Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer Reply Drafting Table 1959 Ahrend the Netherlands
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Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer Reply Drafting Table 1959 Ahrend the Netherlands
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- Dimensions:Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 43.31 in (110 cm)Depth: 30.71 in (78 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:Plywood,Steel
- Place of Origin:Netherlands
- Period:1950-1959
- Date of Manufacture:1960s
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. Nice original vintage condition with user wear consistent with age and use preserving a beautiful authentic vintage patina Full detailed condition (video) report available upon request.
- Seller Location:bergen op zoom, NL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU930116611471
Friso Kramer
Through both his bold furniture designs and his teaching and administrative positions within the architecture and design industries, the solution-oriented Friso Kramer helped elevate industrial design to a venerated place in the modernist canon.
While the mid-century years saw no shortage of function-minded modernists, Kramer may have been the most extreme of them. “If form does not contribute to the function, it has no right to exist,” the Dutch designer once said. Born in Amsterdam in 1922 to the pioneering architect Piet Kramer, Friso studied architecture, industrial design, electrical engineering and interior design. He cut his teeth in the studios of architect Jan Piet Kloos and interior designer Frans Paulussen, then, in 1948, went to work as a designer at the steel furniture manufacturer De Cirkel (part of the Ahrend group), where he would design some of his best-known work.
The 1953 Revolt chair, which is among his most celebrated seating and a darling of Dutch mid-century modernism, embodied Kramer’s function-first design; its skeletal, industrial form provides for maximum comfort and ergonomic support with minimal material. He joined forces with Wim Rietveld, son of celebrated Dutch modernist Gerrit Rietveld, for the 1958 Result chair, which married elements of the Revolt with forms from Rietveld’s Pyramid series. Kramer found numerous ways to riff on and perfect his brand of minimalism: The 1960 Resort and Repose armchairs demonstrate how he slightly tweaked the skeletal frames for different postures and uses.
In 1963, Kramer left Ahrend to found Total Design Studio with Wim Crouwel, Benno Wissing and Paul and Dick Schwartz. The firm grouped graphic, industrial and spatial design under one roof with the shared belief in functionalism. Though Total Design Studio is still in business today, Kramer left the company to return to Ahrend in 1971, serving as art director until 1983. Following Kramer’s death in 2019, Ahrend teamed up with Danish design brand HAY to relaunch the Result and Revolt chairs.
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