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Designing prestigious buildings and spectacular projects, Jean Nouvel (°1945) earned widespread international acclaim and recognition. He is now considered to be one of the foremost architects of the turn of the century. Just some of his high-profile accomplishments include the Tokio Opera House, Saint-James Hotel in Bouliac, the Cartier building in Paris, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Lyon Opera House.
Jean Nouvel is often labeled a high-tech architect, although he prefers to think of himself as a modernist. Technology but not strictly for the sake of technology, technology as a means to accomplish the "aesthetic miracle". Technology at the service of emotion, of symbolism. |
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Normal is a contemporary rendition of the classic worktable: pure measurements, balanced proportions and materials that appeal to the senses. Normal consists of a wide top and two chests of drawers. These veneered segments are affixed to each other by way of a steel element. Following in the Bauhaus tradition, the assembly system of the furniture is kept deliberately visible. As is true with Nouvel’s architecture itself, the formal language of Normal is based on notions such as “open and closed”, surface and volume. The monumental desk, the meeting table and the filing cabinets that complete this collection radiate a feeling for modern luxury and warm elegance. |
