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.

Here we have a two-color patterned chair that is one curving unit. Along with puzzle piece design, it has all the parts of a chair including a back, seat, and support but as a long board that is bent into dramatic arches to create a self-supporting piece of furniture. The top of the chair has a bending back and seat in an L shape, and the seat gradually curves forward to a front supporting 'leg,' which curves upward into a U shape to meet the bottom of the seat, only to curve downward again to create support in the back. The chair legs resemble a single wave, and the puzzle piece patterns are rigid wood in appearance but are small and nearly hollow repeating designs that create the feeling of flexibility despite interlocking parts. The front 'leg' even tapers inward slightly, creating a concave, more pronounced left and right support angles for the front curve.

A slanted metal screen with an asymmetrical design of uneven waves alternating with a symmetrical oval pattern of negative space that appears to be metal netting that was stretched showing a gradient of small to larger oval openings from bottom to top of screen. The screen wears a brushed satin finish.

Armless, legless chair in a continuous serpentine form with repetitive wood hexagon shapes comprising the surface decoration. Each wood piece is a natural dark color and is fairly consistent with slight variations in hue and grain. The size of each hexagon varies depending on placement on the chair; markedly elongated along the front/bottom. Along the sides of the seat, part of the hexagon is sliced off to follow the edge of the chair form. There is an interior view of a honeycomb like pattern visible beneath the seat. The chair is placed on a shelf in a workshop space surrounded by tools and other objects.

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