Sofa bed BR 02.7 by Martin Visser
Martin Visser (Papendrecht, January 26, 1922 - Bergeijk, October 23, 2009) was a Dutch furniture designer and art collector.
Visser designed young-fashioned furniture, but followed an MTS degree in hydraulic engineering and became an initial architectural drafter. Furniture designed by him was purchased by the Bijenkorf who employed him as a salesman and retailer in 1947, and named in 1954 for chef purchase.
In 1954 he became a designer and head collector at the furniture factory 't Spectrum in Bergeijk. He was known in the 1960s by the design of his version of the simple adjustable sofa bed BR 02.7, a design from 1958/1960. The abbreviation 'BR' stands for Bank Rusten. In 1989 he received the Theo Limperg award for his designs. In 1991, the Central Museum in Utrecht showed an overview of his work.
Visser collected early work by Cobra, and also by Anselm Kiefer and Keith Haring. He was in the Netherlands as one of the most influential collectors. In Rotterdam he was appointed by Wim Beeren as chief conservator in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
His complete collection of more than four hundred works of art was housed in the Kröller-Müller Museum. In 2012, the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht exhibited a selection from this collection together with examples of his own work as a furniture designer.
He died at the age of 87 in his 1950s designed by Gerrit Rietveld and later converted to Aldo van Eyck, known as Huis Visser.
Martin Visser came from a family with seven children. He was the older brother of sculptor Carel Visser and entrepreneur / collector Geertjan Visser. Externe link
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