Brit Nigel Coates (Nigel Coates) - a real provocateur. He designs, argues with colleagues and calls pros to radicalism. Talk about Coats is usually conducted as an architect. Indeed, he has a Jeffrey Museum building in London's East End (1998), in Shoordich, National Center for Pop Music in Sheffield (1999), Art Silo's “house-case”, Tokyo (1993), “Oyster House »For the exhibition Ideal Home Show (1998) and the pavilion Powerhouse :: uk (1998). He himself loves to talk about the role of the architect. He also heads the department of architecture at the Royal College of Art. Believes that any recession will cause architectural intellectuals to be more radical. “Life has changed a lot over the past ten years. Our heads half live in the virtual world, but the architecture remains predictable, too many projects in the mainstream. This is bad, architecture must respond to the modern world. ”

Armchair Lehnstuhl. Thonet. 2014 Диван Back to Back. Fratelli Boffi. 2008. Lieutenant Hypnerotosphere. 2011. Sristina Grajales Gallery Lamps Crocco. Modular wall light, Lentiflex® lampshade.

Nigel Coats

Born in 1949 in Malvern. A graduate of the University of Nottingham and the Architectural Association. At the 2010 Milan Salon, he effectively performed with the Animalia collection for Fratelli Boffi. His design work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, MOMA, FRAC and the Vitra Design Museum. Many items produced in the workshops of London.

He implemented his first architectural project in 1985 in Japan, where he was called to make a restaurant, because in Britain in the stagnant 80s it was impossible to receive an order. For the first time, Coates was heard in 1984, when he published NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) magazine, a manifesto of socially engaged, popular architecture. Then he wrote the book Ecstacity, in which he called to feel the city as a living organism through psychogeographical associations. He taught readers how to be architects of their own homes. He advises his students to draw more from life: “Drawings should be lively and voluminous, you need to carry a notebook with a soft pencil, you can’t draw with solid ones”. In fact, everything outstanding and original is associated with the design. Favorite master believes Carlo Molly. Several times curated collection design exhibitions. In 2004 he published the book Collidoscope. New Interior Design. Coats chose 35 interiors from advanced craftsmen. He appreciated their ideas very sensibly: he praised and scolded. The book turned out to be useful because it was written by a practical designer with a penchant for analysis. Of course, Coates is in demand by many companies. She lives in Italy for half a year. He is invited by Alessi, Fratelli Boffi, Varaschin, Frag, AVMazzega and Ceramica Bardelli. The success and stellar design impulse of the company Slamp is entirely due to Coates, the art director of the brand.

Divan, col. Animalia, Fratelli Boffi. Chair Сlick Сlack, call. Scubism, Fratelli Boffi. Aviator Mirrors, 12 экз. Cristina Grajales Gallery. Vase call Tulipini, made in London by the glazier S. Moore. Chandelier Tiger Lilly, AVMazzega. Murano glass.