Jasper Morrison

Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959 and studied at Kingston Polytechnic, the Royal College of Art and the HdK in Berlin. He opened his Office for Design in London in 1986, designed the Reuters News Centre for Documenta 8 in 1987 and has worked with Vitra, Cappellini, Flos, Magis, Maruni, Muji and Alessi. With Naoto Fukasawa he created Super Normal in 2006, and his honours include the Compasso d’Oro and a CBE.

For B&B Italia he designed Bankside in 2016, a sofa and armchair first conceived as seating for Tate Modern in London.