Geoffrey Badenhorst

Geoffrey Badenhorst
Restoration architecture
Art and architectural history
Design
About me
Biography and work

Geoffrey Badenhorst
Msc.
I am a registered Dutch architect educated at the Technical University of Delft, based in Amsterdam/Chicago. In 2017 I established Bureau Badenhorst an architectural office focussing on historic research and restoration.

In 2016 I started my current collaboration with Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in projects on the influences of Dutch colonialism on Dutch shared heritage and the effect of the cultural exchange between Asia and Europe on material culture in the 17th and 18th century.

My present design project dives into the past, present and future of the iconic blue and white ceramic. My particular interest narrows in on the representation of cultural exchange as told with cobalt and clay.
Bureau Badenhorst
Architectural Restoration

OFFICE OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH AND RESTORATION
Bureau Badenhorst is an Amsterdam/Chicago based restoration office founded in 2017. Our current work involves the restoration and redevelopment of Landfort estate in Gendringen, the Netherlands. Our consulting group helps tackle the intricacies of bringing the historic estate into modern times while still maintaining high fidelity.
http://www.erfgoedlandfort.nl
Shared Cultural Heritage Projects
Online Furniture and Silverware Database
Online database
Current digitization project of the East Indies furniture and silver collections of the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and Gemeentemuseum (Den Haag)
http://aziatischekeramiek.nl/news/view/aziatischekeramiek_nl_ontvangt_een_gast

Historians of Netherlandish Art Podcast
Episode 4: Geoffrey Haider-Badenhorst, Carrie Anderson, and Marsely Kehoe
https://hnanews.org/podcast/

Baroque in Batavia
Research
Current research on the development of Baroque furniture and furnishings in public buildings in Batavia (Jakarta) around 1700.
Publications on Dutch Colonial Material Culture
Writing
2021
Common Ground, de gedeelde erfenis van gescheiden werelden (bookreview), Zuid-Afrika maandblad
2017
Robben Island, Good, Hope South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600, Van Tilt, 2017
Hendrik Swellengrebel, Good Hope, South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600, Van Tilt, 2017
Simon van der Stel, Good Hope South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600, Van Tilt, 2017
Het achttiende-eeuwse Zuid-Afrika door de ogen van Robert Jacob Gordon, Zuid-Afrika maandblad
Het buitenleven in Nederland en aan de Kaap, Zuid-Afrika maandblad en SKBL newsletter
2016
Botanische kennis voor economische macht en groei, Zuid-Afrika maandblad
2015
Van Hollands kabinet naar Engelse hangkast, Zuid-Afrika maandblad
Groot Constantia, pleisterplaats voor goden en stervelingen, Zuid-Afrika maandblad
Kaapse taferelen uit Chinese penselen, Zuid-Afrika maandblad
Rijksmuseum Good Hope Exhibition
As part of the Rijksmuseum Good Hope exhibition team, I assisted in creating the online database of 18th century Cape explorer Robert Jacob Gordon's legacy.http://www.robertjacobgordon.nl
The Journey of Blue and White...
Only a few materials have had the pronounced effect on global design and aesthetic as that of blue and white porcelain. Though mastered by Chinese artisans centuries before it was adopted in the west, the appearance of this nouveauté caused a rage for collecting all over Europe. Depicted on porcelain, cobalt blue images of exotic figures and plants depicted on porcelain answered to the curiosity of 17th century Europeans and their rapidly globalizing world.The growing demand for everyday objects rendered in a manner evocative of Chinese motifs ignited an on going cross-pollination with ripple affects still appreciable today. This initial trade would become the foundation stone in a movement that would come to be known as chinoiserie. Delftware is an early example of this reinterpretation of Chinese pattern and design which still forms a key element in present day Dutch culture.
... the enduring aesthetic of blue and white
is a testament to the ongoing fascination the world has held for chinoiserie. My current project explores how representations rendered in porcelain can connect us to other times and spaces. Follow my project to find out how!
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Geoffrey Badenhorst

Restoration architecture Art and architectural historyDesign

About me

Biography and work

Geoffrey Badenhorst

Msc.

Bureau BadenhorstArchitectural Restoration

OFFICE OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH AND RESTORATION

Shared Cultural Heritage Projects

Online Furniture and Silverware Database

Online database

Baroque in Batavia

Research

Publications on Dutch Colonial Material Culture

Writing

Rijksmuseum Good Hope Exhibition

As part of the Rijksmuseum Good Hope exhibition team, I assisted in creating the online database of 18th century Cape explorer Robert Jacob Gordon's legacy.http://www.robertjacobgordon.nl

The Journey of Blue and White...

... the enduring aesthetic of blue and white

is a testament to the ongoing fascination the world has held for chinoiserie. My current project explores how representations rendered in porcelain can connect us to other times and spaces. Follow my project to find out how!

Photography

Architecture

Photography

Nature

Connect with me

Contact me by E-mail or Linkedin, or find me through Instagram in the link below.

Instagram

Restoration architecture
Art and architectural history
Design

Bureau Badenhorst
Architectural Restoration