GIJS BAKKER - PORSCHE
Gijs Bakker is active in many different fields - equally at home in jewellery,
product and furniture design, and in architectonic projects. All these areas
are linked by a constant strand of irony. His bracelet design was inspired
by the slogan from a car advertisement: 'I don't wear jewels, I drive them.'
The characteristically distorted nature of the computer design was transformed
into a three-dimensional product using rapid prototyping and stereolithography.
Gijs Bakker was born in Amersfoort in 1942 and works as a designer in Amsterdam.
He studied at the Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, Amsterdam, and
the Industrial Design Department of Stockholm's Konstfack Skolan. He has
taught at the Living Department of the Design Academy in Eindhoven since
1987. Bakker has lectured and presented workshops all over the world.
Prizes: Gold and Silver Medals for Jewellery, Jablonec, Czechoslovakia,
1968; Françoise van den Bosch Jewellery Prize, 1988; Prince Bernhard
Fund Prize for Applied Art and Architecture, 1995; Kho Liang Ie Prize for
Droog Design, 2000.
Furniture and products for clients including Polaroid, Castelijn, Artimeta,
Artifort, Mellona, Hema, Bijenkorf, Mobach, Cor Unum, PTT, World Press Photo,
Meccano Company and Van Kempen & Begeer.
Solo exhibitions include Solo For A Soloist, Centraal Museum Utrecht and
Helen Drutt Gallery New York, 1989; Objects to Use, Museum De Zonnehof,
Amersfoort, 2000; Jewelry by Gijs Bakker, Houston Center for Contemporary
Craft, Texas, 2002.
Co-founder of Renny Ramakers of Droog Design in 1993; co-founder with Marijke
Vallanzasca of the 'Chi ha paura…?' foundation for jewellery by industrial
designers in 1996.
Work in museum collections in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan.
Recent publication: Ida van Zijl, Gijs Bakker/Objects to Use, 010 Publishers,
Rotterdam, 2000.
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