Sun 13 November
Frans Leidelmeijer and Jan van Toorn @ Galerie VIVID
Frans Leidelmeijer, Design expert, known from ‘Tussen Kunst and Kitsch’, has an important ‘vintage’ design collection. VIVID selected top pieces from this collection: Rietveld, Berlage, Gispen and many more. Also famous Dutch graphic designer Jan van Toorn will show a serie of prints ‘Still Lifes with Borrowed Furniture’.
Jan van Toorn is one of the most significant and influential Dutch graphic designers to have emerged since the early 1960s. While graphic design often does little more than give unthinking visual form to the status quo, Van Toorn focused on meaning rather than smooth stylistic expression and developed critical alternatives to the usual design world conventions.
Frans Leidelmeijer opened in 1971 a shop selling Art Nouveau and Art Deco, gradually specializing in Dutch styles which were then relatively unknown: Nieuwe Kunst, Amsterdam School, De Stijl, Haagse School and Functionalism. In 1983 they wrote Art Nouveau en Art Deco in Nederland, the first survey of Dutch decorative arts from 1880-1940. In 1997 his gallery celebrated its 25 years anniversary. For that reason he took the initiative of publishing a new book on Dutch decorative arts 1880-1940, which he also co-edited. In the same year he curated in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam an exhibition of interiors from Nieuwe Kunst to Amsterdam School. In 1990 Leidelmeijer became the first certified expert and appraiser of applied arts dating from 1850 to the present.
