A solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Joris Laarman opens at Friedman Benda gallery in New York on Thursday.
Called Joris Laarman Lab, the exhibition presents new pieces including Bone Rocker, a rocking version of his Bone Armchair (top) and Bridge Table (above).
Above: Leaf Table, 2010, Resin, Steel and Aluminum
More Dezeen stories about Joris Laarman:
WirePod for Artecnica (April 2008)
Bone Armchair (March 2008)
Heatwave radiator for Jaga (May 2007)
Bone Chair (December 2006)
Above: Asimov. Photo courtesy Joris Laarman Lab and Friedman Benda, New York
Here’s some info from Friedman Benda:
JORIS LAARMAN UNVEILS NEW WORK AT FRIEDMAN BENDA – First U.S. Solo Exhibition Opens March 4, 2010
NEW YORK – On March 4th, a new body of work by Dutch designer Joris Laarman will be unveiled at Friedman Benda. Laarman’s unique aesthetic merges cutting-edge technology and the life-sciences to create work of unexpected beauty.
Above: Cumulus Table, 2010, marble
Above: Bone Rocker
In 2008, Laarman’s Bone Chair and Bone Chaise, his first two works since graduating from Eindhoven, were displayed in MoMA’s exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind.
\Above: Bone Armchair and Bone Rocker
This marked a major milestone in his career and the chair subsequently was added to the museum’s permanent collection. The show will be on view from March 4 through April 10, at Friedman Benda, 515 West 26th Street.
Above: Bridge Table (small), 2010, Aluminum and Tungsten Carbide
In 2006, Laarman’s Bone Chair revolutionized the design process by using an algorithm to translate the complexity, proportion and functionality of human bone and tree growth into a chair form. The algorithm, originally used by the German car industry, enabled him to reduce and strengthen his designs by optimizing material allocation, weight and stability, while minimizing material input. In his own words, he sculpted “using mother nature’s underlying codes.”
Above: Half Life, 2010, glass vitrines, lamp base.
The upcoming exhibition is the culmination of five years of trial and error, exploratory material research and his continuous quest to translate science into functional objects of beauty, now on a monumental scale.
Below: In Case of a Thousand Books, 2010 (rendering), steel, poly concrete and glass
His new body of work expands on his core investigations; it includes Skyline Storage, Fractal Bookshelf, Stair Cabinet, Leaf Table and Half Life Lamp, a sustainable lamp made from living cells.
Above: Bone Armchair, 2006
About Joris Laarman
Joris Laarman was born in the Netherlands in 1979, and graduated cum laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2003. While still in school he created the “heatwave radiator,” a design widely-lauded and incorporated into museum collections such as the Cooper-Hewitt and Fond national d’art contemporain, Puteaux, France, and has been produced by Droog.
Above: Bone Chair, 2006, aluminium
In 2004, he received Wallpaper’s “Young Designer of the Year” award, and in the same year established his studio and laboratory. He has since received the Red Dot design award (2006), the Woon award (2007), and the international Elle deco award (2008). He has collaborated with Flos, Vitra, Swarovskki, and Droog.
Below: Bone Chaise, 2006, polyurethane-based resin
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:37 am
put the objects on a diet please!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:55 pm
zaha hadid!
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
@betuwill You agree that, apart from the absolutely briljant bone-chair, all the objects are slightly too fat ?!
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 pm
i wear different shoes too.
(i am also a bit pretentious)
i do like the look of your cloud table tho
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:27 pm
nice marble table. its the only thing that is nice here .
March 2nd, 2010 at 2:57 pm
most good design movements start with rebelling against decadence and a sort of elite approach to design. and they end when they have become part of that decadent and elite world themselves.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:30 pm
5x more material required to build an “optimized” chair?
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
More is…. more.
I dislike this work. Sorry Joris.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:15 pm
looks like we’ve got a new Ross Lovegrove: shinny organic shapes and no ideas.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:38 pm
gaudi furniture
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:41 pm
I am usually loath to compare one designer’s work directly with that of another, but a lot of what I see here is just a soapy imitation of Zaha Hadid!
March 2nd, 2010 at 5:22 pm
i want all products!!!
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:16 pm
un-elegant. too thick and copied from various other colleagues (zaha etc.)
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Where did the spaceship land? :-)
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:04 pm
ncie design but expensinve to produce i guess
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:43 pm
@ b: you really hit the nail!!! totally agree
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:27 pm
His best piece, the bone chaise is actually missing, I wonder why they didn’t make that one part of this exhibition?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuTedLnNZlQ
March 3rd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
I think this work is much better done than most organic design around. Give the guy some credit after pioneering with the bonechair and milking it a bit. I think he’s doing some really inetresting stuff now. http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/9336/joris-laarman-at-friedman-benda-nyc.html
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Hey Joris,
Love the staircase bookcase! As soon as I have collected my first million I will buy one, because then I will also need to buy a new, two floor high livingroom…nice!
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Hey Hoover Jan< learn about your favorites dude….
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Nothing like Zaha. And since when did she have the patent on organic shapes. All rectangular designs are copies of Mies. Back in your shells, go and finish your door schedules.
March 4th, 2010 at 1:46 am
jan hoover how dense can you be? the title of the clip you linked credits the piece to someone else. its not this guy.
March 12th, 2010 at 9:48 am
some modern art-nouveau! interesting expression
March 12th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
I hadn’t noticed before, but the organic, intricate pattern of the Bone series looks like the 3D armchairs from Freedom of Creation.
http://www.sleekdesign.fr/2010/02/12/design-sur-mesure-coup-de-laser-magique-du-reve-au-reel/