HOLES CONSOLE

Designer

Gijs Bakker

Circa

2015

Edition

Ed. of 12 | Signed by the Artist

Description

Gijs Bakker, born 1942 in Amersfoort, Netherlands was originally trained as a jewelry and industrial designer at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden. Bakker's designs have included jewelry, home accessories, and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces, and exhibitions. Co-founder of Droog Design and revered teacher at Design Academy of Eindhoven, Gijs Bakker has played an influential role in the contemporary Dutch Design movements as a thought-leader and a world exhibited design artist.

Materials

Black Stained Maple Wood

Dimensions

L 49.2 x D 13.8 x H 31.5 in
L 124.9 x D 35 x H 80 cm

Lead Time

8 Weeks

Price

$12,000

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Gijs Bakker

Born 1942 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, Gijs Bakker was trained as a jewelry craftsman and industrial designer at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.

Today, Bakker's body of work includes jewelry, furniture, Objets d’Art, architectural installations, public spaces and exhibition designs. He co-founded the now-famous Dutch collective Droog Design in 1993 and Chi ha paura...? (Italian for "Who is afraid of...?") in 1996, a foundation aimed at expanding the understanding of jewelry beyond the frame of decorative accessories.

A revered teacher, lecturer, and consultant, Bakker heads the Masters Program at the Design Academy Eindhoven. He is highly regarded as one of Modern Dutch Design’s most influential artists and thought-leaders.

His work has been actively collected by internationally acclaimed museums including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, H.W.D. Collection, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. In 2005 he was the subject of a retrospective exhibition (and accompanying monograph) "Gijs Bakker and Jewelry," which traveled from Stedelijk Museum s'-Hertogenbosch to museums around the world, and his work has been published in numerous books and journals.