{"id":3823,"date":"2019-12-10T08:36:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T07:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hoog.design\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2021-12-28T15:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T14:05:27","slug":"interview-with-piet-hein-eek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoog.design\/en\/interview-with-piet-hein-eek","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Piet Hein Eek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Does the Piet Hein of today differ much\nfrom the Piet Hein of his youth?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell, I don\u2019t often speak to people from\nthat time but if I do catch up with them, they say that I haven&#8217;t changed much.\nThat I\u2019m the same as I was when I was young. I do what I do and what I&#8217;ve\nalways done.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What did your days used to involve?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I was young, I was always outdoors.\nPlaying football. Building dens. In the outdoor area where I lived, there was\nlots of building going on so I had tons of building materials. When I was\naround fourteen, I made my own cabinets and lamps. Although they looked very\nhand-made and weren&#8217;t of a very good quality. But I was always busy with my\nhands. As I grew up, I knew that I\u2019d end up earning my money from making\nfurniture. But not just by designing or producing them but as a result of\nmanaging the entire process from idea to customer. So, pretty much exactly how\nI now work!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>And you signed up to the Design Academy\nEindhoven full of good intentions.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo start with, I wasn&#8217;t accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You were accepted in the end; what do\nyou feel when you look back at that period?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt that time, and this is also the case\nnow, I felt that training really made a big impression on the pupils. However,\nI don\u2019t believe that you can take a group of around thirty creative people and\ntry to steer them all in the same direction. Then you just end up with very\nsimilar graduates. In my opinion, tutors had and still have too much dominance\nwith regard to the teaching. There were a few exceptions, Job Smeets for\nexample, myself and, at a later stage, Maarten Baas, who said: \u2018You may well\nall say that, but that\u2019s not how we do it.\u2019 I think you have to facilitate a\ncreative person rather than trying to manage them. And vice versa, you can also\nsay that if you&#8217;re a creative person and you wish to develop yourself, you must\nensure that you not managed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Alongside talent and creativity, what is\nimportant in your work?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood communication. The ability to be\nsociable and explain what you&#8217;re working on. And also gathering good people\naround you. Making sure that you don&#8217;t have to do everything so that you have\ntime to do the things you like doing and are good at. I am often asked if I\nstill have time to develop myself, now that my business has become so big. But\nactually, you should be putting that question to people who have a small design\nbureau. They have to do the invoicing, planning, take care of the post and all\nthe rest, including cleaning the coffee machine! They don\u2019t have much time for\ndesign, whereas I draw more than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Does your work give you energy?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, creating things makes me very happy.\nAs long as I can carry on doing it, I\u2019ll be fine. Sometimes it is frustrating\nwhen you think you&#8217;ve created something that is fantastic but then it&#8217;s not\nreceived warmly by the public. Or when you make something that&#8217;s a bit silly\nand it\u2019s considered to be of real significance. But the pleasure in creating is\nthe priority. That\u2019s where I find my satisfaction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In your opinion, what is the crowning\nglory in terms of your work?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur premises in Eindhoven. It is a unique\nand lively location where I work with a creative, driven and also slightly mad\nteam each and every day.&nbsp; Everything\nunder the brand \u2018Piet Hein Eek\u2019 is created there. The choice to move to this\nlocation was a great decision. It is lively and bustling. People from abroad\ncome to visit for a great day out. It is a real joy to work here with the team.\nThe holiday homes in France which we developed (which can be hired) are also\none of our best works. People can genuinely step into my world. Everything\nthere was thought up by me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Do you still set yourself targets?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot if you mean having to realise a set\nthing on a specific date. Things happen because I like\nsomething and want it to happen. Not because I plan things really well. If it\ndoesn\u2019t work, you can come back to it later. 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