Category: Design

Everything But The Walls
Jasper Morrison
Lars Muller Verlag

Jasper Morrison's name is not associated with spectacular consumer design products. Instead, he has chosen to align himself from the start with an approach that designers often return to after careers spent otherwise: simple and durable forms that remain functional and true to their materials, and retain an unmistakable and exciting modern formal language. His success in the European design landscape over the past decade is without parallel, perhaps because his first furniture and interior designs appeared at a time when the overwhelming nature of flashy decor had become underwhelming. Arguing against "Uselessism" and for "Utilism", Morrison equates the decorative content of a design with a lack of understanding of design's utilitarian purpose.

256 pagine
2006
Paperback
English

Jasper Morrison set up the Office For Design in London in 1986 and now divides his time between studios in Paris and London. Since the 1980s Morrison has produced refined objects for everyday life to much acclaim. His original, intellectual approach has earned him many accolades. Industrial production applied to archetypal objects and a preoccupation with rational articulations of form and functions define Morrison’s oeuvre. Morrison’s clients include key international manufacturers like Flos and Vitra.