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Workingbert is keen on decoration in homes, working environments and hospitality spaces, bringing in a contemporary atmosphere by using digital printing to its fullest potential: countless ways of colour gradients used on large scales and at the same time small perfect precision in sharpness and fading. 

Working from handmade sketches and material experiments, the digital technique helps create greater tactility to the printed surface. Workingber’s decoration through ‘digital tactility’; creates textile awareness in interiors and gives the necessary Humanifiction of our square, hard spaces we live and work in.

The unconventional combination of nature, designing methods and printing technique gives Workingbert’s walls and windows a humanmade contemporary interior approach.

Walls of Workingbert are  in hotels, cruiseships, offices, many homes and special places like the Utrecht library.

Herbarium Ready to Wall paper with copper foil

Workingbert is experimenting with plant prints for several years. All projects shown at Masterly originate from results of this proces.
The botanical printing process he uses contains the reaction of Iron water and tannins which set colour when steamed together. No dyes are used as the plants in fact imprint themselves.
 
The new Ready To Wall paper reads like a Herbarium on the wall. A combination of several plant prints in composition from which  you can pick your piece. In addition to this digital printed plant book on the wall Workingbert added a grid of copper foil dots, catching the light.
A contemporary take on illuminated mediaval manuscripts.

Luha Lamps

Luha Lamps are illuminated botanical  prints on rag paper set in archetypal cylindric forms.
During the day Luha Lamps are desirable objects showing the natural beauty of the plant prints. Switching on the dimmable light, Luha Lamps reveal the inner side  of the  paper lampshades and change  them into an enchanting double image.

This play with illumination emphasizes the structure of the rag paper and exposes the residue of the natural printing process in the rag paper. The magical translucency of every Luha Lamp is different because all prints are unique pieces. They orginate  from a process of pressing and steaming stacked wild plants and leaves  between rag paper in rust water. The natural chemical reaction makes  the plants imprint themselves on paper. 

The name Luha  refers to the word  light in latin and ha is a collective name for leaves from plants and trees in Japanese. The base of the lamp is a paper column upholstered with a second plant print.

Faded Waste

Within the design frame of Workingbert's Ready To Wall family, the RW PT finds its origin also in handmade experiments. Fading of colours and the deformation of materials by forces of nature like light, wind and water was the starting point. Waste cardboard six pack packages were secured down on the beach.
Wonderful unexpected patterns of cracking ink and fading colours arose. The new surface was so detailed and refined, fitting perfectly as a new Ready to Wall. Refilling some cracks with foil brings the light back into the design.  

Collaboration De Resolutie

Workingbert and De Resolutie have been working together for years. The quality of De Resolutie prints are phenomenal and offer the high level we expect for our collections.
The company now has developed a new machine which digitally prints and simultaneously foils the surface on designated areas. It is a one of a kind machine and Workingbert is happy to be invited to show his take on this new technique.

Royal Delft and Workingbert

The basis of the Re-Framed | Wall Plates is a beautiful series of ceramic wall panels. With this series, Royal Delft redefines traditional wall plates.

In this project, heritage is combined with contemporary art; with designs from both our own master painters and external artists and designers.

The honour goes to designer Bert Timmermans of Workingbert for the debut of this collection.

Within this collaboration, Workingbert gives a contemporary view of flower and leaf motifs. In a process of pressing and steaming stacked, hand-picked wild and cultivated plants in rust water, the plants imprint themselves on paper. This results in detailed images with a painterly quality and accidental staining from the liquid in which they are steamed.

The result: beautiful ceramic wall panels with Workingbert's characteristic floral prints, executed in color schemes that give a nod to the Delft Blue of Royal Delft since the 17th century and create a link with the architectural ceramic period of Royal Delft from the early 1900s.

   Plant Printing

A contemporary ode to the tradition of decorating with plants, but instead of idealising nature forms, Workingbert uses in this series nature’s own material.

“The experimental plant print sheets that served as a starting point for my Ready to Wall wallpaper collection are now taking shape on the ceramic wall panels from Royal Delft. The directness and decorative power of the imprints of the plant dyes in the paper immediately struck me.

For this project I decided to treat them as loose, illuminated sheets of a medieval manuscript. The plant was given the leading role: frontally on the surface, away from the margins. The edge decoration became geometric; appealing to scientific measuring instruments.

In the wall panels, the prints have solidified in the glaze, the geometric decoration shows you the way across the entire panel.

The result: miniature walls that give a new dimension to wall coverings.”