Peter van de Water

Peter van de Water is an Amsterdam based furniture and interior designer. His furniture designs are produced by a growing number of furniture brands as Gispen, Cascando, Label, New Duivendrecht, Odesi & TossB. Typical for the furniture designs by Peter van de Water is their intelligent simplicity. A single strong idea is made into a recognizable, iconic design. Always looking for that one perfect solution to combine aesthetics, function & construction. His goal is quality in design and production. Designs should be contemporary, but also have a timeless quality. They should last for many years in production & construction, but also in appearance, making it a durable product. An other goal of Peter van de Water is to keep developing his skills & style, keep learning. The thought that best is yet to come, keeps him highly motivated to do what he loves most. Making new designs. He loves making scale models, sketches, renderings and prototypes. All of this in his design studio in his beloved neighborhood Oud-west in Amsterdam, only a few hundred meters from his home.

Peter van de Water ( Born in Mierlo ) studied Architecture & spatial design at the art-school st.Joost in Breda and graduated in 1994. In 1999 he started his own design office named Internal affairs. This after working for a number of years at a design office as an employee, learning the trade.