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    Ronan Bouroullec

    JOB DESCRIPTION This discipline is quite difficult to define under one name, since there are a lot of ways to practice. What we do is face the question of the object, in a very general sense. We just try to find the best ways—the most functional ways, the best aesthetic ways, the most economical …

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    A New Video Takes Viewers Into the Vitra Design Museum's Chair Collection

    … and de Meuron–designed Schaudepot gallery. The exhibition, which highlights innovations from the industrial era to the present digital age, is a bit characteristically promotional (Hella Jongerius, Ronan Bouroullec, David Chipperfield, and Antonio Citterio have all collaborated with the company), however the objects shown arguably rival those held in other collections. Viewers look over Fehlbaum …

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    The Bouroullec’s New Collaboration with Skyline Design Harnesses Generative Design

    Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec applied custom color analysis software to create a new collection of glass for Skyline Design. Courtesy Alexandre Tabaste The prolific Parisian design duo Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec are no strangers to the contract industry, having produced successful workplace designs for Vitra, Kvadrat, and other manufacturers. The brothers’ reductive, linear aesthetic and …

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    GAME CHANGERS: By Collaborating with Artists, Njusja de Gier Is Driving Innovation and Design at Kvadrat

    … been a 2009 project with German artist Thomas Demand, who used more than five kilometers of Kvadrat textiles in a solo exhibition in Berlin, and Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec’s 2011 Textile Field, a striped, 240-square-meter installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The brand’s goal to expand its presence …

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    Bouroullec Brothers Design Elegant New Showroom for Kvadrat in Copenhagen

    Courtesy Michel Giesbrecht/Studio Bouroullec Danish textile behemoth Kvadrat has a new showroom courtesy of long-standing collaborators Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec. The company had outgrown its previous address in a former warehouse in Copenhagen’s industrial harbor district, so the 18 staffers moved next door to a space twice the size at the end …

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    Water Dreams

    … baths. Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec developed their concept with the same technique that the Colorado River used to carve the Grand Canyon. It took five years for them to wear down the obstacles they had encountered after presenting their initial WaterDream idea in Milan. Their desire to reduce to a minimum the amount of …

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    The Best of the 21st Century: Products

    Courtesy Samsung ​Samsung Serif TV​ (2015) Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec “Finally a TV for people who don’t like TVs!” —Jasper Morrison, founder, Jasper Morrison Ltd.  Courtesy Samsung ​Chair_One​ (2004) Konstantin Grcic for Magis “Its approach and formal language defined a new area of furniture design.” —Sebastian Herkner, founder, Studio Sebastian Herkner “This truly iconic …

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    Where We Work: Inside the New Offices of Metropolis Magazine

    … an immediate brainstorming session by easily swiveling their chairs around and taking up whichever position they find most comfortable. VITRA JOYN SIDE SCREEN  Part of a larger office platform designed by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra, the Joyn side screen separates individual workspaces with a fabric covered fiberboard. While giving privacy to the individual workstations,

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    [email protected]: 2009 Editors Awards Announced

    … Flooring Gan/Gandia Blasco USA, Inc.'s Mangas Carpet by Patricia Urquiola, Booths 904/908 Lighting Pablo, Booth 2010 Outdoor Furniture Vitra, Inc.'s Vegetal Chair by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Booth 1704 Materials Coverings, Etc.'s Ecocoverings, Booth 1348 Wall Coverings Tracy Kendall Wallpaper, Booth 2302 Accessories ModKat's Litter Box, Booth 841 Textiles Anne …

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    NYCxDESIGN is in Full Bloom with Floral Craft Activations

    … Anniversary Festival, Swiss furniture maker Vitra celebrates innovation in floral art with the release of their Vitra Flower Guide, the introduction of the Vase Découpage collection by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and the launch of an installation by botanical artist Lutfi Janania on view in Vitra’s Madison Avenue studio through May 18. Manhattan’s …