Name Richard Frinier | ||
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Education California State University, Long Beach | ||
tribeca from dedon designed by richard frinier
Richard Frinier (born 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American furniture, textile and industrial designer who lives and works in California.
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- tribeca from dedon designed by richard frinier
- Brown jordan 2013 collections richard frinier interview
- Career and Design
- Awards and Designations
- Trade ShowsExhibitions
- References
A graduate of California State University Long Beach holding a Master of Arts degree, Richard Frinier has been a product designer in the home industries since 1977, with emphasis on indoor/outdoor furniture for the resort-at-home and ultra-luxe resort living experience. He has worked for and collaborated with manufacturers domestically and abroad, including Glen Raven/Sunbrella® textiles, Dedon, Brown Jordan, Century Furniture and others. His broad range of work encompasses hundreds of collections and thousands of individual product designs, which have been specified for royal palaces, public spaces, contract environments, resorts, spas and private residences around the world. These designs have been extensively exhibited and published internationally.
Brown jordan 2013 collections richard frinier interview
Career and Design
As the former Chief Creative Officer of the Brown Jordan Company for over 20 years, Frinier has been recognized around the world by professional colleagues, trade organizations, media and consumers for contributing to the creation of the elevated and emotional level of outdoor furnishings that removed boundaries in residential, contract and hospitality design between interior and exterior furnishings and spaces, while fueling and evolving the concepts of the outdoor room, resort living, resort-at-home, balance in the workplace through the use of performance furnishings, and balanced and slow living lifestyle trends.
In 2002, he formed a design consultancy in California along with his wife and creative partner, Catherine Frinier, where they have continued to serve and collaborate with an international clientele through licensed and co-branded collections, including indoor/outdoor furniture, accessories, lighting, and hundreds of textile designs.
The designer's range of work encompasses furniture designs including modern to contemporary and traditional to classic forms, and his work has been the recipient of over 90 product design and career achievement awards as designated and presented by ASID, IDSA, IIDA, ASFD, SCFMA/ICFA, reddot, and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. He has received "23" Design Excellence Awards from the American Home Furnishings Alliance's International Casual Furnishings Association division, including many Best of Category and Best of Show designations. In 1997, 2004, 2005 and 2007, several of Frinier's designs were each identified by Metropolitan Home magazine as ranking among the publication’s "Top 100 Designs in the World." In 2006, The Robb Report magazine recognized Frinier for his indoor/outdoor furniture design "Daydream" by Dedon, identifying it as one of the best designs at large over the past 30 years, and he was also named by the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California as one of the center’s prestigious "Stars of Design" in the category of product design. In 2008, Frinier's soft-modern Spa collection for Dedon achieved attention by winning an international reddot Design Excellence Award and also a Hospitality Design Expo/IIDA Design Excellence Award.
In 2009, Richard Frinier was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the industry and his community at large, as designated and awarded by the International Casual Furnishings Association, a division of the American Home Furnishings Alliance. The designer is best known publicly for his design collaborations with Brown Jordan, Century Furniture, Glen Raven-Sunbrella and Dedon Worldwide.
In 2016, Richard Frinier was inducted into the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation. Founded in 1990, the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation, Inc is an international, industry-wide organization founded to research, collect and preserve its cultural, economic and artistic history, as well as to honor those individuals whose outstanding achievements have contributed to the growth and development of the United States furniture industry at large. Each fall, the American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame Foundation hosts a gala banquet to honor the individuals who are inducted into the Hall of Fame. The "Affie" Award is then presented to each inductee who then becomes a permanent member of the Hall of Fame regarded as the industry's highest honor.
Awards and Designations
2016 - Product Review Honoree - "Caravan" textiles for Glen Raven / Sunbrella