Adam Nathaniel

Adam is a British artist & designer of Argentine & Japanese heritage based in London. Trained in architecture, Adam’s atelier works in spatial design and art of all scales from video and prints to large public artworks, architecturally integrated ornament, as well as products, furniture, interiors, publishing and academia. The atelier has completed, and ongoing projects both internationally and in the UK.

Adam’s work has been exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Milan, Melbourne, Rome, Tel Aviv, Mumbai, Vienna & Basel, amongst other places, is held in the collections of the Design Museum, the Sir John Soane’s Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Abet Museum, & the Architectural Association, and has been published widely.

Adam has lectured at the RIBA, Harvard GSD, UC Berkeley, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Vitra Design Museum & the Casa dell’Architettura Rome. Amongst others, he has taught courses at several universities as well as having been Studio Master of Productive Exuberance at Central St Martins in London. He is also co-director of Saturated Space at the AA (an influential research group on colour in Urbanism and Architecture). As a published author, a vocal advocate for diversity and representation in architecture, urbanism and design, Adam has been a judge for the Dezeen and FRAME awards, amongst others.

 “I bring equal parts pleasure, colour, and joy, as well as critical consideration, reflection and depth to everything I am lucky enough to be involved in.

My designs are always beautifully crafted and approachable, usually adorable, often cheeky, and take inspiration from a passionate & lifelong exploration of form, material, colour and ornament as a political-aesthetic project in pursuit of diversity & multicultural cosmopolitanism, with my objects, artwork, spaces & installations invariably being embodiments of the diasporic, fluid & roaming cultures that surrounded me at home and in London as I grew up, and which continue to fascinate & inspire me to this day.”