With the design of the legendary mono-a flatware, the designer, born in Hanau in1928, made design history. He further developed many designs that have become part of German daily life. In his teaching capacity at design institutions in Darmstadt, Kassel and Ulm, as well as Professor of Industrial Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Hamburg, he influenced many a young designer. In 2003 he was honored with a retrospective – 50 Years of Peter Raacke Design – at the German Technology Museum in Berlin.

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Vita

1928 born in Hanau, Germany

1942 studies glass design in Paris

1950 vocational school Cologne

1951 teacher at the Industrial Crafts School in Darmstadt

1958-61 Assistant Professor at the Design Institute in Kassel

1961-67 design firms in Kassel, Milan and Frankfurt

1963-66 Assistant Professor at the Design Institute in Ulm

1968 Professor of Industrial Design at the Institute for Creative Arts in Hamburg  

2003 50 years of design at the German Technical Museum in Berlin