Jörg Boner

Jörg Boner was born in 1968 in Uster, Switzerland. He initially trained as a cabinetmaker and later studied design at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. He was a member of the design group N2 until, in 2001, he opened his own studio in Zurich. Since then, Jörg Boner has designed lamps, furniture, and items of everyday use questioning conventional modes of production. His work emphasises innovation in production and functionality as much as the beauty and elegance of objects. Jörg Boner is recipient of the Swiss Grand Prix Design (2011). Since 2003, he has been teaching at the prestigious ECAL in Lausanne. He has designed for ClassiCon, COR, Nils Holger Moormann, Normann Copenhagen, Veuve Clicquot and Wogg. Many of his pieces form part of the Swiss Confederation collection at the Design Museum in Zurich, while his POF 1 chair is in the permanent collection of London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. He won the iF Gold Design Award - Germany (2006) and the Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award (2005) for his Dresscode wardrobe. In 2011, he received the Swiss Confederation Grand Prix Design career award. In the same year, he won Wallpaper magazine's Best Domestic Design award in 2011.