Claire Vos, started her studies in Industrial Design at Eindhoven’s “Design Academy” in 1984. She worked as a trainee at Studio Benno Premsela in Amsterdam and Creation Baumann in Switzerland and studied her craft in Italy and Indonesia before graduating in 1990 together with her partner, furniture designer Roderick Vos. During that year she and Roderick moved to Indonesia, Surabaya, Java to develop their knowledge of rattan furniture and textile production.
This particular period evidently had a large impact on her personal interest in Asian Culture and its works. In 1999 Claire & Roderick Vos officially started their design office ‘Studio Roderick Vos’, based in Heusden Vesting, the Netherlands.
Claire Vos was predestined to become a textile designer. As she says, ‘The love of textiles is in my blood. Production of textiles and ceramics has been in my family for generations.’ She specializes in re-interpreting traditional techniques, colorings and forms, paying close attention to the quality of the materials she uses. Her source of inspiration may be an Indonesian ikat weave or a Scottish tartan, but the end result will be completely contemporary, graphical and fashionable. This innovative studio couple works mainly in lighting, textile, accessories and furniture design for international brands such as Driade, Moooi, NLXL, Linteloo & Cor Unum. Since 2016 they both became art directors for Dutch furniture brand PODE. Each of their products is characterized by careful research and passion for technology, material and color.
