alper böler

Product and furniture designer Alper Böler founded Alper Böler Design in 2008, launching his debut collection, Housework: Design Domesticated, during the May 2009 New York Design Week.
Böler’s work has been published internationally in Wallpaper, Abitare, Interni, I.D., Frame and Surface magazines, as well as in books surveying the best of international design: Desire, Furnish and Kelvin published by Berlin-based Gestalten.
In December 2008, he was awarded second prize in the British Council’s International Young Design Entrepreneur Competition, which was juried by local and international design experts, including London-based designer Ron Arad.
In May 2009, Parsons the New School of Design in New York City invited the designer to speak on the subject of culture and memory in design.
Under his own name, Böler has also recently produced a trade fair stand for the Istanbul fashion designers’ foundation, Galatamoda Alaçatı, as well as reception and retail environments for the city’s MARS athletic club g-mall division.
Background
Born in Istanbul in 1975, Böler studied industrial design at Marmara University and, following stints at several furniture and interior design companies, co-founded ünal&böler studio in 2000.
With ünal&böler, the designer presented work internationally, including three visits to Milan’s Salone Satellite in 2006. Unal&böler also participated in the Stylepark in Residence exhibition in Cologne, Designersblock Frankfurt, the Blickfang Stuttgart and Blickfang Wien, as well as Designersblock London.
Unal&böler’s Petek bookshelf was included in Wallpaper magazine’s Global Edit exhibit and earned the Gioia Casa Best 100 design award.
Vienna’s MAK Museum of Applied & Contemporary Art also honored the Salkim ‘bookhanger’ and now sells it in its museum shop. Salkim is also sold through the museum shop at the Istanbul Modern.
Furniture manufacturer Nurus selected the studio’s Sema coffee table for inclusion in its contemporary Turkish design exhibit Ilk in Milano in Zona Tortona’s premier satellite venue, Superstudio Piu. Sema was subsequently awarded the IF Design Award 2009.