Joris Laarman was born in the countryside of the Netherlands in 1979. In 1998 after one year of fine arts he attended the renowned Design Academy Eindhoven and graduated cum laude in 2003. He gained first notoriety with his functional rococo radiator heatwave that is currently produced by droog design and Jaga. He contributed in articles and seminars for Domus magazine and he was a guest teacher at European universities like the Architectural Association London, Rietveld academy Amsterdam and the Design Academy Eindhoven. Together with partner and filmmaker Anita Star he started his studio and laboratory In 2004.

LAB

The lab is working on a collection of highly unique experimental works. It focuses on finding new steps in the never-ending evolution of objects. It’s an experimental playground for research and future possible products, installations and architectural interventions that works together with many scientific institutes and craftsmen around the world.

STUDIO

Together with associates Tim Geurtjens en Tony Michiels the studio is developing most of the Lab editions and aims to develop and design industrial translations of these and other products in collaboration with companies like Flos, Vitra, Swarovski, Droog and more.

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Victoria & Albert Museum, 'Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design', UK

Indianapolis Museum of Art. 'European Design Since 1985, Shaping the new Century', USA

Institute of Modern Art, 'Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers',Valencia, ES

Chicago Art Institute, modern wing, USA

Museum of modern art new york, 'design and the elastic mind', USA

Cooper hewit museum, 'Rococo: The Continuing Curve', USA

Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, solo exhibition. ES

Grand Palais , 'Design contre design', paris, FR

Museum Gestaltung Zurich, 'nature design', Zurich, CH

Museum Boymans van Beuningen,'Design prijs Rotterdam', Rotterdam, NL

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

MoMA new york, USA

centre pompidou, FR

Cooper-Hewitt, USA

FNAC, FR

Groninger museum, NL

High Museum Atlanta, USA

Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, NL

Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, ES

Vitra design museum, DE

chicago art institute, USA

Museum Kunst Paviljoen Groningen, NL

Boymans van Beuningen, NL

FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, FR

Museum of Modern Art Den Bosch, NL

DSM art foundation, NL

Textiel museum Tilburg, NL

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg DE

Museum of Rouen, FR

centraal museum, NL

Houston museum of fine arts, USA

AWARDS

2008 int. Elle decoration award

2007 Woon award

2006 Red Dot design award

2004 interior innovation award, International furniture fair imm Cologne

2004 Young designer of the year award, Wallpaper magazine

PUBLICATIONS

Our work has been published in most well respected design/architecture magazines and newspapers around the world including The new york times, Herald tribune, Domus, Archis, Icon, vogue, Abitare etc. Next to that our work was published in several books and catalogues about art, design and architecture of publishers like Phaidon press, Die Gestalten Verlag and Thames and Hudson publishers.

Gallery contacts:

Friedman Benda

515 West 26th Street

New York, NY 10001

T: 212.239.8700

F: 212.239.8760

www.friedmanbenda.com

Haunch of Venison

6 Haunch of Venison Yard

off Brook Street

London W1K 5ES

T+44(0)20 7495 5050

F+44(0)20 7495 4050

Press:

www.haunchofvenison.com