London, UK
Jasper Morrison
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Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959. He graduated in Design from Kingston Polytechnic in 1982. Then he attended
the Royal College of Art for postgraduate studies, which included a year at Berlin’s HdK art school. Upon graduation Jasper set up his Office for Design in London in 1986.
He established himself with two installations: Reuters News Centre at Documenta
8 in Kassel in 1987, and Some New Items
for the Home, Part I, at the DAAD Gallery
in Berlin as part of Berlin Design Werkstadt
in 1988. Jasper's earliest designs were produced by Aram and SCP
in London, Neotu in Paris, FSB in Germany and Cappellini in Italy. In 1989, he began collaboration with Vitra with the exhibition Some New Items for the Home, Part II,
at Milan's Furniture Fair. He went on to form Utilism International with Andreas Brandolini and Axel Kufus, providing exhibition design and town planning services.
In 1994 Jasper began a consultancy with Üstra, the Hanover transport authority, designing a bus shelter and then the new Hanover tram. Further collaborations began
in this period with projects for the Italian companies Alessi, Flos and Magis, and the German porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal.
In the 2000s Jasper worked on a project for Rowenta to design a set of kitchen appliances, and he began consultancies with Muji, Samsung, Ideal Standard and
Established & Sons. In 2006 he collaborated with Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa
on the exhibition Super Normal at Axis Gallery, Tokyo. It was followed by a book and toured
to London, Milan, Helsinki and New York.
This exhibition inspired the opening of the Jasper Morrison Shop beside his London studio in 2008. The Shop presents an exhibition each year during London Design Festival. Since 2010 Jasper has collaborated with Spanish companies Camper, Kettal
and Andreu World, and US companies Maharam and Emeco. He is art director
of Swiss electronics company Punkt. In 2014 he designed the furniture for the extension
to Tate Modern, more than ten years after working on the opening of the museum
with the architects Herzog & de Meuron.
Jasper Morrison has had solo exhibitions
in Tokyo at Axis Gallery, Yamagiwa
and HH Style. Among his other exhibitions,
he presented Au Musée at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs Bordeaux in 2009 and in 2011
he curated Danish Design, I Like It,
at the Copenhagen Design Museum.
In 2015 a retrospective exhibition opened
at the Grand-Hornu, Belgium, accompanied
by a new monograph A Book of Things. Previous books include Everything But
The Walls and A World Without Words,
both published by Lars Müller. Jasper Morrison has been a Royal Designer for Industry
since 2001. Jasper Morrison Ltd currently
has offices in London, Tokyo and Paris.