NOT ONLY WHITE - Key Persons
Anne Claire Winkelhagen is the founder of Dutch interior design studio Clairz. With her team she creates sophisticated, high quality interiors for both private and commercial clients. Her own 'style radar' makes Clairz stand out and unique.
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- Dutch Designer Joost Van Der Vecht Has Developed a Natural Sense of Simplicity and Proportions Throughout His Career.
His interest in graphic design and Japanese architecture is reflected in his design aesthetics with the principle of a grid as recurring factor in his work.
The story of Not Only White begins in 2010, in Amsterdam. After her studies Industrial Product Engineering, followed by her first working experience at Pastoe as a product developer and consecutive enjoying 6 years as designer and art-director of her first co-owned label, Marike Andeweg founded her own brand and named it Not Only White.
From an early age, Marike was intrigued by brands and objects. She discovered it was about that contented feeling you have, when something is deceptively simple but very sophisticated. How a connection can arise between an object and its viewer. A story told without words. This is how her interest and passion for design started.
After running Not Only White with a small, dedicated team for 12 years, in 2022 the brand merged. The head office has therefor relocated from The Netherlands to Ostend in Belgium. Marike's creative studio is still based in a former garage in Amsterdam.
Marike Andeweg has won several international design prices, including the Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award and German Design Award.