Over his 25 years as CEO of the Danish textile company Kvadrat, Anders Byriel has turned what was once a small, fairly dusty family design business into a global giant. Perhaps just as notably, he’s taken a radical, and even artistic, approach to building and cultivating the brand’s culture, partnering with designers such as Raf Simons, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Peter Saville; arts institutions like the New Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark; and brands including Adidas Originals, Bang & Olufsen, and Jaguar Land Rover. On this week’s episode of Time Sensitive, Byriel talks about why the best design has an artistic edge, the importance of making space for emotion within a corporate environment, and his deep and lifelong passions of poetry and photography.
Special thanks to our Season 7 sponsor,
L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.
Show notes:
Anders Byriel [01:04]
Annie Ernaux [04:25]
“Vermeer” at the Rijksmuseum [06:04]
Kvadrat [06:56]
Raf Simons [12:05]
Peter Saville [13:24]
David Adjaye [14:05]
Thomas Demand [14:14]
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art [14:17]
Rosemarie Troeckel [14:20]
Olafur Eliasson [14:27]
Jean Nouvel [14:40]
Massimiliano Gioni [18:06]
Pipilotti Rist [18:39]
Wu Tsang [19:07]
“The Triple Folly” [19:33]
Danh Vo [24:20]
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec [27:09]
Giulio Ridolfo [30:41]
“Materializing Color” [30:43]
Adidas Originals x Kvadrat Stan Smith [39:03]
Konstantin Grcic [43:06]
Verner Panton [49:29]
“Pop Art Design” exhibition at Vitra Design Museum [50:20]
Robert Adams [01:03:08]
Henrik Nordbrandt [01:03:52]
Nan Goldin [01:10:39]
Ocean Vuong [01:04:54]
Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” book of poems [01:05:01]
“Your Brain on Art” book [01:05:09]
Hiroshi Sugimoto [01:11:37]
“Ai Weiwei In the Elevator When Taken Into Custody by the Police” (2009) [01:12:00]
Ansel Adams [01:12:44]
Robert Adams’s “Around the House” book [01:13:01]
Robert Adams’s "A Road Through Shore Pine" book [01:13:30]