Description
In the 1979/1980, Milou Ket, nowadays a well-known trendwachter, designed four wall carpets -antependium- for the Kurios church in Leeuwarden. This is one of the carpets (all are still available). Made in wool, in very good condition, signed Milou Ket 79, h. 150, w. 55.
There are 4 antependiums in white, green, purple and yellow, symbolising different periods in the ecclesiastical year.
(From www.milouket.com:)With a scholarship of the American Field Service Milou Ket spent one year in the USA before returning to The Netherlands. She graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and was employed by the styling department of Hema BV in Amsterdam. Hema is a very succesful chain of department stores in the Netherlands with more than 240 outlets. She worked for the womens, yarn and childrens department, designing and advising the buyers on future collections. She travelled extensively, within and also outside Europe in this position.
In 1980 Milou Ket started her own styling and design company. In this time she has been working for many different branches, putting together fabric and print collections, product developments for yarn manufacturers, accessories, sportswear and consultancy work for various retail and buying groups
She was a board member of KIO, the Association of Dutch Industrial Designers. She took, together with Cecile Kanteman, the initiative for the HEMA Design Prize.
She worked free-lance for the Dutch Fashion Institute for a few years. In 1986 she began publishing stylng books, with the purpose of also reaching clients outside of Holland. She started with a Childrenswear book, wich was soon followed by a Women styling guide. These books are sold by a network of agents in more than 20 countries woldwide.
In 1992 Milou Ket decided to publish an Interior Trend book. It became an immediate success and has been sold globally; included in international fairs such as Heimtex, Surtex, Evteks, Decosit and Biennale. She has a broad variety of clients: Hunter Douglas, Volvo Cars, Ikea, Esprit Home Products, The House of Fraser, Swarovski, Rosenthal Studio, Royal Doulton, WMF in Germany, Design Istitutes in Japan, Honda Motors, Zanussi/Electrolux in Sweden, Walt Disney consumer products, various textile companies and architecture bureau’s. In addition, she also advised the International Fair of Brussels on the trends for Interior Decoration Products.
