For all the people who think designer objects need to make bold statements with attention-grabbing forms and materials, the revered British designer Jasper Morrison has a message: The quieter objects are often the better products.
Some of Morrison’s earliest creations, such as the 1986 Thinking Man’s chair, with its snaking tubular steel armrests, and the 1991 3 sofa deluxe, whose sculpted seat resembles an enormous wave (both produced by the Italian manufacturer Cappellini, one of the planet's preeminent producers of cutting-edge home decor), display the eye-catching moves that were expected among his contemporaries.
At the same, Morrison was clearly searching for a different language. In 1988, just three years after he graduated from London’s Royal College of Art, he stunned many in the design world with “Some New Items for the Home,” an exhibition in Berlin featuring simple plywood furniture he had designed and made himself as a direct rebuke to the over-the-top colors and geometries of the Memphis movement. As Morrison increasingly came to see statement-making design as flawed and wasteful, he began producing the subtler objects that eventually became his greatest hits and inspired a new generation of designers.
Morrison’s Glo-Ball lamps for FLOS, for instance, feature opalescent blown-glass diffusers that resemble ever-so-slightly squished spheres with a striking visual softness. Designed in 1998, the pieces were instantly popular and have remained a best seller for the legendary Italian lighting maker. Morrison’s Cork Family stools for Vitra, designed in 2004, have proved similarly timeless, with simple silhouettes reminiscent of thread spools whose unexpected material — solid cork — makes them particularly alluring.
By 2005, Morrison had befriended another designer working in a similar manner — Japan’s Naoto Fukasawa. That year, Fukasawa introduced his Déjà-vu stool for Magis at the Salone del Mobile in Milan and was dismayed when fairgoers barely noticed it. Crestfallen, Fukasawa talked to Morrison, who saw the scenario differently: The fact that people instinctively used the stool meant that it was successful. To cheer up Fukasawa, Morrison described his design as “super normal.” Morrison and Fukasawa latched onto this phrase as an ideal term for what they were up to.
Launched in 2006, Morrison and Fukasawa’s “Super Normal” — a traveling exhibition and a book that served as a visual manifesto — documented more than 200 utilitarian yet beautiful objects, ranging from a paper clip, a plastic bucket and a ballpoint pen to an Alessi citrus basket, Vitsoe’s 606 universal shelving system by Dieter Rams and Vitra’s Joyn office system by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. That same year, Morrison began playing with extreme simplicity and introduced the Crate, a wooden bedside table for Established & Sons that was modeled on an old wine crate he used for his own bedside table.
Today, Morrison delights in finding the correct balance in his designs, turning out products that seem appealingly natural and precisely what they should be.
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One Legged Table in metal frame and Glass top by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Angelo Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
One Legged Table is one of Jasper Morrison’s very first projects, now revised almost forty years after its creation. This console, small in terms of dimensions but great in terms of ...
Metal
Jasper Morrison HAL Table — Minimalist Design, Maximum Presence
By Jasper Morrison, Vitra
Located in Dronten, NL
Elevated simplicity at its finest. Designed by celebrated British designer Jasper Morrison, the HAL Table exemplifies his “super normal” design philosophy—qu...
Chrome
Jasper Morrison oak model "Module" series stacking tables for Cappellini Italy
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Skokie, IL
Oak Table Module Design: Jasper Morrison Series of detachable rectangular low tables, superposable and stackable. Tops surface have circular marks to let elements be superposable. To...
Oak
Bac Large Rectangular Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Bac table, designed by Jasper Morrison, is made of solid ash wood with a bleached, oak-stained, black-stained or Shanghai blue finish. Available in round and rectangular version...
Ash
2022 Jasper Morrison for Cappellini Simplon Rectangular Table in Palisander
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listed for sale is a Simplon Rectangular Table made with an aluminum frame. The table was designed by Jasper Morrison and produced by Cappellini in Italy. It dates to circa 2022 and...
Aluminum
2013 Cappellini Lotus Round Dining Table designed by Jasper Morrison in Laminate
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a “Lotus" Round Dining Table, designed by Jasper Morrison for Capellini in 2006. This particular example was manufactured in 2013. The piece features a 5-star polished cast-a...
Aluminum
Bac Rectangular Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Bac table, designed by Jasper Morrison, is made of solid ash wood with a bleached, oak-stained, black-stained or Shanghai blue finish. Available in round and rectangular version...
Ash
Simplon Dining Large Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The delicacy of the contours define the Simplon table, designed for Cappellini by Jasper Morrison. The range includes tables and side tables with a base made of anodised aluminium, a...
Aluminum
Simplon Dining Large Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Cappellini, Jasper Morrison
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The delicacy of the contours define the Simplon table, designed for Cappellini by Jasper Morrison. The range includes tables and side tables with a base made of anodised aluminium, a...
Aluminum
Simplon coffee Table in Carrara Marble Top by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The delicacy of the contours define the Simplon table, designed for Cappellini by Jasper Morrison. The range includes tables and side tables with a base made of anodised aluminium, a...
Aluminum
$6,088 / item
Bac Round Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Cappellini, Jasper Morrison
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Bac table, designed by Jasper Morrison, is made of solid ash wood with a bleached, oak-stained, black-stained or Shanghai blue finish. Available in round and rectangular version...
Aluminum
$893Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Round Atlas Low Table A in Anthracite Laminated Top and Lacquered Steel
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Atlas Round Low Table A in Anthracite Laminated Top and Lacquered Steel by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacquered steel. To...
Steel
Simplon Dining Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The delicacy of the contours define the Simplon table, designed for Cappellini by Jasper Morrison. The range includes tables and side tables with a base made of anodised aluminium, a...
Aluminum
Simplon Dining Rectangular Table by Jasper Morrison for Cappellini
By Jasper Morrison, Cappellini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The delicacy of the contours define the Simplon table, designed for Cappellini by Jasper Morrison. The range includes tables and side tables with a base made of anodised aluminium, a...
Aluminum
$1,421Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Atlas Small Base Table in Sand Top with Lacquered Aluminium Frame
By Alias, Jasper Morrison
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Atlas Small Base Table in Sand Top with Lacquered Aluminium Frame by Jasper Morrison Rectangular top in: - full color plywood (thickness 12 ...
Aluminum
$1,236Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Round Small Atlas Low Table M in White Laminited by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Round Small Atlas Low Table M in White Laminited by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacque...
Steel
$1,152Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Square Atlas Low Table O in White Top and Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Square Atlas Low Table O in White Top and Lacquered Steel Frame by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacquered steel. Top: - Fu...
Steel
$1,196Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Round Small Atlas Low Table M in Natural Maple Top & Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Round Small Atlas Low Table M in Natural Maple Top with Lacquered Steel Frame by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness ...
Steel
$2,653Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias 796 Round Atlas Table in White Laminated Top and Lacquered Aluminum Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 796 Round Atlas Table in White Laminated Top and Lacquered Aluminum Frame by Jasper Morrison Round table with 80 mm diameter conic lacqu...
Aluminum
$1,588Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Atlas Large Base Table in Sand Top with Lacquered Aluminium Frame
By Alias, Jasper Morrison
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Atlas Large Base Table in Sand Top with Lacquered Aluminium Frame by Jasper Morrison Rectangular top in: - full color plywood (thickness 12 mm) -...
Aluminum
$2,332Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias 785 Square Atlas Table in Natural Maple Top with Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 785 Square Atlas Table in Natural Maple Top with Lacquered Steel Frame by Jasper Morrison Square table with 80 mm diameter conic lacquered steel leg; 530 mm diameter base in...
Steel
$818Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Square Atlas Low Table N in Black Top and Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Square Atlas Low Table N in Black Top and Lacquered Steel Frame Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacquered ...
Steel
$1,219Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Round Atlas Low Table H in Black Top and Grey Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Round Atlas Low Table H in Black Top and Grey Lacquered Steel Frame Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacque...
Steel
$818Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Square Atlas Low Table N in Graphite Grey Top and Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Square Atlas Low Table N in Graphite Grey Top and Lacquered Steel Frame Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic la...
Steel
$1,113Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Square Atlas Low Table E in Natural Maple Top with Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Square Atlas Low Table E in Natural Maple Top with Lacquered Steel Frame by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm)...
Steel
$1,016Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Round Large Atlas Low Table I in Canaletto Walnut Oak Top & White Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Round Large Atlas Low Table I in Canaletto Walnut Oak Top & White Frame by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacquered steel. To...
Steel
$1,219Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias Round Large Atlas Low Table H in Natural Maple Top & Lacquered Steel Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias Round Large Atlas Low Table H in Natural Maple Top with Lacquered Steel Frame by Jasper Morrison Small table with round base (thickness 8 mm) and leg in conic lacquered stee...
Steel
$2,552Sale Price / item|20% Off
Alias 796 Round Atlas Table in White Top with Lacquered Aluminum Frame
By Jasper Morrison, Alias
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Alias 796 Round Atlas Table in White Top with Lacquered Aluminum Frame by Jasper Morrison Round table with 80 mm diameter conic lacquered steel leg; 530 mm diameter base in lacque...
Aluminum
Sold|$2,100
H 28.3 in W 47.2 in D 11.8 in
2024 GamFratesi for GUBI TS Console with White Marble Shelves and Metal Frame
By Gubi, GamFratesi Design Studio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a TS Console, originally designed by GamFratesi for GUBI in 2014. This particular example was produced in Italy in 2024. The console is comprised of a powder coated steel bas...
Marble, Metal
Modern Glass and Metal Table in the Style of Paul Evans
By Paul Evans
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An eye-catching table in the style of designer Paul Evans, this rectangular table features a glass top on a geometric, unusual metal base. Please confirm item location with seller (N...
Metal
Simple Post Modern white Laminate round dining game table
By Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Simple Post Modern white Laminate round dining table. white Laminate with white round base. No Chips very clean. Round top and round base. ...
Laminate
$7,500
H 29.25 in W 60.13 in D 19.19 in
Paul McCobb for Calvin Console Table with White Vitrolite Top and Brass Frame
By Paul McCobb, Calvin Furniture
Located in St. Louis, MO
Mid-Century Modern console table or server designed by Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture, part of his Irwin collection. Console has two drawers and two lower shelves in mahogany that ...
Brass
$1,725Sale Price|50% Off
H 29 in Dm 42 in
Mid-Century Modern Round White Laminate Dining Table by Paul McCobb
By Paul McCobb
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A Mid-Century Modern round white laminate dining table with aluminum base designed by Paul McCobb. The table is in great original vintage condition. Great design, rare table. Measur...
Aluminum
$4,649 / item
H 29.53 in Dm 63 in
Retro Design Round Dining Table Palm Springs Style High Gloss Laminated&Brass L
By Jover + Valls
Located in Alcoy, Alicante
Retro Design Round Dining Table Palm Springs Style High Gloss Laminated & Brass Details Large Size Discover our incredible collection of retro-st...
Brass
Tom Side Table by Meg Morrison
Located in Geneve, CH
Tom side table by Meg Morrison Materials: Ceramic. One of a kind. Dimensions: D 25.5 x H 43.2 cm. All sizes are approximate. Please contact us. Meg Morrison is an artist in Richmon...
Ceramic
$1,600Sale Price|36% Off
H 26.25 in W 58 in D 20 in
Glass Top Rectangular Travertine and Chrome Console Table by Artedi
By Artedi
Located in Miami, FL
Rectangular travertine console table base with beveled glass top supported by chrome bars manufactured by Artedi, 1980s.
Travertine, Chrome
$5,800Sale Price / item|25% Off
H 30 in W 39.75 in D 106 in
Winslow Dining Table in Brass and Lacquered Wood with Glass Top Contemporary
Located in Westport, CT
Rectangular dining table with a high gloss finish and a back painted glass top. Comprised of wood, glass and brass. Can also be made as a console table Optional brass accents. Availa...
Brass
Danish Rosewood "Lotus Design" Dining Table by Dyrlund
By Dyrlund
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In great condition this round rosewood "lotus" table is supported by a nickel-plated base. This table features telescoping leaves that pullout and unfold transforming the 43" diamete...
Nickel
Romeo Rega, Rectangular Glass and Metal Console Table, 1970s
By Romeo Rega
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sleek rectangular console by Romeo Rega, crafted with a smoked glass top supported by a chrome and brass frame. Perfect as a hall, sofa, or display table, it exemplifies the glamorou...
Chrome
$7,900 / item
H 36 in W 66 in D 16 in
Handmade Modern Hall Table by Peter Harrison, Glass Top Metal & Maple Wood
By Peter Harrison
Located in Middle Grove, NY
The Europa table by Peter Harrison is an intoxicating frenzy of elements which cross and overlap and resonate in the is modern console. 25 legs touch the floor and the glass. 45 horizontal elements create the structure. Levelers in each leg assure that the table can be adjusted to any floor. The pictured wood is Maple. The hardware is all stainless steel...
Stainless Steel
Vitra Model B Cork Stool by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison
Located in Dronten, NL
Stabile and robust, this stool or side table of the Cork Family by Jasper Morrison exploit the advantageous natural properties of cork: it is comparatively lightweight and extremely ...
Cork
Side table, model Nestable by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
Nestable table by Jasper Morrison, a renowned British industrial designer known for his minimalist and functional approach. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, he has c...
Metal
Set Alessi OP-LA Table/Tray, Petrol Blue by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison, Alessi
Located in Den Haag, NL
Set of 2 Alessi serving tables. Aluminum feet, comes with loose trays. Alessi OP-LA Table/Tray - Petrol Blue by Jasper Morrison A very useful - Table / tray - designed by Jasper...
Aluminum
Vitra Model a Cork Stool by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison
Located in Dronten, NL
Stabile and robust, this stool or side table of the Cork Family by Jasper Morrison exploit the advantageous natural properties of cork: it is comparatively lightweight and extremely ...
Cork
Jasper Morrison for Vitra Cork Stool Mod. C, Italy 2004
By Vitra, Jasper Morrison
Located in Naples, IT
Stool Mod. "C Family Cork" in cork designed by Jasper Morrison and produced by Vitra in 2004.
Cork
Jasper Morrison for Vitra White NesTable
By Vitra, Jasper Morrison
Located in Basildon, London
Originally designed by Jasper Morrison in 2007, the NesTable is the perfect combination of sleek design and modern practicality. The NesTable is a versatile piece which allows wor...
Steel
Vitra Model A Cork Stool by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison
Located in Dronten, NL
Stabile and robust, this stool or side table of the Cork Family by Jasper Morrison exploit the advantageous natural properties of cork: it is comparatively lightweight and extremely ...
Cork
Sold
H 19.88 in Dm 13.75 in
Postmodern Italian Alessi Side Drinks Table by Designer Jasper Morrison, 1998
By Jasper Morrison, Alessi
Located in New York, NY
An Alessi Postmodern Italian side or drinks table by designer Jasper Morrison, 1998. Table has a round blue resin/composite top and brush metal base. With maker's mark underneath as ...
Composition, Metal
Jasper Morrison Set of Two Cork Stools by Moooi, circa 2002
By Jasper Morrison
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Set of two stools turned from agglomerate cork. Can be used as a small side table, a stool, or ottoman. Designed by Jasper Morrison in 2002 and manufactured by Moooi, Netherlands. In...
Cork
Vitra Model C Cork Stool by Jasper Morrison
By Jasper Morrison
Located in Dronten, NL
Stabile and robust, this stool or side table of the Cork Family by Jasper Morrison exploit the advantageous natural properties of cork: it is comparatively...
Cork
Jasper Morrison ‘Vega’ Table for Artifort
By Jasper Morrison, Artifort
Located in Voorburg, NL
Sophisticated ‘Vega’ side table or center table designed by Jasper Morrison for Artifort furniture in the Netherlands. With a high pressure laminate top in white and a metal chrome f...
Chrome
White Modern Minimal Carrara Marble Round Dining Table Jasper Morrison Marsotto
By Marsotto Edizioni , Jasper Morrison
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Gorgeous design by Jasper Morrison for Marsotto Edizioni, 2012. White Carrara marble round-top table with columnar pedestal with elegant circular base. Marsotto produces this design ...
Carrara Marble