Launched today at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, KLM's revamped World Business Class cabin features spotted and striped dividing curtains, leather and aluminium details and a carpet made from the recycled uniforms of flight attendants.

Hella Jongerius and her team at Jongeriuslab developed the palette of blue, purple, grey, brown and white by bringing fabric swatches onboard flights to observe how colours could be perceived differently in various lighting conditions.

"The light condition above the clouds and the light temperature makes all colours very red," Jongerius told Dezeen at the launch. "We had to really work in that sense so that the red goes out of the colour palette and so we chose colours that have a bit of green in them."

The carpet is inspired by an image of the Milky Way, with blue dots as stars in a pattern that's designed to be easy to match up when it needs repairing.

"The [previous KLM business class] interior was more business-like, very uniform and efficiently done but this feel of mass-production is not what we want to have right now as an atmosphere," she continued. "I really want to have luxury. Is luxury glamorous? Luxury for me is comfort."

"Maybe Marcel [Wanders]'s work is more the glamorous part," she added. KLM previously commissioned Dutch designer Marcel Wanders to create a dinner service for use onboard its aircraft, including porcelain, glassware, cutlery and linen.

Jongerius is now working on designs for the airline's economy cabins. See all our stories about design by Hella Jongerius.

Last year industrial design studio Priestmangoode designed a first-class cabin with sofas and wardrobes for Brazilian airline TAM, while London studio Pengelly Design created an aeroplane seat that converts into a 2.2-metre-long bed for Virgin Atlantic – see all aircraft design.

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The new interior design for KLM World Business Class in the Boeing 747-700, by Hella Jongerius/Jongeriuslab

When KLM invited a designer to develop a comprehensive vision for its interior, it broke new ground in the aviation industry. Usually, new aircraft parts are simply selected from the available stock. Furnishings, materials, service facilities, and storage space must meet so many stringent requirements that they are usually seen as the domain not of designers, but of technical engineers.

Jongerius threw herself into the project with the Jongeriuslab team, seeking opportunities for meaningful change within strict parameters. In the spirit of her earlier work and her design philosophy, she found those opportunities in KLM’s own corporate traditions, such as the company’s distinctive colour palette and sustainable materials.

Design

Flying is magical. But at the same time, air travel stands for discomfort – the exhaustion, the endless waits, the anonymous crowds, the long stretches without privacy, the lack of telephone or internet access, the severe restrictions on movement, the processed air you breathe.

The primary objective of Jongerius’s design is therefore to offer passengers the greatest possible comfort, so that they can use their airborne interlude however they prefer: to work or to dream, unplugged from everyday life.

Jongerius rose to the challenge through the imaginative use of textiles and the double-faced weaving technique, combining mass-produced parts with craftsmanlike details, reducing the ‘visual noise’ of the interior to a minimum, and creating ingenious variations on the KLM colour palette.

This brought aesthetic excellence and a warm ambiance to the hi-tech world of the aviation industry, creating an atmosphere and experience that, according to Jongerius, suit the needs of today's cosmopolitan world travellers.

The richly varied patterns of the carpeting make passengers feel welcome and stir vague memories. That's because they’re sustainable creations based on high-quality recycled materials, including the discarded uniforms of KLM stewards and stewardesses.

Even when a carpet has to be repaired, sustainability is guaranteed. The pattern – a scene of the Milky Way with blue uniform dots in the role of stars – will always match up.

The efficiency that has always characterised World Business Class will be preserved. At the same time, the new interior will offer a more restful environment with greater personal privacy and considerably superior quality and comfort.

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Jongerius will also create new cabin seats, which will be installed inside the upgraded cabins of 22 Boeing 747-400s.

The designs will be unveiled later this year.

See more projects by Hella Jongerius here.

Here's some more information from Hella Jongerius:

KLM revitalises its World Business Class cabin interior in association with leading Dutch designer Hella Jongerius

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has asked leading Dutch designer Hella Jongerius to revitalise its World Business Class (WBC) cabin interior across the fleet. This will enable KLM to modernise its WBC product, uniting international allure with top Dutch design to emphasise a sense of pride in our Dutch heritage.

By cooperating in this unique manner with Hella Jongerius, KLM intends to create an entirely new Business Class look & feel. In addition to designing the interior, Hella Jongerius will shape the full-flat seats. Customer comfort and safety always form the premise, harmonising well with KLM’s brand values. This also fits into the broader context of other successful KLM initiatives in WBC with top Dutch chefs and fashion designers.

Erik Varwijk, Managing Director KLM: “By choosing to work with Hella Jongerius, KLM is opting to engage a top Dutch designer to help make our Business Class passengers feel at home on board. As a designer, Hella has broad experience which she can apply to the needs of KLM and its customers, in accordance with the specific requirements for cabin interiors in the airline industry. Her previous projects demonstrate her ability to process such criteria into top-quality designs such as the ‘polder sofa’, which is both comfortable and beautiful. With her expertise and focus on quality, she is keenly aware of what makes a brand unique. An outstanding match!”

Hella Jongerius: “It’s a brilliant opportunity for me to design the cabin interior and the new business class seat for KLM. The challenge is one of safeguarding individual comfort in amiable settings using innovations. In so doing, I can optimally combine traditional details, and my industrial textile and colour skills with high-tech functionality.”

KLM will begin revitalising the first aircraft in June 2013. The Boeing 747-400s will be converted first; a total of 22 aircraft. Further details of the design and the new seat will be published in the second half of 2012.

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We've teamed up with publishers Phaidon to offer readers the chance to win one of five copies of their new monograph about Dutch designer Hella Jongerius.

Entitled Hella Jongerius: Misfit and designed by Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom, the 225 page stitch-bound book documents Jongerius' work since 1993.

The book is richly illustrated with over 300 photographs, as well as two essays written by New York Times design critic Alice Rawsthorn and senior curator at MoMA Paola Antonelli.

It also includes four hypothetical conversations between Jongerius and author Louise Schouwenberg.

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Dutch designer Hella Jongerius (b.1963) is one of the most individual and influential product designers working today. In January Phaidon Press will launch a new monograph Hella Jongerius: Misfit celebrating the designer’s eclectic work. A major exhibition of the same name, displaying a range of Jongerius’ remarkable products, will also be on show at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (13 November 2010 – 13 February 2011).

Richly illustrated with over 350 photographs, Hella Jongerius: Misfit presents the designer’s work in extraordinary detail. A desirable Collector’s Edition will also be available, accompanied by an exclusive vase designed by Jongerius and manufactured by Royal Tichelaar Makkum.

The designer’s unique aesthetic has often been described as a fusion of opposites; manufacturing and craft; high and low tech; traditional and contemporary. Materials are brought together in unusual and often contradictory ways, creating works that are extremely textural and beg to be touched: rough edged leather is rolled to create wheels; paint is dripped messily onto earthenware; ceramics are sewn onto cotton table cloths; vases are soft and sinks are made from rubber.

The title of both book and exhibition allude to Jongerius’ belief that quality craftsmanship is indistinguishable in perfect, industrial products, and is only present in the ‘misfits’, their imperfections betraying the process and the hand of the maker. Jongerius pioneered the reintroduction of craftsmanship in contemporary design. By incorporating crafted individuality into the industrial manufacturing process she has succeeded in creating eclectic pieces which play on consumers’ expectations of style and function.

The Polder Sofa was Jongerius’ first industrially designed piece of furniture and marked the beginning of her highly successful professional association with Vitra. True to the Jongerius ethos, the piece contains several different types of material and textures (some chosen specifically to look worn), nuances of colour and mismatched cushion sizes. All of these small but significant variants highlight the uniqueness and individuality of her design.

Created in close collaboration with Jongerius, the monograph exhibits all of her work to date. The book features the main text, consisting of four hypothetical conversations between Jongerius and author Louise Schouwenberg (a Dutch writer, curator and Associate Professor of Design Theory at Design Academy Eindhoven), which discusses Jongerius’ working methods, disillusion with the perfection of much industrial product design, and the development of her key designs. Two essays by contemporary design experts Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli further contextualise Jongerius’ work.

The breadth of detail, along with the striking imagery ensures Hella Jongerius: Misfit is the ultimate insight into one of the most creative product designers working today. The extraordinary book was designed by the wellknown Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom.

Contents

Photographs detailing Jongerius’ work from 1993 to the present, spread across 225 pages.

‘A Conversation that might have taken place’, four dialogues between Jongerius and author Louise Schouwenberg.

‘The Human Factor’, an essay by Alice Rawsthorn.

‘Hella’s Imperfect World’, an essay by Paola Antonelli.

‘Complete Works’, an illustrated catalogue detailing all of Jongerius’ work.

Tile Information

Title: Hella Jongerius: Misfit
Texts: Louise Schouwenberg (editor), Alice Rawsthorn, Paola Antonelli
Graphic Design: Irma Boom Office / Irma Boom and Sanne van de Goor
ISBN: 9780714859873
Extent: 308 pp
Retail Price: £29.95
Binding: Stitch bound
Publication Date: January 2011
Illustrations: 350 colour illustrations
Size: H 255 x W 185 mm, H 10 x W 7 ¼ inches

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Dutch designer Hella Jongerius presents 300 porcelain vases coloured with layers of mineral and chemical glazes at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Produced in collaboration with porcelain brand Royal Tichelaar Makkum, the series uses historical recipes for glazes using materials like copper, cobalt, cadmium and iron, layered up with modern chemical glazes.

Update: forty of the vases were damaged when a visitor to the museum became ill and fell over.

The remaining vases in the series are shown as part of a retrospective exhibition of Jongerius' work, entitled Hella Jongerius - Misfit, which continues until 13 February 2011.

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Product photographs are by Gerrit Schreurs Fotografie.
Exhibition photographs are by Lotte Stekelenburg.

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300 Coloured Vases by Hella Jongerius
On display in the exhibition ‘Hella Jongerius - Misfit’ (13 November 2010 – 13 February 2011)

This autumn Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is presenting the first Dutch retrospective exhibition of the designer Hella Jongerius. The exhibition is a unique survey of her work and provides an insight into her working method, experiments and innovative products. One of the most recent is a group of three hundred Coloured Vases (series 3), which will be exhibited for the first time in Rotterdam.

The three series of Coloured Vases are experiments in colour, in which an existing vase is used as a ‘canvas’. The first two series consisted of forty and forty-two different porcelain vases, partially coated with paint from the industrial colour ranges RAL (2003) and NCS (2007). The third series is currently being produced in close collaboration with the glaze experts at Royal Tichelaar Makkum.

Minerals

Whereas the first two series employed industrial paints, this series uses a combination of a hundred historical mineral recipes and a hundred modern chemical glaze recipes. Jongerius refers to the latter as the ‘fast-food’ colours of the modern ceramics industry. The mineral recipes contain ingredients such as cadmium (red), iron (brown), selenium (yellow), copper (green), cobalt (blue) and manganese (purple). The historical and modern colours are applied in layers in a variety of patterns resulting in optical blending: a kind of Pointillism on porcelain. The combinations of colours and patterns and experiments with the firing temperature result in new colours. These are not flat like industrial colours but are irregular, layered and lively like the colours we know from paintings.

Jongerius believes that industry has focused too much on quantity and standardisation over the past few decades. Industry has created thousands of colours that are designed to look the same in all circumstances. These colours lack the irregularities that can provide a more beautiful visual experience such as those found in this series of Coloured Vases (series 3).Imperfection

Hella Jongerius (1963) is one of the most important designers of her generation. In the 1990s she introduced imperfections and individuality into the industrial manufacturing process. Jongerius believes that the quality of craftsmanship is not legible in perfect products but only in the ‘misfits’ that betray the process and the hand of the maker. Many of her works, such as the Nymphenburg plates and the Frog Table, indicate the potential to contemporary design of historical motifs and repeat decorations.

Misfit

The exhibition Misfit at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen includes industrial products, unique experiments and numerous sketch models. All the objects are arranged by colour because this plays such an important role in Jongerius’s work. The combinations of objects, including well- known designs such as B-set, Long Neck & Groove Bottles, Repeat fabrics, the Polder Sofa and IKEA vases, explore the themes inherent in Hella Jongerius’s work.

The exhibition has been made possible by a contribution from the Ahrend Fonds, administered by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. ‘Hella Jongerius - Misfit’ is part of the official programme of Holland Art Cities 2009-2010.

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Rotterdam Chair by Hella Jongerius	Office Pets by Hella Jongerius	Artificial flowers by Hella Jongerius

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Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a range of conservatory furniture for Kettal featuring aluminium frames wrapped in cord.

Called Bob, the collection includes a chair, foot stool and side table.

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HELLA JONGERIUS CREATES KETTAL BOB

Hella Jongerius has designed a garden club set for Kettal called Bob: a new take on the traditional garden club chair.

The dark aluminium frame lends solidity to the front, while the back is noteworthy for its elegant light construction. The seat consists of large, soft rods, highlighted by visible stitching.

The details on the armrests and Bob footstool handles and side table use cord.

The Collection is composed of a relaxer chair, footstool and side table.

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Rotterdam Chair by Hella Jongerius	Office Pets by Hella Jongerius	Artificial flowers by Hella Jongerius

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