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A very comfortable compact lounge chair which will fit even in the smallest urban appartment. Fabrics, stich and frame color can be customized to your liking. This way you can make very bold combinations or you can choose for a more conventional approach.

This product has received a recognition for Good Industrial Design (GIO Award) in 2014

A full line of sanitary products for Dutch brand Tortu. This Metropol collection was inspired on the mid century modern design movement from the fifties and is aimed at the high-end hotel and consumer market.

A comfortable sofa that wears it's steel constructive structure on the outside. The frame can be finished with click on wooden fronts to customize it to the clients liking. Upholstered roundly shaped foam blocks are placed in this frame creating a clear contrast between the comfortable inside and the constructive more geometrically shaped outside.

Available via Harvink.nl

A flat packed cabinet series for Swedish company Tenzo. The legs and door handles correspond to each other making a subtle and playfull detail in this clean design.

Contemporary table made from plywood and white powdercoated steel. This table has been exhibited during the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2012.

WIRED Magazine on LiliLite: 'Navigating the nightstand obstacle course — book, lamp, and water glass — all too often ends in a destructive inundation. Seek higher ground with the LiliLite: Pull your book from the wooden peak to turn the lamp on. Set your tome back down and it’s good night, light. The other end stores that copy of Gravity’s Rainbow you’re still pretending to read.'

WIRED exhibited LiliLite in their pop-up gallery in New York City.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMa): 'We really like LiliLite and we would love to sell it in our museum store.'

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Contemporary chair made from plywood and a polypropylene shell that has been cut through horizontally.

This chair has been exhibited during the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2012. It received a recognition for Good Industrial Design (GIO 2012) in during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. It is included in the design collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Why should a privately owned sauna always look like a Finish wooden box? Studio Smeets designed this contemporary sauna series as a piece of furniture that enriches the interior or garden. No need to hide the sauna in the garage or in the bushes anymore.

This upholstered dining chair can be made for a very competitive price because the upholster sleeve can be pulled over the plywood shell in one go. It is than invisibly zipped on the back side. The wooden legs sandwich the black steel parts. This way the construction become an important aesthetic detail.

Sofa design produced by Gelderland. Sold exclusively via the Movani group.

A collection of in-flight tableware for the business and first class Studio Smeets designed for Helios.

The collection was exhibited in Hamburg, Germany at the International Travel Catering Trade Show 2012.

Studio Smeets designed three bathroom sink collections made out of Corian, an exclusive material from DuPont. The collections are manufactured by Correnti.

Hampi’s natural palm plates are based on a simple but brilliant idea: use naturally shed palm leaves to create a whole range of natural design tableware. Studio Smeets designed the award winning Raaga collection and redesigned all the other Hampi collections.

Hampi palm plates are produced by heat pressing leaves of the areca palm tree. The process uses no chemicals or waxes and is 100% natural.

Awards and exhibitions:
* winner Toon van Tuijl Design Award at the Dutch Design Awards (2010)
* nomination Horecava Innovation Award (2010)
* winner Columbus Trofee at the BBB Horecavakbeurs in Maastricht (2011)
* winner 3rd prize The Dieline Awards for packaging (2011)
* winner Gold Pentaward for packaging (2011)
* exhibition 'Mes & Vork' Rotterdam Historical Museum (2011)

First prize winning design at the 2003 Eye Wish Design Awards. MaxMara Italia took the glasses into production in 2003 and carries the frame in their collection up to this date.

The design was exhibited at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht.

A contemporary sofa inspired by the iconographic version of the Gispen collections from the beginning of the 20th century. Studio Smeets gave it a more modern look and feel to last through the 21st century.

This sofa has been exhibited during the Salone del Mobile in Milan in 2012.

The new dining chair for Harvink is a versatile chair with two different frame options.

A contemporary sofa where the stitches acculturate the overall form the design.

Simple dining table made of steel and wood. The frames square steel profiles are twisted 45 degrees to give the design it's edge. The frame is powder coated in white. In combination with a light tabletop this results in a Scandinavian look and feel. This product was launched during the IMM furniture fair 2014 in Koln.

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A contemporary sofa for Pode; the sub-brand of Leolux. Upholstered in one ‘sleeve’ that is zipped on the bottom. Therefore the sofa can be sold for a competitive price.

A full line of contemporary cabinets. A contrast is created; a thin, subtle outline frames the more roughly finished door panels.