura Alien de Monchy
Education
2019-2022
Shoe Academy Renee van den Bergh, NL
2010-2013
DHA ambachtelijk schoenmaken, Utrecht, NL
2006
Cranbroock metal department, USA
1997-2002
Study Jewellery Design Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
1996-1997
Silversmith training, Amsterdam, NL
1995-1996
Practical year by Dinny Hall, London, GB
1992-1995
Goldsmith training, Schoonhoven, NL
Workshops
2001
Alessi, Verbana, Italy
2001
Glassfactory, Dedenburg, D
2000
Crossroads Meeting cultures, India
2000
Textile, Laparanta, Finland
1999
Knife Spoon Fork, Amsterdam, NL
Stipends
2002
Starter stipend, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
Commissions
2022
Product ontwikkeling, design voor Happiness Magazine
2015-2022
Product ontwikkeling, design voor RTS
2017-2022
Armbanden collectie Rondom Baba
2020
Productie glazen lampen, eigenwerk
2021
Product ontwikkeling Kitsh Kitchen
2019
Opening Pop-Up store
2018
Producten ontwikkelt in Bali
2014
Kwink Den Haag Interieur designs, NL
2013
Leather interieur MG Marek Guensberg
2012
Year object 2013, Friends of Modern Glass, NL
2011
Wallbuttons for Ina-Matt, Stockhotel, Amsterdam, NL
