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 The Heat and Pressure exhibition is to demonstrate the enormous influence of bakelite on the daily lives of nearly everyone in the twentieth century. The great variety of products and forms offers interesting perspectives, as do also the points of contact with a number of movements in art and design, including Art Deco, Bauhaus, Streamline, and 1960s style, as well as the more sober designs of the eighties and the striking products developed by French designer Philippe Starck for Telefunken and Alessi in the final decade of the twentieth century. Although the high point of production occurred during the interwar years – and objects from this period are a major element of the exhibition – bakelite remains in production to this day.
The exhibit opens with a historical introduction beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The concluding section will display technical and household products that are still being made nowadays. Along with bakelite, attention will also be paid to other thermosetting plastics like melamine- and urea-formaldehyde, which are also derived from Baekeland’s discoveries. Although many objects were designed in circumstances of anonymity – often by technicians, instrumentmakers, or engineers – we also find designers with established names like Norman Bel Geddes, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Harold van Doren, Henry Dreyfuss, L. C. Kalff, Raymond Loewy, Isamo Noguchi, Gio Ponti, Dieter Rams, and Philippe Starck.
2011 BAEKELAND ON SCREEN
Making the movie (HDTV)
'TRANSATLANTIC CHEMISTRY:
BAEKELAND THE INVENTOR OF BAKELITE' ®
Bakelite and Baekeland: the Documentary! (Preview) 
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2010 MADE IN YONKERS
More than 10.000 visitors!
United States, Yonkers, New York, Hudson River Museum,
6.2.2010 – 6.6.2010
Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics
Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics is organized by the Amsterdam Bakelite Collection in partnership with the Hudson River Museum.
Sponsoring & Support
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2009
Canada, Toronto, Ontario, CBC Broadcast Centre, 6.3.2009 at 10 pm PT on CBC Newsworld
Contribution to CBC documentary Forever Plastic with 1937 film footage
The Fourth Kingdom (trailer 6'22", see below)
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2008 - 2009 SAGINAW WELCOMES BAKELITE
United States, Saginaw, Michigan, Historical Society of Saginaw County at the Castle Museum, 16.11.2008 – 16.2.2009, extended to 30.6.2009
Heat and Pressure – 100 Years of Bakelite |
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2008
Switzerland, Basel, MCH Messe Schweiz AG,
Herbstwarenmesse, 25.10 – 2.11.2008
Bakelite Exhibition Zimmermann |
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2008 LEO BAEKELAND AND MARK TWAIN MEET AGAIN
United States, Redding, Connecticut, Mark Twain Library, 5.4 – 4.6.2008
Heat and Pressure – 100 Years of Bakelite |
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2008
France, Paris,’15, Square de Vergennes’,
18.3 – 2.8.2008
Bakelite Exhibition Zimmermann |
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2007
Switzerland, Basel, MCH Messe Schweiz AG, Herbstwarenmesse,
27.10 – 4.11.2007
Bakelite Exhibition Zimmermann |
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2007
Belgium, Ghent, Museum voor de Geschiedenis van de Wetenschappen, 23.4 – 14.12.2007
En toen was er ... Bakeliet : 1907 – 2007
Belgium, Ghent, Museum for the History of Sciences,
And then there was ... Bakelite : 1907 – 2007 |
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2002
Germany, Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 16.3 – 16.6.2002
Streamline: Amerikanisches Design 1930 bis 1955 |
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2001 - 2002
Netherlands, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 17.11.2001 – 24.2.2002
Streamline: The Dawn of Tomorrow: US design from 1930 to 1955
Press Release Exhibition |
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2010
United States, Lowell, MA, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 9.2.2010
Guest Lecture at Department of Plastics Engineering |
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2010
United States, Yonkers, New York, Hudson River Museum, 6.2.2010
Opening of the exhibition Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics
Talk with the experts: A discussion of the work of Leo Baekeland
Reindert Groot, founder/curator, Amsterdam Bakelite Collection
Hugh Karraker, great grandson of Leo Baekeland
Dr. Louis A. Pilato, chemist and author of Phenolic Resins: A Century of Progress
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2008
Germany, Cologne, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kunststoffgeschichte e.V.
at Cologne University of Applied Sciences / Institute for Conservation Sciences, 13.12.2008
Annual Meeting 2008 |
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2008
United States, Saginaw, Michigan, Historical Society of Saginaw County at the Castle Museum, 15.11.2008
Opening of the exhibition Heat and Pressure – 100 Years of Bakelite
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2008
United States, Saginaw, Michigan, Rotary Club of Saginaw, 12.11.2008
Wednesday Meeting Program |
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2008
United States, Redding, Connecticut, Mark Twain Library, 5.4.2008
Heat and Pressure – 100 Years of Bakelite
The exhibition Heat and Pressure – 100 Years of Bakelite is the result of the close cooperation between Hugh Karraker, Redding, Connecticut and Reindert Groot, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
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2007
Belgium, Ghent, Museum for the History of Sciences, 24.9.2007
Symposium Baekeland 2007: Thermosets, 100 years after Bakelite |
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2007
United States, Manchester, Connecticut, Sumitomo Bakelite North America Inc., 11.5.2007
Heat and Pressure – 100 Years of Bakelite |
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2007
United States, New York, New York, The Chemists’ Club, 7.5.2007
Annual Meeting |
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