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Designer
Eero Koivisto
Eero Koivisto was born in 1958 in Karlstad, Sweden. His father wanted to be an architect while he himself preferred the occupation of a pilot, and playing with Lego building blocks brought the idea of architecture to him all at once. His…
Biography
Background
Eero Koivisto was born in 1958 in Karlstad, Sweden. His father wanted to be an architect while he himself preferred the occupation of a pilot, and playing with Lego building blocks brought the idea of architecture to him all at once. His studies took him through Konstfack in Stockholm, Aalto University in Helsinki and Parsons in New York. In 1995 he founded Claesson Koivisto Rune with Mårten Claesson and Ola Rune.
Signature Style
Claesson Koivisto Rune is a multi-disciplinary office whose work spans architecture, interiors and design. Its furniture and industrial designs appear in the collections of more than 80 international companies, among them Arflex, Cappellini, Muuto, Offecct, Swedese, Tacchini and Living Divani.
Notable Works
For Living Divani he designed the Avalon Bed in 2004, an upholstered bed with a slatted base and a satin stainless steel frame. With the studio he has created Pebbles (2001) for Cappellini, Continental (2011) for Swedese, Io (2015) for Fontana Arte and Hug (2013) and Yuzu (2023) for Arflex, as well as the Sfera Building (2003) in Kyoto and the K5 hotel (2020) in Tokyo.
Legacy
The studio received the Bruno Mathsson Award in 2015 and the Prince Eugen Medal in 2021, and has won more than 100 national and international awards. Its designs are held by the Art Institute of Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the Nationalmuseum, Sweden's museum of art and design, and 28 books have been published on its work.
