(INGLATERRA, 1960)
Jasper Morrison was educated in London and Berlin, where he received a scholarship to study at the Hochschule der Künste. Since 1986 he has operated his Office for Design in London. Morrison's designs have been presented in Kassel, Berlin, Frankfurt, Vienna, and Milan, and are produced by Flos, Vitra, Alias, and Cappelini, to name a few.
He considers himself to be, first and foremost, a conceptual designer. Unconcerned with the novelty of new or unexpected forms, Morrison takes familiar shapes, often banal, and reworks them until a heretofore-unseen work emerges.
Although the main themes of his work – practicality, comfort, and timeless forms – have not made Morrison a rock star of design like his contemporaries Marc Newsom or Tom Dixon, at the early age of 40 Morrison is already a mature designer with a style of his own.