Throughout his work, Tord Boontje explores juxtapositions of the old and new, naturalism and technology. Born in the Netherlands in 1968, he studied industrial design at the Eindhoven Design Academy before enrolling at the Royal College of Art in London. The launch of Tord’s Wednesday Collection marks an evolution in Tord’s work. The Wednesday Collection harnesses advanced technologies to unexpected materials. Tord has developed a romantic and poetic aesthetic, depicting nature combined with a flair for vibrant colour. Following the success of the Wednesday Collection, Habitat’s production of his Wednesday light (the renowned Garland light), and his continued alliance with Swarovski, designing chandeliers for their Crystal Palace project, he was nominated for the Designer Of The Year Award at the Design Museum 2003. Tord was nominated Designer of the Year by Elle Decoration UK and the Garland Light won the awards for best light and readers choice for Future Classic.
Tord Boontje first studied industrial design at the design academy in eindhoven (1986 – 1991), and followed this with a masters from the royal college of art in london (1992 – 1994). studio tord boontje was founded in 1996. tord boontje lived and worked in london until 1995 and has since lived and worked in bourg-argental, france. here the current studio tord boontje was founded in 2006.
Boontje represents the consecration of the image-making reality of enchanted fantasy, which sees the industrialisation of the prototypes presented with such enormous success to the press and the public at the last Furniture Show. Covered chairs, revolving chairs, rocking chairs, banquettes, poufs, tables, where the ornamental euphoria of Boontje´s naturalistic patterns is dominant everywhere. On his website you’ll see DOLL CHAIRS , high chairs covered of organdies and mousselines prepared in subtle variations of colours and textures; WITCH CHAIR , a chair covered in flakes of black leather with a strong reference to Victorian Gothic reinterpreted in a modern vein; OVAL TABLE , the table with a decorated top; the SWEETIE voluminous pouf, inviting and covered with a printed cotton fabric designed by Boontje himself, in the two variants of red-white and black-white; SWIVEL CHAIR , KISSING BENCH and HAPPY ROCKER , respectively a revolving small armchair, a small sofa and a rocking chair, covered in woollen cloths in various colour shades, laser-cut in cascades of flowers and geometries freely inspired by nature.
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