Dick Dankers

Hendricus "Dick" Dankers (22 April 1950 – 2 March 2018) was a Dutch furniture designer, and founder and gallery owner of The Frozen Fountain, located on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam.

Life and work Youth and early years in interior design and sales Dankers was born on 22 April 1950, in Amsterdam, and grew up in Rotterdam, where he completed the social academy after high school. After a world tour through America and Israel, he opened his first interior store in Amsterdam around 1975, focusing on vintage and art deco furniture. He is remembered as "the man who brought the Netherlands to design."

In the first half of the 1990s, The Frozen Fountain organized several exhibitions with multiple design disciplines. There was a duo exhibition by Tejo Remy and Viktor & Rolf, and a duo exhibition by the theater group Alex d'Electrique and Henk Stallinga.

Death Dankers drowned in the sea while visiting his daughter in Brazil.