Lucy Kurrein is a furniture designer specialising in upholstery. Born in 1985, she grew up in Yorkshire in the north of England. She took her art foundation course at Leeds College of Art before moving to Buckinghamshire to study furniture design. After graduating, Lucy worked for furniture designer Matthew Hilton then design consultancy PearsonLloyd, before founding her own studio in 2013. She was quickly recognised as Newcomer of the Year 2014 at the Mixology Awards, Young Designer of the Year 2015 by Homes and Gardens and Young Design Talent 2020 by Elle Decoration. Her work has been published in Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, OnOffice, Elle Decoration, The Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Living and Le Monde, and exhibited in London, Milan, Paris, New York, Hong Kong and Melbourne. Clients include SCP, Capdell, Joined + Jointed, Molinari, Offecct, and Heal’s. She teaches design at Kingston University and divides her time between London and Paris where she is now based.
lucy@lucykurrein.com
+33 6 49 20 28 68
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Printed press
01.05.22 Vogue Living Australia
30.01.20 Elle Decoration
20.06.18 Warehouse Home
20.04.18 OnOffice
01.10.17 Le Monde Magazine
01.06.17 Essential KBB
01.04.17 ALL Magazine
01.10.16 Wall Street Journal
01.08.16 Courier
01.04.16 You
01.03.16 Homes and Gardens
01.03.16 Homes and Gardens
04.02.16 Elle Decoration
07.12.15 Belle
10.10.15 Telegraph Magazine
01.05.15 Homes and Gardens
11.11.14 The Quarterly
01.09.14 SCP Issue number five
01.05.14 Mix Interiors
28.04.14 Mix Interiors
Online press
12.09.22 It’s Nice That
01.05.22 Est Living
07.11.19 Elle Decoration
16.07.19 Mad about the house
02.01.19 Architectural Digest
11.04.18 The Telegraph
26.04.18 Design Insider
14.03.18 Wallpaper
01.03.18 Living etc
24.02.18 Dezeen
07.09.17 GQ
21.05.17 Design Curial
27.10.16 Design Insider
28.09.16 Design Curial
20.09.16 Design Milk
08.10.15 Curbed
Recognition
2022 Design Guildmark judge, furniture category
2020 Elle Decoration, Young design talent
2019 Design Guild Mark, Panel chair
2018 CNAP permanent collection, Rondo sofa
2018 Dezeen awards, Workplace design - longlisted
2016 Homes and Gardens, Furniture designer of the year - shortlisted
2015 Homes and Gardens, Young designer of the year
2104 Mixology Awards, Newcomer of the year
Exhibitions
2023 British Capsule, Maison Objet, Paris
2022 Meet me in the Metaverse, The Conran Shop, London
2022 Futures Collective, Villa Alba, Melbourne
2022 Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London
2022 Project HK-UK, Superstudio, Milan
2019 Project HK-UK, Designinspire HKCEC, Hong Kong
2018 Designers select designers, Aram Gallery, London
2017 The joy of living, One Poultry, London
2017 The learned society of extra ordinary objects, Somerset House, London
2016 The thing with malta singh, Gallery So, London
2015 The arrangement of furniture in a museum, Design Museum, London
Interviews
13.01.23 The Conran Shop
06.05.22 Design Anthology podast
07.03.22 SCP
15.01.22 Design Insider
14.01.22 Design Guildmark
22.10.18 Paul Tanner
16.02.18 Summit
17.03.17 The Conran Shop
01.12.16 Cos
01.03.16 Homes and Gardens
Clients
SCP
Capdell
Joined and Jointed
Molinari
Offecct
Heals
Recognition
2022 Design Guildmark judge, furniture category
2020 Elle Decoration, Young design talent
2019 Design Guild Mark, Panel chair
2018 CNAP permanent collection, Rondo sofa
2018 Dezeen awards, Workplace design - longlisted
2016 Homes and Gardens, Furniture designer of the year - shortlisted
2015 Homes and Gardens, Young designer of the year
2104 Mixology Awards, Newcomer of the year
Exhibitions
2023 British Capsule, Maison Objet, Paris
2022 Meet me in the Metaverse, The Conran Shop, London
2022 Futures Collective, Villa Alba, Melbourne
2022 Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London
2022 Project HK-UK, Superstudio, Milan
2019 Project HK-UK, Designinspire HKCEC, Hong Kong
2018 Designers select designers, Aram Gallery, London
2017 The joy of living, One Poultry, London
2017 The learned society of extra ordinary objects, Somerset House, London
2016 The thing with malta singh, Gallery So, London
2015 The arrangement of furniture in a museum, Design Museum, London
2022 Design Guildmark judge, furniture category
2020 Elle Decoration, Young design talent
2019 Design Guild Mark, Panel chair
2018 CNAP permanent collection, Rondo sofa
2018 Dezeen awards, Workplace design - longlisted
2016 Homes and Gardens, Furniture designer of the year - shortlisted
2015 Homes and Gardens, Young designer of the year
2104 Mixology Awards, Newcomer of the year
Exhibitions
2023 British Capsule, Maison Objet, Paris
2022 Meet me in the Metaverse, The Conran Shop, London
2022 Futures Collective, Villa Alba, Melbourne
2022 Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London
2022 Project HK-UK, Superstudio, Milan
2019 Project HK-UK, Designinspire HKCEC, Hong Kong
2018 Designers select designers, Aram Gallery, London
2017 The joy of living, One Poultry, London
2017 The learned society of extra ordinary objects, Somerset House, London
2016 The thing with malta singh, Gallery So, London
2015 The arrangement of furniture in a museum, Design Museum, London
Interviews
13.01.23 The Conran Shop
06.05.22 Design Anthology podast
07.03.22 SCP
15.01.22 Design Insider
14.01.22 Design Guildmark
22.10.18 Paul Tanner
16.02.18 Summit
17.03.17 The Conran Shop
01.12.16 Cos
01.03.16 Homes and Gardens
Clients
SCP
Capdell
Joined and Jointed
Molinari
Offecct
Heals
13.01.23 The Conran Shop
06.05.22 Design Anthology podast
07.03.22 SCP
15.01.22 Design Insider
14.01.22 Design Guildmark
22.10.18 Paul Tanner
16.02.18 Summit
17.03.17 The Conran Shop
01.12.16 Cos
01.03.16 Homes and Gardens
Clients
SCP
Capdell
Joined and Jointed
Molinari
Offecct
Heals