Present

Lives and works in the Netherlands

 

2004

Established Joris Laarman Studio and Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

2003

Graduated cum laude from Eindhoven Design Academy, Eindhoven, Netherlands

1979

Born, Borculo, Netherlands

 

 

Exhibitions

2011

Joris Laarman, Kukje Gallery, Seoul

Now, Perceptions of Time and Contemporary Design. Museum MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

High Design, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Grenswerk (art festival), Enschede Boijmans, Rotterdam

Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, Netherlands 

 

2010

Action! Design Over Time. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Hyper:Links between Architecture and Design. Art Institute Chicago, IL

EcoDesign. Helsinki Exhibition and Convention Center, Helsinki, Finland 

IL Utopias of Everyday. Porzelanikon, Selb, Germany

The State of Things. Design and the 21st Century. Design Museum Holon, Israel

Joris Laarman. Friedman Benda, New York, NY

European Design Since 1985. Shaping the New Century. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

Post Fossil. 21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

2009

Inventory. Joris Laarman Studio, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Design High. Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England

European Design Since 1985. Shaping the New Century. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers. Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain

2008

Design and the Elastic Mind. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Rococo: The Continuing Curve. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY

Joris Laarman: Stranger than Fiction. CAB Centro de Arte, Caja Burgos, Spain

Family of Form. Designhuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Small Show. Huge Talent, by Janice Blackburn, London, England

 

2007

Design contre Design. Le Grand Palais, Paris, France 

Nature Design: From Inspiration to Innovation. Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland

Designtide. Tokyo, Japan

Rotterdamn Antwerpt: 400 Years of Design in Rotterdam. Historic Museum of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Rotterdam Design Port. Milk Gallery, New York, NY

Human Touch. TheNewDowse Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Design Prijs Rotterdam. Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2006

Simply Droog: 10 + 3 years of creating innovation and discussion. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

Bone Series. Design Miami, with Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design, Miami, FL

Ideal House. The International Furniture Fair IMM Cologne, Germany

GEBORDUURD exhibition. Textiel Museum Tilburg, Netherlands  

Cut for Purpose. Fruitport studios, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Human Touch. Droog Design Exhibition, Shanghai, China; Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

Design Museum London. Traveling European design show 

Mutations Céramiques.  Museum of Rouen, Netherlands

MISS/FIT. Pure Austria Design, Vienna, Austria

 

 2005

Over de Mensen en de Dingen. Museum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

Biennale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Chateauroux. France 

Arco 12. Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands

Simply Droog: 10 years of Droog Design. Museum Mudac,Lausanne, Switzerland

New Dutch Designers. Droog Design Gallery, Netherlands

European Design. Design Museum London, England Limited Joris Laarman, DSM Corporate Headquarters, Heerlen Netherlands

The Value for Money. Exhibition of Droog Design, Stakhanov ceramics, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy 

Chi ha paura…? Exhibited Credit Brooch. Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy 

Simply Droog: 10 years of Droog Design. Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands

100 jaar Arco. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands

 

 2004

IMM Cologne 04. Cologne, Germany

Go Slow. Droog Design, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy

Concrete Poetry. Design Academy at the Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy

Improvisare. Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY

Just what it is. Lille 2004, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France

Joris Laarman. Design Museum Tank, London, England

10 + 1 Years Simply Droog. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Joris Laarman. DSM Art Collection, Heerlen, Netherlands

 

2003

Ceramics exhibition. Bijenkorf Maastricht, Netherlands

Graduation show. Eindhoven Design Academy, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Lekker Decadent. Museum Princessehof Leeuwarden,Netherlands

Painfully Beautiful and Ivy. Traveling Exhibition

Reinventing Functionality. The NAI (Dutch Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, Netherlands 

 

 

Awards

2011

Innovator of the Year, Wall Street Journal

 

2008

International Elle Decoration Award

 

2007

Woon Award

 

2006

Red Dot design award

 

2004

Young Designer of the Year.  Wallpaper magazine

Nomination (Heatwave), Domestic Product Design of the Year. Wallpaper Magazine

Interior Innovation Award 2004. The International Furniture Fair, IMM Cologne  

Red Dot design award

Winner of the Brabantse spleen competition Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

 

 

Museum and Public Collections

Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL

Centro de Arts Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain [Heatwave Radiator, 2003, one off]

Center Pompidou, Paris, France [Bone Chaise, 2006]

Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands [Bone Chair, 2006]

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY [Heatwave Radiator, 2003]

Droog Design, Amsterdam, Netherlands

DSM Art Collection, Heerlen, Netherlands

Fond national d’art contemporain, Puteaux, France [Heatwave Radiator, 2003]

FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France [elements of first prototype for Heatwave Radiator, 2003]

Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands [Bone Chaise, 2006; Heatwave Radiator, 2003, one off, Branch Bookshelf, 2010]

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA [Leaf Table Prototype,  2010; Bone Armchair, 2008]

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada [Bone Rocker, 2008]

Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands [elements of first prototype for Heatwave Radiator, 2003]

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany [Bone Chair, 2006]

Museum Kunst Paviljoen, Groninger, Netherlands [elements of first prototype for Heatwave Radiator, 2003]

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX [Bone Rocker, 2008

Museum of Modern Art, Den Bosch, Netherlands

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY [Bone Chair, 2006]

Museum of Rouen, France

Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands [Heatwave Radiator, 2003; Cup and Saucer, 2004; Brooch, 2005]

Smalle Haven, student housing complex, Eindhoven, Netherlands 

Textiel Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands

Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany [Bone Chair, 2006]

 

 

Literature

Miller, R. Craig, P. Sparke and C. McDermott. European Design Since 1985.

Shaping the New Century. London: Merrell Publishers in conjunction with the Denver Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009.

CAB Centro de Arte. Stranger than Fiction. Spain: Caja de Burgos, 2008.

Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. Rococo: The Continuing Curve. New York: Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, 2008.

Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. Design contre Design: Deux Siècles de Créations. France: Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 2007.

Klantern, Robert, Sophie Lovell and Birga Meyer. Furnish: Furniture and Interior Design for the 21st Century. Berlin: Die Gestalten, 2007. 

Wanders, Marcel. Ed. International Design Yearbook 2005. London: laurence king, 2005.

Ramakers, Renny. Ed. Simply Droog 10 + 1 Years of Creating Innovation and Discussion. Amsterdam: Droog Design, 2006.

The State of Things. Design and the 21st Century. Israel: Design Museum Holon, 2010. 

 

 

Press

2011

De-Smet, Philip. “Rijksmuseum Falls for Young Designer.” Netherlands Worldwide, September 12, 2011

Dick-Agnew, David. "Joris Laarman at High Museum in Atlanta." Azure, May 18, 2011.

"High Commissions Two Iconic Designers for Exhibition Opening in June."Artdaily.org, April 12, 2011.

Labaco, Ronald T. "In Perspective: A Curator's Eye." Modern Magazine, April 2011.

 

2010

Rawsthorn, Alice. “From lab to life, the ‘new world.’” International Herald Tribune, March 15, 2010.

“Joris Laarman Unveils New Work at Friedman Benda.” Antiques and the Arts Weekly, March 7 – 13, 2010.

“Joris Laarman: The Dutch Designer at the Top of His Game.” The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, September-December 2010.  

De Wild, Femke. “Exhibition by Joris Laarman.” Frame, March 11, 2010.

Khemsurov, Monica. “The Future’s So Bright…” The New York Times Style Magazine, March 10, 2010.

Sokol, David. “For three years I was known as the Heatwave guy.” Design.nl, March 5, 2010.

Greenberg, Kevin. “The Pin-up Board: Joris Laarman.”  Pinup, Spring/Summer 2010.

Donoghue, Katy. “Joris Laarman Lab.” Whitewall Magazine, March 4, 2010.

Mckeough, Tim.  “The Science Guy. “ Surface, April 2010.

Tischler, Linda. “Dem Bones: Joris Laarman Lets His Skeletal Chairs Do Their Own Things.” Fast Company.com, March 2, 2010.

Stalios, Michael.  “When Everything is Possible: Joris Laarman’s Design for the Future Mind.” Zink, May 2010.

Swengley, Nicole. “Decade of Diversification.” FT.com, January 15, 2010.

 

2009

“FUrniTURE: Joris Laarman’s Bone Chair.” Ignis Fatuus, October 15, 2009.

“Sunshine Status.” The Magazine from the Wall Street Journal. March, 2009.

Patton, Phil. “Automotive Science Fair.” Autoweek, March, 2009.

 

2008

Carincotte, Marlène. “Quand la poesie rejointe la fonction.” Art Travel, December, 2008.

Kazanjian, Dodie. “Wet n’ Wild.” Vogue, September, 2008.

Vanity Fair, September, 2008.

"Joris Laarman." Arte y Parte, May, 2008. p. 128

Carrozini, Francesco. “Joris Laarman.” L’Uomo Vogue, April, 2008.

Teunissen, Bert. “Good Bones.” W Magazine, March, 2008.

Ouroussoff, Nicolai. “The Soul of New Machines.” The New York Times, Weekend Arts, February 22, 2008.

 

2007

“Bone Furniture.” Metropolis, November, 2007.

Phillips, Ian. “Der Knochenbieger.” Architectural Digest Germany, September, 2007.

Rawsthorn, Alice. “Defining Light of the Moment, Soulful and Surreal.” Herald Tribune, August 27, 2007. 

Maggi, Laura. “Free Sttyle.” Elle Décor Italia, June, 2007.

West, Daniel. “Design and Biology.” Icon, April, 2007.

Schouwenberg, Louise. “Digital Déco.” Domus, February, 2007.

Hell, Nicolai. “Show Time.” Thirty Four, 2007.

Roux, Caroline. “The Flying Dutchman.” Pol Oxygen, Issue 22, 2007.

 

2005

Mascheroni, Loredana. “Joris vs. Vico.” Domus, No. 878, February, 2005.

Schaap, Eva. “New Dutch on the Block.” Frame, No. 46, 2005.

 

2004

Colman, David. "Form Follows Function Right Across the Wall." The New York Times, October 24, 2004. p. 36

Wiltshire, Alex. Icon Magazine, April, 2004.

Picchi, Francesca. “Wall Lingerie.” Domus Magazine, March, 2004.

Basar, Shumon. “Sweet Sexcess.” Tank Magazine, February, 2004.

 

2003

Schouwenberg, Louise. “The Heat’s On.” Frame Magazine, September, 2003.