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Adam Nathaniel Furman
Adam Nathaniel Furman (born November 1982) is a British artist, designer, writer, and academic. Furman specialises in work that is characterised by bright colours, bold patterns and ornaments. They coined the term New London Fabulous. Early life Furman was born at St Mary's Hospital, London, St Mary's Hospital in Paddington to an Argentine father and a German-Japanese mother, both Jewish, and raised in North London near Finchley Road. Furman attended Highgate School. In 2001, Furman enrolled in a foundation course at Central Saint Martins. They went on to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Architectural Association (AA), graduating in 2008. This was followed by further graduate studies at the AA. Career Furman became co-director of the AA's research group Saturated Space and opened Madam Studio. In 2013, they were invited to join the Design Museum's Designers in Residence programme. In 2014 and 2015, Furman had a residency at the British Academy in R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847; St Mary's Hospital; and the former Paddington Green Police Station (once the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom). A major project called Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land between 1998 and 2018, and the area is seeing many new developments. Offshoot districts (historically within Paddington) are Maida Vale, Westbourne and Bayswater including Lancaster Gate. History The earliest extant references to ''Padington'' (or "Padintun", as in the ''Saxon Chartularies'', 959), historically a part of Middlesex, appear in documentation of purported tenth-century land grants to the monks of Westmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
