The History of the Sand-Factory

The Sand-Factory is founded in 2006 by Martin de Zoete (Biography) and Joram Amsdorf (Biography).
Martin de Zoete has successfully completed a study as architect at the University of Delft and Joram Amsdorf has an education as teacher in forming arts at the High School For Art of Amsterdam.
After years of working for different clients and company’s in the world of sand, we decided in 2006 to combine our expertise start to work together under the name Sand-Factory.

The company started with experience we both had from our freelance activities. We can fall-back on a wide field of experiences witch consist of the whole spectrum of creating sand sculptures. The start up years where exciting and soon we where building everywhere, from shopping centres to daily markets, product promotions and having workshops for individuals and companies. Teaching the way of the sand to anyone interested.

In 2011 Joram Amsdorf decided to leave the Sand-Factory to pursue a career as a teacher and is now educating pre adults in the field of Art. Martin de Zoete continued the activities of the Sand-Factory.

Several point which show our experiences are:
-Initialising and the creation of designs.
-Technical (calculations) workout of the earlier mentioned designs.
-The build-up of a sculpture.
-The artistic finishing and responsibility.
-Searching and employing qualified sculptors.
-The artistic responsibility.
-The managing of the project from the first shovel till clean up.