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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

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Name
  
Ronan Erwan

Species
  
Kree


Played by
  
Lee Pace

Role
  
Fictional Character

Creators
  
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Similar
  
Drax the Destroyer, Star‑Lord, Gamora, Thanos, Groot

Fictional universe
  
Marvel Universe

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (born 1971 and 1976) are a design team formed by brothers from Quimper, Brittany.

In 2007, the firm's "North Tiles" design for Kvadrat in Denmark won the D - Design Forum AID Award and has been included in Giulio Cappellini's design collection. Their work has included a tree house bedroom and a "table sprouting a bowl molded from a single piece of heat-welded Corian". The designs have been described as representing poetic practicality. "We don't want to make only functional pieces," Erwan Bouroullec noted.

The Bouroullecs work in Paris for clients including Cappellini, Ligne Roset, Habitat, Domeau & Peres, Authentics, EandW, Magis, Vitra, HAY and Gallery Kreo. They received the grand prix du jury international at the Paris Furniture Fair in 1998, the best new designer award in New York in 1999, a Compasso d'Oro nomination in 2001 in Milan, and designed the interior for Issey Miyake’s APOC shop in Paris. In 2006, the Cneai invited them to design the "Floating House", an artist residence. In 2011, the Centre Pompidou-Metz hosts a major retrospective on the Bouroullec brothers. The show traveled to the United States and exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Their work has been published in several books about their process and aesthetics. The brothers also provide an interview in the film Objectified by Gary Hustwit.

In 2014, the Bouroullec brothers were awarded with the year's Panerai London Design Medal award.

References

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Wikipedia