Nicolas Le Moigne

From 1979 to today. The career of Nicolas Le Moigne is emerging as an unlimited series of meetings, collaboration and shared syncronicités with leading Swiss design and abroad. Author spout "Verso Diverso" which allows him to experience a first major commercial success during his classes (ECAL / Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne), he deals with various issues of international publishers, including those companies Serralunga, Omega and Eternit. The latter calls the designer a crossroads between craft and industry hub where Nicolas Le Moigne choose to stop driving for better research work in collaboration with Eternit (Master ECAL) which will collect both the favor of the press , those of the Confederation (federal grants) and will accompany the tour's international Designpreis 2008.

Asked by the magazine to celebrate Heim Ideales the 80th anniversary of the publication alongside the big names in design, Nicolas Le Moigne makes a dish he likes that embody this duality. His meeting with the gallerist Libby Sellers in London 2008 reveals a new facet of his work, creating a limited edition of 12 copies of a stool, entitled "Slip Stool." A successful trial that leads him to expose new achievements in Zurich, Paris (Next Level Gallery for a solo), Geneva (Gallery Ormond) or more recently in the gallery Helmrinderknecht Berlin to present a series of ceramic vases.

Natasha Daintry

" My passion for ceramics began in Tokyo. While studying Japanese at Cambridge, I lived with a Tokyo family who introduced me to pots and the language of materials. After university I abandoned plans for a career in the City and slowly felt my way towards ceramics and art. Handling objects at Christie’s, I realised I wanted to make things myself. I started with night classes in London and went on to study 3-D Design at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in Farnham. Ceramics is in my blood. I found out unexpectedly that my great-grandmother was a Ridgway - the family company that made pottery for Queen Victoria and ocean liners. Now I make, design, write and teach. At the Royal College of Art, I began exploring colour in an effort to break new ground in the contemporary use of porcelain. Since 2002 I have become known for a decisive and sensitive handling of colour, a quest for exhilaration, and ideas about movement and risk."-Natasha Daintry

Ndidi Ekubia

After completed an MA in Silversmithing at the Royal College of Art in 1998, Ndidi Ekubia went on to complete several prestigious residences including a year at the Crafts Council in 2004 and has an ongoing association with the education trust, Bishopsland and is now a senior fellow. Since 2005, the business has continued to grow as Ndidi Ekubia’s reputation and profile has developed and Ndidi Ekubia has secured a loyal following of collectors who follow the development of her work and career.

Nacho Carbonell

Nacho Carbonell graduated in 2003 at the Spanish university Cardenal Herrera C.E.U. and the 27 of January 2007 at the Design Academy Eindhoven, with the projects “Dream of sand” and “Pump it up”, and was honoured with Cum Laude.
Once graduated Nacho Carbonell created collections such as Evolution in 2009, which won him nominations to the design of the year by the London Design Museum, and which marked Nacho Carbonell ongoing collaboration with Galleria Rossana Orlandi. In 2010, a year after being named Designer of the Future by DesignMiami fair organisers,Nacho Carbonell presented his collection Diversity of 17 prototypes during the Milan Design Week, collection which defines his actual style of organic forms and rough and colourful finishing textures.
This identity is bringing Nacho Carbonell into an international scene of private collections and museums, such as the Groningen Museum in The Netherlands, and the 2121 Museum in Japan, all attracted by the uniqueness of materials and techniques applied in his works.
Nacho Carbonell currently works with his team of people at a 20th century church in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, were he has established his studio.

NEL

NEL is a platform for experimentation formed by an evolving collective of Mexican designers.
The collective, founded in 2004, serves as a channel to create and exhibit projects that focus on the conceptual and playful side of design.
The organic nature of the collective allows for an ever changing pool of designers, which in turn generates a wide variety of projects that range from political statements to playful storytelling or aesthetic explorations. The current members of NEL are Ricardo Casas (1979), Alejandro Castro (1983), Héctor Esrawe (1968), Emiliano Godoy (1974) and Cecilia León de la Barra (1975).