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Jonas Merian
Profile Jonas was born in Switzerland in 1976. He is a freelance furniture designer but his background is in prosthetics and orthotics. He has been working in this field for17 years in Switzerland, North Korea and China. In 2009 he decided to take a break from his career as a prosthetist in order to concentrate on furniture design. In 2010 he and his partner found an old factory building in Shanghai and renovated it to be their loft and studio. Jonas always liked to work with his hands and started early to build his own furniture and lamps. Through his education and experience as a prosthetist he learned to work with a wide variety of materials like wood, leather, metal, resin, silicone, carbon fibre, textiles, plastics and many more.
STUDIO/HOME Wu Wei Creative Garden 1436 Jungong Lu B 32 Yang Pu District Shanghai China 200433 上海杨浦区军工路1436号五维创意园区32栋
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Jonas is currently focusing on projects using reclaimed material and objects from Shanghai’s past. Reclaimed wood from the destroyed old town of Shanghai, old Chinese furniture and everyday objects that he finds on local markets, antique markets or in thrift shops are his preferred materials to work with. Through his creations he is trying to keep part of the increasingly disappearing history of Shanghai alive.
尤纳斯.马瑞恩1976年出生于瑞士。他是⼀一名自由家具设计师,但他的专业背景是假肢修 复与矫形。过去的17年里，他曾在此领域工作于瑞士，朝鲜和中国。2009年，为了专 注于他的家具设计，尤纳斯决定告退他矫形师的职业生涯。2010年他和他的搭档在上 海找到了⼀一个旧工厂并改造成了他们的工作室。 尤那斯⼀一直喜欢用纯手工制作并很早开始了他的家具和灯具设计。通过他所受的教育 和此前矫形师的各种工作经验，他学会了使用多种材料，如木料，金属，树脂，有机 硅，碳纤维，面料，塑料等等。 目前，尤纳斯专注于利用与上海历史有关的各种回收材料和旧产品进行再设计。从上 海老城区拆迁弄堂回收的旧木头、古玩和旧货市场淘来的旧中式家具和旧日用品都是 他理想的制作材料。他试图通过再生设计的过程，延续上海过去某段已流失的历史。