Moroso Loves London

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[intense_tabs id=”tabs” active_tab_background_color=”#ffffff” active_tab_font_color=”#b1433f” background_color=”#ffffff”][intense_tab title=”Ron Arad” active=”1″]Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, educated at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and later at the Architectural Association in London, Ron Arad co-founded with Caroline Thorman the design and production studio One Off in 1981 and later, in 1989, Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice. In 2008 Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates.From 1994 to 1999 he established the Ron Arad Studio, design and production unit in Como, Italy. He was Professor of Design Product at the Royal College of Art in London up until 2009. Ron Arad was awarded the 2011 London Design Week Medal for design excellence and was became a Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013.Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the possibilities of materials such as steel, aluminium or polyamide and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of furniture has put him at the forefront of contemporary design and architecture.Alongside his limited edition studio work, Arad designs for many leading international companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, WMF and Magis among many others.Ron Arad has designed a number of Public Art pieces, most recently the Vortext in Seoul, Korea, and the Kesher Sculpture at Tel Aviv University.[/intense_tab]

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Nipa Doshi was born in 1971 into a Gujarati family of Mumbai. She graduated from the Toyal College of Art, London, in 1997 but she soon returned to India to work with local craftspeople. After a short stay she went back to London where she met Jonathan Levien, a Scot who fad recently finished his master in furniture design at the Royal College. The synergy between Nipa and Jonathan clicked immediately; in cat they set up the Doshi Levien studio in 2000 and got married.
The combination of the two cultures and creativities generated a very special, innovative design concept which united two different yet complementary approaches to they work: while Nipa’s heavily influenced by the visual culture and materials of India, Jonathan’s is rooted in industrial design.
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This official collaboration between Yael Mer & Shay Alkalay started after many years of sharing life, thoughts and ideas. Yael’s main focus includes turning two-dimensional sheet materials into curvaceous functional forms, whereas Shay is fascinated by how things move, function and react.
Since their graduation show at the Royal College of Art in 2006, they have received several highly respected awards including The British Council Talented Award, iF Gold Award, Dutch Design Award, Wallpaper* Design Award 2009 and the Elle Decoration International Design Award for best furniture of 2008_09 and awarded as the Designer of the Future for 2009 from Design Miami/ Basel.
Their works have been exhibited internationally and can be found within the permanent collection of the MoMA New-York and other museums. They for clients including Cappellini, Established & Sons, Kvadrat, Stella McCartney, Arco, Mutina, Lema and in addition, Yael & Shay produce from time to time unique and limited-edition designs and installations within their own studio in London. Their work has been featured in many major design publications and newspapers worldwide.
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[intense_tab title=”Ross Lovegrove”]Born in 1958, Lovegrove studied industrial design at Manchester Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art in London. He began his career at Frogdesign, where he was assigned to projects for Apple and Sony. Love grove went on to work throughout Europe, then later returned to England. Since founding his own design practice in1986, he has collaborated with some of the world’s most outstanding design manufactures. He is currently working on a snumber of projects in Japan where he enjoys unparalleled success as a European designer.[/intense_tab]

[intense_tab title=”Benjamin Hubert”]Born in the UK in 1984, Benjamin Hubert studied Industrial Design and Technology at Loughborough University and graduated in 2006.
The London based studio specialises in industrial design across furniture and lighting sectors working with international manufacturers across Europe and Asia.
The studio works on a diverse range of projects including both mass/batch produced consumer products and limited edition / one off’s. Benjamin Hubert has received international critical and media acclaim and has been exhibited internationally. Benjamin has also received a number of prestigious awards including: Design of the year (British Design awards 2010) Best Product (100% design/Blueprint awards 2009) Homes and Gardens Young designer Year (Design Classic awards 2010) and EDIDA International Young Designer of the year 2010.[/intense_tab]

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1968, Tord Boontje collaborates with many companies and clients, including Alexander McQueen, Artenica, Authentics, British Airways, Kvadrat, Moss and Swarovski. Boontje has been acknowledged with many awards including Elle Decoration UK Designer of the Year in 2003 and Woonbeurs Dutch Designer of the Year in 2005. He is currently Professor of Product Design at the Royal College of Art in London.
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Martino Gamper (b. 1971, Merano, Italy) lives and works in London. Starting as an apprentice with a furniture maker in Merano, Gamper went on to study sculpture under Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He completed a Masters in 2000 from the Royal College of Art, London, where he studied under Ron Arad.
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Working across design and art venues, Martino Gamper engages in a variety of projects from exhibition design, interior design, one-off commissions and the design of mass-produced products for the cutting edge of the international furniture industry.
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