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Ko je u toj priči E. G. Van de Stat?
Rodio se 1910. u glavnom gradu regi-
je Zan, u Zandamu, od amsterdamske
glavne stanice udaljenom petnaestak
minuta vožnje brzim vozom koji
funkcioniše bolje nego u Švajcarskoj.
Erikus Gerhardus zvani Rikus bio je
peti sin Jana van de Stata, etablira-
nog trgovca drvnom građom. Upisao
se na studije brodogradnje, a istovre-
meno se bavio jedrenjem i još kao
student konstruisao kanu s jedrom,
koji je odmah počeo da prodaje u
nacrtu, po 25 centi komad. Tako je
započeo biznis koji je temeljno prepo-
rodio svetsku brodogradnju.
Posle fakulteta, našao je posao, ali
plata je bila loša, pa je od braće i ro-
đaka pozajmio ulog za otvaranje ma-
log brodogradilišta u bivšoj pivari na
obali Zana. U majušnim jolama koje
je gradio takmičio se na Olimpijskim
igrama i 1936. njegov tim je osvojio
zlatnu medalju. No, ne bi se posao
tako razvio da mu priliku nije pružio
drugi strastveni jedriličar, industrija-
lac Kornelijus Brajnzel iz Roterdama,
još jedan revolucionarni pronalazač.
Kornelijus je prvi počeo da pro-
izvodi ugradne kuhinje! Tridesetih
godina prošlog veka prvi je počeo da
pravi kuhinje po meri, a uspeh duguje
prethodnim dostignućima holandskih
tehničkih genija: kuhinjske elemente
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Who is in this story is E.G. Van de Stadt? Born in 1910 in
the capital city of the Zaan region, Zaandam, just a fifteen-minute
train ride from Amsterdam on the fast train that functions better
than those in Switzerland. Ericus Gerhardus, known as Ricus, was
the fifth son of Jan Van de Stadt, an established timber merchant.
He enrolled to study naval architecture and as at the same time
involved in sailing, and while still a student he constructed a ca-
noe with a sail, which immediately began to pass as a draft design,
at 25 cents per unit. So began the business that would lead to the
fundamental rebirth of world shipbuilding.
After completing his university studies he found a job, but
the pay was bad, and so he borrowed a sum of money from his
brothers and cousins to pay the deposit needed to open a small
shipyard in a former brewery on the banks of the Zaan. He compe-
ted at the Olympics in the tiny sailboats that he built and in 1936
his team won gold. However, his work would not have developed
in the way it did if he hadn’t been given a chance by another avid
sailor, industrialist Cornelis Bruynzeel from Rotterdam, another
revolutionary inventor.
Cornelius was the first to start producing fitted kitchens! In
the 1930s he first started making made-to-measure kitchens and he
owed his success to previous achievements of Dutch technical ge-
nius: kitchen cabinets began to be made from plywood, as massive
solid wood was considered expensive, cumbersome and unsuitable
for the construction of doors and drawers.
Plywood is the first composite material – wood is cut thinly
at a certain angle, the leaves are then coated with synthetic glue
(another Dutch invention) and arranged so as to counter their fle-
xibility. With the addition of a water-resistant adhesive, a suitable
material for the construction of vessels was obtained.
Bruynzeel proposed that Van de Stadt construct a sport yacht
using his machine and “kitchen” technology – and so was born the
mass production of wooden boats, and Ricus began selling them in
kit form. After the war, plywood was replaced by firmer polyester
Na brodovima su
stvorena amsterdam-
ska bogatstva pa i
ono „dinastije“ Van de
Stat, koja je uspela u
nemogućoj misiji toliko
dragoj Holanđanima:
silno bogati, uticajni,
sasvim nepoznati...
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It was on the
back of ships that
Amsterdam’s wealth
was created, and even
that Van de Stadt
‘dynasty’, which suc-
ceeded in that impos-
sible mission so dear
to the Dutch: to be
immensely wealthy,
influential and com-
pletely unknown...
Regate po unutrašnjem
moru s jedrilicama među
kojima su i neke najstarije
konstrukcije Van de Stata
iz tridesetih godina prošlog
veka
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Regatta on the
inland sea, with sailing
boats that include some of
the oldest Van de Staadt
designs, dating back to the
1930s