Bouroullec brothers featured guests at the 2005 Stockholm Furniture Fair

French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were the featured Guests of Honor at the 2005 Stockholm Furniture Fair. They were assigned the project of designing the lounge area in the entrance hall.

“The lounge shows off different aspects of our work,” says Erwan Bouroullec. “It has turned out to be a good mixture of products where we’ve not only created the furniture but also the walls, floor and to some extent the ceiling. The walls are made of plastic ‘Twigs’ components, ‘Algae’ by Vitra is on the ceiling and the floor is a carpet we designed for Tarkett Sommer. It was good that we didn’t have to build anything temporary that would only be thrown away later. Instead the entire lounge is made up of existing products.”

This is Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s first visit to Stockholm. Architect Caroline Heiroth worked with the brothers as a local consultant in the realisation of the project. She says about them;

“The Bouroullecs are from Brittany, which is evident in their design. It’s far starker and more scaled-down than the work of other Southern European designers.”

French brothers Ronan (born 1971) and Erwan (1976) Bouroullec are both designers and have been working together since 1999. Their CV shows great breadth and they have already had collaborations with a wide range of renowned companies: furniture, lighting and vases for Cappellini, Vitra, Magis and Ligne Roset, a fashion boutique for Issey Miyake, carpets for Tarkett, china tableware for Habitat, a floating house as well as many other projects.

The Bouroullec brothers have won several awards including New Designer Awards at the International Furniture Fair in New York. They were chosen as Creators of the Year at the Salon du Meuble de Paris and Designers of the Year by Elle Decoration in Japan.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s design is found represented in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre George Pompidou in Paris, and the London Design Museum.

Read more about the Bouroullec Brothers at www.bouroullec.com