Celebrating Tomado’s 100th Anniversary!
Tomado - a Dutch company founded by the Van der Togt brothers in 1923 - has come a long way since their humble beginnings producing simple hooks. Today, they offer a grand collection of useful and modern household products. This includes coasters, strainers, and potato mashers, as well as dish drainers, drying racks, a pressure cooker, and the iconic bookshelf...
TOMADO at the Stedelijk Museum
In December 2017 the basement of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, one of the most popular museums in the Netherlands, was restyled by Rem Koolhaas, a famous Dutch architect. Artworks from Piet Mondrian and Jeff Koons were exhibited next to more daily use products from 1880 till present day, a real mixture of all kinds of artworks. According to the journalist of a national...
TOMADO, the timeless brand
It will not be a coincidence that the TOMADO bookshelf, which only 4 months ago was exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum, the museum of modern art in Amsterdam, today fills the double page of Holland’s most popular daily newspaper, De Telegraaf. The well-known newspaper highlights how the TOMADO brand and its products, despite the evolution of time, are still...
Tomado bookshelf at the Stedelijk
The TOMADO bookshelf is an original modular shelving system, truly a timeless work! Designed by Adriaan Dekker in 1958, it was immediately a great success. A simple and minimalist product, easy to assemble, modular, suitable for many environments but, above all, a Design Product. In 2010 the Dutch Post Office issued a stamp commemorating its 50th anniversary...
Marketing Meeting 2016
The Metaltex annual Marketing Meeting was recently hosted, for the third time, in the Netherlands. The first meeting was held in Breda (1994), the second in Amsterdam (2003) and finally this years, in Rotterdam. The whole weekend was superbly organised by Metaltex’s impeccable Dutch branch. During the two days, several issues were addressed...
Tomado commemorative stamp
It is not often that the impression left by an object is remembered by issuing a stamp. The Dutch Post Office decided to commemorate 50 years since the launch of the Tomado bookshelf by issuing a stamp of € 0.44 nominal. The year is 1950, the Dutch nation, as in many others, you can still feel the austerity of the war years. Tomado launches a bookshelf library...