Mrs. Cathy Buggenhout, Consul General of Belgium in Shanghai
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"This is a truly impressive collection of bakelite objects, reflecting over a hundred years of use of this material invented by Belgian born Leo Baekeland. From daily to industrial use of bakelite, Reindert Groot's collection shows it all in this exhibition.” |
YiLei, Gao, Student at Shanghai Institute of Technology
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"The show is completely interesting and memorable! I definitely broaden my horizon. I can still memorize the collection, such as the various cars, boats, radios, colourful molded shapes, the molds for eggs, diversified old clocks and so so on…" |
Mr. Peter Potman, Consul General of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Shanghai
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"Together with my Belgian colleague Cathy Buggenhout I visited an interesting exhibition today at a composite materials fair in Shanghai, where we saw a beautiful collection of bakelite objects of the Amsterdam collector Reindert Groot. What I did not know is that Bakelite (you all know even the old black telephone) was invented by a Belgian engineer, Leo Baekeland. Hence this Belgian-Dutch combine!" |
