Arne Quinze

Arne Quinze

Infobox Architect


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name = Arne Quinze
nationality = Belgium
birth_date = 1971
birth_place = Belgium
death_date =
death_place =
practice_name = Studio Arne Quinze, Quinze & Milan
significant_buildings = Uchronia (Nevada), Cityscape (Brussels)
significant_projects =
significant_design = Primary Pouf (2001)
awards = Henry Van De Velde Award (2001)|

Arne Quinze (born 1971, Belgium) is an artist, self-taught designer, futurologist, visionary and businessman. Because of his provoking designs, exuberant lifestyle and superstar status, he soon got titled "rockstar of the design industry."Fact|date=July 2008 At the age of 15, Arne Quinze was a homeless graffiti artist, hanging out with a motorcycle gang and living in the streets.Fact|date=July 2008

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 Hollywood celebrities such as Brad Pitt and Oprah Winfrey.Fact|date=July 2008

As an artist and visionary, Quinze got instant fameFact|date=July 2008 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 Ohio River 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 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.

Personal

In 2007, Arne Quinze started dating Barbara Becker, ex of tennisstar Boris Becker.Good friends with singer Lenny Kravitz.Fact|date=July 2008

Literature

*Arne Quinze (Author), R.Klanten and L.Feireiss (Editors): "Arne Quinze WORKS". Gestalten, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89955-219-5
*Max Borka (Author): "CITYSCAPE Arne Quinze". Gestalten, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-89955-203-4

External links

* [http://www.arnequinze.tv The work of Arne Quinze]
* [http://www.studioarnequinze.tv Studio Arne Quinze]
* [http://www.quinzeandmilan.tv Furniture label Quinze & Milan]
* [http://www.cityscape.be CITYSCAPE Brussels weblog (2007)]
* [http://pba.masteredit.com/pba/site/Arne_Quinze_exhibition-67.html The creative frenzy of Arne Quinze - La Galerie de Pierre Bergé & associés]
* [http://www.onitsukatiger.co.uk/web/show/id=87742/framenoid=41110 Onitsuka Tiger meets Arne Quinze]
* [http://www.dezeen.com/?s=arne+quinze Arne Quinze on Dezeen.com]
* [http://www.gestalten.com/search?q=arne+quinze&x=9&y=3&books%2Fdetail=&id=d7f6f0d817492b0501176379c479002e&ri2form=search Arne Quinze on Gestalten.com]


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