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The right artwork changes how you feel.
The right artwork doesn’t complete a room. It changes how you feel inside it. The interior of Villa de Duinen was designed by Mariska Jagt around calm, soft lines and quiet simplicity. Rather than adding more, she wanted to introduce another layer, one that invites curiosity and reflection.
That is what great art does. It doesn’t tell you what to think; it invites you to discover your own story. Beautiful interiors aren’t created by filling a space. They’re created by choosing pieces that continue to reveal themselves.
Knowing the story behind each work, including the idea, technique, process, and craft, creates a deeper connection and turns a piece into something you are proud to live with.
ART[s] x VILLA DE DUINEN
Luxury, warm materials, connection and a strong attention to atmosphere.
When a Room Becomes Personal
The most beautiful interiors are often the ones that whisper instead of shout. The corners that make you slow down, stay a little longer and quietly exhale. That feeling is created through layers of softness. Tactile fabrics, warm earthy tones, gentle lighting and art that brings emotion into a space. Because a room becomes memorable when it touches something beyond the eye.
“Art has always been an essential part of my work and life. Not as decoration, but as soul. Everyone sees something different in art. Feels something different. That is what makes it so personal – and so powerful.” – Mariska Jagt
Why This Collaboration Took Shape
Villa de Duinen, located in Noordwijk aan Zee, is a special location. It is a unique and versatile place where tranquility, relaxation, inspiration and enjoyment are central, with a bistro and lounge bar as an atmospheric place where you can dine and relax.
ART[s] Gallery and Mariska Jagt share the belief that art and interior design are strongest when conceived as one. At Villa de Duinen, this shared vision comes to life, with art becoming an integral part of the atmosphere, identity and experience of the space.
THE ARTWORKS
Eelco Hilgersom
Cocoon
Polycarbonate lenses, XPS foam
His artworks are an abstract reflection of the wondrous beauty of nature.
Eelco Hilgersom
Cocoon 2
Limewood lenses, XPS foam
Silke Wellmeier
Protected places
Porcelain
Her work is based on close observation of specific aspects of my surroundings and their manual, material-based translation into forms and vessels.
Jacqueline Heidanus
Porcelain and earthenware objects whose soft, pebble-like shapes are refined by the manual drawings built up from countless tiny dots recessed into the surface and filled with glaze, like subtle tattoos on the ceramic skin.
Bernice Rijnberk
Be Beautiful
Mixed Media
Bernice’s Art Jewels are mixed‑media pieces created from various treasures. Each one brings a personal touch to any space, add stories, texture, color and emotion into a small piece of art that feels both intimate and unique.
Bernice Rijnberk
Bee Nice
Mixed media
Olav Slingerland
Custom creation
Earthenware, glaze
A defining characteristic of his work is the purity of form, combined with a striking contrast between the pure, matte clay body and the rich, glossy colors of the glaze. Exploring the tension between recognition and autonomy , between motion and stillness —creating pieces that invite a unique visual experience.
Inge Becka
Folded, gold shine
Porcelain
She is a true virtuoso in working with porcelain. Sleek, graceful, an infinite abundance of color and form.
Carry Doorn
Unfolding Silence
Metal mesh
She creates sculptures from transparent metal mesh that reveal inner movement through light, layering, and stillness.
Carry Doorn
Streaming
Metal mesh
Carry Doorn
Oculus
Metal mesh
Carry Doorn
Custom creation
Metal mesh
Daniëlle van Lunteren
Tiles on Tile Silver
Leather
Structural art with leather to capture the raw beauty of imperfection, guided by nature, shaped by the unexpected.
Mart Visser
5154-23
Mixed Media on Paper
All his artworks present a profound exploration of the human face. Abstract, layered, and intriguing, Visser works intuitively, constructing his pieces from weathered wood, stone, and metal, while occasionally casting them in bronze.
Marije Kuin
Silent Rising
Paperporcelain, Ceramics
Unique sculptures, exploring fragility, balance, resilience and organic growth, in the longing for connection.
MARISKA JAGT – YUME ATELIERS
“For me, that’s what great design is all about. Creating a story that reveals itself as you move through it.”
