Stefan Flikweert
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Furniture & Object Design

Stefan
Flikweert

Construction becomes character.

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Shelving System 01, frontal view — untreated steel Shelving System 01, frontal view — untreated steel
Shelving System 01 Raw steel — 2026
01 Selected work

Shelving
System 01

Prototype — 2026

The first piece in an ongoing exploration of structure, material and colour.

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Shelving System 01 standing in a living room with records on display
Context Furniture becomes part of the space.
Close-up of the folded steel connection between two shelf modules
Construction & time The object begins to change.
The empty shelving system showing its modular steel structure
The structure The system revealed.
The shelving system holding records, a plant and a lava lamp
Modular system A structure designed to adapt.
Upper shelves with plant, lava lamp and records
In use The object shaped by the things it holds.
02 Project
Year
2026
Material
Untreated steel
Construction
Modular steel construction
Function
Storage / display
Status
Prototype / first edition

A piece of furniture that ages with its designer.

Shelving System 01 is built from bent steel sheet that locks into itself. The folds that give each panel its strength are left visible; the joints are where you can read how the piece stands up.

The steel is untreated on purpose. It will oxidise, mark and darken with use. I am keeping this prototype, and I intend to watch it change — alongside the practice it started. It is not presented as a finished product, but as the first documented object in a body of work.

03 Process

Designer and maker. The prototype is not a step towards the design — it is part of it.

  1. 01

    Idea →

    A question about structure, not a picture of a result.

    Photo to come — idea
  2. 02

    Drawing →

    Proportion and connection, worked out by hand and on screen.

    Photo to come — drawing
  3. 03

    Prototype →

    Cut, bent and assembled in the workshop.

    Photo to come — prototype
  4. 04

    Testing →

    Loaded, lived with, taken apart again.

    Photo to come — testing
  5. 05

    Refinement →

    What the making revealed goes back into the drawing.

    Photo to come — refinement
  6. 06

    Object

    A piece that carries the traces of how it got here.

    Photo to come — object
04 Philosophy

Rather than hiding how a piece is made, its construction becomes part of its character.

05 About
Photo to come — Stefan in the workshop

Stefan Flikweert is a furniture designer who builds what he draws.

His work begins at the workbench as much as at the desk. Pieces are figured out by making them — cutting, bending, assembling, then living with the result long enough to understand it.

Shelving System 01 is the first object in that practice. The intention is to develop, piece by piece, a design language coherent enough to carry from furniture into objects, interiors and eventually whole spaces.

06 Direction
Now

Furniture

Later

Objects

Later

Interiors

Later

Spaces

Furniture is where I begin. The rest is a direction, not a claim.

07 Contact

Available for collaborations, commissions and selected projects.

stefanflik@outlook.com