Evert Endt is a French designer.

Early life

Evert Endt was born in

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, the

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, in 1933. He grew up in

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and studied in Zurich at the

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Career

In 1958, Endt started his career in the Compagnie de L'Esthétique Industrielle (CEI) by

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, a design agency based in

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. He later became the

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and in 1968 the Director of the CEI, which is responsible for numerous programs of global design such as BP ( British Petroleum),

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, Coop, and Elna Lotus (Permanent Collection of the

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) and Rivella, Motta. In 1974, he received

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. The following year, he set up Endt+Fulton Partners with American designer James F. Fulton. Since 1992 the agency participated in social programs focused on the environment. He works for various cultural and industrial bodies, under the Ministries of Health, Culture and French Justice. He created exhibitions for the

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and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de la Villette. His permanent and temporary thematic exhibitions include "Living in Space", "Energies", and "New Materials". In 1992, Evert Endt was appointed as director of Ensci/Les Ateliers - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Creation Industrielle - in Paris. The following year, he became director for the postgraduate program in research and management of new technologies in the

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Laboratory for Innovative Design.

Awards

* Prix International "Intérieur 80" Biennale de Courtrai 1980 * Label design français (esthétique industrielle) 1982-84 * Janus de l'Industrie 1985 * Oscar du journal Nouvel Économiste 1986 * Nomination of Chevalier des arts et lettres par le Ministère de la Culture 1998

Publications

France culture

Graphis

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole

''The Washington Post''

ARTE

ARTE 2017
ref>Interview in the film: "Raymond Loewy, le designer du rêve américain", Arte, 2017

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Endt, Evert 1933 births Living people French designers Dutch emigrants to France People from Zaanstad