Nick Valentijn Bench
Designer:
Nick Valentijn
The Nick Valentijn Bench is shaped freehand in copper and finished with a hand-applied patina that highlights the material’s depth and variation. Its backrest emerges seamlessly from the seat in one continuous gesture, giving the piece a fluid, sculptural presence. Subtle waves and surface irregularities remain visible as traces of the making process, while the softly polished finish lends the bench a quiet luminosity balanced between function and sculpture.
Please contact us at custom-made@thecollectional.com to explore further.
The Nick Valentijn Bench is shaped freehand in copper and finished with a hand-applied patina that highlights the material’s depth and variation. Its backrest emerges seamlessly from the seat in one continuous gesture, giving the piece a fluid, sculptural presence. Subtle waves and surface irregularities remain visible as traces of the making process, while the softly polished finish lends the bench a quiet luminosity balanced between function and sculpture.
Please contact us at custom-made@thecollectional.com to explore further.
Nick Valentijn
Netherlands
Nick Valentijn is a Dutch designer working at the intersection of sculpture, improvisation, and material language. A 2024 graduate of the Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Valentijn approaches metal not as a fixed medium, but as a collaborator: responsive, resistant, never entirely predictable.
Form emerges through making rather than preplanning. His process begins with loose sketches so immediate they border on automatic, minimal gestures that capture just enough to suggest a shape, where proportions are felt rather than measured and irregularities held rather than corrected.
