Tomado - A. Dekker - Wall shelf unit - Steel - Saved

Vintage wall rack original Tomado by Adriaan Dekker.

An original rack made in the Netherlands in the 1960s.
See the punched marks TOMADO HOLLAND on both the supporting frames and on the shelves.
It consists of 5 parts, 2 black frames and 3 shelves (1x red, 1 x yellow, 1 x gray).
The weight is 4.5 kg.
The overall dimensions w x d x h: 69 x 20 x 69 cm.
The rack is in good used condition. Original paint, and nowhere updated.
Normal signs of use are visible.

It is neatly cleaned and ready for use. Assembly is very simple.
The shelves can be interchanged and the height is adjustable.

Study the photos carefully, they are part of the description.
This beautiful wall rack is carefully packed and shipped quickly.

The Tomado company was founded in 1923 in Dordrecht by the brothers Van der Togt.
TOMADO stands for: van der TOgt Massa Artikelen DOdrecht.
Originally it was a small company that manufactured simple copper-wire wallpaper hooks, which could be used to hang photos on wallpaper. After the Dutch Housewives Association commissioned the company to develop a metal drip rack, it began to grow and a factory was soon opened in Zwijndrecht. After World War II began the reconstruction period in which Tomado products stood for the modern household. They became very popular, also in Belgium, and almost every household owned one or more Tomado products. Due to the popularity of the brand the company grew rapidly in the 1950s.

In the early 1970s the Tomado factories went bankrupt when a flood of cheap items from low-wage countries started. The company was taken over at the end of the 1970s by the Belgian firm Bekaert. After the bankruptcy of Bekaert in 1986, many rights passed to Metaltex Netherlands, part of the Swiss firm Metaltex.