W. H. Gispen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

W. H. Gispen

Dutch industrial designer

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1890

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 10-May-1981

Profession: architect, designer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About W. H. Gispen

  • Willem Hendrik Gispen (7 December 1890, in Amsterdam – 10 May 1981, in The Hague) was a Dutch industrial designer, best known for his Giso lamps and serially produced functionalist steel-tube furniture. He studied design at the Academy for Visual Arts and Technical Science in Rotterdam (Academie van Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen) at the architecture department.
  • He started in 1913, but left the Academy in 1915 partly due to the outbreak of the First World War.
  • In April 1918 he married Anna C.J.
  • Gisolf in Rotterdam.
  • In 1916 he purchased a small smithy, which he would develop and extend to the well-known Gispen’s Factory for Metalwork (Gispen’s fabriek voor metaalbewerking n.v.).
  • The success of the company was to a great extent based upon the qualities of Willem Hendrik Gispen as an industrial designer, designing many artistically en technically qualitative lamps and furniture.
  • Many of these serial produced designs, like armchair no.
  • 412, still belong to the highlights of Dutch design.
  • With his Giso lamp-designs from the 1920s and 1930s he was a part of the international avant-garde interested in light innovations.
  • The same can be said of his steel-tube chairs and furniture, with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Mart Stam and Gerrit Rietveld among his inspirations. In 1949 W.H.
  • Gispen left the firm, after which he worked for other furniture manufactories like Kembo.
  • In 1981 the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam organized the first exposition about W.H.
  • Gispen, dedicated to his lamp-designs from the years 1916-1949.
  • It was the same year W.H.
  • Gispen died on the 10th of May.

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