Partners: Nigel Coates

Coates is one of Britain’s consistently original thinkers in architecture, interior and product design. His work spans from real building, the exploration of the culture of cities through to his personal brand of design. His many built projects in Japan include the Wall, Noah’s Ark and the Art Silo, and in Britain, the National Centre for Popular Music, Powerhouse::uk, the Geffrye Museum and the Body Zone in the Millennium Dome. His prize winning Oyster House was built at the Ideal Home Exhibition in 1998. He has shown architectural installations at the Venice Biennales of 2000, 2006 and 2008. In 2007 he exhibited Mixtacity at Tate Modern as part of ‘Global Cities”.

He is also a prolific designer of lighting and furniture, with links to Alessi, AVMazzega, Ceramica Bardelli, Fornasetti, Frag, Fratelli Boffi, Poltronova, Varaschin and Slamp. Examples of his work are held in museum collections around the world including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Cooper Hewitt and FRAC. He is also Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. The new Nigel Coates studio and showroom is now open in South Kensington.