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Louis Kalff Instituut www.louiskalffinstituut.nl

Friso Kramer

By 10-09-2017

Dutch Design Heritage
Friso Kramer (1922), industrial designer. Kramer, the son of the architect Piet Kramer, attended the ambachtsschool (‘craftsmanship school’) and electro-technic school, after which he went to the Institute for Applied Arts Education(IvKNO) where he was taught by Johan Niegeman and Mart Stam. He then worked for some time for J.P. Kloos, and he briefly had an agency with Frans Paulussen. In 1948, he was hired by factory De Cirkel, where the director J. Schröfer was open to design and wanted to modernise. One of the most successful products for this company was the Revolt chair of 1953. This chair became an enormous success and was an icon of post-Second World War design in the Netherlands.
From 1963 to 1968, Kramer was connected to the design agency Total Design, after which he joined the company Ahrend from 1971 to 1983. His work includes furniture, beds, lighting, heaters and street furniture for various companies such as ‘t Spectrum, Auping, Davo and Wilkhahn in Germany. In 1960, he developed a streetlight for residential areas for the city of The Hague.
Kramer taught at the Academy of Art in The Hague from 1962 to 1966, and for his contributions to the profession he has received the BKI prize (1961), the Piet Zwart prize (1983), the Kho Liang Ie prize (1990) and the David Roëll prize (1991).

The Louis Kalff Instituut is the Dutch heritage centre for industrial design, located in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.