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Richard Frinier (born 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American furniture, textile and industrial designer who lives and works in California.〔California〕 A graduate of California State University Long Beach holding a Master of Arts degree, Richard Frinier has been a product designer in the home industries since 1977, with emphasis on indoor/outdoor furniture for the resort-at-home and ultra-luxe resort living experience. He has worked for and collaborated with manufacturers such as Brown Jordan, Century Furniture, Dedon and Glen Raven/Sunbrella. His broad range of work encompassing hundreds of collections and thousands of individual product designs specified for palaces, public spaces, resorts, spas and private residences around the world. These designs have been extensively exhibited and published internationally. ==Career and Design== As the former Chief Creative Officer of the Brown Jordan Company for over 20 years,〔http://www.brownjordan.com〕〔http://www.casualliving.com/article/531416-Richard_Frinier_returns_for_a_Brown_Jordan_encore.php〕 Frinier has been recognized around the world by professional colleagues, trade organizations and media for contributing to the creation of the sophisticated level of outdoor furnishings which removed boundaries in home design,〔http://www.richardfrinier.com/about〕 while fueling and elevating the concept of the outdoor room, resort-at-home and slow living lifestyle trends. In 2002, he formed a design consultancy in California, where he has continued to serve and collaborate with an international clientele through licensed and co-branded collections, including indoor/outdoor furniture, accessories, lighting, and hundreds of textile designs.〔http://www.richardfrinier.com/about〕〔http://www.richardfrinier.com/timeline〕 The designer's range of work encompasses furniture designs including modern to contemporary and traditional to classic forms, and his work has been the recipient of more than 80 product design and career achievement awards as designated and presented by ASID, IDSA, IIDA, ASFD, SCFMA/ICFA, reddot, and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.〔http://www.richardfrinier.com/awards/〕 He has received “23” Design Excellence Awards from the American Home Furnishings Alliance's International Casual Furnishings Association division, including Best of Category and Best of Show designations. In 1997, 2004, 2005 and 2007, several of Frinier's designs were each identified by the former Metropolitan Home magazine as ranking among the publication’s “Top 100 Designs in the World.” In 2006, The Robb Report magazine recognized Frinier for his indoor/outdoor furniture design “Daydream” by Dedon, identifying it as one of the best designs at large over the past 30 years,〔http://www.robbreportcollection.com/Home-AllStars-Hallmarks-Of-Style〕 and he was also named by the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California as one of the center’s prestigious “Stars of Design” in the category of product design. In 2008, Frinier's soft-modern Spa collection for Dedon achieved attention by winning an international reddot Design Excellence Award and also a Hospitality Design Expo/IIDA Design Excellence Award. In 2009, Richard Frinier was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award〔http://www.ahfa.us/news/viewArticleDetail.asp?ID=478〕〔http://www.icfanet.org/documents/pr052909.asp〕 for his contributions to the industry and his community at large, as designated and awarded by the International Casual Furnishings Association, a division of the American Home Furnishings Alliance.〔http://www.icfanet.org/pr052909.aspx〕〔American Home Furnishings Alliance〕 The designer is best known publicly for his design collaborations with Brown Jordan,〔http://www.brownjordan.com/frinier〕〔http://www.wwd.com/eye/design/brown-jordans-new-designer-take-3231942〕 Century Furniture,〔http://www.centuryfurniture.com/frinier〕 Glen Raven-Sunbrella〔http://www.sunbrella.com/frinier〕 and Dedon Worldwide.〔:de:DEDON〕〔http://www.dedon.de/en/blogazine/posts/dedon-designers/design-talk-richard-frinier.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Frinier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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