Just as I decided to post about Front‘s softly, softly twist on conventional furniture decoration for Porro, I stumbled across the work of their Dutch soul mates, Scholten and Baijings. The duo is presenting fuori salone in Milan, alongside a bevy of new Dutch talent at the Romeo Gigli Cafe’/Design Academy Eindhoven HQ in the Porta Genova precinct. Their exhibition, Truly Dutch, Conversation Pieces for the Interior, is a five-piece collection of ”contemporary, decorated pieces of furniture, designed by Scholten & Bangs and made by artists and master craftsmen.” The pieces were inspired by classic master works from the intriguingly divergent collection of the Zuiderzee Museum of art, design and culture. The tuna boat motif travel case for me kind of says it all about Dutch design at the moment. You may not quite get what’s really going on, but it makes you look.