North on Sixty

They're two words we have always lived by at North on Sixty. Our business spans the entire life cycle - from forest management, to design/build, to restoration, and everything in between. We're involved every step of the way because our philosophy is fundamentally holistic - and frankly, we love it all. Ultimately, minimizing waste is about creating harmony between people and their environment - which is the guiding principle in all that we do. Here are some of the ways we live that philosophy:

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.

Norman Cherner

Although best known for his furniture design, Norman Cherner's work included almost all aspects of design: from graphics, glassware and lighting, to his pioneering work in prefabricated housing. Educated in the Bauhaus tradition of interdisciplinary design, he became interested in housing as industrial design. His first houses were built in 1948 for a cooperative housing development in Ramapo, NY. These homes were examples of this total design concept and included affordable furniture designed specifically for these low-cost modular dwellings. One of the first pre-fabricated houses in the United States was Cherner's "Pre-built". It was designed, produced and assembled in 1957 for the U.S. Department of Housing. After being exhibited in Vienna it was shipped back to Connecticut to become his first home and studio outside of New York City.Norman Cherner's furniture designs include the "multi-flex" modular storage system, the "Konwiser Line" of furniture and lighting, and molded plywood seating for Plycraft which he designed in 1958. The molded plywood ‘Cherner Chair' became his most recognized design and is found in furniture collections worldwide. Norman Cherner studied and taught at the Columbia University Fine Arts Department and was an instructor at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At the same time he also began his own practice, embarking on a lifetime exploration of architecture and furniture design. Norman Cherner's books include: "Fabricating Houses from Component Parts" (1958) "How to Build a House for Less the $6,000" (1960), "Make your own Modern Furniture" (1953) and "How to Build Children's Toys and Furniture" (1954)

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).