Jasper Morrison London, United Kingdom

Kari Virtanen is one of the pioneers who came to Fiskars in Finland in the early 1990s and transformed the small town into a design destination. Co-owner and CEO Johanna Vuorio told us how a carpentry workshop became a globally active furniture company during an interview at the headquarters there.

Made from wood

by Claudia Simone Hoff | 8/28/2024

April may be doing its rounds as usual, but the warm summer days won't be far away. For the ideal furnishing of gardens, terraces and balconies, we show you 29 current products that combine craftsmanship with elegant design.

On the sunny side

4/7/2022

This year's 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen celebrates a new togetherness and shows how important personal exchange is.

The new openness

by Alexander Russ | 9/21/2021

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2021 – REVIEW

On the move

by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/10/2021

The supersalone, the special event of the Salone del Mobile curated by Stefano Boeri, offered a platform for creative experiments from 5 to 10 September 2021 that shows what an international furniture fair should be in the future. Our review.

Magis celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and looks back on an eventful success story that began in 1976 when Eugenio Perazza founded the company.

Pioneer in the best age

by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/2/2021

The start of the year is reservedly optimistic in view of the ongoing pandemic and strengthens the desire for variety, energy and colour. For a fresh boost, we have gathered a colourful bouquet of current interior products for you from our Novelties Stage.

Fresh start

1/22/2021

HOTEL

A nest with a hill

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 1/8/2021

With the Shiroiya Hotel, Sou Fujimoto Architects have succeeded in producing a fascinating combination of an old building and a conversion, design, architecture and art. Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morrison, Leandro Erlich and Sou Fujimoto have each designed one of the rooms.

With "EVO-C" for Vitra, Jasper Morrison translates the features of the classic tubular steel cantilever chair into polypropylene and gives it a new flexibility.

New swing

by Anna Moldenhauer | 10/23/2020

Eugenio Perazza, the founder of the Italian furniture manufacturer Magis, is honoured for his life's work with the ADI Compasso D'Oro Liftetime Achievement Award 2020.

With courage and passion

by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/14/2020

HOTEL

Microcosm in Tokyo

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 8/24/2020

For the boutique hotel K5 Tokyo, the Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has merged city and nature in restructuring a former bank building in Nihonbashi-Kabutocho. The result is microcosm full of ambiguities.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2019

Revival vs. Innovation

by Fabian Peters | 4/25/2019

The grand review: These are the trends and highlights of this year's Milan furniture fair.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018

A touch of new objectivity

by Fabian Peters | 5/10/2018

Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.

“Aion” is the name of a new series of writing utensils Jasper Morrison has designed for Lamy. We took a closer look at the pen.

Writing utensils

by Thomas Wagner | 7/27/2017

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

New tables: From material fetish to the Zen factor

by Jasmin Jouhar | 4/11/2017

Be they short or long of leg, simply unique or extravagant: there’s no end to the variety of tables in Milan.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Salone, viewed critically 01: The heavy and the light

by Thomas Wagner | 4/10/2017

If everything becomes virtual, then the solid gets its day, be it heavy or light in appearance. Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison prove this in very different ways.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Your daily dose from Salone del Mobile 2017

by Adeline Seidel | 4/4/2017

You did not make it to the Salone del Mobile? Don't worry! Stylepark delivers you fresh impressions from the design hotspots in Milan every day.

Demonstration item for materials makers, refined object for presentation purposes or a recipe for everyday life – at the moment, kitchens have as many purposes as they have appearances.

What’s on the table

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/27/2016

Salone 1: In Milan, well-being is the order of the day – Ettore patiently bears burdens,there are benches, small tables, and large sofas.

The Donkey in the System

by Thomas Wagner | 4/20/2016

The "German Design Awards 2016" prize-giving ceremony took place during the Ambiente. The justifications given for the awards and the characterization of the products say a lot about how design promotion is currently construed.

Authentic Passion

by Thomas Wagner | 2/18/2016

At this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair the Scandinavians show how much we long for homeliness.

In the comfort zone

by Uta Abendroth | 2/16/2016

Relax, read or work – bedrooms have long since ceased to only be used for sleeping. Assuming the bed is comfy and flexible – and cuts a fine figure, too.

Good night guaranteed

by Martina Metzner | 2/15/2016

ORIGINAL VS. PLAGIARISM

Rip-off hunter, Card players, and a bird

by Adeline Seidel | 1/22/2016

Playing boule at Pulpo, pulling teeth out at e15 and you could easily lose your bearings in the Conmoto kaleidoscope: the stage was set for the Featured Editions at the imm cologne.

Revivals, evergreens and many colors: imm cologne 2016 likes sending its visitors time traveling. Since it is becoming ever harder to offer something really new, the option is to resort to the archive and refine things.

As time goes by

by Adeline Seidel | 1/22/2016

Jasper Morrison has been voted A&W Designer 2016. At documenta 8 his “Reuters News Room” already focused on the users and saw him pondering the relationship between them and the media.

The Modest One

by Thomas Wagner | 1/12/2016

The imm cologne takes place from January 18-24. The Cologne trade fair is very upbeat and with good reason. Although the basic conditions of homes and living are changing.

How to live? To build? To reside?

by Thomas Wagner | 1/12/2016

When it’s time for a color switchover on the Pedrali furniture production line, there are various surprising side-effects in the injection molding plant.

Closing fast 11: Refined discoloration

by Sara Bertsche | 12/11/2015

Jasper Morrison has designed a cell phone that seeks to be nothing more and nothing less. Does Edward Snowden have something to do with it?

Closing fast 04: Cell phone! Punkt.

by Thomas Wagner | 12/4/2015

Sebastian Herkner is a very sought-after designer. We accompanied him from Offenbach to Selb, where he is to boost business for Rosenthal with porcelain vases and teapots.

Shards are the chance

by Martina Metzner | 11/9/2015

What is involved, what needs to happen for a few thoughts and sketches to get turned into a chair, a table or a sofa? Want to know more? Then the monographs on the respective oeuvres of James Irvine and Jasper Morrison are a great place to start.

They know what they are doing

by Thomas Wagner | 10/9/2015

Product Design students of École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne had a go at outfitting “Appartement 50” in Marseille’s “Cité Radieuse”. The result is an homage to Le Corbusier that uses plenty of color and adaptable furniture.

Out on the roof, too

by Martina Metzner | 7/15/2015

Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.

Four legs and a seat shell

by Thomas Wagner | 6/13/2015

In Belgium’s erstwhile colliery of Grand-Hornu just outside Mons, European Cultural Capital this year, a major retrospective of the work of Jasper Morrison is now on show.

A fine flair for the user

by Thomas Wagner | 5/3/2015

The Euroluce and the events accompanying it in Milan showed how light and luminaire makers are tackling the challenges of the electronic age: with a specific mixture in each case of tradition, technology, and private equity investors.

Light emotions

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/22/2015

“An impure tongue does not taste; dulled senses only notice the sharpest stimuli, or they chew more than they feel.” – Johann Gottfried von Herder

Clerics meet Matrizia

by Thomas Wagner | 4/22/2015

Given their sheer immensity, you need to plan your visit to the Salone and the Fuorisalone in Milan quite carefully. Find out below which events, places, shows and symposiums are the real musts.

Milan, the full Monty!

4/6/2015

Working from home – a convenient alternative in today’s networked age. Working at the dinner table or cram heavy-duty desks is not necessary – considering the abundance of small, delicate, readily movable and well-designed alternatives. We present the best choices.

Simple and smart – perfect working from home

by Martina Metzner | 10/10/2014

No London Design Festival without some special highlight. This year, four small houses were on show outside the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square – by Jasper Morrison, Raw Edges, Ilse Crawford and Patternity, created for the “A Place Called Home” project.

At home – what’s that?

by Uta Abendroth | 9/25/2014

Milan in the days of the Salone and Fuori Salone – is a hodgepodge of impressions, encounters and cameo stories. In terms of form and content, they are as different as, say, people, furniture, brands, and markets.

Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories

by Thomas Wagner | 4/16/2014

His search for an alarm clock and the ensuing frustration were cause enough. The experience prompted Petter Neby to establish his own company for electrical home appliances – Punkt. So far it sells three products, and they are the quintessence of Neby’s design philosophy: Keep it simple and pure, and make it to last.

Petter’s perfect landing

by Uta Abendroth | 12/18/2013

A little bit of happiness just outside the door: seating furniture, light, delicate, flexible and anything but clunky.

Twelve lightweight pieces for your balcony

5/8/2013

Mattiazzi is extending Konstantin Grcic’s Medici armchair to include a footstool and a table. Jasper Morrison has busied himself with a camping frame, while Sam Hecht has elected to remain upright.

Fionda, Medici, Radice: wooden items by Jasper, Konstantin and Sam

4/3/2013

Jasper Morrison is the talk of town right now with his chair “HAL”. Thomas Edelmann met the British designer and spoke with him not about “HAL 9000” from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001. A Space Odyssey” but about maturing into adulthood, working in different locations, shell seats and designs that are conceived in discussions.

Design as a culture of dialogue

4/27/2011

The Ambiente in Frankfurt/Main has always been considered at the trade fair of "things to put on things". Any number of accessories for the kitchen, bathroom, living room, kids' room and garden. The selection of fitting innovations for "your store" is a challenge that every purchasing manager has to survive.

Shop curators

by Nina Reetzke | 2/17/2011