Nigel Coates

Nigel Coates was born in Malvern in 1949 and trained at Nottingham University and the Architectural Association, where his teaching sparked the NATØ collective. In 1985 he co-founded Branson Coates Architecture, known for Caffè Bongo in Tokyo and the Body Zone at the Millennium Dome, and from 1995 he was Professor of Architecture at the Royal College of Art. He was elected a Royal Academician in 2023.

For Poltronova he designed the Plasma armchair and footrest in 2011: cushions on a slender metal frame of harmonious curves, bent and welded by computerised methods.