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Premsela, The Netherlands Institute For Design And Fashion
The Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion was a Dutch institute for the promotion of design and fashion in the Netherlands from 2002 to 2013. Mienke Simon Thomas. ''Goed in vorm: honderd jaar ontwerpen in Nederland,'' 2008. p. 7. This organization was named after Benno Premsela. It succeeded the Netherlands Design Institute and in 2013 merged into Het Nieuwe Instituut. History Foundation The Premsela institute started in September 2002, about two years after its predecessor the Netherlands Design Institute had closed their doors due to the recommendations by the Raad voor Cultuur. The State Secretary for Culture and Media in those days, Rick van der Ploeg, them ordered a government advisory committee to determine how the design sector in the Netherlands could be supported."Stichting Premsela voor vormgeving naar Amsterdam," ''NRC Handelsblad,'' 14 oktober 2002. The government advisory committee determined the need for more synergy in the societal, cultural and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands Design Institute
The Netherlands Design Institute ( nl, Nederlands Vormgevingsinstituut) is a former institute for the promotion of design in the Netherlands. It was located in the premises of the former Museum Fodor at Keizersgracht in Amsterdam. Its mission was to stimulate high quality design in the Netherlands, to stimulating the interest in it, and to encouraging discussion about the profession. The organization was founded in 1993 and succeeded by the Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion ten years later in 2003. That in turn became part of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam in 2013. Initiatives Over the years the institute initiated and participated in numerous smaller and some larger initiatives in the field of design, including exhibitions, conferences, publications and working on networks. This national initiative also collaborated with the existing professional organizations in the field of applied art, interior design, industrial design, architecture, etc. Theo Limperg pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Het Nieuwe Instituut
Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI, English: The New Institute) is a cultural centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It focuses on architecture, design, and digital culture. HNI is in a building designed by Jo Coenen at Museumpark 25 in the centre of Rotterdam, adjacent to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The building contains a shop, exhibition space, study centre, and archive, as well as the Sonneveld House (a prime example of Nieuwe Zakelijkheid architecture), a pond, and a small park. Formation Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI) was formed in 2013, when then-secretary of state for Education, Culture, and Science Halbe Zijlstra ordered the merger of the Dutch institutes for architecture, design, and e-culture. Thus the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Premsela Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, and the Virtueel Platform were put together in the building at Museum Park 25, which was designed by Jo Coenen, and opened by Queen Beatrix in 1993. Facilities At HNI, exhibitions are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
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Mienke Simon Thomas
Margaretha Wilhelmina Francina (Mienke) Simon Thomas (born 1954) is a Dutch art historian, curator and author, working as a senior curator at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. She is known for her works on the development of Dutch applied art and design.Portret Mienke Simon Thomas " ''MfDC 2011/2012.'' online op ''myfirstdesigncollection.nl,'' 2018. Life and work Simon Thomas studied at the from 1972 to 1976, and continued for some time in the history of art and design at |
Benno Premsela
Benno Premsela (Amsterdam, 4 May 1920 – Amsterdam, 27 March 1997) was a Dutch designer, visual artist and art collector. As designer he was active as textile artist, industrial designer and interior designer.Benno Premsela;male / Dutch; industrial designer, textile artist, designer, interior decorator, window dresser, art collector, monumental artist at rkd.nl. Last updated 2017-03-30. Biography Premsela was born and raised in Amsterdam. He was the son of Benedictus Premsela, general practitioner and sexologist, en Rosalie de Boers.E. Broeksma-van Capelle[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raad Voor Cultuur , list of people with the name
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Raad may refer to: Military * Hatf-VIII (Ra'ad), air-launched Pakistani cruise missile * RAAD (anti-tank guided missile), family of Iranian anti-tank missiles * Raad (air defense system), Iranian air defense system * Raad (anti-ship missile), Iranian anti-ship cruise missile * Iranian Self-propelled howitzers ** Raad-1 ** Raad-2 Other uses * Raad ny Foillan, coastal long distance footpath in the Isle of Man * Republican Action Against Drugs, former vigilante group that operated in Northern Ireland * Raad (name) Raad is a surname and a masculine given name. People with the surname include: Surname *Haidar Raad (born 1991), Iraqi football player *Ignace Raad (1923–1999), Lebanese Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic *Iqbal Raad (died 2000), Pakistani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Van Der Ploeg
Frederick "Rick" van der Ploeg (born 28 April 1956, in Rotterdam) is a Dutch economist and former politician. Career After having obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge, he held professorships in economics at the University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University, and the London School of Economics. After having served as an MP for the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) from 1994 until 1998, he became State Secretary for Culture and Media in the government of Prime Minister Wim Kok from 1998 until 2002. Van der Ploeg is currently a professor of economics at the University of Oxford and the VU University Amsterdam, and the research director at the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies. In 2010 he became a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Van der Ploeg's studies the potential impact of climate change on the economy. To meet proposed carbon emissions reductions, and prevent temperature increases beyond 2 degrees, up to one-third o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuidas
The Zuidas (literally ''South Axis'' in Dutch) is a rapidly developing business district in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Zuidas is also known as the 'Financial Mile'. It lies between the rivers Amstel and ''Schinkel'' along the ringway A10. The greatest influences for the development of the Zuidas are La Défense in Paris and Canary Wharf in London. In size it can best be compared with the Noordruimte/Espace Nord in Brussels. In the future, the local Amsterdam Zuid railway station is planned to become the second main station in Amsterdam. It is expected to become the fifth busiest passenger station in the Netherlands, with connections to Schiphol Airport, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and Paris via the Thalys, a high-speed rail. It will also connect to the German high-speed network, the ICE, via Utrecht and Arnhem. The journey from the Zuidas to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol takes approximately 8 minutes. Future development could include an underground line dire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Trade Center (Amsterdam)
The World Trade Center Amsterdam is a commercial center located at the Zuidas in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It was officially opened in 1985, and renovated between 1998 and 2004. Renovatie en nieuwbouw World Trade Center Retrieved on 2008-01-21. The center consists of nine buildings—labeled from A to I—with of offices and office facilities. Tower H is the highest building, it has 27 levels and measures . The center is a member of the international . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotterdam Design Prize
The Rotterdam Design Award (Rotterdamse Designprijs) was an annual and later biennial design award in the Netherlands from 1993 to 2013. In the first five editions the work of the nominees were exhibited in the Kunsthal, and afterwards in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The winners were selected by an international jury during this exhibition, and were announced at the end of the exhibition. The winners received an amount of € 20,000, which could be spent freely. History The prize was organized annually from 1993 to 1997, after which it became a biennial prize. No edition took place in 2005. geraadpleegd 16 maart 2013 In the first years the prize was awarded to individual products of designers, architects and other participants in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located at the Museumpark in the district Rotterdam Centrum, close to the Kunsthal and the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, Natural History Museum. The museum opened in 1849. It houses the collections of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847) and Daniël George van Beuningen (1877–1955). The museum has become the house of over 151,000 artworks over 170 years. In the collection, ranging from Medieval art, medieval to contemporary art, are works of Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Salvador Dalà and other famous collections that includes the masterpieces of the âAchilles series€™ by Peter Paul Rubens an‘A Cornfield, in the Background the Zuiderzee’by Jacob van Ruisdael. In 2013, the museum had 292,711 visitors and was the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Design
Dutch Design is a term used to denote an informal artistic school of design in the Netherlands, particularly product design. More specifically, the term refers to the design esthetic common to designers in the Netherlands. History The Netherlands were primarily known for graphic design until the 1980s, when the term Dutch Design started to come into popular use. The term came to be closely identified with a group of Dutch product designers who have gained international recognition particularly from the 1990s onwards. These include Maarten Baas, Jurgen Bey, Richard Hutten, Hella Jongerius, Wieki Somers, Hester van Eeghen and Marcel Wanders, as well as internationally recognized design firms and collectives like Droog (company), Droog and Moooi which helped gain prominence for Dutch designers at major design events such as the Salone del Mobile in Milan. More broadly, the term could be extended to fashion designers such as Viktor & Rolf and architects such as Rem Koolhaas and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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