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ARIK LEVY

"Design is an uncontrolled muscle" according to Arik Levy (born 1963). Designer, technician, artist, photographer, filmmaker, Levy's skills are multi-disciplinary and his work can be seen in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide. Best known publicly for his furniture design for global companies, installations and limited editions, Levy nevertheless feels "The world is about people, not tables and chairs."

Hailing originally from Israel and moving to Europe in 1988, Levy currently works in Paris with his 20-strong team of designers and graphic artists forming L design. Under the vision of Levy and his associate, Pippo Lionni, the firm also produces brand identities, packaging, signage, exhibition and interior design…

His formation was unconventional where surfing and his graphic design studio took up much of his time back home. However, following studies at the Art Center Europe in Switzerland where he gained a distinction in Industrial Design in 1991, Levy's first international success was winning the Seiko Epson Inc. competition, which jettisoned him into the public consciousness as a "thinking" designer.

After a stint in Japan where Levy consolidated his ideas producing products and pieces for
exhibitions, the designer returned to Europe where he contributed his artistry to another field
- contemporary dance and opera by way of set design.

The creation of his firm then meant a foray back to his first love, Art and industrial design, as well
as other branches of his talents. Respected for his furniture and light designs on all continents,
Levy also creates hi-tech clothing lines and accessories for firms in the Far East.

Considering himself now more of a "feeling" designer, Arik Levy continues to contribute substantially
to our interior and exterior milieu, his work including public sculpture - his signature Rock pieces -
as well as complete environments that can be adapted for multi use. "Life is a system of signs and
symbols," he says, "where nothing is quite as it seems."



DESIGN EXHIBITIONS

Santa Monica Museum of Art, USA - Luminescence, between Fire & Ice - solo exhibition - 05/10
Straf Design Hotel, Milano - Confessions - installation - 04/10
Lambretto Art Project, Milano - 13 798 grams of design - group exhibiton - RockFusion Brass - 04/10
21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo - Post Fossil: excavating 21st century creation - group exhibition - RockFusion and SelfArcheology - 04/10
Arkitekturmuseet, Stockholm - DesignBoost : Design for Life - group exhibition - Crisis Blow Up Furniture - 02/10
Slott gallery, Paris - Confessions - solo installation in Préliminaires exhibition - 12/09
Design Miami - HSCB Designers Lounge - Connection Collection / Volume 1 - Rockshelves and Rocksplit - 12/09
Swarovski Crystal Palace, Ex Magazzini di Porta Genova Milano - Osmosis - 04/09
Oratorio Basilica di S. Ambrogio, Milano - Prophets & Penitents, Confessions of a Chair - group exhibition - Identity Disorder chair - 04/09
Galleria Nina Lumer, Milano - Love Design - group exhibition - Powered by JimmyJane - 04/09
Design Miami, Miami - Beyond Organic: Design In the State of Nature - group exhibition - 12/08
Kenny Schachter/ROVE, London - Diversion - group exhibition - 11/08
Chatsworth, UK - Beyond Limits - group exhibition - Log Corner + Log Corner Grid - 09/2008
Sudeley Castle, UK - The Artist’s Playground - group exhibition - Moon Tables - 06/2008
Wright20, Chicago, IL - Absent Nature - 04/2008
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX - Imperative Design - group exhibition - 01/2008
Tai Ping, Cologne - The Rock carpet collection : Rock World installation - Passagen - 01/2008
Home Table Deco Fair 2007, Seoul - guest of honour - Arik at Home exhibit - 11/2007
The Gallery, Brussels - Limited Edition Collections by Bitossi Ceramiche - Tubes - 11/2007
Super Design Covent Garden/Kenny Schachter Rove, London - Cosmic Nature - 10/2007
Hedge Gallery, San Francisco - Not Furniture : XXI century design - 10/2007
Triode, Paris - Total White - Galactica - 11/2006
Kunstpaviljoen, Nieuw-Roden - Museum House - by Li Edelkoort - Rock - 10/2006
Centre culturel français, Milan - République Libre du Design- Organ installation - 04/2006
Forum Diffusion, Paris - 24H - 01/2006
ShimmerGlimmerTwinkleSparkleShine! - Moss Gallery, New York - 01/2006
Passage de Retz, Paris - Du Bois Dont On Se Chauffe - 12/2005
Museum of Modern Art, New York - Safe: Design Takes On Risk - 10/2005
Seoul Arts Center, Hangaram Design Museum 10/2005
Espace Silvera, Paris - Vipp for Handicap International - 10/2005
Gwangju Design Biennale, Korea - New wave in design - 10/2005
Traveling exhibition - 40/4 forty chairs in four feet - 09/2005
Universal curiosities / trend union by Li Edelkoort - 09/2005
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - D-day, from primitive to virtual - 06/2005
Galeries Lafayette Home, Paris - Le Petit Poucet - Designer’s Days - 06/2005
Forum Diffusion, Paris - Belle Rebelle au Bois Dormant - Designer’s Days 06/2005
Design_Mai, Berlin - Shots on brave new world - 30’ film, 05/2005
Garanti Gallery, Istanbul - Feel before you see - 05/2005
Espace Tajan, Paris - Le siège dans tous ses états - presenting Book stool 03/2005
Maison & Objet, espace tendance, Paris - ULTRALUX - 01/2005
FNAC, Fond national d’art contemporain, France - Design en stock - 2004-5
Park Ryusook Gallery Seoul - Love counts - 09/2004
National Glass Centre/Glass Gallery, Sunderland, UK - Brilliant - 02/2005
Design lab, Paris - Rocks - 01/2005
Furniture Fair, Köln - Multi functional -01/2005
Villa Noailles, Hyères - Sentiers lumineux - 07/2004
Appel d’air - by Chantal Hamaide, Paris 05/2004
“Design shooting stars” “think with the heart and feel with the brain” DVD and objects, Berlin 05/2004
Foundation Armando Alvares Penteado, Brazil - Iluminar - 02/2004
Victoria & Albert Museum, London - Brilliant - 02/2004
Cassina, Paris - Umbilical light - 11/2003-2004
Hannovermesse, Hannover - Aspects of French design - 09/2003
St. Pare Gallery, Paris - Emotional ergonomics - 05/2003
Design lab, Paris - 01/2003
Sentou, Paris - In the Air - 01/2003
EURO RSCG BETC agency, Paris - 2D 3D - 01/2003
Cité de la sciences et de l’industrie, Paris - Observeur du design - presenting Arik sofa, 11/2002
VIA, Paris - Translucide - presenting light Octopuss, 11/2002
Gallery H2O, Tokyo - French design - 10/2002
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - My different Garden - 09/2002
VIA, Paris - Label VIA - 2002
Espace Silvera - Designer’s Days - presenting Get-set office system, 06/2002
Abitare il tempo, Verona - Israeli designers - 03/2002
VIA, Paris - Label VIA - presenting Slim chair and cd rack, 2001
Pascale Cottard-Ollsson Gallery, Stockholm - personal exhibition - 11/2001
Galerie En Attendant les Barbares, Paris - 10/2001
Sentou Galerie, Paris - Tabourets - 2001
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris - Collection design - 2001
Museum of Modern Art, New York - Work Shipers - presenting an office system, 2001
Galerie für angewandte Kunst, Munich - Licht - 2001
Gilles Peyroulet & Co, Paris - Surprises - 2001
Colette, Paris - Objets à transformer - 2001
Israel Museum, Jerusalem - Ldesign at the Israel Museum - 09/2000 - 04/2001
VIA, Paris - Label VIA - 2000
Musée de la Mode et du Textile/Union centrale des arts décoratifs, Paris - Jouer la lumière - 2000
Isart Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich - Virtual light - 2000
Sotheby’s, London - Contemporary decorative arts - 2000
Lanvin, Paris - Loft éphémère - 2000
VIA, Paris - Carte Blanche mobilier - 2000
Salon du Meuble/ Metropole, Paris - Repères 2000 - 2000
Salon Luminaire, Paris, 1999
French design - Design week, Tokyo, 1999
Galerie Passage de Retz, Paris - Le passage du siècle 1899-1999 - 1999
VIA, Paris - Label VIA - 1999
Salon du Meuble - Repères 1999 - 1999
Sentou Galerie, Paris - 980°/220V - 1999
Gallery Openspace, Milan - Labirinti di luce - 1998
Interior 98, Design for Europe, Kortrijk, Belgium - Contemporary light design - 1998
Spazio gallery, Milan - Contemporary light design - 1998
Galerie Passage de Retz, Paris - The future to meet - 1998
Galerie Passage de Retz, Paris - Light light - 1998
L'Ara di Diogene gallery, Paris-Milan Paris-Milano rencontre avec une nouvelle génération - 1997
Ozone Gallery, Tokio - presenting Terra porcelain light, 1997
Seiko AGS Ginza Gallery, Tokio - Conceptual watch design -1996
Louisiana Museum, Danemark - Design and identity - presenting an installation, 1996
¬Giepac Groupe emballage, France - Exposition Creapac - 1995
"Lustra" modular lamp, exhibition of new designed products, 1995
AXIS gallery, Tokio - Design Thinking - presenting six projects with full scale models, 1991

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PIPPO LIONNI

Partner - Born in 1954. Grew up in a New York family of architects, escaped into Philosophy and Mathematics at Portland State University and New York University, played jazz in New York and Paris, and became a designer in the late 1970’s. He brings to design a conceptual approach, of divesified influences as formalized in complex multidimensional systems: such as signage, scenography, corporate identity programs, environmental design... His offices and partnerships: Design Pippo Lionni (1984-89), Integral Concept (1989-95), Pippo Lionni et associés (1995-97), Ldesign (founded in 1997 with his friend Arik Levy) have done major work for important clients.

He has maintained a continuing interest in design education and research: at Parsons School in Paris (1986-91); Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris, (1991-98). International public art symposium, Birmingham, 1990; INCSID/San José, USA, (1992); University of Industrial Arts of Helsinki (UIAH) / Finland, (1992); Bilkent University in Ankara, 1993; Ecole de la Cambre in Bruxelles, Belgium, (1993-95); Polytecnico d'architettura in Milan, Italy (1993).
He was asked by the Ministère de l’Industrie to research and create a program for graduate research in design (1994-95).

In 1998, Pippo Lionni began work on Facts of Life - a symbolic language to question our most profound perceptions with a laugh. First presented at Typomedia 98 in Frankfurt, Facts of Life was published in three volumes by Verlag Hermann Schmidt GmbH Co, Mainz, in 1999, 2001 and in 2002, and produced as a font by Linotype in 1999.

In 1997 he became a member of the AGI. He was awarded the distinction of « Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres » by French Ministry of Culture in 2001.



PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

Hotlips - Art Action installation / Portland, Or - 2007
PNCA - Survival of Fittest / Portland - 2005
Galerie Frédéric Giroux - Cosmos of Crises / Paris - 2004
Galerie Artcurial - AWOL / Paris - 2003
Espace Modem - Aftermath / Paris - 2003
Galerie Frédéric Giroux - Primetime / Paris - 2002
La Cambre - Throwings heads / Bruxelles - 2001
Galerie Franck Bordas - Schizoman / Paris - 2001
Brownstone Foundation - Truth is exile / Paris - 2001
Karel de Grote-Hogeschool - Revolution of the species / Antwerp - 2000



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Macy's - Art Under Glass Exhibition / New York - 2007
Max lang - Material Culture / New York - 2007
Atelier Bordas / Paris - 2005
Un vrai bonheur - amovie by didier Caron / Paris - 2005
Museum on the Seam - traveling exhibition “Coexistence” / Berlin, Copenhagen, Zurich... - 2002
Israel Museum - The Suitcases exhibition / Jerusalem - 2002
Centre Georges Pompidou - Design: carrefour de la création / Paris - 2001
Israel Museum / Jerusalem - 2000
Potlatch, dérives / Montpellier - 2000
Passage de Retz - Le passage du siècle / Paris - 1999