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
2025-2026
Shoe Academy Renee van den Bergh, NL
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 at 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 / work
2025-2026
Styling at Rijk van de Keizer
2025-2026
Working for Swarm
2025
Designed and crafted bespoke footwear for cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema for the Academy Awards
2023
Founded and operated a flower stall at the Hogeweg
2022
Product development, design for Happiness Magazine
2015-2022
Product development and design for RTS
2017-2022
Bracelet collection: Rondom Baba
2020
Production of handmade glass lamps (Independent Work)
2021
Product development for Kitsch Kitchen
2019
Opening Pop-Up store
2018
Product development Bali
2014
Interior design projects for Kwink Den Haag, The Netherlands
2013
Leather interior design for MG Marek Guensberg
2012
Year object 2013, Friends of Modern Glass, NL
2011
Wall buttons for Ina-Matt, Stockhotel, Amsterdam, NL
2011
Design, development of Candle Holders for Anthropologie, New York, USA
2010
Buttons for Iuno, Amsterdam, NL
2010
Design, production of breadboards and shop window display for De kookboekhandel, Amsterdam, NL
2008
Lamps, Rijk van de Keizer, Amsterdam, NL
2007
Jewellery, G- Star, Amsterdam, NL
2006
Candle holders, museum- shop Guggenheim, Berlin, D
