Rolf Heide

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Rolf Heide (born January 23, 1932 in Kiel ; † June 14, 2020 ) was a German interior and industrial designer . He first gained fame as a designer of furniture, lamps and other furnishings, later he also worked as an (interior) architect and designer of trade fairs and exhibitions.

Life

Heide grew up in occupied Gdynia , where his father worked for a branch of the Deutsche Werke Kiel. The father died in the war, the family then fled back to Kiel to see their grandfather. Heide completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1950 to 1953 . He also played field handball and was runner-up as a goalkeeper with THW Kiel in 1953. After completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter, Heide studied interior design at the Muthesius factory school in Kiel until 1957 . After an internship in structural engineering and a brief activity in a furniture store, he went into business for himself in 1959 and initially worked as a freelancer for magazines such as Brigitte , Schöner Wohnen and Architektur & Wohnen . Together with the Brigitte editorial team, Heide developed the idea of ​​selling designer furniture by mail order in the 1960s. In this context, Heide designed his first design classic in 1966: the “Stapelliege”, a stackable bed made of plywood, the design of which has found numerous imitators. His sofa bench from 1969, which enables various variable combinations and is easy to pack, is also considered a “modern classic”.

Heide subsequently worked - in some cases exclusively - for various furniture and household appliance manufacturers, including Anta , bulthaup , Interlübke , Gaggenau , Miele , SieMatic and Vorwerk .

Since the late 1980s, Heide has increasingly shifted his focus to the development of corporate designs , product catalogs, trade fairs and exhibitions (e.g. "linie 3" at the Frankfurt trade fair 1989-94, "Atmosphere" 1995/96). In 1995/96, he worked as an interior designer in Hamburg, redesigning a former malt factory into the Stilwerk design department store .

From 2001 Heide worked mainly as a design developer and consultant.

Awards

Heide's work has also been honored repeatedly in exhibitions, for example at the International Design Center Berlin (1994) and the Hamburg Museum for Art and Industry (1994, 2000). In 2006 two of his products were also part of the “World Champion Design Germany” exhibition.

literature

  • Alex Buck, Matthias Vogt (Ed.): Rolf Heide (= Designer Monographs , Volume 6.) form, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-931317-05-6 .
  • Dirk Meyhöfer (Ed.): Rolf Heide. Designer, architect, lateral thinker. av edition, Ludwigsburg 2000, ISBN 3-929638-41-X .
  • Bernd Polster et al. (Ed.): DuMont-Handbuch Design international. DuMont, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8321-7380-3 , p. 219.
  • Modern classics. Furniture makes history. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg, undated

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the death of Rolf Heide: Mourning the famous designer. In: arcade. June 25, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Edelmann: Designed space as a suggestion in memory of Rolf Heide (1932–2020). June 30, 2020, accessed August 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Design classic: stackable bed ( memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Short film, Deutsche Welle TV 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dw.de
  4. ↑ KLASSIK stacking bed. Retrieved October 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Modern classics. Furniture makes history. P. 118.
  6. ↑ a b c Portrait and biography of Rolf Heide on müllermöbel.de, accessed: September 27, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Heath, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German interior architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2020