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Walter Jonker

walter-jonkerWalter Jonker is a Dutch designer who graduated from the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam in 1994. During his training he worked with Aldo Rossi for six months at his atelier in Milan.

Since then he has created a wide range of interior product designs specializing in clocks and lamps, original and practical objects with an unexpected twist.

He celebrated success with his “Clock & Roll” roll-up cuckoo clock design.

His designs have won awards in the competitions organized by MOOOI en ELLE Living in 2008. He was interviewed in ELLE magazine in 2007 and has exhibited at design exhibitions since1998 both in Holland and abroad (“Beurs van Berlage”, Amsterdam and “Design for Europe”, Kortrijk).|

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WalterJonker sees it as a challenge to redefine traditional objects and shapes in an unexpected way.

Examples are the old clocks on which the ‘Frisian’, ‘Cuckoo’ and ‘Cuckoo-Weeble’ are based. These clocks

Walter Jonker - creating the unexpected

2988

2988 Cuckoo Weeble

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2985

2985 Frisian Tail

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2984

2984 Cuckoo

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3032

3032 magic

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3031

3031 magic

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8803

8803 roger

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8806

8806 tiger

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8805

8805 barney

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8804

8804 johan

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have a long tradition in which the shape is narrowly defined and have an exact meaning or expectation that we
all recognize. In these clocks, this expectation is made loose from the shape, which brings lightness and
playfulness. Walter Jonker - creating the unexpected

 

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