Sunday, January 23, 2011

A02: Designer Investigation (2)


10 Things You Should Know About…
Jonathan Adler

1.     Jonathan Adler began working with pottery after attending a summer camp in 1978.
2.     He attended Brown University with a plan to study semiotics and art history.
3.     After being told by a professor to quite pottery and study law, he moved to New York and worked for a talent agency in 1990. He didn’t like it at all.
4.     In 1997 he helped with Aid to Artisans, a non-profit organization which helps artisans in developing countries to make products for the American market. He went to Peru and fell in love with it.
5.     He opened his first store in Soho in 1998. And his second in Los Angeles three years later.
6.     In 2002 he began working with furniture, starting a new collection and took on interior design projects.
7.     In 2007 Jonathan joined the Bravo television network as a judge on the reality show Top Design.
8.     In 2005 he published his first book titled My Prescription for Anti-Depressive Living.
9.     In 2010 he wrote two more books titled Happy Chic Accessorizing and Happy Chic Colors.
10.  He also owns a Norwich terrier named Liberace. This dog is practically his life.



Information from this post was found at:
http://www.jonathanadler.com/about.php
http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2006-A-Ec/Adler-Jonathan.html

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