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  • Comment: Seems notable. All the description of his art, is he telling himself or someone else is writing about it? Having collection displayed in museums is a good sign of notability though. Nomadicghumakkad (talk) 14:35, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
Jonathan Olivares
BornDecember, 1981
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationPratt Institute
OccupationIndustrial Designer
Websitewww.jonathanolivares.com

Jonathan Olivares (born 1981)[1] is an American industrial designer,[2] based in Los Angeles.[3]

Early Life

Olivares grew up in the metropolitan Boston area, and skateboarded as a teenager.[4] He attended Boston College and The New School University,[4] before graduating with a Bachelor of Industrial Design (B.I.D) from Pratt Institute in 2004.[5] While a student Olivares interned at Maison Margiela in Paris where he worked on objects and interiors,[6] and in 2005 he apprenticed for the industrial designer Konstantin Grcic in Munich.[4] In 2006 Olivares began practicing industrial design independently,[7] and his first office was in his mother's garage in Boston.[8]

Design

Olivares is known for his research-based, incremental approach to design,[9] and his work has been described as “spare and formally rigorous, often concerned with high-tech manufacturing processes,”[10] and as carrying a “signature elegance and simplicity.”[11]

In 2007 Olivares designed the multi-purpose cart Smith, for Danese Milano.[12] The carts form is the result of a “balanced ecology” between multiple features; a container, a side-table or seat surface, handles, wheels, and a geometry that allows stacking.[13] The design “contains multitudes designed deliberately, a framework of potential” and requires its user to see “capacity instead of categories, in which a table could also be a seat, perhaps, if you chose to sit on it.”[14] Made of sheet metal,[15] “its versatility cohabits with its simplicity of construction and the environmental friendliness that comes from using a single material.”[16]

Between 2009 and 2012, Olivares developed the Aluminum Chair for Knoll, a technically advanced, stacking outdoor chair made of a die cast aluminum seat shell and extruded aluminum legs.[17] The chair’s seat shell is 3mm thick at its thinnest, “looks soft, despite its metallic nature,”[17] and its “gracefully contoured form is slim, making it shaped for comfort.”[18]

In 2015 Olivares designed the Aluminum Bench for Zahner, a customizable bench system made from architectural aluminum extrusions,[19] that are “normally rolled to create the underlying frameworks for curvaceous architectural claddings.”[20] The "extrusions are the bench's principle structural element, connecting its seating surface to its vertical cast legs,"[21] and "as the extrusions can be formed to any contour"[21] the bench can be "made in relation to specific architectural contexts."[21] In 2017 the Aluminum Bench was included in the Super Benches installation outside of Stockholm, curated by Felix Burrichter of Pin-Up Magazine.[22]

The Twill Weave Daybed, commissioned from Olivares by the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 9 Ash Street, was realized in 2017 with the support of Kvadrat.[23] The daybed is “predominately made of woven textile,”[24] and “the narrow carbon fiber legs and cross beams, are manufactured using mast-making mandrels.”[4] The daybed is strong enough to support the weight of a car, “but its mass is formed from material that is, for all intents and purposes, a textile.”[4] The carbon fiber structure and a wool cushion that is died the color of graphite, are both twill weaves.[7] This combination of materials results in a design that is simultaneously visually homogenous and celebrates the different materials used to make it.[7]

Olivares designed a retail store for the Mallorcan shoe brand Camper at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan in 2019.[25] The store furniture is milled from Indiana limestone, which was a nod to the building’s iconic facade made of the same material,[26] and the stockroom is replaced by archival sliding storage racks which sit in the open shop.[27]

Grants and Awards

Collections

Olivares’s work is held in the following museum collections:

Publications

  • Olivares, Jonathan. A Taxonomy of Office Chairs. London: Phaidon Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0714861036
  • Morrison, J., Olivares, J., Velardi, M. Source Material. Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2015 ISBN 9783931936976
  • Olivares, Jonathan. Richard Sapper. London: Phaidon Press, 2016. ISBN 978-0714871202
  • Olivares, Jonathan. Jonathan Olivares Selected Works. New York: PowerHouse Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1576878606
  • Olivares, Jonathan. Don Chadwick Photography 1961-2005. Barcelona: Apartamento Press, 2019. ISBN 978-84-09-11610-2

References

  1. ^ a b "Jonathan Olivares". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  2. ^ Rawsthorn, Alice (2011-04-24). "Taking a Zoological Approach to Chairs". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. ^ Suqi, Rima (2014-09-10). "Outdoor Heirlooms: Dining Tables". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  4. ^ a b c d e Stratford, Oli (Summer 2018). "Eventually everything connects". Disegno. 19: 90.
  5. ^ 3170453. "Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2011 "Generations Issue"". Issuu. p. 38. Retrieved 2021-09-04. {{cite web}}: |last= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ "Jonathan Olivares and Dozie Kanu". Pin–Up. 24: 103. Summer 2018.
  7. ^ a b c "Jonathan Olivares's Twill Weave Collection for Kvadrat Conceptualizes Color". SURFACE. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  8. ^ Lasky, Julie (2011-04-21). "For Young Hopefuls, Milan Offers a Place to Break In". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  9. ^ Viladas, Pilar (2018-04-12). "How ship masts inspired this LA-designer's latest textile collection". Curbed. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  10. ^ "10 Questions With... Jonathan Olivares". Interior Design. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  11. ^ Entertainment, The Magazine for Architectural. "BOOK CLUB: JONATHAN OLIVARES - SELECTED WORKS". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  12. ^ Hudson, Jennifer (2010). Design for Small Spaces. London: Lawrence King. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-85669-661-6.
  13. ^ Kim, Jong Jim (2007). Bodyscape. Seoul: Damdi. p. 96. ISBN 978-89-91111-27-1.
  14. ^ Wu, Su (April 2016). "Jonathan Olivares". L'Uomo Vogue. 470: 151.
  15. ^ Hirst, Arlene (September 2007). "Store It". Metropolitan Home: 41.
  16. ^ Moratti, Dario (2011). 2011 ADI Premio Compasso d'Oro. Mantova: Edizioni Corraini. p. 64. ISBN 978-88-7570-308-0.
  17. ^ a b Lange, Alexandra (19 September 2012). "A Chair for All Seasons". Domus. Retrieved 3 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ Terragni, Emilia (2018). Chair: 500 designs that matter. London: Phaidon Press. p. 629. ISBN 978-0-7148-7610-8.
  19. ^ Morris, Ali (2015-06-18). "Fabricate this: ShopFloor software heralds a new era of mass customised furniture". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. ^ "Aluminum Bench by Jonathan Olivares". Disegno. 8: 199. Summer 2015.
  21. ^ a b c "From the City to the Spoon". Domus. 985: 32. November 2014.
  22. ^ Taylor-Foster, James (2017-05-02). "In the Swedish City of Järfälla, Ten Radical "Superbenches" Are Unveiled as Community Incubators". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2021-09-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. ^ Quito, Anne (June 2018). "At All Scales." Metropolis. p.26.
  24. ^ Khandekar, Narayan (2017). Collecting Colour. Arnhem, Netherlands: Art EZ Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-94-91444-48-7.
  25. ^ Peluso, Salvatore (14 May 2019). "Camper store is a tribute to 1930s New York". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ Burrichter, Felix (May 2019). "Interview: Jonathan Olivares on Designing His First Store at Rockefeller Center". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ Messina, Rab (16 May 2019). "How Can a Shoe Store Compete with the Bright Lights of Radio City Music Hall?". Frame. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Jonathan Olivares". The Graham Foundation.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ^ "Premio Compasso d'oro 2011", Wikipedia (in Italian), 2021-08-08, retrieved 2021-09-04
  30. ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Jonathan Olivares". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  31. ^ "Good Design 2012: Awarded Product Designs and Graphics and Packaging" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  32. ^ "Introducing the #MetropolisLikes Award at NeoCon". Metropolis. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
  33. ^ "Jonathan Olivares | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  34. ^ "2x2: Jonathan Olivares with Kersten Geers and David Van Severen". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2021-09-04.

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