By 't Spectrum Bergeijk, Martin Visser, 't Spectrum
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Set of 4 Dutch design dining chairs, model SE79 designed by Martin Visser and Walter Antonis for ‘t Spectrum, 1960. Solid wengé frame and seating from papercord.
Measures: H: 78 cm, W: 48 cm, D: 48 cm, Seat height: 45 cm
Wikipedia
Martin Visser (Papendrecht, January 26, 1922 - Bergeijk, October 23, 2009 [1]) was a Dutch furniture designer and art collector.
Visser designed furniture from an early age, but followed an MTS training in hydraulic engineering and initially became an architectural draftsman. Furniture designed by him was bought by De Bijenkorf, who hired him in 1947 as a salesman and window dresser and appointed him as purchasing manager in 1954. [2]
In 1954 he became a designer and head of the collection formation at the furniture factory 't Spectrum in Bergeijk. He became known in the 1960s for the design of his version of the simple adjustable sofa bed BR 02.7, a design from 1958/1960. The abbreviation 'BR' stands for Bank Rusten. In 1989 he received the Theo Limperg Prize for his designs. In 1991 the Centraal Museum in Utrecht showed a retrospective of his work.
Visser collected early work by Cobra, as well as Anselm Kiefer and Keith Haring. He was considered one of the most influential collectors in the Netherlands. In Rotterdam he was appointed by Wim Beeren as head curator at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. [3]
His complete collection of more than four hundred works of art is housed in the Kröller-Müller Museum. In 2012, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht showed a selection from this collection together with examples of his own work as a furniture designer.
He died at the age of 87 in his house, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in the 1950s and later converted to Aldo van Eyck...
Category
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage 't Spectrum Bergeijk Chairs
MaterialsPapercord, Wenge