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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.
Gijs Bakker was born in He was trained as a jewellery designer Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Even though he has since designed dwelling accessories, household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibition, his jewellery design has always been his core business. He believes that design should be experimental and is constantly creating novel things by using different concepts.Bakker's designs cover jewellery, dwelling accessories and household 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 creator 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 Blueprint until In he and Renny Ramakers had been awarded the Benno Premsela Prize for their joint effort.
about Gijs Bakker: 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 has also taught for more than 40 years at different schools, among others the Delft University of Technology and the Blueprint Academy Eindhoven, where he worked since until (since as Top 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.
Sonneveld House is a museum house and one of the best-preserved homes in the functionalist Nieuwe Bouwen style. The villa on the edge of the Museum Park was designed in the early s by the architecture office Brinkman en Van der Vlugt, known for the Van Nelle factory and the Feyenoord stadium. Sonneveld House shows how a prominent Rotterdam family embraced Modernism, and how that choice coloured their daily living environment. Jongkindstraat 12, Rotterdam Unseal from Tuesday - SundayWith this CHP? challenged the widespread fear for contemporary jewellery.
From onwards, Bakker has investigated the relation between craft and blueprint in the Netherlands. Abroad, he is active regarding this issue by becoming creative director for Yii Taiwan in Commissioned by the Taiwanese Craft and Layout council, Yii was founded to create a stronger and more sustainable coherence between local Taiwanese craft traditions and contemporary layout practice in Taiwan.
The identity was also established to evolve a more prolific design persona for Taiwan.
Bakker's designs cover jewellery, home accessories and domestic appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. Bakker is widower of the jewellery designer Emmy van Leersum. In he founded Droog Design [ 1 ] together with design critic and historian Renny Ramakersa Dutch collective of designers, products and data. Together with Ramakers, he was the selector and art director of all products within Droog Design untilGijs Bakker travels around the world to deliver 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 labor is represented in collections, both in museums and privately, worldwide.