Jonathan Olivares

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Jonathan Olivares
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BornDecember, 1981
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationPratt Institute
OccupationIndustrial Designer
Websitewww.jonathanolivares.com

Jonathan Olivares (born 1981)[1] is an American industrial designer.[2]

Originally from the metropolitan Boston area,[3] Olivares graduated from Pratt Institute in 2004[4] before becoming an apprentice to Konstantin Grcic in 2005.[3] In 2006, Olivares began independent work as a designer.[5] He is now based in Los Angeles.[6]

Early life[]

Olivares grew up in the metropolitan Boston area, and skateboarded as a teenager.[3] He attended Boston College and The New School,[3] before graduating with a Bachelor of Industrial Design (B.I.D) from Pratt Institute in 2004.[4] While a student, Olivares interned at Maison Margiela in Paris where he worked on objects and interiors,[7] and in 2005 he apprenticed for the industrial designer Konstantin Grcic in Munich.[3] In 2006 Olivares began practicing industrial design independently,[5] and his first office was in his mother's garage in Boston.[8]

Designs[]

Olivares's approach to design has been characterized research-based and incremental.[9]

In 2007 Olivares designed the multi-purpose cart Smith, for Danese Milano.[10] 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.[11] 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.”[12] Made of sheet metal,[13] “its versatility cohabits with its simplicity of construction and the environmental friendliness that comes from using a single material.”[14]

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.[15] The chair’s seat shell is 3mm thick at its thinnest, “looks soft, despite its metallic nature,”[15] and its “gracefully contoured form is slim, making it shaped for comfort.”[16]

In 2015 Olivares designed the Aluminum Bench for Zahner, a customizable bench system made from architectural aluminum extrusions,[17] that are “normally rolled to create the underlying frameworks for curvaceous architectural claddings.”[18] The "extrusions are the bench's principle structural element, connecting its seating surface to its vertical cast legs,"[19] and "as the extrusions can be formed to any contour"[19] the bench can be "made in relation to specific architectural contexts."[19] In 2017 the Aluminum Bench was included in the Super Benches installation outside of Stockholm, curated by Felix Burrichter of Pin-Up Magazine.[20]

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.[21] The daybed is “predominately made of woven textile,”[22] and “the narrow carbon fiber legs and cross beams, are manufactured using mast-making mandrels.”[3] 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.”[3] The carbon fiber structure and a wool cushion that is died the color of graphite, are both twill weaves.[5] This combination of materials results in a design that is simultaneously visually homogenous and celebrates the different materials used to make it.[5]

Olivares designed a retail store for the Mallorcan shoe brand Camper at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan in 2019.[23] The store furniture is milled from Indiana limestone, which was a nod to the building’s iconic facade made of the same material,[24] and the stockroom is replaced by archival sliding storage racks which sit in the open shop.[25]

Reception[]

His work has been described as “spare and formally rigorous, often concerned with high-tech manufacturing processes,”[26] and as carrying a “signature elegance and simplicity.”[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. ^ a b c d e f g Stratford, Oli (Summer 2018). "Eventually everything connects". Disegno. 19: 90.
  4. ^ a b 3170453. "Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2011 "Generations Issue"". Issuu. p. 38. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b c d "Jonathan Olivares's Twill Weave Collection for Kvadrat Conceptualizes Color". SURFACE. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  6. ^ Suqi, Rima (2014-09-10). "Outdoor Heirlooms: Dining Tables". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  7. ^ "Jonathan Olivares and Dozie Kanu". Pin���Up. 24: 103. Summer 2018.
  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. ^ Hudson, Jennifer (2010). Design for Small Spaces. London: Lawrence King. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-85669-661-6.
  11. ^ Kim, Jong Jim (2007). Bodyscape. Seoul: Damdi. p. 96. ISBN 978-89-91111-27-1.
  12. ^ Wu, Su (April 2016). "Jonathan Olivares". L'Uomo Vogue. 470: 151.
  13. ^ Hirst, Arlene (September 2007). "Store It". Metropolitan Home: 41.
  14. ^ Moratti, Dario (2011). 2011 ADI Premio Compasso d'Oro. Mantova: Edizioni Corraini. p. 64. ISBN 978-88-7570-308-0.
  15. ^ a b Lange, Alexandra (19 September 2012). "A Chair for All Seasons". Domus. Retrieved 3 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. ^ Terragni, Emilia (2018). Chair: 500 designs that matter. London: Phaidon Press. p. 629. ISBN 978-0-7148-7610-8.
  17. ^ 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)
  18. ^ "Aluminum Bench by Jonathan Olivares". Disegno. 8: 199. Summer 2015.
  19. ^ a b c "From the City to the Spoon". Domus. 985: 32. November 2014.
  20. ^ 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)
  21. ^ Quito, Anne (June 2018). "At All Scales." Metropolis. p.26.
  22. ^ Khandekar, Narayan (2017). Collecting Colour. Arnhem, Netherlands: Art EZ Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-94-91444-48-7.
  23. ^ 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)
  24. ^ 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)
  25. ^ 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)
  26. ^ "10 Questions With... Jonathan Olivares". Interior Design. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  27. ^ Entertainment, The Magazine for Architectural. "BOOK CLUB: JONATHAN OLIVARES - SELECTED WORKS". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  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.

External links[]

  1. ^ "2x2: Jonathan Olivares with Kersten Geers and David Van Severen". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
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