{"id":102434,"date":"2025-08-28T04:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102434\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:29:17","slug":"sculptural-house-numbers-by-dutch-artist-reinoud-oudshoorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102434\/","title":{"rendered":"Sculptural House Numbers by Dutch Artist Reinoud Oudshoorn"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In 2008 the Olympian Quarter, a new 900-unit residential neighborhood, was under construction in Amsterdam. Seeking something special to distinguish the neighborhood, the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts commissioned Dutch artist Reinoud Oudshoorn<\/a> to create the house numbers.<\/p>\n

Oudshoorn was something like a graphic designer who transitions into industrial design: He originally trained as a painter, but grew dissatisfied with the limitations of 2D and started pushing into sculptural 3D works. In short, he was the perfect guy to render boring 2D characters interesting:<\/p>\n

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Oudshoorn’s take on house numbers was inspired by the early-20th-century architecture movement known as the Amsterdam School; that movement’s Expressionist style slotted in between Art Noveau and Art Deco, which you can see in Oudshoorn’s cast aluminum numbers.<\/p>\n

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“[The numbers] hold a middle ground between house number and sculpture, and are intended to evoke a strong sense of expression \u2014 touchable and shining, like huge drops of rain,” writes artistic hardware company Petra<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Petra manufactures the numbers today, still in cast aluminum, and reckons they have a 200-year lifespan. They’d better\u2014they’re $625 a pop! <\/p>\n


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