For this project Chipperfield was particularly concerned with finding versatile, robust seating which would meet rigorous usage requirements while conveying a sense of refined luxury. It is planned to finish the museum seating in leather.Read more
For this project Chipperfield was particularly concerned with finding versatile, robust seating which would meet rigorous usage requirements while conveying a sense of refined luxury. It is planned to finish the museum seating in leather. This line of research has been combined with another theme that Chipperfield was keen to explore; that of obtaining comfortable soft seating from thin upholstered sections applied to a light and dynamic structure, using advanced industrial production techniques.
David Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and founded David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. He has developed a design methodology that is now used across four offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai. In addition to design work, he has taught and lectured worldwide.
In 2012 he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale under the title “Common Ground” and he was the 2020 guest editor of Italian design magazine Domus. Among the accolades David Chipperfield has received there are the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and a knighthood for services to architecture.
In 2011 he received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, in 2013 the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association, and in 2021 he was appointed a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, all received in recognition of a lifetime’s work.