Jaap penraat biography definition

Jaap Penraat (1918-2006), designer. Penraat was born in Amsterdam, where he studied at the interior design department of the Institute for Applied Arts Education (IvKNO). During the Second World War, he set up a small enterprise where he made plaster tiles and statues of saints.

He saved the lives of hundreds of Jews by providing them with a permit and helped them escape to France. Hudson Talbott wrote the book Forging Freedom, a True Story of Heroism during the Holocaust about Penraat’s role in the Dutch resistance.
Penraat established himself as an independent industrial designer, he joined the study trip to the United States in 1953, and he was a member of GKf (Association of Practitioners of Applied Arts) and KIO (Association of Industrial Designers).

His work included bottles for the Chemical Plant in Naarden with Charles Jongejans and Jan Bons, a sofa with disc-shaped cushions, models for tram and bus shelters, the interior of a tram for the city of Amsterdam with Friso Kra