"Hans Brinker Midlife Book"

- Published by KesselsKramer publishing.

A book dedicated to everyone who made the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, Amsterdam, the world's very best worst hotel for forty years:


A few selected years from the last 4 decades at the Brinker hotel:



1974
When it came time to re-style the Brinker's interior, the hotel called upon some of Holland's most respected interior designers:



1975
Question: You run a somewhat dubious youth hostel in Amsterdam. Much to your astonishment, said youth hostel is becoming more popular than you ever thought possible. More consumers want more beds and you, naturally, want to make more money. What do you do?



1977
Functional art is a big part of the Hans Brinker:



1992
Kessels is Rob's third choice for a job nobody wants
- designing stationery for the obscure youth hostel. And so it begins:



1993
It´s time for a good thorough "cleaning" at the Brinker:



2002
Continuing its progressive policies, the Brinker pro-actively enacted a smoking ban six years before the nationwide ban went into effect:







"New old presents"

- Featured on ffffound.com
- Published in nrc next

Birthday and christmas presents made for our mothers through out the years. Now tucked away and forgotten. Until classical product shots gave the old work a new life: