Hella Jongerius

Jongerius graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 1993. She founded studio Jongeriuslab in the same year. Among her iconic designs are the Polder Sofa and the East River Chair for Vitra. She also designed interiors for KLM's Boeings and for the United Nations headquarters in New York. In her multicoloured designs, she works with different materials and is constantly extending her research into colours, fabrics and textures. 

Jongerius is known for her research-driven approach and her powerful approach to uniting craftsmanship and industrial production. She allows mass-produced and creative objects to reveal what is unfinished, provisional, and possible by drawing attention to imperfections, the traces of the manufacturing process and the disclosed potential of materials and techniques. 

She has initiated various projects and has had exhibitions at the Design Museum in London (2017), Die Neue Sammlung at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (2017), the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (2018), Lafayette Anticipations in Paris (2019) and Gropius Bau in Berlin (2021). 

Jongerius' work can be found in the permanent collections of the MoMA, Centre Pompidou, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Die Neue Sammlung and the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum.