Photographic Portraits of Contemporary Designers
Tord Boontje
by Tom Miller
11 February 2003
NPG x126056
Past display archive
20 September 2003 - 25 March 2004
Room 38a
Free
Design plays a part in all our daily lives and we are probably more design conscious today than we have ever been. To celebrate the launch of the first London Design Festival, which begins on September 22, 2003, this display reveals some of the familiar faces behind contemporary British design.
The photographs have been selected from the Gallery's extensive holdings of portraits of designers as well as four new portraits from the recently established Deloitte Acquisition Fund . The display is by no means comprehensive but intended to represent a cross-section of designers from different generations working across many design disciplines who all play a part in making Britain an international centre of excellence in design.
In addition to photographic portraits the National Portrait Gallery has commissioned and acquired portraits of designers in other media. Sir Paul Smith by painter James Lloyd and Baron Foster by sculptor John Davies can be found here in the Contemporary Galleries. Portrait heads of Richard Rogers by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, and Zandra Rhodes by Andrew Logan together with a full length ceramic sculpture of the late Jean Muir by Glenys Barton are on display on the Balcony Gallery.
Dame Zaha Hadid
by Steve Speller
1994
NPG x87300
Julia Barbara Barfield; David Joseph Marks
by Sarah Dunn
January 2000
NPG x88351
Jasper Morrison
by Neil Wilder
13 October 2000
NPG x125495
Sir David Adjaye
by Sal Idriss
2002
NPG x125662
Related portraits
- Peter Saville (NPG P1010)
- Sir Kenneth Henry Grange (NPG x126105)
- Dame Zaha Hadid (NPG x87300)
- Sir Terence Conran (NPG x87200)
- James Dyson (NPG x126101)
- Ron Arad (NPG x126055)
- 'muf' (Liza Fior; Juliet Bidgood; Katherine Clarke) (NPG x87760)
- Jony Ive (NPG x126097)
- Tom Dixon (NPG x126059)
- Julia Barbara Barfield; David Joseph Marks (NPG x88351)
- Jasper Morrison (NPG x125495)
- Matthew Hilton (NPG x126095)
- Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (NPG x125274)
- Sir David Adjaye (NPG x125662)
- Matthew Williamson (NPG x125838)
- Manolo Blahnik (NPG x126111)
- Tord Boontje (NPG x126056)
- Julien Macdonald (NPG x126114)
- Lucienne Day (née Conradi); Robin Day (NPG x126177)
- Betty Jackson (NPG x126178)
- Alice Rawsthorn (NPG x126112)
Related sitters
- Sir David Adjaye
- Ron Arad
- Julia Barbara Barfield
- Juliet Bidgood
- Manolo Blahnik
- Tord Boontje
- Katherine Clarke
- Sir Terence Conran
- Lucienne Day (née Conradi)
- Robin Day
- Tom Dixon
- Sir James Dyson
- Liza Fior
- Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
- Sir Kenneth Henry Grange
- Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
- Matthew Hilton
- Sir Jonathan ('Jony') Paul Ive
- Betty Jackson
- Julien Macdonald
- David Joseph Marks
- Jasper Morrison
- Alice Rawsthorn
- Peter Saville
- Matthew Williamson