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Rare Petrol Blue Octagon Xxl "Reform" Conference Table by Friso Kramer Ahrend

$6,800

$8,50020% Off

£5,103.81

£6,379.7620% Off

€5,955.49VAT Included

€7,444.3620% Off

CA$9,607.05

CA$12,008.8120% Off

A$9,631.79

A$12,039.7320% Off

CHF 5,581.55

CHF 6,976.9420% Off

MX$117,692.87

MX$147,116.0920% Off

NOK 64,682.24

NOK 80,852.8020% Off

SEK 66,051.41

SEK 82,564.2620% Off

DKK 44,515.57

DKK 55,644.4720% Off

About the Item

Rare Petrol Blue version of the largest model Reform table made by Ahrend De Cirkel. Dutch industrial designer and pioneer of functional design Friso Kramer made this Reform table in 1955 to match with his award winning Revolt chair, a chair he designed in 1953 that is now standing next to Jean Prouve's work in Les Musee Arts & Decoratif in Paris. We have a strong personal friendship with the designer legend Friso Kramer who is now 93 years old (on photo two taken last weekend at Design Icons 2016 Amsterdam he is sitting together with his grand son on Revolt chairs talking about his work). 4 years ago Friso Kramer opened the new Gallery and 3 years ago we set up an exhibition in Saint Germain Paris that was highly appraised by the French art & design press and called Friso Kramer "Le Prouve Hollandais." His works can be found in museum collections around the world. Les pièces de mobilier de Friso Kramer sont entrées dans de très belles institutions muséales internationales telles que la Brohan Design Foundation de Berlin, Vitra Museum à Weil am Rhein, le Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris et le Stedelijk Museum d'Amsterdam. #frisokramer

Creator:
Ahrend de Cirkel (Manufacturer),Friso Kramer (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.73 in (75.5 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)Depth: 94.49 in (240 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Aluminum,Metal,Rubber,Wood,Enameled,Laminated
Place of Origin:
Netherlands
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950s
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Minor losses. Good original vintage condition with wear consistent with age and industrial use, paint loss around the feet, linoleum rubber top has user wear scratchings and minor paint splashes consistent with use (full condition report upon request).
Seller Location:
bergen op zoom, NL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU93014069953

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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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