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Sapper Richard
Richard Sapper is a German designer, was born in 1932 in Munich. Combining innovation and tradition, he is acclaimed as ‚"the man who has never made bad design".
Richard Sapper studied the philosophy, the anatomy, the design, and received a diploma in economy. During his years of studies, he decided to pursue a career in the industrial design, and was working for the design division of Mercedez-Benz in Stuttgart.
He relocated to Milan in 1957 where he worked for Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli and later for Rinascente. In 1958 he began a collaboration with Marco Zanuso that was becoming a very successful one. They were hired in 1959 as consultants to Brionvega, an Italian company trying to produce well-designed electronics that would compete with products manufactured in Japan and Germany. Together they designed a series of radios, televisions and other consumer electronics that became enduring icons. One of their more notable designs was the rounded, compact and portable Doney 14 (1962), the first television to feature completely transistorized construction. Using the aesthetic of sculptural minimalism, the pair designed the compact folding Grillo telephone for Siemens and Italtel in 1965. The Grillo was the first telephone with a flip-down mouthpiece, and today is a featured display at New York's MoMA. Other renowned objects from this period are the Lambda Chair for Gavina (1963) and the children’s chair K 1340 made of polyethylene for Kartell (1964).
After starting his own independent studio, Sapper created the iconic Tizio lamp in 1972 for Artemide, Sapper Office Chair for Knoll in 1979 and Melodic kettle for Alessi in 1983. In 1980 he became the IBM corporate industrial design consultant and began designing portable computers, including the first ThinkPad 700C in 1992 and follow-on models such as ThinkPad 770. Sapper continues today to influence the iconic ThinkPad brand as design consultant to Lenovo after it acquired the IBM PC Division in May 2005.
Numerous creations of Richard Sapper are exposed in the permanent collections of MOMA in New York, as in the other museums of design throughout the world.
Richard Sapper studied the philosophy, the anatomy, the design, and received a diploma in economy. During his years of studies, he decided to pursue a career in the industrial design, and was working for the design division of Mercedez-Benz in Stuttgart.
He relocated to Milan in 1957 where he worked for Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli and later for Rinascente. In 1958 he began a collaboration with Marco Zanuso that was becoming a very successful one. They were hired in 1959 as consultants to Brionvega, an Italian company trying to produce well-designed electronics that would compete with products manufactured in Japan and Germany. Together they designed a series of radios, televisions and other consumer electronics that became enduring icons. One of their more notable designs was the rounded, compact and portable Doney 14 (1962), the first television to feature completely transistorized construction. Using the aesthetic of sculptural minimalism, the pair designed the compact folding Grillo telephone for Siemens and Italtel in 1965. The Grillo was the first telephone with a flip-down mouthpiece, and today is a featured display at New York's MoMA. Other renowned objects from this period are the Lambda Chair for Gavina (1963) and the children’s chair K 1340 made of polyethylene for Kartell (1964).
After starting his own independent studio, Sapper created the iconic Tizio lamp in 1972 for Artemide, Sapper Office Chair for Knoll in 1979 and Melodic kettle for Alessi in 1983. In 1980 he became the IBM corporate industrial design consultant and began designing portable computers, including the first ThinkPad 700C in 1992 and follow-on models such as ThinkPad 770. Sapper continues today to influence the iconic ThinkPad brand as design consultant to Lenovo after it acquired the IBM PC Division in May 2005.
Numerous creations of Richard Sapper are exposed in the permanent collections of MOMA in New York, as in the other museums of design throughout the world.
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