Michael YOUNG
Creative Director, 100% Design Shanghai
Michael Young has been amongst the most successful and influential designers of his generation. In1992 his Woven steel works were immediately acquired by public institutions, such as Centre Pomipdou and the Louvre Museum. His mid-nineties collection of furnishings for E&Y Tokyo was described as creating a new formal language in design and was snapped up by design museums in London and Germany. Max Borka director of the Kotrijk Design Biennale commented on his work during the 1990s as "almost now impossible to pin point its dramatic influence so copied was his work of this period" and Terence Conran selected Young in 1997 as his most inspirational British designer. In 2002 he was Guest of Honor at the Kortrijk Design Biennle (a privilege held by other luminaries including Philippe Starck and Gio Ponti where he created a 2000 square metre installation).