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Wim Crouwel, VIVID exhibition Wim Crouwel Fonts, 2002
To celebrate the 80th birthday of Wim Crouwel and 20 years of Nijhof & Lee VIVID Gallery in Rotterdam organizes the exhibition 80 20 100. 100 works by Crouwel will be on display. For this VIVID gallery made a selection out of the superb Crouwel collection of Frank Nijhof and Warren Lee. A fully illustrated catalogue designed by David Quay will accompany by the exhibition.
More on the 80 20 100 exhibition on The FontFeed.
The exhibition is dedicated to Frank Nijhof who passed away September 3rd. Nijhof and Warren Lee had been planning this exposition and catalogue to celebrate Crouwel’s birthday and to link that to the 20th anniversary of the opening of their bookstore. That plan had been made all the more poignant with the passing of Nijhof; therefore, in his memory, the exposition and the catalogue have been realized.
Frank Nijhof | photograph by Renée Nijhof
Together with his partner in life and business Warren Lee, Nijhof was owner of the Nijhof & Lee book store in Amsterdam. Nijhof had been struggling with illness for the past year. Although his passing came as no surprise to the people close to him, his family, numerous friends and acquaintances in the book industry, it still was a huge shock. Fate had it that his obituary notice in the Volkskrant appeared in the literature supplement Cicero. This made many smile, as Nijhof hails from a family of book sellers.
Frank Nijhof was born in 1948, upstairs his grandfather’s book store in Zutphen. When Nijhof was twelve years old his father opened his own book store, also in Zutphen. Frank Nijhof himself started his career as a book seller, aged 19, at Klompé in Arnhem. Via Kloosterman in Nijmegen and De Bijenkorf in Den Haag he landed in 1972 at book store Robert Premsela in Amsterdam, where he was employed for seventeen years, the last five as manager. From 1980 to 1984 he also was member of the Board of Elspeet Conferenties.
The Nijhof & Lee book shop in the Staalstraat, Amsterdam © John Staufenberger
Exactly 20 years ago in September Frank Nijhof and Warren Lee decided to establish a book store and set up a VOF. The book shop Nijhof & Lee – located in the Staalstraat in Amsterdam – opened on February 25, 1989. The store knows no equal: an internationally renowned specialized book store dealing in new and out-of-print (c.q. antiquarian) books in the fields of art, architecture, design and photography. Neihof & Lee’s commercial activities are governed by an unadulterated love for art, design, typography, and for books. They stock whatever they feel like selling, which means you can find rare gems that most book chains will ignore. They contact designers directly, visit exhibitions and sell books and other items that they know probably won’t make any significant profit, just because they feel they simply have to offer them to their customers. And they may never become really wealthy because they’d probably invest their profits in more beautiful new books.
At the celebration of his sixtieth birthday Frank Nijhof was awarded the Golden Pin by the Royal Society for the Book Trade for his 40+ year career as book seller. His friends decided at this occasion to bring into existence the Frank Nijhof Prize, an award for the most promising book seller in The Netherlands. The first recipient of the Prize is Frank Muehl, who has been employed at Nijhof & Lee for almost a year. Next year Muehl must hand over the Prize to another promising book seller.
The Typography section at Nijhof & Lee © Leanda Ryan
Nijhof & Lee consciously makes a distinction between books about graphic design and typography. In the typography section they have limited the selection to books only dealing with the history, design, production, use and understanding of typefaces, both traditional and digital.
When I received the Nijhof & Lee e-mailing of September 23rd, I was saddened to learn of the passing of Frank Nijhof (the news hadn’t reached me). Nijhof & Lee has been a reference in art and design books for as long as I can remember, and as much as this is a personal loss for Warren Lee it also is one for the international art and design community. I learned that the obituary notice in the Volkskrant simply mentioned under the name of Frank Reinoud Nijhof: “book seller in Amsterdam”. With pride. And rightly so.
You are cordially invited to attend the opening of 80 20 100 on Saturday, October 11th, at VIVID Gallery in Rotterdam.
The exposition runs through November 23rd.
The printed catalogue contains 100 designs by Wim Crouwel and an essay by his long time friend and colleague Ben Bos. It has been designed by David Quay and is available at the exposition, in the Nijhof & Lee shop or through their website. A price list is available separately.
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NL-3012 VH Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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