Wim Rietveld Dutch industrial and furniture designer. Son of the well-known Gerrit Rietveld.
his high quality graduation project brought him to W. H. Gispen. he started working for his Gispen furniture company. In the middel of the postwar reconstruction in the Netherlands, so materials were scarce.
Wim Rietveld was employed at Gispen from 1953 till 1957. He was talented in combining aesthetics and functionality in his furniture, and was able to devise simple production techniques. He was a typically Dutch designer in his love for construction and functionality.
He is well known for working with teak, rosewood and leathers and creating pieces with clean, sculptural lines
was born in Varedo in 1911. Son of Gaetano, a well-known furniture maker in his “Atelier di Varedo”. In the family business, 16-year-old Osvaldo receives the first training
Jindřich Halabala created a mass-market approach to home design furnishing in Czechoslovakia.
Johannes Joseph Maria Hoogervorst born in Alkmaar The Netherlands on 14th of April.
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