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Tord Boontje

Tord Boontje has long cultivated a delicate marriage of design with emotion that is as broadly  accessible as it is enticing. His work draws from a belief that modernism does not mean minimalism,  that contemporary does not forsake tradition, and that technology does not abandon people and senses. Boontje’s designs often temper edges with softness, borrow inspiration from nature, and employ a décor of forms and layers to engage and entice an observer’s imagination and emotions.

Many of his seminal works are held in public collections throughout the world including  multiple pieces in London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in New York,  the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Groninger Museum. Tord has received a number of public and private commissions and clients include Alexander McQueen, Murray Moss, Pearl Lam, Nadja Swarovski, and Ian Schrager.

Tord Boontje was born in Enschede, Netherlands in 1968. He first studied industrial design at the  Design Academy in Eindhoven (1986 –1991). Following several internships, including Alessandro  Mendini’s Studio in Milan, he returned to studying and completed a Masters at the Royal College of  Art in London (1992 - 1994). He later taught at the same school on invitation from Ron Arad who was  Professor of Design Products at the time, before eventually establishing his own studio in 1996. Tord Boontje lived and worked in London from 1995 to 2005 and currently lives and works in Saint Etienne,  France with his wife and daughter. A biography of Tord’s work was published by Rizzoli New York in 2007.