Designer · Netherlands · 1922–2009
Martin Visser
Martin Visser (1922–2009) – Dutch furniture designer, designer and head of collections at ’t Spectrum from 1954, later curator and art collector.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1922–2009
- Country
- Netherlands
Martin Visser was born in 1922 in Papendrecht and died in 2009. He studied engineering in The Hague and gained experience in the furniture industry as a furniture salesperson and buyer at the De Bijenkorf department store. From 1954, he was the designer and head of collections at ’t Spectrum in Bergeyk, which operated until it went bankrupt in 1974. For ’t Spectrum, he designed, among others, the BR 02 sofa, the SZ 01 and SZ 02 armchairs, the SE 05–SE 07 chairs and the TE 06 table. From 1978 to 1983, he was curator of modern art at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam; he also collected works by the Cobra group. He received the Theo Limperg Prize (1989) and the BKVB award for lifetime achievement (1998).
