Glen Oliver Loew

Background

Glen Oliver Loew (Löw) was born in 1959 in Leverkusen, Germany. According to his own website he graduated in industrial design from the University of Wuppertal in 1985 and received a Master in Design from the Domus Academy in Milan in 1986. He began working with Antonio Citterio in 1987 and became a partner in Antonio Citterio & Partners in Milan in 1990.

Signature Style

Since 2000 he has worked in his own studio in Hamburg, with clients including Steelcase, Thonet and Knoll. His site says he was appointed professor of product design at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg between 2000 and 2026.

Notable Works

• Think chair for Steelcase (2004), awarded the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Award in 2005 and the IDEA Gold Award in 2006
• S 60 cantilever chair (2001) and S 1070 / S 1071 tables (2004) for Thonet
• Ollo chairs for Knoll (2018, 2021) and the Gesture chair for Steelcase (2013)
• With Antonio Citterio: the Mobil containers for Kartell, awarded the Compasso d'Oro

Legacy

His site notes that the Battista folding table and the Mobil containers are in the permanent exhibition at MoMA in New York.