Job Smeets was a star student at Design Academy Eidhoven when he graduated in 1996. Belgian in origin, he went on to form a studio in the Netherlands, Studio Job, he built an extraordinary studio, one that primarily creates one-off pieces, work that has has been featured in over 400 exhibitions worldwide. The ah ha moment came when they went to The Milan Furniture Fair and realized that many of the prototypes created would remain just that, prototypes. But taken individually, they could easily stand alone as exceptional objects, art pieces in fact. This set the foundation for what Studio Job would become, a design studio like none other, and one that combines “traditional and modern techniques to create once in a lifetime objects.”

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