Art Rooms

For thousands of years, fats and oils have been combined with alkaline substances for washing and cleansing. While plastic pump bottles have slowly crept into our bathrooms over the past few decades, Lidewij Edelkoort predicts the return of the humble bar of soap: tactile, sensuous, handmade and, once again, surprisingly avant-garde. Here, she selects a few of her favourites.

At the suggestion of forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort, editor-in-chief Nicole Ex visited Frances van Hasselt’s studio during her trip through South Africa in April 2026. Van Hasselt designs incredible textile pieces from mohair: an ancient, silky-soft fibre that is washed, spun, dyed, woven, crocheted and felted by hand in her studio in the Karoo.

In Eva Bartels’ drawings, the female body appears in its rawness, its animality, its force. Her work is devoted to holding the after wave of physical and emotional experiences within the female body: menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, surrender, pleasure, decay and transformation. This Art Room presents a selection of works from her Gentle Decay series.

‘Few objects need as little design as this one,’ writes forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort in her new column on Riccardo Monte’s handmade wooden serving boards. And yet, within this seemingly simple utensil, an entire world reveals itself: of wood, fire, texture and everyday rituals. Discover Monte’s masterful planks in this Art Room – from small and modest to long, dark and almost sculptural.

The Art Room of this spring is devoted to the garden – and to all that grows and blooms. Whether you tend a wild, abundant garden of your own, have a small balcony, share the care of a street-side patch with neighbours, or simply enjoy being outdoors and following the seasons, this Art Room brings together a carefully curated selection of beautiful objects to help you care for your garden – and to enjoy it once the work is done.

‘Sketches are never entirely precise,’ writes forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort in her new column. ‘They may diverge from the final execution and therefore possess a vivid dynamism.’ Colomba Leddi’s sketches are artworks – and at the same time patterns for garments that you can cut out and assemble yourself. ‘When she discovered the allure of watercolour, she realised that her drawings could invite others to create clothing together with her.’ In this Art Room, discover Leddi’s iconic hand-painted watercolours on cotton – patterns you can transform into wearable pieces.

‘We rely on this emoticon constantly to set the tone in a text, alongside an image, or even on its own as a moment of pure happiness. The bright yellow, round, stylised Smiley – as it was called from the very beginning – has been part of popular culture since the 1950s,’ forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort writes in her new column. For the new year, artist Maria Roosen has reimagined this iconic emoticon. Discover her infectious smileys in a range of colours in this Art Room.

Cooking is Caring is the theme of our celebratory 40th issue, created in collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Mory Sacko. To mark this anniversary issue dedicated to food, we’re bringing back the See All This x Lidewij Edelkoort Limited Edition: a series of hand-painted aprons featuring Sergio Machado’s irresistible designs. Choose your favourite in this Art Room!

‘What is India without her pots?’ designer Gunjan Gupta asked herself. ‘It is the timeless appeal of this feminine form known as a symbol of fertility, that lends itself as a storytelling device in a variety of crafts, ranging from wood to earth to the casting to bronze.’ Discover her series of pans and hand-painted ceramics in this Art Room.

Working with mud silk is an ancient textile tradition rooted in southern China, where generations of artisans harnessed water, sun, and earth to create fabrics with an otherworldly depth and glow. Today, Marcella Echavarría breathes new life into this heritage with her NOIR Mud Silk collection. In this Art Room you’ll find rare pieces that are more than garments – they are timeless companions, ready to become the treasures of your wardrobe for decades to come.

Animal imagery can move and entice people. This instinct – to reach people through endearing design – led to Martha Nash’s project MarthaMarthaMarthaCoin. She designed her own economy centred on a single person, with a physical form of cryptocurrency in the shape of a seductive, handmade, glazed piglet.

Discover the captivating books of Birgitta de Vos and meet the artist by joining her Nomadic Reading Room session at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery this December.

Beading is one of the oldest human crafts, passed down through generations of ancestors who embellished objects long before the invention or global trade of glass.

Marjoke de Heer creates exceptional plates and objects from her own soil in her ceramics studio in Amsterdam-Noord. Especially for readers of See All This, she is launching a limited number of plates in our shop.

Following our first collection of aprons in collaboration with Lidewij Edelkoort and Sergio Machado, there is now - in celebration of the launch of our new website - a new series of wearable artworks in infectious collage designs.

‘Humankind began with fire,’ scientists Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross wrote in an earlier issue of See All This. ‘Life as we know it came about thanks to lightning. Arcs of electricity six times hotter than the surface of the sun ignited trees and bushes on the African savannah. Early Homo erectus and Homo sapiens captured its magic and took it with them, from place to place... Fire, and with it creative expression, sparked the birth of community.’



Since the beginning of time, fire has held this profound duality — a force both of destruction and creation. It illuminates and energises, yet also consumes and destroys — a reality brought into sharp focus in the past few weeks. The 6th-century BC Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus recognised fire as more than just a primal element; he saw it as the very essence of existence, the source from which all other elements emerged, and a symbol of life’s perpetual transformation.



In the 1960s, Yves Klein explored this same duality through his groundbreaking fire experiments. In this Art Room, we invite you to discover more about his pioneering Peinture de feu series and offer a special Limited Edition: Peinture de feu sans titre (F124).

thanks to Editions Dilecta, Paris

It’s the summer of Piet Oudolf. Celebrated worldwide for his naturalistic gardens, such as the High Line in New York, Oudolf’s approach to gardening has revolutionized our own relationship to the outdoors. His 100.000 square feet of gardens around the world have opened our eyes to the power of the perennial garden, one which maintains its splendour every season. In this exhibition and the summer issue of See All This Art Magazine (#30), we question what it means to be in nature: what it does for us and how we can fall into its rhythm.

Participating artists: Simon Heijdens, Zora Ottink, Naoko Benom-Miura, Sophie Steengracht en Curcubita Maxima.

To celebrate the launch of Pretty Brilliant: Women in the Arts Vol. III, which explores the theme of goddesses, Claudy Jongstra has created a new series of unique felt artworks. These vibrant pieces are crafted from wool sourced from Jongstra’s own herd of Drenthe Heath sheep, combined with silk and merino wool. They feature four distinctive color palettes, ranging from warm amber and gold to rich Burgundian black and deep indigo.

To celebrate the launch of the new winter issue of See All This, we’re opening a special Art Room with the limited edition Recollections by artist and architect Bijoy Jain – the guest curator of the winter issue, and one of today’s most visionary voices in contemporary art and architecture.

Recollections was created in collaboration with Gallery Magazine. In this Art Room, we are offering this special edition exclusively in the Netherlands for readers of See All This. Read more below.

The windows have been washed, the parquet floors polished and the walls hung with art: See All This welcomes you into its venue for the Colour Fields exhibition featuring unique works by Claudy Jongstra as well as numerous other artists. Amongst the artworks shown at the exhibition are Jongstra’s monumental Guernica de la Ecologia, her Guernica Studies and Gold Series. Alongside this special edition Art Room, we are launching our vibrant winter issue, a number dedicated to the enchanting effects of colour, to endless colour and flower fields, to our warm feelings towards red, yellow or blue: ‘Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a colour.’