Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry, born 1929 in Toronto, Canada, gained a degree in architecture from the University of Southern California before studying urban planning at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

In 1962 he founded Los Angeles architectural firm Frank Gehry & Associates. He has taught at several universities, including Harvard, and Yale, where he still teaches. His work has earned him honorary doctorates from these and other institutions: the University of Toronto, the University of Southern California, and the University of Edinburgh. Gehry's furniture manipulates basic materials in unconventional ways, resulting in objects that are both functional and aesthetically striking.

For his earliest designs, Easy Edges (1969–73), Gehry chose corrugated cardboard, a material he often used in his architectural models. 
Experimental Edges (1979–82) again uses cardboard, this time in rougher, more improvised forms. Later, his prototypes for his Cross Check bentwood furniture for Knoll echo the curvaceous silhouettes of Easy Edges.  In his architecture portfolio are the Vitra Centre near Basel, the Vitra Design Museum and manufacturing facility and the Vitra Campus.

His many iconic designs include the Bilbao Guggenheim, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and (sadly) unused concepts for the Nets Arena in New York, and Te Papa in Wellington with New Zealand architect Ian Athfield. To Vitra, Gehry has contributed his Wiggle Side Chair, Wiggle Stool, Low table set and Block all in corrugated cardboard. Extending his fascination with paper as a design material, Gehry has also designed a collection of lamps, entitled ‘Cloud’, for Belux. With their nebulous, organic forms, these lights are Gehry’s homage to Isamu Noguchi.