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Reviewed: former Moooi partner launches new design brand
Casper Vissers has launched a new furniture and lighting brand, with products made from traditional materials such as wood, stone, glass and steel
By Fernanda Drumond
Updated at Feb 17, 2020, 4:41 PM - Submitted at Feb 18, 2019, 5:38 PM
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Crafted from Italian glass, the Ovington table lamp features dimmable ambient LEDs(Divulgação/)
Dutch entrepreneur and former Moooi co-founder Casper Vissers has launched a new furniture and lighting brand called Revised . The company features products made from traditional materials including wood, stone, glass and steel. The launch collection evokes early 20th-century styles and is influenced by interiors seen by Vissers and his wife, Suzy, while traveling. The products are named after English villages such as Thakeham, Edburton and Ovington, while the material palette includes walnut , oak and marble. The organic shapes stand out in the pieces, there is hardly a straight line anywhere in the collection, with objects having rounded corners and edges. 
The products use advanced manufacturing techniques that allow for the machining of complex shapes at much lower costs than handcrafted items. Revised uses high-tech robots to manufacture its products, allowing for the construction of complex wooden shapes, such as asymmetrical chair legs that could only be produced by hand. The pieces are manufactured across Europe, with suppliers based in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Lithuania. Revised marks a dramatic shift in style for Vissers, who together with designer Marcel Wanders has transformed Moooi into a global brand, with an eclectic mix of styles from a wide range of contemporary designers. Vissers, 50, left Moooi three years, having spent 14 years at the company. Last year, the entrepreneur became a shareholder in British design brand Minimalux – but Revised marks his return to the market. The brand opens for business from a showroom in Rotterdam and a network of distributors across Europe, as well as an online sales infrastructure. The launch is scheduled to take place just before Milan design week, but Revised has not will be shown in the Italian city this year. Revised 's 44-piece furniture and lighting collection was all designed by Sjoerd Vroonland, a thirty-three-year-old Dutch designer. 
Vissers first met Vroonland seven years ago when the young designer presented his Revised Craft series of furniture designs, which reinterpreted pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Later, his Extension Chair , a variation on a traditional turned wooden chair, became is part of the Moooi collection. Vissers asked Vroonland to collaborate on designs for Revised , but the designer came back with so many ideas that he ended up creating the entire collection. 
Vissers first met Vroonland seven years ago when the young designer presented his Revised Craft series of furniture designs, which reinterpreted pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Later, his Extension Chair , a variation on a traditional turned wooden chair, became is part of the Moooi collection. Vissers asked Vroonland to collaborate on designs for Revised , but the designer came back with so many ideas that he ended up creating the entire collection. 