Jonathan Olivares

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BornDecember, 1981
Boston, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States of America
EducationBachelor of Industrial Design (B.I.D)
Alma mater
  • Boston College
  • The New School University
OccupationIndustrial Designer
Websitewww.jonathanolivares.com

Jonathan Olivares (born 1981)[1] is an American industrial designer,[2] based in Los Angeles.[3]

Early Life

Olivares grew up in the metropolitan Boston area, and skateboarded as a teenager.[4] He attended Boston College and The New School,[4] before graduating with a Bachelor of Industrial Design (B.I.D) from Pratt Institute in 2004.[5] While a student Olivares interned at Maison Margiela in Paris where he worked on objects and interiors,[6] and in 2005 he apprenticed for the industrial designer Konstantin Grcic in Munich.[4] In 2006 Olivares began practicing industrial design independently,[7] and his first office was in his mother's garage in Boston.[8]

Design

Olivares is known for his research-based, incremental approach to design,[9] and his work has been described as “spare and formally rigorous, often concerned with high-tech manufacturing processes,”[10] and as carrying a “signature elegance and simplicity.”[11]

In 2007 Olivares designed the multi-purpose cart Smith, for Danese Milano.[12] The carts form is the result of a “balanced ecology” between multiple features; a container, a side-table or seat surface, handles, wheels, and a geometry that allows stacking.[13] The design “contains multitudes designed deliberately, a framework of potential” and requires its user to see “capacity instead of categories, in which a table could also be a seat, perhaps, if you chose to sit on it.”[14] Made of sheet metal,[15] “its versatility cohabits with its simplicity of construction and the environmental friendliness that comes from using a single material.”[16]

Between 2009 and 2012, Olivares developed the Aluminum Chair for Knoll (company)|Knoll, a technically advanced, stacking outdoor chair made of a Die casting|die cast aluminum seat shell and extruded aluminum legs.[17] The chair’s seat shell is 3mm thick at its thinnest, “looks soft, despite its metallic nature,”[17] and its “gracefully contoured form is slim, making it shaped for comfort.”[18]

In 2015 Olivares designed the Aluminum Bench for Zahner, a customizable bench system made from architectural aluminum Extrusion|extrusions,[19] that are “normally rolled to create the underlying frameworks for curvaceous architectural claddings.”[20] The "extrusions are the bench's principle structural element, connecting its seating surface to its vertical cast legs,"[21] and "as the extrusions can be formed to any contour"[21] the bench can be "made in relation to specific architectural contexts."[21] In 2017 the Aluminum Bench was included in the Super Benches installation outside of Stockholm, curated by Felix Burrichter of Pin-Up Magazine.[22]

The Twill Weave Daybed, commissioned from Olivares by the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 9 Ash Street, was realized in 2017 with the support of Kvadrat (company)|Kvadrat.[23] The daybed is “predominately made of woven textile,”[24] and “the narrow Carbon fibers|carbon fiber legs and cross beams, are manufactured using mast-making mandrels.”[4] The daybed is strong enough to support the weight of a car, “but its mass is formed from material that is, for all intents and purposes, a textile.”[4] The carbon fiber structure and a wool cushion that is died the color of graphite, are both Twill|twill weaves.[7] This combination of materials results in a design that is simultaneously visually homogenous and celebrates the different materials used to make it.[7]

Olivares designed a retail store for the Mallorca|Mallorcan shoe brand Camper (company)|Camper at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan in 2019.[25] The store furniture is milled from Indiana Limestone|Indiana limestone, which was a nod to the building’s iconic facade made of the same material,[26] and the stockroom is replaced by archival sliding storage racks which sit in the open shop.[27]

Grants and Awards

  • Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts|Graham Foundation, Research Grant, 2010[28]
  • Compasso d'Oro|Compasso d’Oro, 2011[29]
  • Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts|Graham Foundation, Exhibition Grant, 2011[30]
  • Good Design Award (Chicago Athenaeum)|GOOD Design Award, 2012[31]

Collections

Olivares’s work is held in the following museum collections:

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago[1]
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles[32]
  • Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Jonathan Olivares". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  2. Rawsthorn, Alice (2011-04-24). "Taking a Zoological Approach to Chairs". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  3. Suqi, Rima (2014-09-10). "Outdoor Heirlooms: Dining Tables". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Stratford, Oli (Summer 2018). "Eventually everything connects". Disegno. 19: 90.
  5. 3170453. "Prattfolio Fall/Winter 2011 "Generations Issue"". Issuu. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. "Jonathan Olivares and Dozie Kanu". Pin–Up. 24: 103. Summer 2018.
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Jonathan Olivares's Twill Weave Collection for Kvadrat Conceptualizes Color". SURFACE. 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  8. Lasky, Julie (2011-04-21). "For Young Hopefuls, Milan Offers a Place to Break In". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  9. Viladas, Pilar (2018-04-12). "How ship masts inspired this LA-designer's latest textile collection". Curbed. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  10. "10 Questions With... Jonathan Olivares". Interior Design. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  11. Entertainment, The Magazine for Architectural. "BOOK CLUB: JONATHAN OLIVARES - SELECTED WORKS". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  12. Hudson, Jennifer (2010). Design for Small Spaces. London: Lawrence King. p. 223. ISBN 978-1-85669-661-6.
  13. Kim, Jong Jim (2007). Bodyscape. Seoul: Damdi. p. 96. ISBN 978-89-91111-27-1.
  14. Wu, Su (April 2016). "Jonathan Olivares". L'Uomo Vogue. 470: 151.
  15. Hirst, Arlene (September 2007). "Store It". Metropolitan Home: 41.
  16. Moratti, Dario (2011). 2011 ADI Premio Compasso d'Oro. Mantova: Edizioni Corraini. p. 64. ISBN 978-88-7570-308-0.
  17. 17.0 17.1 Lange, Alexandra (19 September 2012). "A Chair for All Seasons". Domus. Retrieved 3 September 2021. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= requires |archive-url= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. Terragni, Emilia (2018). Chair: 500 designs that matter. London: Phaidon Press. p. 629. ISBN 978-0-7148-7610-8.
  19. Morris, Ali (2015-06-18). "Fabricate this: ShopFloor software heralds a new era of mass customised furniture". Wallpaper*. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  20. "Aluminum Bench by Jonathan Olivares". Disegno. 8: 199. Summer 2015.
  21. 21.0 21.1 21.2 "From the City to the Spoon". Domus. 985: 32. November 2014.
  22. Taylor-Foster, James (2017-05-02). "In the Swedish City of Järfälla, Ten Radical "Superbenches" Are Unveiled as Community Incubators". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2021-09-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  23. Quito, Anne (June 2018). "At All Scales." Metropolis. p.26.
  24. Khandekar, Narayan (2017). Collecting Colour. Arnhem, Netherlands: Art EZ Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-94-91444-48-7.
  25. Peluso, Salvatore (14 May 2019). "Camper store is a tribute to 1930s New York". www.domusweb.it. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. Burrichter, Felix (May 2019). "Interview: Jonathan Olivares on Designing His First Store at Rockefeller Center". pinupmagazine.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. Messina, Rab (16 May 2019). "How Can a Shoe Store Compete with the Bright Lights of Radio City Music Hall?". Frame. Retrieved 2021-09-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  28. "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Jonathan Olivares". The Graham Foundation.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. "Premio Compasso d'oro 2011", Wikipedia (in italiano), 2021-08-08, retrieved 2021-09-04
  30. "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Jonathan Olivares". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.
  31. "Good Design 2012: Awarded Product Designs and Graphics and Packaging" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  32. "Jonathan Olivares | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-09-04.

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