
PIVOT

Designer
Aldo BakkerManufacture
Jan Matthesius
Circa
2014
Description
Pivot features a playful and chunky shape with a fine and delicate structure around the lid. All of which is in stark contrast to the extravagance of the materials used to fabricate the piece, 100% fine silver, plated with gold. Aldo Bakker, “I question the most common significance of products and thus also their use. In an ideal situation, every object takes on its own character and gains its own legitimacy. My designs are not based on fashion. They are unique pieces, not necessarily understandable at a glance, but meant for a slow, layer by layer exploration.” The Pivot pourer results from the long-standing collaboration between Aldo Bakker and revered silversmith Jan Matthesius. Exhibited at Looiersgracht 60, a prominent design gallery in Amsterdam for a show titled "Containing Content" in 2015 where Bakker presented an exhibition of five jugs: Pivot, Pipe, Soy Pourer, Pot, and Square Pourer. Dutch writer, Hans den Hartog Jager wrote the following in the artist's biography for the show, "Bakker rarely starts a design from the desire to solve a practical problem. In fact, though Baker may unmistakably be a designer, his interest in functionality only comes in at the latest stage." The five jugs presented in the 2015 exhibition epitomize Bakker's inclinations of function following form.
Aldo Bakker
Aldo Bakker
Born in the Netherlands in 1971 to Dutch designers Gijs Bakker and Emmy Van Leersum, Bakker grew up in an environment infused with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Rather than a formal design education, he forged his own path by training as a silversmith. Bakker set up his own studio in 1994, later moving into furniture and product design.
Bakker is interested in organic forms and movements that defy time, zeitgeist, functionality, and purpose. Those who see Aldo’s design for the first time are often drawn to the form or the materiality before they wonder what their purpose is.
This engaging and intriguing moment is important to the designer who grew his own unconventional approach to design in the scholarly household of two Dutch design icons. As opposed to most designers, Bakker rarely starts a design idea from the desire to solve a problem or address practical needs. Most of his objects start from the fascination for the timeless beauty of a form and the movement it may suggest; the form and its movement would then inspire a function. The cleverness and oddity of Aldo’s designs give his objects some type of natural legitimacy and timelessness.
Bakker’s pieces result from the dexterity of his master craftsmen collaborators — silversmith Jan Matthesius, ceramicist Frans Ottink, woodcrafter Rutger Graas, urushi master Sergej Kirilov or metalsmith Andre van Loon among others.
Widely published and exhibited in Europe today, Aldo held his first large exhibition at the Amsterdam Gallery ‘Binnen’. Invited by Ilse Crawford of the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2002, Bakker has fulfilled a successful tenure at the Design university for over ten years. Today the designer continues selected collaborations with renown manufacturers while further completing his personal collection with master craftsmen and galleries around the world.
Aldo Bakker
Born in the Netherlands in 1971 to Dutch designers Gijs Bakker and Emmy Van Leersum, Bakker grew up in an environment infused with a strong aesthetic sensibility. Rather than a formal design education, he forged his own path by training as a silversmith. Bakker set up his own studio in 1994, later moving into furniture and product design.
Bakker is interested in organic forms and movements that defy time, zeitgeist, functionality, and purpose. Those who see Aldo’s design for the first time are often drawn to the form or the materiality before they wonder what their purpose is.
This engaging and intriguing moment is important to the designer who grew his own unconventional approach to design in the scholarly household of two Dutch design icons. As opposed to most designers, Bakker rarely starts a design idea from the desire to solve a problem or address practical needs. Most of his objects start from the fascination for the timeless beauty of a form and the movement it may suggest; the form and its movement would then inspire a function. The cleverness and oddity of Aldo’s designs give his objects some type of natural legitimacy and timelessness.
Bakker’s pieces result from the dexterity of his master craftsmen collaborators — silversmith Jan Matthesius, ceramicist Frans Ottink, woodcrafter Rutger Graas, urushi master Sergej Kirilov or metalsmith Andre van Loon among others.
Widely published and exhibited in Europe today, Aldo held his first large exhibition at the Amsterdam Gallery ‘Binnen’. Invited by Ilse Crawford of the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2002, Bakker has fulfilled a successful tenure at the Design university for over ten years. Today the designer continues selected collaborations with renown manufacturers while further completing his personal collection with master craftsmen and galleries around the world.

Aldo Bakker Collection

SOY POURER

SILVER SALT CELLAR

CONSOLE BLACK

ANURA WHITE

URUSHI CONSOLE

TONUS INDIGO

PINK URUSHI STOOL BON

FAT ONE

WATER CARAFE

THREE-PAIR | IVORY MARBLE

PIVOT

TONUS URUSHI

LAC TABLE

VINEGAR FLASK

PIPE

POSE

CANDLE

THREE-PAIR | BASALTINA

ONE LEG MAHOGANY

SWING

SUPPORT

THREE-PAIR | BLACK MARBLE

GREEN LOW TABLE

CONSOLE GREEN

OIL PLATTER

BLACK SALT CELLAR

SQUARE POURER

SILVER POURER

MILK | OIL CAN

TONUS WOOD

A. BAKKER | CHALICE

RED URUSHI

CONSOLE TABLE

ANURA BLACK

SILVER CARAFE

REIGEN | A. BAKKER

ONE LEG URUSHI

STOOL BON

A. BAKKER | ARTEFACT

JUG+CUP

GREEN SIDE TABLE