Arne Quinze
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| Arne Quinze | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Arne Quinze |
| Nationality | Belgium |
| Birth date | 1971 |
| Birth place | Belgium |
| Work | |
| Practice name | Studio Arne Quinze, Quinze & Milan |
| Significant buildings | Uchronia (Nevada), Cityscape (Brussels) |
| Significant design | Primary Pouf (2001) |
| Awards and prizes | Henry Van De Velde Award (2001) |
Arne Quinze (born 1971, Belgium) is an artist, self-tought and award-winning designer, futurologist, visionary and businessman. Because of his provoking designs, exuberant lifestyle and superstar status, he soon got titled "rockstar of the design industry." At the age of 15, Arne Quinze was a homeless grafitti artist, hanging out with a motorcycle gang and living in the streets.
As an industrial designer, he is perhaps best known for his Primary Pouf, a simple and colorful seating object and sidetable solution, and developer of QMFoam™, the material of which most of his first furniture collections were (and are currently) being made of. Quinze designed furniture for a broad range of projects for leading architects but some of his designs were also chosen by such Hollywood celebrities such as Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey.
As an artist and visionary, Arne got instant fame by burning Uchronia: A message from the future, a 30m high and 60m wide wooden sculpture at the 2006 Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada, US. Other giant wooden installations were created for Lexus in the United States, and Cityscape (2007), for the city of Brussels in the centre of Brussels, Belgium. At the 2008 Belgrade Design Week conference in Serbia, Arne Quinze revealed plans for similar giant wooden art installations over the Mississippi in Louisville, Kentucky and in the centre of Paris, France.
In 2007 he designs "Magna" and "Skytracer" futuristic studies for transport, considered as his vision on the new (conceptual) Lamborghini for 2100, an hommage to his favorite car brand. This science-fiction vehicle is listed among a series of other sculptures by the hand of Quinze that were presented in his Mutagenesis solo-exhibition at the Abitare Il Tempo art fair (Verona, Italy) (2007), which welcomed him as 'Guest of honor'.
Quinze is co-founder and art-director of Quinze & Milan, a furniture company and creative platform which has facilities in Belgium and the US. Quinze & Milan is frequently commissioned by other international architecture and design firms, and collaborated on prestigious projects, such as the Seattle Central Library (2004), Utrecht University Library (2004), Wyly Theatre in Dallas, TX (2009) and Korean Airlines Lounge, Seoul (2008).
He is also leading an international architecture and design agency, Studio Arne Quinze, which is based in Belgium. Studio Arne Quinze completed over 4000 design projects in 60 different countries all over the world, including projects ranging from architecture, transport, interiors, furniture, lighting, fashion, footwear, art, video and music to installations.
Gallery 113, Arne Quinze's 1500sqm exhibition and art gallery space, was inaugurated in October 2007 in Kortrijk, Belgium.
[edit] Personal
In 2007, Arne Quinze began dating Barbara Becker, ex-wife of Boris Becker.[citation needed]
Good friends with singer Lenny Kravitz.
[edit] Literature
- Max Borka (Author): CITYSCAPE Arne Quinze. Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89955-203-4
