Selected by Vincent de Goede

In 'Eyes of Gold', we invite some of our favourite tastemakers with a golden eye to select three works from the Bisou collection. Each guest explains their choices and shares how these pieces might live together in their space.

For the latest edition of the series, we invited Vincent de Goede, owner of Vincent Optiek in Houten, the best eyewear store in the Netherlands. A sharp selection of the finest independent brands, I’ve been a loyal customer for years.

Vincent and I share roots in skateboarding. He also came up through graffiti, graphic design and punk rock, and that background still runs through everything he does. Then there’s the car collection. Around ten of them, out of this world. Real driver’s cars, plus a soft spot for the misunderstood and slightly weird ones.

In this portrait, Vincent wears his own Vincent Optiek merch, with ‘Schele’ across his shirt and sliders. Dutch for cross-eyed, and a mild insult you’d shout across the street. Hey, schele! A high-end eyewear store with merch that still swears a little. Typical Vincent.

In conversation with Jules Julien

Earlier this summer, the Obama Presidential Center opened on Chicago's South Side, home to one of the most ambitious public art programs in recent memory: more than 28 site-specific commissions by artists including Nick Cave, Jenny Holzer, Maya Lin and Theaster Gates. Among them is Jules Julien, the French artist based in Amsterdam and represented by Bisou, who spent over two years creating two permanent works for the museum, 'All Together', an immersive digital mural built from more than a million individually placed dots, and 'The Balance of Power', a triptych in the museum's Civics gallery.

We spoke with Julien about the making of 'All Together': the two years spent living inside a single project, the million dots placed and coloured one by one, and what it meant to build a work of this scale for an institution like this one.

Mind Games

Amsterdam-born and raised artist Faan Olgers is featured in the latest issue of Manera Benelux. Get it now while still in store, or online here.

Photographer Anwyn Howarth visited Faan in his Amsterdam studio, and what a pleasure it was to work with her. Writer Charlotte Boates spoke with him about a practice built on self-imposed rules and apparent impossibilities, with someone who, by his own definition, is not an artist but a constructor. “The work pulls me, and I follow.”

Faan Olgers x Rosewood Amsterdam

Bisou Gallery’s Faan Olgers was commissioned to create a bespoke sculpture for the lobby of the Rosewood Amsterdam. The Amsterdam-born artist (b. 1947) drew inspiration from the building’s four iconic pillars, which serve as a strong base for the piece...