Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec (b. 1971 and 1976) are a design team formed by brothers from Brittany.[1] In 2007 the firm's "North Tiles" design for Kvadrat in Denmark won the D - Design Forum AID Award [2] and has been included in Cappellini's design collection.[1] Their work has included a tree-house bedroom and a "table sprouting a bowl molded from a single piece of heat-welded Corian". The designs have been described as representing poetic practicality.[1] "We don't want to make only functional pieces," Erwan Bouroullec noted.[1]
The Bouroullecs work in Paris for clients including Cappellini, Ligne Roset, Habitat, Domeau & Peres, Authentics, EandW, Magis, Vitra and Gallery Kreo.[3] They received the grand prix du jury international at the Paris Furniture Fair in 1998 e de la ville de paris, the best new designer award in New York in 1999, a Compasso d'Oro nomination in 2001 in Milan, and designed the interior for Issey Miyake’s APOC shop in Paris.[3] In 2011, the Centre Pompidou-Metz hosts a major retrospective on the Bouroullec brothers.