(((They're sitting on their own chairs, one of the considerable
perks of the design biz.)))
ROSS LOVEGROVE
Ross Lovegrove was born in 1958 in Wales, graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980, and completed his master of design at Royal College of Art, London in 1983.
In the early 80's worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on projects such as walkmans for Sony, computers for Apple Computers, later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International.
He was invited to join the Atelier de Nimes along with Jean Nouvel and Phillipe Stark, consulting to - amongst others - Cacharel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont.
Returned to London in 1988, in 1990 Lovegrove inaugurated Studio X, his own personal studio in London's Notting Hill. He worked on projects for amongst others BRITISH AIRWAYS, KARTELL, CAPPELLINI, PHILLIPS, MOROSO, DRIADE, MAZDA, APPLE COMPUTERS, OLYMPUS CAMERAS, LUCEPLAN, TAG HEUER, FRATELLI GUZZINI, ALIAS and HERMAN MILLER.
Winner of numerous international awards his work has been published and exhibited internationally including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum NY, Axis Centre in Japan, Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Design Museum in London, when in 1993 he curated the first permanent collection. His work was shown in many solo exhibitions, among them:
'Ross Lovegrove - Design' at the Danish Museum of Decorative Art in Copenhagen, 'Ross Lovegrove Objects' in Stockholm, 'Organic Dreams' at IDEE in Tokyo and ''Sensual Organic Design' at Yamagiwa Corporation in Tokyo.
