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Evert Endt

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Evert Endt

Evert Endt is a French designer.

Early life

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Evert Endt was born in Zaandam, the Netherlands, in 1933. He grew up in Switzerland and studied in Zurich at the Kunstgewerbeschule.

Career

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In 1958, Endt started his career in the Compagnie de L'Esthétique Industrielle (CEI) by Raymond Loewy, a design agency based in Paris. He later became the Artistic Director and in 1968 the Director of the CEI, which is responsible for numerous programs of global design such as BP, Shell, Coop, and Elna Lotus (Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York) and Rivella, Motta.

In 1974, he received French nationality. The following year, he set up Endt+Fulton Partners with American designer James F. Fulton. Since 1992 the agency participated in social programs focused on the environment. He works for various cultural and industrial bodies, under the Ministries of Health, Culture and French Justice.

He created exhibitions for the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de la Villette. His permanent and temporary thematic exhibitions include "Living in Space", "Energies", and "New Materials".

In 1992, Evert Endt was appointed as director of Ensci/Les Ateliers - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Creation Industrielle - in Paris.[1] The following year, he became director for the postgraduate program in research and management of new technologies in the Samsung Laboratory for Innovative Design.

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Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "École nationale supérieure de création industrielle". ENSCI - Les Ateliers (in French). Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. ^ "L'Observeur du design - APCI - Agence pour la promotion de la création industrielle". www.apci.asso.fr. Archived from the original on 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  3. ^ interview to Evert Endt "Raymond Loewy. Une vie, une oeuvre", 23 mars 2013.
  4. ^ PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, "GROUP SEEKS TO BUY DESIGNER'S PAPERS", The New York Times, 4 June 1987
  5. ^ Véronique Vienne, "Raymond Loewy: Speed Whiskers on Toothbrushes?", Graphis, February 1998
  6. ^ C.E.I. Loewy Raymond: machine à coudre "Elna Lotus", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole, December 2012
  7. ^ A.A., "The library's Loewy gift", The Washington Post, 10 July 1987
  8. ^ Interview in the film: "CITIZEN LOEWY - HOW A FRENCHMAN DESIGNED THE AMERICAN DREAM", Arte, 2016
  9. ^ Interview in the film: "Raymond Loewy, le designer du rêve américain", Arte, 2017
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