Item Code: MAGTOYMT130
Suppliers Code: MT130
Brand Name: Magis
Designer: Eero Aarnio
Designer’s Profile:
· Born 1932 in Helsinki, Finland
· Student of interior and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts in Helsinki 1954-57
· Married Pirkko Attila 1956
· Children Marja-Leena 1959 and Rea 1961
· Designer at Asko Oy 1960-62 in Lahti, Finland
· Own design office from 1962 in Helsinki, Finland
· Eero Aarnio Design Studio GmbH 1978-82 in Cologne, Germany
· Design Studio in Tapiola, Finland 1982
· Eero Aarnio T:mi, Veikkola, Finland 1992
· Aarnio Design Ltd., Veikkola, Finland 2001
Awards
· Valmet Trade Mark Competition in Helsinki, Finland 1958, 1. prize
· International Furniture Competition in Cantu, Italy 1959, 3.prize
· International Competition on Furniture and Design in Cantu, Italy 1964,
1. prize
· Scandinavian Park and Street Competition in Stockholm, Sweden 1965
1. prize
· Steel Furniture Competition in Helsinki, Finland 1967, 2. prize
· Export Furniture Competition in Helsinki, Finland 1963, 3.prize
· International Design Award of the A.I.D. (American Institute of Interior Designers) For Gyro (Pastil Chair) in New York, U.S.A. 1968
· Honorary member of SIO (Finnish Association of Interior Designers) 1999
Represented in museums
· The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
· Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
· Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
· Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany
· Galerie für Avantgarde Kunst, Cologne,Germany
· Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
· Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
· Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf im Ehrenhof, Germany
· Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
· Designmuseum, Helsinki, Finland
· The Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.
· The Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, Le Mus ée du Chateau Dufresne, Montreal, Canada
· Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Great Britain
· Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
· Eero Aarnio Exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland 2003
· Eero Aarnio Exhibition at Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway 2004
In 1995 Jasper Morrison’s office was awarded the contract to design the new Hannover Tram, the largest European light rail production contract of its time, at 500 Million Deutschemarks. The first vehicle was presented to the public in June 1997 at the Hannover Industrial Fair, and awarded the IF Transportation Design Prize and the Ecology award.
More recently exhibitions and instalations have included: The State of Things to complement the editing of the 1999 Design Year Book. Solo exhibitions at the Axis Gallery, Tokyo, for Flos at the Yamagiwa Centre in Tokyo, as Designer of the Year 2000 at the Paris Design Fair, a Magis exhibition with Marc Newson and Michael Young in Palermo, and another with Marc Newson at the Deste Foundation, Athens.
Recent projects include the design of furniture for Tate Modern in London, Luxmaster for Flos, Folding Air-Chair and Low Air-Table for Magis; a Monograph Everything but the Walls published by Lars Müller Publishers; a bench for the Roppongi Hills development in Tokyo; ATM desk system for Vitra and a line of kitchen appliances for Rowenta.
Jasper Morrison Ltd. currently based in London and Paris, have worked and in most cases still do for the follwoing companies:
Alessi Spa, Italy; Alias Srl, Italy; Canon Camera Division, Japan; Cappellini Spa., Italy; Flos Spa, Italy; FSB GmbH, Germany; Magis Srl, Italy; Rosenthal AG, Germany; Rowenta, France; Sony Design Centre Europe; Vitra International AG, Switzerland; Samsung Electronics, Korea.
