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Used Wood, passion materialized in vintage reclaimed wood...
Diederick Kraaijeveld (Oudhout/Oldwood, The Netherlands, 1963) builds classic and modern icons in vintage reclaimed wood; an Airstream trailer, a Porsche 911 or a pair of Chuck Taylors (All Star sneakers)...With sometimes century-old painted planks, salvaged during intensive trips along dumpsters, old Amsterdam canal mansions, run down farms and faraway coasts, Kraaijeveld "paints" photo-realistic images... His palette is not filled with paint in all its different colors: a huge warehouse full of old wooden planks forms the base of each work of art.
 
Iconic image

The Time cover article on Detroit (Oct 2009) showed the exact same picture. That is, a picture from the same hall from the same spot. Only the grand piano was positioned

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Glass of Tea

This Glass of Tea is hanging on the wall in the studio of a very popular talkshow on Dutch national television: 'Max en Loretta', every day at 5.35 pm (reruns every next

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