Anders Byriel on Redefining the Idea of “Company Culture”
Time Sensitive
English - April 12, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsSociety & Culture culture future the slowdown the slowdown podcast time nature spencer bailey Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Over his 25 years as CEO of the Danish textile company Kvadrat, Anders Byriel has turned what was once a small, fairly dusty family design business into a global giant. Perhaps just as notably, he’s taken a radical, and even artistic, approach to building and cultivating the brand’s culture, partnering with designers such as Raf Simons, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Peter Saville; arts institutions like the New Museum in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark; and brands including Adidas Originals, Bang & Olufsen, and Jaguar Land Rover. On this week’s episode of Time Sensitive, Byriel talks about why the best design has an artistic edge, the importance of making space for emotion within a corporate environment, and his deep and lifelong passions of poetry and photography.
Special thanks to our Season 7 sponsor,
L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.
Show notes:
Anders Byriel [01:04]
Annie Ernaux [04:25]
“Vermeer” at the Rijksmuseum [06:04]
Kvadrat [06:56]
Raf Simons [12:05]
Peter Saville [13:24]
David Adjaye [14:05]
Thomas Demand [14:14]
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art [14:17]
Rosemarie Troeckel [14:20]
Olafur Eliasson [14:27]
Jean Nouvel [14:40]
Massimiliano Gioni [18:06]
Pipilotti Rist [18:39]
Wu Tsang [19:07]
“The Triple Folly” [19:33]
Danh Vo [24:20]
Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec [27:09]
Giulio Ridolfo [30:41]
“Materializing Color” [30:43]
Adidas Originals x Kvadrat Stan Smith [39:03]
Konstantin Grcic [43:06]
Verner Panton [49:29]
“Pop Art Design” exhibition at Vitra Design Museum [50:20]
Robert Adams [01:03:08]
Henrik Nordbrandt [01:03:52]
Nan Goldin [01:10:39]
Ocean Vuong [01:04:54]
Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” book of poems [01:05:01]
“Your Brain on Art” book [01:05:09]
Hiroshi Sugimoto [01:11:37]
“Ai Weiwei In the Elevator When Taken Into Custody by the Police” (2009) [01:12:00]
Ansel Adams [01:12:44]
Robert Adams’s “Around the House” book [01:13:01]
Robert Adams’s "A Road Through Shore Pine" book [01:13:30]