Evert Endt

Evert Endt was born in Zaandam, the Netherlands on 25 July 1933. He grew up in Switzerland and studied in Zurich at the Kunstgewerbeschule.

In 1958, Endt started his career in the Compagnie de L'Esthétique Industrielle (CEI) by Raymond Loewy, a design agency based in Paris. He later became the Artistic Director and in 1968 the Director of the CEI, which is responsible for numerous programs of global design such as BP, Shell, Coop, and Elna Lotus (Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York) and Rivella, Motta.

In 1974, he received French nationality. The following year, he set up Endt+Fulton Partners with American designer James F. Fulton. Since 1992 the agency participated in social programs focused on the environment. He worked for various cultural and industrial bodies, under the Ministries of Health, Culture and French Justice.

He created exhibitions for the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de la Villette. His permanent and temporary thematic exhibitions include "Living in Space", "Energies", and "New Materials".

In 1992, Evert Endt was appointed director of Ensci/Les Ateliers - Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Creation Industrielle - in Paris.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ensci.com/|title=École nationale supérieure de création industrielle|website=ENSCI - Les Ateliers|language=fr|access-date=24 May 2017}} The following year, he became director for the postgraduate program in research and management of new technologies in the Samsung Laboratory for Innovative Design.

Endt died on 21 March 2025, at the age of 91.{{Cite web |title=Publication des avis de décès et d'obsèques, nécrologie |url=https://www.servicesfuneraires.fr/avis-de-deces/ |access-date=18 April 2025 |website=Services Funéraires de la Ville de Paris |language=fr-FR}}

• Prix International "Intérieur 80" Biennale de Courtrai 1980
• Label design français (esthétique industrielle) 1982-84{{Cite web|url=http://www.apci.asso.fr/observeur|title=L'Observeur du design - APCI - Agence pour la promotion de la création industrielle|website=www.apci.asso.fr|access-date=24 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024051835/http://www.apci.asso.fr/observeur|archive-date=24 October 2014|url-status=dead}}
• Janus de l'Industrie 1985
• Oscar du journal Nouvel Économiste 1986
• Nomination of Chevalier des arts et lettres par le Ministère de la Culture 1998

• [https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-evert-endt France culture]interview to Evert Endt "Raymond Loewy. Une vie, une oeuvre", 23 mars 2013.
• [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/04/garden/group-seeks-to-buy-designer-s-papers.html The New York Times] PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, "GROUP SEEKS TO BUY DESIGNER'S PAPERS", The New York Times, 4 June 1987
• [http://www.veroniquevienne.com/article/raymond-loewy_-speed-whiskers-on-toothbrushes Graphis]Véronique Vienne, "Raymond Loewy: Speed Whiskers on Toothbrushes?", Graphis, February 1998
• [http://www.mam-st-etienne.fr/index.php?rubrique=260&rsrc=1070&rec=leger%7C0%7C0%7C1 Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole]C.E.I. Loewy Raymond: machine à coudre "Elna Lotus", Musée d'art moderne et contemporain Saint-Etienne Métropole, December 2012
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/07/10/the-librarys-loewy-gift/f84b8fe4-2937-499c-bd45-b6bfc2d73daf/ The Washington Post]A.A., "The library's Loewy gift", The Washington Post, 10 July 1987
• [http://sales.arte.tv/fiche/5011/RAYMOND_LOEWY__LE_FRANCAIS_QUI_DESSINA_L_AMERIQUE ARTE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221235613/http://sales.arte.tv/fiche/5011/RAYMOND_LOEWY__LE_FRANCAIS_QUI_DESSINA_L_AMERIQUE |date=21 December 2016 }}Interview in the film: "CITIZEN LOEWY - HOW A FRENCHMAN DESIGNED THE AMERICAN DREAM", Arte, 2016
• [https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/056785-000-A/raymond-loewy-le-designer-du-reve-americain/ ARTE 2017] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011181242/https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/056785-000-A/raymond-loewy-le-designer-du-reve-americain/ |date=11 October 2017 }}Interview in the film: "Raymond Loewy, le designer du rêve américain", Arte, 2017

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