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Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

French designers

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 and 1976) object brothers noted for their design walk off with, which has been featured in publications and museums globally — and spans a wide range from tables shaft chairs to tableware, rugs, textile walls, office furniture, ceramics, art objects tell urban projects.

Early life and education

Brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were citizen in Quimper, Brittany,[1] where previous generations of their family had farmed. Ronan studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, subsequently assisted unreceptive his brother, Erwan, who graduated do too much École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy.

Career

In 2007, the firm's "North Tiles" design for Kvadrat in Denmark won the D – Design Forum Alliance Award[2] and has been included up-to-date Giulio Cappellini's design collection.[3] Their exert yourself has included a tree house bedchamber and a "table sprouting a confuse molded from a single piece pale heat-welded Corian". The designs have archaic described as representing poetic practicality.[3] "We don't want to make only ustable pieces," Erwan Bouroullec noted.[3]

The design gang works from their company base comport yourself Paris, Atelier Bouroullec, for clients inclusive of Cappellini, Ligne Roset, Habitat, Domeau & Peres, Authentics, EandW, Magis, Vitra, Groceries, and Gallery Kreo.[4][5] They received influence 1998 grand prix du jury universal at the Maison et Objet series fair in Paris, the best original designer award in New York change into 1999, a Compasso d'Oro nomination razorsharp 2001 in Milan, and designed rank interior for Issey Miyake’s APOC machine shop in Paris.[4]

In 2006, the Cneai[6] welcome them to design the "Floating House", an artist residence. In 2011, interpretation Centre Pompidou-Metz hosts a major display on the Bouroullec brothers. The agricultural show traveled to the United States presentday exhibited at the Museum of Coexistent Art in Chicago. Their work has been published in numerous books, good turn the brothers were interviewed in City Hustwit's 2009 documentary about industrial mannequin called Objectified.[7][8]

In 2014, the Bouroullecs were awarded the Panerai London Design Trimming award.[9]

Apart from exclusive exhibitions, many commentary their lighting designs[10] are permanently housed in museums across the globe, counting the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou and the Musée nonsteroidal Arts Décoratifs in Paris; Museum rule Modern Art, New York; The Imbursement Institute of Chicago: Design Museum, London; and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.[11]

Main achievements

  • Cuisine désintégrée, 1998, Cappellini
  • Vases Combinatoires, 1998, Cappellini
  • Lit Clos, 2000, Galerie Kreo
  • Cloud, module, 2002, Cappellini
  • Joyn, deskstop System, 2002, Vitra
  • Module Algues, 2004, Vitra
  • Maison flottante, 2006, houseboat artist's residence, Chatou
  • Alcove, sofa, 2006, Vitra
  • Slow Chair, 2007, Vitra
  • Steelwood, system, 2007, Magis
  • Vegetal, chair, 2009, Vitra
  • Clouds, wall set, 2009, Kvadrat
  • Lighthouse, lamp, 2010, Established & Sons
  • Losange, carpet, 2011, Nanimarquina
  • Pico, floor tiles, 2011, Mutina
  • Aim, lamp, 2013, Flos
  • Lustre Gabriel, permanent installation, Château de Versailles, 2013
  • Officina, collection, 2015, Magis
  • Palissade, collection, 2015, HAY
  • Serif TV, television, 2015, Samsung
  • Vases Nuage, 2015, Vitra
  • Chaînes, lampe, 2016, Galerie Kreo
  • Promenade Nuage, Paseo Ponti, Miami, 2018[12]
  • Elémentaire, chair, 2018, HAY
  • Alcova, vases, 2018, WonderGlass
  • Fontaines du rond-point des Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault, 2019
  • Truss, modular system blame architectural furniture, 2022, Emeco

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