Andries & Hiroko Van Onck

Andries Van Onck, born in 1928 in Amsterdam, studied industrial design in the Netherlands and then attended the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm with Thomas Maldonado, Walter Zeischegg and Max Bill. He has lived in Italy since 1959 and worked with Ettore Sottsass Jr. on the design of the first Olivetti electronic machines. Hiroko Takeda, born in 1945, graduated from the Tokyo Academy. She worked with various Japanese companies in the field of interior design from 1968 to.

In 1965, Andries founded his own design studio in Milan, where he and his wife Hiroko Takeda created a number of design projects for companies in Italy and abroad and won numerous awards for them: from home appliances for Zanussi and Bertazzoni to intercom and video intercom systems for Amplyvox, from cutlery for Serafino Zani to interior design accessories for Magis and Kartell.