Collection: Jonathan Olivares

Jonathan Olivares was born in Boston in 1981 and graduated from Pratt Institute. In 2006, he established his industrial design practice, which is based in Los Angeles. His designs engage a legacy of form and technology, and invite use rather than mere observation. Recent projects include a retail shop for Camper (Rockefeller Center, 2019), the installations Brujas Training Facility (Performance Space New York, 2018) and Room for a Daybed (Kortrijk Biennale Interieur, 2016); the Aluminum Bench (Zahner, 2015); the Vitra Workspace, an office furniture showroom and learning environment (Vitra, 2015); the exhibition Source Material, curated with Jasper Morrison and Marco Velardi (2014); and the Olivares Aluminum Chair (Knoll, 2012).

In 2018, Selected Works, a monograph about Olivares' work, was released by powerHouse Books. Olivares' work has been published internationally, received design awards—including Italy's Compasso d'Oro—and is included in the permanent design collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Vitra Design Museum.