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Gijs Bakker
Dutch jewelry designer (born )
Gijs Bakker (Amersfoort, 20 February ) is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Konstfackskolan in Stockholm, Sweden.
Bakker's designs cover jewellery, home accessories and domesticated appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. He worked and works for numerous companies amongst which are Polaroid, Artifort, HEMA, Royal VKB, and ENO Studio.
Bakker is widower of the jewellery designer Emmy van Leersum.
In he founded Droog Design[1] together with design critic and historian Renny Ramakers, a Dutch collective of designers, products and information. Together with Ramakers, he was the selector and art director of all products within Droog Design until In he and Renny Ramakers had been awarded the Benno Premsela Prize for their joint effort.
Droog droog is a Dutch pos meaning "dry" is a conceptual Dutch design company situated in AmsterdamNetherlands. Droog is an internationally renowned design label [1] and one of the most celebrated exponents of Dutch Design. Droog was founded in by product designer Gijs Bakker and art and design historian Renny Ramakers to promote contemporary Dutch blueprint. The founders had selected perform by young Dutch designers in which they saw a modern trend in the reuse of everyday objects combined with a down-to-earth mentality.Bakker has also taught for more than 40 years at different schools, among others the Delft University of Technology and the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he worked since until (since as Head of the Masters Programme).
Together with Italian gallery owner Marijke Vallanzasca, Bakker founded the Chi ha paura?
(Italian for 'who is afraid of') foundation in With Chi ha paura? (CHP?) They wanted to show the international design world that a piece of jewellery is more than a decorative fashion accessory. With this CHP? challenged the widespread fear for contemporary jewellery.
From onwards, Bakker has investigated the relation between craft and plan in the Netherlands.
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The brand was also established to develop a more prolific blueprint identity for Taiwan.
Gijs Bakker travels around the world to give workshops, lectures and is frequently a member in juries. His retrospective exhibition "Gijs Bakker and Jewelry" (and accompanying monography) was on display in various museums around the world.
His work is represented in collections, both in museums and privately, worldwide.