Gerard Taylor

Gerard Taylor has made his name as a multifaceted designer, with work spanning over four decades across furniture, product design and interior architecture. For the last 15 years, he has worked as the creative director of Orangebox in London.

His education began at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) where he studied Product Design before receiving a Masters in Industrial Design from the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, where he studied alongside a generation of influential designers including Daniel Weil and Jasper Morrison. Upon graduation, eclectic architect and industrial designer Ettore Sottsass invited Taylor to join Sottsass Associati in Milan, where he worked with renowned brands including Knoll, Artemide, Fiorucci, Espirit and Phillips.

Many of Taylor’s pieces from this period are highly coveted, appearing in the Design Museum, London and were part of David Bowie’s private art and design collection which was auctioned in Sotheby’s ground breaking sale of November 2016.

Taylor returned to London in 1986, establishing a studio with fellow RCA alumnus Daniel Wiel, and later setting up his own creative consultancy, Gerard Taylor Design. More recently he has collaborated with numerous clients and manufacturers including Orla Kiely, Selfridges, Knoll, and Bernhardt Design.