Description
Axel Enthoven (Antwerp 1947-) studied at the Academy for Industrial Design in Eindhoven. He experienced important Japanese influences during his stay at the design school in Tokyo. From 1970, Enthoven worked as an independent designer, not only of furniture but of many industrial products. His company Idea N.V. and successors worked for more than 400 clients all over the world, ranging from furniture factories to manufacturers of medical equipment and means of transport. As Enthoven Associates, the company is now established as a partnership in Antwerp. From 1989 to 2012, Enthoven was a lecturer at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. In the 1980s, Enthoven worked for the well-known furniture brand Leolux and designed the very successful Bora series. It is characteristic of Rohé Noordwolde’s innovative efforts to attract the internationally active Enthoven. He would make an important contribution to the development of the Rohé Design concept. His design line with dining chairs, benches, bar stool, table and coffee table made of manou (peeled rattan) in cream-white, brown or grey-blue was highly appreciated and won several international prizes (Karlsruhe Prize 1982 and Mobica Prize 1982).
Literature: Moniek Bucquoye and Alain Denis, Enthoven Associates. Simplicity versus complexity, 2006; Peter Vöge and Bab Westerveld, Chairs. Dutch designs 1945-1985, Amsterdam 1986; Mienke Simon Thomas, Goed in vorm, Rotterdam 2008, 152-157.
Chair RD 1526 by Axel Enthoven for Rohé, 1980. Frame in colour-sprayed manou, brown with a brown-red fabric on the seatcream-white, blue-grey or blue with upholstered seat. The chair, together with chair RD 1525 and some benches, a table and a bar stool, is part of the furniture designed by Enthoven for Rohé Design.
In very good condition, manou-rattan, with the metal Rohé label, h. 76, w. 52, d. 50, seat h. 45, seat d. 39
