Born in London in 1959, Jasper Morrison trained at prestigious European art and design schools. After studying at the Bryanston School, he graduated in 1982 from the Kingston Polytechnic Design School in London, obtaining a master’s degree in design that same year. In 1985, Morrison attended a postgraduate course at the Royal College of Art in London, enabling him to spend a year at Berlin’s University of the Arts (HdK). In 1986, he opened his Office for Design in London. He debuted with two critical installations that would establish him on the international scene. These were the Reuters News Centre at Documenta 8 in Kassel in 1987 and Some New Items for the Home Part I at DAAD Gallery in Berlin in 1988. The second edition of the latter, Some New Items for the Home Part II, held in Milan at the Salone del Mobile in 1989, marked the beginning of his collaboration with Vitra. During this period, he met Giulio Cappellini, with whom he began a long and fertile working relationship that led to the production of more than thirty successful projects: Thinking Man’s Chair and Three Sofa De Luxe, now design icons, as well as the armchairs Low Pad and Cap Chair, the sofas Elan, Oblong System and Orla.