Studio Frank Rettenbacher
Balistraat 20
1094 JM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Contact
mail@frankrettenbacher.com
Biography
Frank Rettenbacher is an Austrian Designer living and working in Amsterdam. He is Creative Director at A.D.O. Amsterdam Design Office, designing for the Philips TV and Audio brand and other external clients. Latest partnerships include Bowers & Wilkins, Georg Jensen and Kvadrat textiles.
Independently, Frank collaborates and designs furniture under his own studio moniker. Within this framework he is working with the renowned Italian furniture manufacturer, Zanotta. Together they have created, and continue to grow, a family of charismatic products.
Frank’s work has received international recognition and has been included in the permanent collection of the Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art (The Stedelijk Museum). Most notably, his acclaimed ‘DesignLine’ glass TV won the Dutch Design Award together with an IF Gold and the Red Dot, 'Best of the Best' Award.
Zanotta stories
'Let us focus on Frank Rettenbacher. With very few projects under his belt, but showing a remarkable level of typological innovation [...] the young Austrian designer based in Amsterdam was recruited early on by the Nova Milanese-based company to experiment with new visions for products. In the wake of the Eames' work of the 1950s, with legendary metal supporting structures for their chairs, Rettenbacher designs very thin polygonal surface tops, sustained by a similarly slender tie-rod supporting system. Emil is a small table in polished lacquered steel showing great equilibrium of form. It was created with the aim of reducing the physical impact of the object to a minimum, and it fundamentally reflects a light, changeable vision of day-to-day life.'
From the book
Design: 101 Zanotta stories
written by Beppe Finessi
Balistraat 20
1094 JM Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Contact
mail@frankrettenbacher.com
Biography
Frank Rettenbacher is an Austrian Designer living and working in Amsterdam. He is Creative Director at A.D.O. Amsterdam Design Office, designing for the Philips TV and Audio brand and other external clients. Latest partnerships include Bowers & Wilkins, Georg Jensen and Kvadrat textiles.
Independently, Frank collaborates and designs furniture under his own studio moniker. Within this framework he is working with the renowned Italian furniture manufacturer, Zanotta. Together they have created, and continue to grow, a family of charismatic products.
Frank’s work has received international recognition and has been included in the permanent collection of the Amsterdam Museum of Modern Art (The Stedelijk Museum). Most notably, his acclaimed ‘DesignLine’ glass TV won the Dutch Design Award together with an IF Gold and the Red Dot, 'Best of the Best' Award.
Zanotta stories
'Let us focus on Frank Rettenbacher. With very few projects under his belt, but showing a remarkable level of typological innovation [...] the young Austrian designer based in Amsterdam was recruited early on by the Nova Milanese-based company to experiment with new visions for products. In the wake of the Eames' work of the 1950s, with legendary metal supporting structures for their chairs, Rettenbacher designs very thin polygonal surface tops, sustained by a similarly slender tie-rod supporting system. Emil is a small table in polished lacquered steel showing great equilibrium of form. It was created with the aim of reducing the physical impact of the object to a minimum, and it fundamentally reflects a light, changeable vision of day-to-day life.'
From the book
Design: 101 Zanotta stories
written by Beppe Finessi
Recognitions
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Philips DesignLine TV, 2014
Permanent collection
NYC × Design Award
Zanotta Judy poltroncina, 2018
Honoree
Hublot Design Prize
Participant, selected by Marva Griffin
Awards
IF Design Awards
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 907 TV, 2022
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 937 TV, 2022
Philips Fidelio Home Cinema Series, 2022
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 986 TV, 2021
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 936 TV, 2021
Philips OLED 806 TV, 2021
Philips × Georg Jensen 9104 TV, 2019
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 934 TV, 2019
Philips OLED 854 TV, 2019
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 903 TV, 2018
Philips 8800 TV, 2016
Philips DesignLine TV, IF GOLD, 2014
Philips DesignLine Tilt TV, 2012
Design Probes – Metamorphosis, 2011
Philips Cineos Flat TV Aurea, 2007
Philips Next Simplicity 2005
Red Dot Awards
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 907 TV, 2022
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 937 TV, 2022
Philips Fidelio Home Cinema Series, 2022
Philips OLED 806 TV, 2021
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 934 TV, 2019
Philips OLED 854 TV, 2019
Philips C8 Monitor, 2018
Philips OLED 9002 TV, 2017
Philips 8600 TV, 2015
Philips 8900 TV, 2015
Philips DesignLine TV, Best of the Best, 2014
Dutch Design Award
Philips DesignLine TV, 2013
Winner best consumer product
D&Ad Award
Philips DesignLine, 2014
Goed Industrieel Ontwerp
Philips Cineos Flat TV, 2007
Springtime Design, Bikedispenser, 2007
Spark award Gold
Springtime Design, Bikedispenser, 2007
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Philips DesignLine TV, 2014
Permanent collection
NYC × Design Award
Zanotta Judy poltroncina, 2018
Honoree
Hublot Design Prize
Participant, selected by Marva Griffin
Awards
IF Design Awards
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 907 TV, 2022
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 937 TV, 2022
Philips Fidelio Home Cinema Series, 2022
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 986 TV, 2021
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 936 TV, 2021
Philips OLED 806 TV, 2021
Philips × Georg Jensen 9104 TV, 2019
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 934 TV, 2019
Philips OLED 854 TV, 2019
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 903 TV, 2018
Philips 8800 TV, 2016
Philips DesignLine TV, IF GOLD, 2014
Philips DesignLine Tilt TV, 2012
Design Probes – Metamorphosis, 2011
Philips Cineos Flat TV Aurea, 2007
Philips Next Simplicity 2005
Red Dot Awards
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 907 TV, 2022
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 937 TV, 2022
Philips Fidelio Home Cinema Series, 2022
Philips OLED 806 TV, 2021
Philips × Bowers&Wilkins OLED 934 TV, 2019
Philips OLED 854 TV, 2019
Philips C8 Monitor, 2018
Philips OLED 9002 TV, 2017
Philips 8600 TV, 2015
Philips 8900 TV, 2015
Philips DesignLine TV, Best of the Best, 2014
Dutch Design Award
Philips DesignLine TV, 2013
Winner best consumer product
D&Ad Award
Philips DesignLine, 2014
Goed Industrieel Ontwerp
Philips Cineos Flat TV, 2007
Springtime Design, Bikedispenser, 2007
Spark award Gold
Springtime Design, Bikedispenser, 2007
