ROSS LOVEGROVE Born in 1958, graduated from Manchester Polytechnic in 1980. Ross obtained his MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 1983. In the early 1980s he worked as a designer for Frog Design on projects such as Sony Walkman and Apple computers. Later he moved to Paris, where he worked as a consultant for Knoll. Together with Philip Stark and Zan Nuvel he joined Atelier du Nimes, where they worked for Cacharel, Vuitton, Hermes and Dupont. He returned to London in 1988, and two years later founded Studio X, his own studio in Notting Hill. He worked on projects for British Airways, Kartell, Capellini, Philips, Tag Heuer, Fratelli Guzzini, Alias and Herman Miller. His works have been exhibited in museums across the world: MoMA and Guggenheim in New York, the Axis Center in Japan, the Pompidou center in Paris, and the Museum of Design in London, where, in 1993, he was appointed curator of their first standing exhibition. Ross Lovergrove has presented his work at many one-man exhibitions, among which are Ross Lovergrove – Design in the Danish Museum of decorative arts in Copenhagen, Ross Lovergrove Objects in Stockholm, Organic Dreams in IDEE in Tokyo and Sensual Organic Design in the Yamagiwa Corporation in Tokyo.