Friso Kramer, born in Amsterdam in 1922. After graduating from the Rietveld Academy of Applied Arts, Amsterdam, he worked as a designer for Cirkel, a steel furniture manufacturer, from 1948 to 1963. In 1963 he became a co-founder of the acclaimed Total Design Group. Later on he was a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag. From 1971 to 1983 he was Art Director and a Member of the Board of the Ahrend Group and member of the jury for many international design competitions.
In addition to the famous 120 bench system that is still in use in many underground stations today, he designed a chair in glass fibre-reinforced polyester with a solid wood frame and an upholstered glass fibre-reinforced chair for Wilkhahn in 1967.
