Nick Valentijn Brass Stool
Designer:
Nick Valentijn
The Nick Valentijn Brass Stool is formed freehand in brass and polished to a near-mirror finish that captures and reflects light across its irregular surfaces. Shaped through an intuitive, hands-on process, its subtly distorted planes retain traces of heat, pressure, and movement from the making. The block-like legs, a recurring motif in Valentijn’s work, balance solidity with spontaneity, revealing a practice rooted in precision, improvisation, and resistance to repetition.
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The Nick Valentijn Brass Stool is formed freehand in brass and polished to a near-mirror finish that captures and reflects light across its irregular surfaces. Shaped through an intuitive, hands-on process, its subtly distorted planes retain traces of heat, pressure, and movement from the making. The block-like legs, a recurring motif in Valentijn’s work, balance solidity with spontaneity, revealing a practice rooted in precision, improvisation, and resistance to repetition.
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.
