Nick Valentijn Long Low Credenza
Designer:
Nick Valentijn
The Nick Valentijn Long Low Credenza is shaped freehand in brass and finished with a hand-applied patina that gives the surface a soft, shifting quality. Its thick doors and oversized self-made hinges resist symmetry, appearing almost sketched into form with subtle tilts and irregularities that reveal the hand behind the process. Light moves unevenly across the wavering brass surface, while the interior’s four compartments, lined in charred oak, introduce a grounded contrast in texture and tone.
Please contact us at custom-made@thecollectional.com to explore further.
The Nick Valentijn Long Low Credenza is shaped freehand in brass and finished with a hand-applied patina that gives the surface a soft, shifting quality. Its thick doors and oversized self-made hinges resist symmetry, appearing almost sketched into form with subtle tilts and irregularities that reveal the hand behind the process. Light moves unevenly across the wavering brass surface, while the interior’s four compartments, lined in charred oak, introduce a grounded contrast in texture and tone.
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.
