Aldo Bakker (b.1971) began his career as a jewellery designer before turning his attention to product design in natural materials including glass, wood, precious metals and ceramic. He notes: "I view my designs as the work of a 'vormgever', which in Dutch literally means 'giver of form'. Both in my language and in my form, I choose to approach 'authenticity' and 'originality' very precisely and I allow my designs to acquire physical shape only when I deem them to be 'autonomous entities'".
Bakker's work can be found in public collections interationally, including Vitra (Germany), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen (Rotterdam), the Zuiderzee Museum (Enkhuizen) and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (New York). He has collaborated with clients including Sèvres, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Nodus and Wallpaper*. Bakker was the recipient of the 2012 Z33 Architecture Competition Award, and has also won Wallpaper* Design Awards for 'Best Stool' and 'Best Use of Material' (2011). He lives and works in Amsterdam.