Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

France — b. 1971 et 1976

Available Works

Banquise Coffee Table

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Ceramic Multiple

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Ceramic Multiple

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Ceramic Single

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Metal Blue Triple

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Metal Champagne Triple

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Metal Green Triple

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Chaînes Mineral Triple

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

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Biography

Ronan (born in 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born in 1976), brothers and designers from Brittany, have collaborated for over twenty years. Based in Paris, they have jointly created iconic pieces in the design world, benefiting from their shared dedication and respective personalities.

In 1997, they were spotted by Cappellini, giving them their first industrial design projects. They began working with the Galerie kreo in 2000 and had their first solo show there in 2001. Issey Miyake then hired them to design the boutique to house his new collection « A-Poc ». They met then Rolf Felhbaum, President of Vitra, and worked on a new office system entitled « Joyn ». Since then, they have gone on to work with Artek, Alessi, Axor Hansgrohe, Cappellini, Established & Sons, Flos, Hay, Kettal, Kvadrat, Kartell, Glas Italia, Ligne Roset, Magis, Iittala, Mattiazzi, Mutina, Nani Marquina, Samsung and Vitra.

Their work has covered many field ranging from the design of small objects as jewellery to spatial arrangements and architecture, from craftsmanship to industrial scale, from drawings to videos and photography. The designers also maintain an experimental activity with Gallery kreo, which is also essential to the development of their work.

Designs of the Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are part of select international museums’ permanent collections such as the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou and the musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris, the MoMA in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

Several monographic exhibitions have also been dedicated to them: “Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec” at the Design Museum in London (2002), “Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (2004), “Album” at the Vitra Design Museum (2012), and “Bivouac” at the Centre Pompidou Metz (2011) then at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2012-2013). In 2013, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs devoted a major exhibition to them, “Momentané”, in 2015, they unveiled the exhibition “17 Screens” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and more recently, “Circus: Bouroullec Designs” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2021-2022).

A comprehensive monograph was released in 2012, Works, Phaidon Press. In 2013, under the art direction of Cornel Windlin, the editor JRP Ringier published a 864-page paperback entitled Drawing book, that collects more than 850 drawings that Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec made between 2005 and 2012. In the past, two monographs have been published : Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec published by Phaidon Press (2003) and Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec – Catalogue de Raison (Paris: Images Modernes / kreo, 2002).