Martino Gamper

{{short description|Italian designer based in London (born 1971)}}

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Martino Gamper {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (born 1971 in Merano, Italy) is an Italian-born designer based in London who became internationally regarded through his project 100 Chairs in 100 Days. This group of works was exhibited in 2007 in London, the Milan Triennial in 2009,{{Cite web | url=http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/7780/martino-gamper-exhibiton-at-the-triennale-design-museum-milan.html | title=martino gamper: 100 chairs in 100 days | website=www.designboom.com}} and at YBCA in San Francisco in late 2010. It has also been published by Dent-de-Leone as a book (100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways) republished as a pocket book.{{Cite web | url=http://dentdeleone.co.nz/books/100-chairs-100-days-and-its-100-ways-pocket-version | website=dentdeleone.co.nz | title=100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways (POCKET VERSION) | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820135037/http://dentdeleone.co.nz/books/100-chairs-100-days-and-its-100-ways-pocket-version |archive-date=20 August 2010 }} The 100 Chairs project has been described by Gamper as "3D Drawing", and is typical of Gamper's practice in that it shows disregard for the historic design standards of harmony and symmetry. Gamper has stated "There is no perfect chair".{{Cite web | url=http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2006/chair | website=designmuseum.org | title=Confronting the chair - Martino Gamper | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123082514/http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2006/chair | archive-date=2010-11-23}}

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to design.{{London Gazette|issue=64082|supp=y|page=B12|date=17 June 2023}}

Gamper is married to the sculptor Francis Upritchard.

Exhibitions

Gamper has exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally, including a chair arch of Ercol chairs for the London Design Festival at the V&A{{Cite web | url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2755c922-a31e-11de-ba74-00144feabdc0.html |website=www.ft.com | title=Spotlight on London | first=Nick | last=Vinson | date=2009-09-19 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091015075501/https://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/2755c922-a31e-11de-ba74-00144feabdc0.html | archive-date=2009-10-15}} in September 2009, the British Council exhibition Get It Louder in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, Autoprogettazione Revisited: Easy-to-assemble Furniture at the Architectural Association, London, in October 2009 and Super Contemporary at the Design Museum, London, in October 2009.

2014: Martino Gamper/Design Is a State of Mind, Serpentine Gallery, London, later Museion, Bolzano.

Gamper is also a tutor at the Royal College of Art in London.{{Cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/arts/12iht-design12.1.19227789.html | title=Martino Gamper and the art of improvisation | first=Alice | last=Rawsthorn | date=2009-01-09 | newspaper=The New York Times}}

Publications

"100 Chairs in 100 Days and its 100 Ways", published by Dent-de-Leone, designed by Åbäke, {{ISBN|978-0-9557098-1-4}}
"Piccolo Volume II", published by Nilufar & Dent-De-Leone, designed by Åbäke, {{ISBN|978-0-9561885-1-9}}

References

External links

[http://www.gampermartino.com/ Martino Gamper]
[http://dentdeleone.com Dent-de-Leone]
[http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/martino-gamper-design-state-mind Martino Gamper: design is a state of mind] at the Serpentine Galleries

Category:Living people

Category:Italian furniture designers

Category:People from Merano

Category:1971 births

Category:Germanophone Italian people

Category:Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom

Category:Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom

Category:British furniture designers

Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire