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Violinist Monica Germino plays MUTED: ‘I feel like the cat Mehitabel, on the threshold of a new career’

Monica Germino with selection of mutes (c) Anna Reinke

On Sunday 21 July Monica Germino will play MUTED in the festival Wonderfeel. This piece was composed for her by Louis Andriessen and the composers of Bang on a Can when she was diagnosed with hyperacusis, a hearing disorder that makes her oversensitive to sound. In May Monica Germino also played MUTED in the festival dedicated to Louis Andriessen’s 80th birthday in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. I then interviewed her about her relationship with Andriessen and about her new ‘whisper violin’ for the Dutch music magazine Luister.

The first time Monica Germino played music by Louis Andriessen was in 1994, during the premiere of his opera Rosa in the Muziektheater in Amsterdam. A year earlier she had met him personally when she came to the Netherlands with a scholarship. ‘But in the spirit I had met him before’, says the violinist in her living room with a view of the Amstel river. ‘This was during my master’s degree at Yale. He had been a guest lecturer there a few years earlier and the students couldn’t stop talking about it. One of them said: are you going to the Netherlands? Then you must visit Louis Andriessen! And gave me his phone number.’

Something like that seemed a trifle too cheeky to her, because Andriessen was an icon to her. ‘I had heard a performance of De Staat at Yale and was blown off my socks. I was a Stravinsky fanatic and had played almost all his works for violin, from the Violin Concerto to the string quartet and In memoriam Dylan Thomas, and suddenly I heard the sound that comes after Stravinsky. I thought: this is it! This is the music I’ve been looking for, this is necessary music.’

Once in the Netherlands to investigate study possibilities, it quickly started to itch: ‘I just needed to know more about modern music in this country. I called Louis and he immediately invited me to come to café De Jaren that same evening. There I also met some of his former students, including Calliope Tsoupaki, Ron Ford and David Dramm. They were very nice and gave a lot of tips. Louis advised me to study with Vera Beths at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.’

She eagerly followed all advice and a year later she moved to Amsterdam. When she happened to meet Andriessen at a concert and greeted him enthusiastically he looked at her somewhat mystified. ‘He had no idea who I was, while making his acquaintance had been life changing for me.’ She heartily laughs about it now. ‘At our next meeting he proposed to play Bach Sonatas together.’

‘As a typical American, ambitious student I immediately bought all the scores, listened to authentic recordings and studied baroque embellishment. But when a month and a half later I announced that I was ready, he reacted with a bit of surprise.’ Rehearsing together turned out to be a hit: ‘Louis played the piano beautifully and in the meantime shouted instructions: here comes a beautiful bass note! I learned as much from this as from listening to those recordings of early music.’

When Andriessen worked on Passeggiata in America in 1998 in tram e ritorno for voice, violin and ensemble, however, he did not think of Germino. He asked Rosita Wouda of the Schönberg Ensemble for advice, in which I occasionally played. She replied: why don’t you ask Monica? – I had already developed a fanaticism to produce the typical Andriessen sound, which I describe as a super-legato. A pure, vibration-free sound, without swelling or letting go of the bow, as if there were glue on the strings. I was overjoyed when I received a phone call to premiere Passeggiata.’

This also introduces her to the Italian voice artist Cristina Zavalloni, for whom Andriessen had composed the vocal part. ‘We rehearsed in Louis’ attic and it clicked immediately. It was as if we were one person, we even used the same body language. Cristina became a dear friend, who many years later would be our witness when Louis and I married.’ The 1999 premiere was a success and inspired Andriessen to produce the large-scale double concerto La Passione, which was also performed in the festival dedicated to him.

Unfortunately no longer with a solo role for Germino, who now suffers from hyperacusis, a hypersensitivity to sound. A personal drama, because Germino, who often works with electronics and was once known as the ‘loudest violinist in the Netherlands’, now has to drastically reduce the decibels.

When she was diagnosed at the end of 2015, she considered giving up playing entirely, but the composers of Bang on a Can put a stop to that. ‘No way’, Michael Gordon decided, ‘I’m going to write the softest piece ever for you.’ Julia Wolfe reacted dryly when Germino told her she had said goodbye to her violin: ‘Then say hello again!’ David Lang looked her piercingly in the eye: ‘I see this as a huge opportunity!’

The three of them proposed to make a joint composition with their mentor Louis Andriessen. Neil Wallace, then programmer at De Doelen, came to the rescue. He organised a composition assignment together with four other organisations, which led to the four-part MUTED. In a combination of mutes and four different instruments, the limits of audibility are explored. Germino premiered it to great acclaim in October 2018 as part of of the New York Philharmonic’s festival The Art of Andriessen,

One of the instruments is a ‘whisper violin’ that Marcel Wanders and Bas Maas specially designed and built for Germino. This is inspired by the so-called pochette violin by baroque dance masters. The neck has the shape of a raised finger: shush! The sound is naturally ultra-soft, but can be further muffled by placing stops in the sound box.

In this way, Germino turns her handicap into a virtue. ‘I am very grateful. So many people have helped me on this difficult road. I feel like the cat Mehitabel from the movement that Louis composed for MUTED. She had a bad life, always fell in love with the wrong males but still stayed afloat, like a Grande Dame. Thus I’m on the threshold of a new career myself.’

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Marcel Worms & Ursula Schoch release CD ‘Female Composers from the Netherlands’

‘Things may change’ was the motto of the 17th-century Dutch poet Brederode. It roughly means that everything is fluid, so that even a common view can turn into its opposite. The latter feeling has crept up on me in recent years: female composers were ignored for centuries, but are these days suddenly basking in overwhelming attention.

What particularly bothers me is that in the process their womanhood is often emphasised. When I started working as a music publicist and radio programmer in the mid-1990s, I cherished the idea that women’s creative work would gradually be included in the canon if only I would draw attention to it without further ado. This turned out to be an illusion and, together with other feminist musicologists and musicians, I felt like a lone voice in the wilderness.

Now I realize that actually I always got it wrong: instead of regarding women as composers in their own right, I should have emphasised their gender, as is done so lavishly these days. Labelling seemingly stimulates sales. At the same time, this underlines precisely how unequal the m/f distribution still is even in the 21st century: I have never yet seen a release labelled ‘Male composers…’.

‘Instead of regarding women as composers in their own right, I should have emphasised their gender…’

Into this trend fits the latest CD by pianist Marcel Worms and violinist Ursula Schoch, Female Composers from the Netherlands. I certainly don’t want to sell Worms and Schoch short, as they too have often presented works by women in a non-obtrusive way. Among others, they dedicated portrait CDs to Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman and Agnes Jama. And for his solo series New Blues for Piano, Worms commissioned about as many women as men. – Apparently, the pair now felt the urge to hitch a ride on the trend after all.

Fortunately, there is much to enjoy on this album, which was recorded in 2023. Only Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman’s Sonata for violin and piano (1923) is taken from her portrait CD. She was the wife of the famous Dutch novelist Ferdinand Bordewijk. Her four-movement sonata has a joyous atmosphere, with jaunty violin lines set against frisky piano runs that at times recall Debussy’s impressionism.

Rosy Wertheim’s Sonata for violin and piano (1930) is also distinctly lively, with firm chords from the piano and passionate trills from the violin. In contrast to this is the pensive atmosphere of the first two movements of Agnes Jama’s Suite for violin and piano (1952). Intense melancholic violin lines and hushed piano runs evoke a vast landscape one would love to lose oneself in. In the third and final movement, a whirlwind strikes up, full of punchy rhythms and playful ornamentation.

In her Sonata for violin and piano (1918), Henriëtte Bosmans beautifully juxtaposes the instruments in alternating solo passages through all registers. Sudden silences generate dramatic tension, after which the instruments blend harmoniously again. With its broadly spun gestures and shifting atmospheres, this sonata has the allure of orchestral music.

The album also features two short pieces by Majoie Hajary (1921-2017), who was born in Surinam and graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatoire during the Second World War. In her Serenade, she intertwines a lyrical violin part with a Spanish-tinged rhythm in the piano. In the Tango, the piano plays this Argentinian dance rhythm against passionate lines from the violinist.

The performances are excellent, though the recording sounds a bit crude, perhaps because the microphones are placed somewat too close to the instruments. But the varied music, coupled with the fiery and compelling interpretations by Worms and Schoch make Female Composers from the Netherlands very worthwhile nonetheless.

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"I want to do less," says Marcel Wanders as he announces his design studio will suspend operations

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders is to "freeze operations" at the design studio that bears his name and step back from the business for an indefinite period.

Wanders will close Marcel Wanders Studio until further notice and instead dedicate himself to a smaller number of projects.

"I have decided to freeze operations of the Amsterdam studio for an indefinite period," said the 58-year-old designer, adding that his sabbatical "doesn’t have yet an ending date".

The Mondrian Doha in Qatar is one of Marcel Wanders' designs

Wanders will continue to be involved in Moooi, the design brand he co-founded in 2001 and now owns and which is unaffected by his decision.

The decision comes a few months after Wanders was involved in a serious car accident in Mallorca, the Spanish island where he spends much of the year.

"At the end of last year, something happened to me privately that made this voice speak louder inside of me," he said.

"I was injured during a severe car accident at Mallorca and I’m still recovering but thank god, I’m in the hands of good professionals. The fact that I’m walking and I’m not in a wheelchair is already more than the doctors expected."

Support plan to help employees "take the next step"

The studio's creative director Gabriele Chiave has "already found his new path," Wanders said. A support plan is in place to help employees "move on and to take the next step in their career."

“It’s been already a few years now that my mind and my heart have been reflecting on how I should bring the output of my creativity out to the world," Wanders said.

"I have been feeling a sense of dissatisfaction and an urgency inside myself to change something in my creative life and process," he continued. "In my 35-year career I have taken hundreds of projects to completion but now I know that I want to do less."

Wanders also designed the Knotted Chair

"I want to concentrate all the energy I have left inside of me only on a smaller number of creative projects," Wanders explained. "I feel like I cannot handle the daily studio work that I managed for so long. I’m looking for focus, depth and meaning like never before in my life."

"Maybe it’s my age, maybe it’s what happened to me last year, maybe this is the turn that my heart has taken but, I have decided to freeze the operations of the Amsterdam studio for an indefinite period of time in order to be true to my new self," he added.

"Let me repeat this, I will continue to create and contribute to the design world but I will just do it differently."

"I will still create"

Wanders, whose career spans 35 years, is one of the world's most influential designers and has designed many groundbreaking products including the 1996 Knotted Chair, which is made of cord stiffened with epoxy resin.

His 2001 Airborne Snotty Vase was one of the first designs to make use of digital scanning technology, capturing mucus particles emitted during a sneeze and turning the random forms into a series of vases.

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Marcel Wanders Studio has been the vehicle for Wanders' prodigious output since its foundation in 2002 years ago, producing over 1,900 different projects including furniture, lighting, interiors and artworks.

More recent projects include a VIP lounge at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and the exterior of a Louis Vuitton store in Miami.

"I’m not abandoning the design world," Wanders said. "I will still create. I will just create less."

The images are courtesy of Marcel Wanders Studio.

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Marcel Wanders draws on Dutch history for overhaul of Schiphol airport lounge

References to Dutch culture and history are woven throughout the VIP centre of Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, which has undergone a maximalist revamp by designer Marcel Wanders.

The airport lounge comprises a sequence of rooms including a library, drinks bar and smoking room, all designed by Marcel Wanders and his studio to have a distinct theme.

"We wanted each room to be able to exist on its own," explained Gabriele Chiave, the studio's creative director.

Replicas of famous Dutch paintings are displayed in Schiphol's VIP centre

"Of course, the main thread throughout is Dutch heritage and culture," he continued. "But we decided on main themes like art and innovation that inspired generations of designers."

"This travellers' lounge offered an opportunity to share Dutch culture with the world," Wanders added. "It introduces people to our history and our masterpieces."

As travellers enter the VIP centre, they come into a relaxed lounge area designed to loosely resemble the national Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

The workroom features trompe l'oeil walls

Displayed on the walls are replicas of paintings by different Dutch masters, set against backlit glass walls that were installed a decade ago during the last renovation of the lounge by local practice Concrete Architects.

Across the room are banks of coffee-coloured sofas, which like the rest of the furnishings throughout the centre were selected in collaboration with Dutch design brand Lensvelt.

One of the seating areas was designed as a celebration of Deft Blue pottery

More reproductions of significant Dutch artworks are found in the centre's workroom, where travellers can sit down with their laptops or take private phone calls.

Here, a trompe l'oeil effect on the walls creates the impression that the room is finished with traditional boiserie, half-varnished in a rich yellow ochre hue.

Another lounge area showcases digital portraits of famous Dutch cultural figures – both real and fictional – including artist Vincent Van Gogh, violinist Andre Rieu and cartoon bunny Miffy.

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Guests can also retreat to the VIP centre's Deft Blue Salon, which takes its name from a style of Dutch tin-glazed pottery that's typically adorned with intricate blue-and-white designs.

Living up to its name, the room was fitted with patterned blue wallpaper panels and dotted with a few Deft Blue vases.

The smoking room hints at the Netherlands' connection to the tobacco trade

Elsewhere in the VIP centre, there's a smoking room that nods to the Netherlands' historical ties to the tobacco trade and a seating area designed to reference Amsterdam's canal houses, with a streetlamp-style light and fake stained-glass windows.

Other amenities include a library, drinks bar, games room and a serene sleeping room.

Amsterdam's canal houses informed the look of this lounge

Wanders is known for his striking maximalist aesthetic, which can also be seen in his interior design for Doha's Mandarin hotel with its mismatched patterns and oversized furnishings.

Stateside, the designer has previously created a diamond-patterned facade for the Louis Vuitton store in Miami, referencing the brand's iconic monogram logo.

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Marcel Wanders wraps Louis Vuitton Miami store in diamond facade

Dutch studio Marcel Wanders has created a white, patterned screen for a Louis Vuitton menswear store in Miami that was informed by the luxury brand's leatherwork and iconic monogram.

Located in the heart of the city's Design District, the store opened in December 2021 during Design Miami.

While the building and interior design were handled by the company's in-house team, the Amsterdam-based studio of Marcel Wanders created the exterior screen, dubbed the Diamond Facade.

Marcel Wanders created a latticed screen for the store

In addition to Miami's modernist architecture, the design draws upon an earlier product created by Marcel Wanders for Louis Vuitton – the Diamond Screen room divider, which is part of the brand's Objet Nomades collection. The partition was unveiled in 2017.

"At that time, we wanted to create, from a single hexagonal module, a standing room divider, as well as an entire hanging modular system that could be used as an interior feature for the LV store," said Gabriele Chiave, the design studio's creative director.

The design was informed by Louis Vuitton's iconic monogram

To conceive the module, the studio assessed the qualities comprising the LV brand and zeroed in on its leather craftsmanship – in particular, the leather straps on its iconic bags.

"With these straps, we began to explore shape to create a module," the studio said. "This is how the hexagonal module found in the pattern was created."

"It also refers to the Louis Vuitton star monogram in very elegant and subtle way," the studio added.

It has been dubbed the Diamond Facade

A series of modules were then connected with brass clips, similar to those found on Louis Vuitton bags and trunks, and the Diamond Screen was born.

"To summarise, starting with a bag strap, we created a module, which became a room divider, which then became a broader interior feature, and finally a large-scale architectural facade," the team said.

To construct the building screen, the team used laser-cut metal plates that are welded together. The panels are coloured white, which relates to the character of Miami and gives the store a fresh look, the team said.

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Rather than being a flat surface, the screen has a sculptural form, with several projecting window boxes that extend over the sidewalk below. This dynamic shape enhances the pattern and creates a sense of movement, said Chiave.

There is a 30-centimetre gap been the screen and the building's exterior wall, which results in an interesting play of light and shadow.

"When sunlight hits the building, the shadow of the metal facade drops into the wall, creating a shadow effect of the pattern," said Chiave. "This shadow creates a beautiful illusion of depth, or second skin."

At night, the building is brightly illuminated by internal light sources

At night, the building is brightly illuminated by internal light sources, which also produces a sense of depth.

This facade is the latest iteration of the Diamond Screen pattern. Louis Vuitton has used the design as partitions and backdrops in permanent stores and temporary installations.

The store opened in December 2021 during Design Miami

"Because of the essence of this pattern being rooted in the iconic Louis Vuitton monogram, as well as its connection to the beautiful leatherwork of the brand, it has become a relevant symbol for the conceptual visual communication of the brand," said Chiave.

The Miami store is the French fashion house's second freestanding menswear boutique, the other being in Tokyo. The artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear line was Virgil Abloh, who died last November of cancer at the age of 41.

Other Louis Vuitton locations include an Amsterdam boutique by UNStudio that
has bricks made of stainless steel and glass, a Seoul shop by Frank Gehry that is topped with sweeping glass "sails", and a Tokyo flagship store by Jun Aoki & Associates that has an undulating, pearlescent facade.

The photography is by Marcel Wanders.

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Contemporary designers create one-off candle holders for A Flame for Research charity project

Designers including Patricia Urquiola, Jaime Hayon and Marcel Wanders have created metal candle holders for a project to raise funds for cancer research, which is currently on show at Milan design week.

Urquiola, Hayon, Michele de Lucchi, Philippe Malouin, Luca Nichetto and Matteo Thun designed one piece each for the A Flame for Research charity project.

Patricia Urquiola's "Hope" is one of the candleholders designed especially for the project

Panter & Tourron, Marcel Wanders Studio, Federica Biasi and Alberto and Francesco Meda also took part in the project, which was initiated by Daniele Mingardo.

Mingardo, who founded the Mingardo metal design brand in 2013, worked together with curator Federica Sala and Mingardo art director Federica Biasi to get the 10 contemporary product and industrial designers involved.

The finished works include a sculpture-like candelabra by Hayon and a design by Wanders that combines an electric light with a candleholder.

London's chimneys and industrial tower informed Philippe Malouin's design

The pieces will be auctioned off at Christie's with profits going to Italy's Mario Negri Pharmacological Research Institute, which is dedicated to clinical and biomedical research.

Mingardo launched A Flame for Research to help support cancer research after his mother passed away from the disease.

Designer Jaime Hayon's candelabra Instrument N 01 is shaped like a face

He wanted to work with well-known names to ensure there was as much interest in the A Flame for Research project as possible and help raise as much money for it as he could.

"We thought if the names were bigger it would be more appealing and interesting for collectors to buy," curator Sala told Dezeen.

"We also chose these designers because apart from Philippe Malouin, who had already done collaborations with galleries and created special collections, all the others – more or less – are furniture and industrial designers, so there aren't a lot of unique pieces made by them in existence."

Two steel sheets form a candleholder by Alberto and Francesco Meda

The designers were given a free hand to come up with any candleholder design they wanted. These were then created in the Mingardo blacksmith workshop, which was founded by Mingardo's father in 1970.

As the pieces were produced during the coronavirus pandemic, it was a time-consuming process, in which the designers sent sketches that Mingardo turned into prototypes before sending them back for the designers to check.

It also created a challenge for Mingardo, as some of the designs were unlike anything his workshop had produced before.

Electric light is combined with candles in Marcel Wanders studio's Cu-Cou light

"Daniele actually learned a lot of new techniques for the pieces he had to produce; for example for Marcel Wanders' copper candleholder – he had to buy a new machine and learn how to use it," Sala said.

"The texture is like dusted ceramic and you need a special machine for that."

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The only parameters given to the designers were the size of the pieces and that they had to be all made from metal, rather than a combination of metal and other materials. The resulting designs drew on a wide range of inspirations.

While Malouin's large bright-green double candleholder references the chimneys and industrial towers of suburban London, Nichetto created a shielded holder shaped like the "edicole" wayside alcoves that function as shrines in Italy.

Italy's "Edicola" shrines informed Luca Nichetto's candleholder

Thun's circular candleholder also has a religious significance.

"Matteo wanted to dedicate this flame to Saint Agatha [the city saint for Catania, Sicily]," Benedetto Fasciana, who works on special handcrafted projects at Matteo Thun, told Dezeen.

The patron saint of Catania was the inspiration behind Matteo Thun's piece

"The metal is brass, with an engraved brise-soleil finishing to represent the sun," he added. "The holder is very minimal – we wanted to represent the typical Saint Agatha candles, which can be as tall as one meter. We also used Sicilian candles in the holder."

The 10 designs are currently on show as part of Milan design week and will be auctioned off at Christie's Italia on 15 September.

Candleholder by Federica Biasi

Mingardo hopes the sales can help other people who have been affected by cancer.

"To empower research is to have a sign of hope for everybody – if you support research, you can support hope," Mingardo told Dezeen.

"I hoped that this experience that was really bad for me could turn into something positive for someone else."

Other projects on show at this year's edition of Milan design week include pieces by emerging Italian designers created in response to Rick Owens' work and a power-cut resilient portable incubator.

Photography is by Matteo Imbriani.

A Flame for Research will be on display at Offstage Milano until 10 September as part ofMilan design week. See Dezeen Events Guide for an up-to-date list of architecture and design events taking place around the world.

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Marcel Wanders Studio's designs for Moooi "tap into the irrational side of the brain" says Gabriele Chiave

Gabriele Chiave discusses the new light and sofa system that Marcel Wanders Studio has created for Moooi in our latest Design Dreams video for the Dutch furniture brand.

Chiave is creative director at the eponymous studio of Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, who is also one of the co-founders of Moooi.

Under Chiave and Wanders' leadership, Marcel Wanders Studio has created two new products for Moooi – the Hubble Bubble suspension lamp and a modular sofa system called Sofa So Good.

Hubble Bubble is a suspension lamp designed by Marcel Wanders Studio for Moooi

Chiave explained his intuitive approach to designing furniture in an exclusive video interview with Dezeen shot at Marcel Wanders Studio in Amsterdam.

"Marcel Wanders Studio is a hub of crazy, creative and amazing people and designers," he said. "We aim to reach people in their heart and their soul, tapping into their emotions, tapping into the irrational side of their brain more than the rational one."

Hubble Bubble features glass spheres arranged around a circular metal frame

The Hubble Bubble light comprises an arrangement of glass spheres attached to a circular metal frame.

The light can be hung either vertically or horizontally, and its hand-blown spheres come in either iridescent or frosted glass.

Its uncluttered design makes use of Moooi's Electrosandwich technology, which allows a current to pass through the body of the lamp without requiring visible cabling.

According to Chiave, the lamp was designed to recall childhood memories of blowing bubbles.

"Hubble Bubble is a very poetic light, it's a very ethereal light," he said. "It's like seeing a little cloud of soap bubbles in the air floating."

Marcel Wanders Studio has also created a modular sofa system for Moooi called Sofa So Good

Sofa So Good is a modular sofa system that offers eight different seating modules that can be upholstered in Moooi's range of fabrics, as well as two table elements and three shelving units.

According to Chiave, the sofa was designed to combine a boxy form with surprisingly soft and generously proportioned seats.

"It's a very elegant, simple, but very sophisticated sofa that looks comfortable and feels even more comfortable, with amazing details and all the opportunities of using Moooi textiles and finishes," said Chiave.

Sofa So Good can be upholstered in Moooi's range of fabrics

On top of its numerous designs for Moooi, Marcel Wanders Studio creates products and interiors for brands around the world, including air pollution masks with graphic prints for San Francisco company O2Today, kaleidoscopic mirrors mounted on leather backing for Louis Vitton, and leather hides digitally printed with fractal patterns for specialist leather studio Bill Amberg.

Dezeen's Design Dreams video series has profiled a number of the designers who have created products for Moooi, including Simone Bonanni, Kranen/Gille and Joep van Lieshout.

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