Amersfoort
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, 20 February 1942) is a Dutch jewellery and industrial-designer, educated at the
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
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In 1924, the I ...
Stockholm, Sweden
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Bakker's designs cover jewellery, home accessories and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. He worked and works for numerous companies amongst which are
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, Artifort, HEMA, Royal VKB, and ENO Studio. Bakker is widower of the jewellery designer Emmy van Leersum.
In 1993 he founded Droog Design together with design critic and historian Renny Ramakers, a Dutch collective of designers, products and information. Together with Ramakers, he was the selector and art director of all products within Droog Design until 2009. In 2007 he and Renny Ramakers had been awarded the
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for their joint effort.
Bakker has also taught for more than 40 years at different schools, among others the
Delft University of Technology
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and the Design Academy
Eindhoven
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Centraal Museum
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Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
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Rotterdam
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Museum voor Moderne Kunst
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Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
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Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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London
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