Joris Laarman | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Joris Laarman (b. 1979) has had a meteoric rise in the design profession since his years at the Eindhoven Design Academy. While still a student there he designed as his thesis project the Heat Wave Radiator (featured in Cooper-Hewitt's Rococo exhibition and subsequently acquired for the collection, 2008-13-1-a/c). Upon graduation in 2003, he started his own company, Joris Laarman Studio, focusing on product design and architecture. In 2004, with film maker and partner Anita Star, Laarman founded Joris Laarman Lab. Laarman is particularly interested in working at the intersection of science and aesthetics. Before 2007, he came across the work of a German scientist, Claus Metthek, who developed an... more.

We have 26 objects that Joris Laarman has been involved with.

An armless, legless chiar with althernating wave like bands of dark brown wood and white resin. The diagonal bands vary in length and start from one edge and spill over another edge; for example from top to side, side to side, side to bottom. The organic pattern mimics the fluid curves of the chair. The suble wood grain pattern contrasts with the consistent flat resin material.

This monochrome black chair is made of repeated, geometric cut outs and abstract 3-D shapes. The shapes are ovular with a curved star in the middle, with the star varying in thickness and gradation in the middle. The geometric shapes and material are tightly molded together in various overlapping sequences, making the repeated elements form one continuous chair shape. The chair sits on the floor as one unit without legs.

An armless, legless chair made up of alternating black and white standard puzzle pieces is fabricated in a continuous serpentine shape. The overall pattern resembles a checkerboard, Each puzzle piece has six tabs and two notches. Their sizes vary slightly depending on their placement on the chair. Additionally along the outline of the chair the exterior tab of the puzzle piece is sliced off. Five pieces, three black and two white, are scattered on the floor behind the chair. The multiple pieces which make up the whole fit together seamlessly.

Joris Laarman has collaborated with
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