Aldo Bakker (Aldo Bakker) - the son of the famous Dutch designers Gijs Bakker, one of the founders of Droog Design, and Emmy van Lersum. He himself is also a designer, although thanks to his many years of yoga, he rather resembles a perfectly folded contemporary dancer.

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What is famous? Glass objects Glass-line (1998), Saltcellar salt (2007), Side table (2008), jug-cup Jug + Cup (2011). All look original, all at first glance a little like functional things. The challenge is very important to Backer. It is no coincidence that he never studied, and chose to remain self-taught. I wanted to go my own way. And as a result, he quickly achieved recognition and professional success.

His works represent the best galleries around the world, Particles Gallery in Amsterdam, Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan, Gallery S. Bensimon in Paris, Valerie Traan in Antwerp. He worked very fruitfully for the Sevres manufactory. Aldo has enough prestigious awards, and his subjects are in the collections of the Vitra Design Museum, the Ghent Design Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Amsterdam Stedeleik collection, in the Utrecht Central Museum, in the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.

Bench Pose, 2011.

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Unlike fellow designers, he almost never designs objects, based on the need to solve some practical problem. No one has a question that Bakker is a designer, but the functionality of his objects is manifested in the last stage of work. But the forms are always such that the eye can not be torn off. Whether it is a fencing of a highway, a handrail of a ladder or a facade of the 17th century Amsterdam house. Backer looks, sketches out sketches, draws and at this time examines whether the form can be transformed into an object.

Vase call Crystal, diz. A. Bakker, Atelier Swarovski Home, 2016. Materials: crystal and marble.

He looks out for his plastic ideas in Cezanne’s paintings and Brancusi’s sculptures. These masters were able to reduce the world of things - pears, apples, tables, faces - to a geometric shape. Bakker does the same. However, he is trying to bring a new form to the emergence of a new object. And trying to not go on about the stereotypes. Why, for example, in the jug hole is always on top? Why salt and sugar are always stored in opaque containers, and it is impossible to understand how much you want to pour? Why should the seat be anatomical?

Taburet Coll. Anura, Diesel. A. Bakker, Rutger Graas, 2013. Klen. Jug call Fat One, diz. A. Bakker, Jan Matthesius, 2015. The main material is silver, a stainless steel handle made in 3D technology. Chair Call. Three Pair, diz. A. Bakker, Testi Group, 2015. Material - Belgian black marble. Jug call Pot, diz. And Bakker, Frans Ottink, 2015. Porcelain. Koll. Dome, diz. A. Bakker, 2014. Farfor. Koll. Chalice, diz. A. Bakker, 2014. Farfor. Coll. Tongue, diz. A. Bakker, Jan Matthesius, 2016. The material is silver. Chair Call. Swing, diz. A. Bakker, Rutger Graas, 2014. Material - maple, treated with iron sulfate. Call Table Console, diz. A. Bakker, Rutger Graas, 2014. The material is a cherry tree treated with paint. Chair Call. Indigo Tonus, diz. A. Bakker, Rutger Graas, 2012. Handmade. Oak, treated with iron sulfate. Chair Call. Treated, diz. And Bakker, Kuperus and Gardenier, 2011. Stone beech, legs treated with graphite. Candle stand call. Candle Holder, diz. A. Bakker, Jan Matthesius, 2010. Copper. Sauce boat call. Vinegar flask, diz. A. Bakker, Frans Ottink, 2008. Porcelain, glazed from the inside.

Aldo Backer's subjects appear intriguing and at the same time incredibly simple and logical. In forms through organic. Quite often, products designed by Bakker resemble living beings that have a special place in this world. The Anura chair has a flat head, back and legs. His Tonus and Candle Dome look like tuning wigs or haircuts, and the saucepan Vinegar Flask definitely copies a clumsy penguin.

Stul koll. Urushi Tonus, Diz. A. Bakker, 2014. Polyurethane.

Bakker dreams that his tables, bowls and candlesticks help people in a different way to feel the life around them. Be slower, attentive, drink, eat and sit in such a way that more subtly organized energy is born. Indeed, communication with these objects gives a special concentration. But in general, gallery owners and design experts believe that Bakker is not the designer who wants to help his audience. Rather, he wants to challenge her.