Olivier Mourgue

Oliver Mourgue is best known for his futuristic designs with a focus on furniture, but he is also a painter and landscape designer. He published a book which is called "Imaginary and Gardens and Little Theaters" for the Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts. 

He studied interior design at the "Ecole Boulle" and furniture design at "L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs' (Little longer name then OSU...) in Paris. 

On of his greatest pieces is the "Djinn" chair. After working with the french manufacturer "Airborne International" he designed the chair, which was made famous by '2001: A Space Oddesey' by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick created the futuristic rotating Hilton hotel in Space. The chair then has the smooth, wave-like, low-slung silhouette. The chair is named after a Muslim Legend, a spirit often capable of assuming human or animal form and exercising supernatural influence over people". 

http://www.architonic.com/dcgal/djinn-suite-christie-s/4105703

http://www.oliviermourgue.com/