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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 The Kunsthal ( en, Art Hall) is an art museum in Rotterdam. It opened in 1992. Overview The museum is situated in the Museumpark of Rotterdam next to the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, and in the vicinity of the Museum Boijmans Van Beunin ...
, and afterwards in
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 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.Achtergrondinformatie Designprijs Rotterdam
geraadpleegd 16 maart 2013 In the first years the prize was awarded to individual products of designers, architects and other participants in the field of design. Since 2007 the conceptual vision and performance in the field of the designer became its mayor criterion. The awarded was inaugurated by the
Rotterdamse Kunststichting The Rotterdamse Kunststichting RKS (''Rotterdam Arts Council'') was an independent foundation to promote art and culture in Rotterdam from 1945 to 2005. In 2005 the foundation merged into the Rotterdam Council for Art and Culture, an advisory body ...
, where Christine de Baan was director of the Rotterdam Design Prize from 1993 tot 2000. In 2007
Thimo te Duits Thimo te Duits (born 1962 in Utrecht) is a Dutch art historian, curator, author and editor, known for his numerous contributions in the field of Dutch applied art. Biography Early career in the 1980s and 1990s After his studies in art histo ...
& Gerard Forde managed the award and wrote the catalog. Towards the end in 2011 the Rotterdam design prize was organized by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam,
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 ...
and Premsela, Dutch Institute for Design and Fashion.


Award winners 1993–2013


See also

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Dutch Design Awards Dutch Design Awards (DDA) honours the best Dutch designs across eight categories. It awards design initiatives and designers in the Netherlands each year, in first place by relevance and impact, but also to the extent to which they relate to thei ...
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Dutch Furniture Awards The Dutch Furniture Awards is a former annual furniture design competition in the Netherlands, organized from 1985 to 1998.


Selected publications

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Thimo te Duits Thimo te Duits (born 1962 in Utrecht) is a Dutch art historian, curator, author and editor, known for his numerous contributions in the field of Dutch applied art. Biography Early career in the 1980s and 1990s After his studies in art histo ...
& Gerard Forde, ''Designprijs Rotterdam 2007,'' Rotterdam : Stichting Designprijs, 2007.


References

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