Hendricus "Dick" Dankers (22 April 1950 – 2 March 2018) was a Dutch furniture designer, and founder and gallery owner of The Frozen Fountain on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam.
Dankers was born on 22 April 1950[2] in Amsterdam and grew up in Rotterdam, where he completed the social academy after high school.
After a world tour through America and Israel, he opened his first interior store in Amsterdam around 1975, focusing on vintage and art deco furniture.
[3] In 1992 in collaboration with Cok de Rooy they started The Frozen Fountain design gallery and moved to the Prinsengracht.
The store offered a platform for starting designers such as Jurgen Bey, Piet Hein Eek, Hella Jongerius, Marcel Wanders, and Studio Job.