James Irvine Collection

Profile

British industrial designer James Irvine, who founded his studio in Milan nearly 30 years ago. Irvine studied design at Kingston Polytechnic in London before completing his master’s degree at the in 1984, after which he moved to Milan to work as a design consultant the Italian company famous for its typewriters. Founded in 1988, his studio has created products, furniture and transport for companies including Italian design brands Artemide, Coro, Foscarini and Cappellini, art publisher Phaidon and camera-maker Canon. For him collection of objects, prototypes, pictures, souvenirs, drawings and history provided source of inspiration for design projects.