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Carrara Tables and Museum Pieces
Jasper Morrison

June 08 - July 26, 2006

Galerie kreo
31, Rue Dauphine
75006 Paris
+ 33 (0) 1 53 10 23 00
Jasper Morrison - Carrara Tables and Museum Pieces

For his first exhibit at the Galerie kreo, the British designer Jasper Morrison presents two distinct projects: the Carrara tables and the Museum Pieces. These two original projects appear as emblematic and manifesto of his opinion about design – together, they combine history, craftsmanship and industrial techniques, utility and subtlety...

For his first exhibit at the Galerie kreo, the British designer Jasper Morrison presents two distinct projects: the Carrara tables and the Museum Pieces. These two original projects appear as emblematic and manifesto of his opinion about design – together, they combine history, craftsmanship and industrial techniques, utility and subtlety. The Carrara tables, tables with an extremely simple shape, are made in Carrara marble. Jasper Morrison shows that an archetypal shape can give rise to a new typology of an object that slots naturally into the history of design : the table-bench or bench-table, combined in different dimensions, can compose shelves. A score of variations, each unique/singular is proposed.

Jasper Morrison also brings another vision of this “historical” material that has been extracted from almost 2500 years from the Tuscany’s careers mostly used for sculptures. The Museum pieces as “synthesised collection of antiques”, are made up of fourteen recipients and a coloured resin pestle inside made-to-measure display cases in wood and glass. The Museum pieces appear as a kind of archaeology of the present, a collection of iconic shapes and silhouettes of a daily life, long gone. The pieces testify to Jasper Morrison’s recurring interest in daily life shapes, but also of his engagement to produce “accurate” pieces. They also question the status of the daily life usual object, that become piece of art.

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Jasper Morrison was born in London in 1959, and graduated in Design at Kingston Polytechnic Design School, London (1979-82 BA (Des.)) and The Royal College of Art for Postgraduate studies (1982-85 MA (Des.) RCA). In 1984 he studied at Berlins HdK on a Scholarship.

In 1986 he set up an Office for Design in London.

In 1995 Jasper Morrison’s office was awarded the contract to design the new Hannover Tram, the largest European light rail production contract of its time, at 500 Million Deutschemarks...

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