Ronan Bouroullec

Ronan Bouroullec is a French designer born in Quimper (Brittany) in 1971.

Bouroullec went to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Appliques et des Metiers d'Art when he was 17. The following year he exhibited for the first time at the Salon du Meuble in Paris. This determined the beginning of his collaboration with French design companies, with numerous design projects during his student days given precedence over his college work.

Bouroullec continued his studies at the cole Nationale Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs. In 1996, and his Vase Soliflore took its place in the Centre Pompidou's permanent collection.

In 1997, the Not gallery gave Bouroullec his first solo exhibition with Vase Combinatoires. Giulio Cappellini noticed his work at the Paris Salon du Meuble, giving him the opportunity to create his first pieces of industrial design, and he was awarded the Grand Prix du Design by the City of Paris.

In 1998, he was joined by Erwan. One year after, Ronan Bouroullec was awarded the New Designer Award by the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullecs designs span multiple fields of expression from craftsmanship to mass production and have gradually entered our daily lives.