KunstRAI: Groupshow: FOLLY
The Millen House debuts at KunstRAI with a scenography of contrasts: bold yet quiet, refined yet raw. Designed as a living room, the space is not staged but inhabited — a place where art and design coalesce into a tactile, emotional experience.
Inspired by the folly — the ornamental pleasure structures once tucked into 18th-century gardens — this interior is both a fantasy and a framework. A place to dri!. To delight. To question purpose.
At KunstRAI 2025 The Millen House proudly debuts with a living room-inspired booth echoing the spirit of the folly. Once the extravagant pleasure structures of 18th-century gardens, follies were built to delight, to dream and to provoke — blurring architecture, art and fantasy.
Our folly is a domestic reverie: a room dotted with reds, oranges and yellows, where function melts into form. Playful, organic objects dance on the edge of utility and sculpture — from Gert Wessels’ tactile cabinet to Günter Beltzig’s soft, otherworldly Floris chair and Rutger de Regt’s Carbon Extraction Lamp, reflecting on the replacement of earth’s crust materials by synthetic alternatives.
Also featured are Diana Bitar’s vibrant textile works in artificial silk and Marleen Kaptein’s dynamic light compositions in carbon fibre, alongside lyrical 1950s collages by André van der Vossen and early paintings by Yvonne Kracht. Together, they compose a layered dialogue between contemporary design and mid-century abstraction — all within a space that invites you to linger, to imagine, and to delight.