Collection: Adam Nathaniel Furman

Adam Nathaniel Furman was born in 1982 in London. He trained at Central St Martins University of the Arts in London and the Architectural Association, where he has directed the Saturated Spaces research unit since 2011. His multi-ethnic origins - his father is Argentinean, and his mother is half Japanese and half Israeli - translate into an eclectic, multiform, ironic and multicoloured approach. He works in a broad range of fields - public art, product design, architecture, interior design, furniture and graphics. Between 2014 and 2015, he held a residency at the British Academy in Rome, winning the prestigious Rome Prize for Architecture. Before opening his own office in London, he collaborated with major architectural firms like OMA Rotterdam and Ron Arad Architects.

His work has been exhibited in Paris, New York, Milan, Melbourne, Rome, Tel Aviv, Mumbai, Vienna and Basel, and is in the collections of such museums as the Design Museum, Sir John Soane's Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Abet Museum and the Architectural Association. He produced the Chomp chair and the Lounge Hog coffee table for De Rosso, both in HPL laminate, and a varied and colourful series of handmade carpets for Floor_story. For Bitossi Ceramiche, he created Kallisto, Kalliope & Kallistrate, a collection of five limited-edition elements marked by Pop colours.

Furman created the almost ten-metre tall Lumalisk obelisk for the Biennale Interieur in Belgium in 2018. In 2021 in London, he conceived Look Down to Look Up, a tactical urban planning project.
He has received numerous awards and recognitions: the RIBA Bronze Commendation 2005; the 2007 AA Prize; Design Museum Designer In Residence 2013-14; Blueprint Award for Design Innovation 2014; UK Rome Prize for Architecture 2014-15; Architecture Foundation "New Architect" 2016; L'Uomo Vogue Italia "Design Star" 2016; one of the Observer's four "Rising Stars" 2017; Metropolis Magazine "New Talent" 2017; Elle Decor Italia "New Talent for 2018"; Progress 1000; one of the Evening Standard's "most Influential Londoners of 2018"; Blueprint Award for Best Small Project 2018; one of Icon Magazine's "100 talents of 2018-19"; FX Product Designer of the Year Award 2019.
In 2017, he wrote Revisiting Postmodernism with Terry Farrell, published by RIBA Publishing.