Mathias Hahn

London based Product Designer Mathias Hahn (born 1977 in Germany) started up his studio in 2006 and is one of the founding members of OKAYstudio. After graduating as Industrial Designer in Germany he moved on to the Royal College of Art, where he received a MA degree in Design Products under Ron Arad in 2006. From his studio and workshops he is working on diverse projects in the field of industrial and furniture design. His client list includes companies like Ligne Roset, Marset, Kohler, Magazin, Kvadrat, Another Country, Vertigo Bird, SZ-Magazin and others. His work has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions and galleries and was featured in many major design publications and newspapers worldwide.

Marijn van der Poll/North

Marijn van der Poll/North is a multidisciplinary design studio. Working for clients and independently we create exclusive objects from one-off automobiles to unique furniture pieces. These have been displayed around the world in galleries such as Traffic in Dubai and are part of the collection of amongst others the Victoria&Albert Museum. Over the past nine years we have also built up a portfolio consisting of product design and development, product identity and creative engineering. Marijn van der Poll (1973) grew up in the Middle and Far East. He graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2002 two years after founding his studio in 2000, the year the Do hit chair was introduced. He is a designer and lecturer at design colleges and universities. clients: Ahrend, Automotive Technology Centre, Baars&Bloemhoff, Damen Shipyards Group, dinotec, Droog Design, Duotank, Gemeente Eindhoven, Heynsdyk Sportscars, Lensvelt, Marcel Wanders, Pentascope, Park Plaza Hotels, Provincie Noord-Brabant, SRE, Sekisui, Stadvis Produkties, Syntens, Westin Hotels & Resorts, Woonbedrijf

Matteo Nunziati

Matteo Nunziati opened his interior design office in Milan in 2000.
The product design department of the studio collaborates with some of the most important furniture, lighting and covering firms (Poliform, Molteni & C., Gruppo Feg, Matteograssi, Poltrona Frau, Tisettanta - Halifax, Gruppo Martini Illuminazione, Fontana Arte, Artemide, Medea – Mobilidea, Rapsel, Lualdi Porte, Listone Giordano, Florim).

The department of Interior Design is specialized in designing Luxury hotels, Residences and Privat Villas, Wellness Centers and Spas, which have been constructed all over the world (Europe, Russia, Arabia, China).

Since 2004 he has cooperated as a “Project Leader” at the Domus Academy -Milan, in the field of “Master in Interior Design” and is in charge of the “Hotel Design” short-course (edition 2004 and 2005).

In 2004 he had worked together with the Department of Industrial Design/Graduate Institute of Innovation and Design - National Taipei University of Technology of Taipei, Taiwan.
In 2005 he had taught at the Ateneo Creativo – IDI Interior Design Institute-Milan.

In 2006 he participated at the exhibition “50+2y Italian design” at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing where the most important designers of international Design from 1954 till 2006 were selected .

In 2007 he taught within the short course “Low cost hotel” at the Domus Academy in Milan, in collaboration with the “University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins”.

In 2007 and 2008 he organized events within the fair “Abitare il Tempo” in Verona (Italy), Mipim Cannes (France), Cityscape (Dubai), Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan (Italy)

In 2008 he taught within the short course “Interior Design for Hotels” at the Domus Academy in Milan, in collaboration with the “University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins”.

In 2008 he was invited to speak in the following conferences as an expert of “Hotel Design” and “Wellness - SPA Design”:

“Eire” Milan-Italy
“European SPA Summit” Paris-France
“Wellness World Exhibition” Milan-Italy
“Sia Guest” Rimini-Italy

In 2009-2010 Matteo Nunziati has participated at several prestigious conferences, organized by “Federlegno Arredo” in collaboration with the ICE (Chamber of Commerce) and the Italian Government to represent the Italian Design in the world (Qatar, Libano, Egitto e Kuwait).

His projects have been published in the most important Italian and international design magazines.
Furthermore SKY TV dedicated 4 episodes where Matteo Nunziati expressed his Design experiences.

Matthew Hilton

I started Matthew Hilton, the company, because I wanted somewhere I would have complete creative control. The company was launched in September 2007 and very soon after, made it's first Licence agreement for manufacturing and distribution of the products with De La Espada. The pieces shown here are the first of a growing number of high-quality products which will be made in relatively small quantities, using hand-skills based manufacturing. I will be regularly adding new products using different techniques and materials. I liased closely with Spin, the designers of the website and our company identity, to make it direct and open. We will show you the design process, some of the inspiration behind the work and the making of the products. We will bring you elements of inspirational culture, photos and articles about things which interest us, whether they be buildings, furniture, travel, exhibitions or design reports.

Murray Moss

In 1994, former fashion entrepreneur Murray Moss opened Moss in a small gallery space in Soho, with a determination to transform the public perception of industrial product design. The store quickly became internationally known for its product selection and presentation, with clients ranging from highly informed design professionals, to celebrities, students, and tourists with maps. The shop grew and evolved — expanding to nearly 7000 square feet in late 1999 when Moss’s partner Franklin Getchell joined the company. Together they expanded the product base to include furniture, especially from Italian manufacturers, lighting, watches and jewelry, books, tabletop and a significantly increased focus on the studio work of the designers we offered. The furniture and objects offered at the shop deliberately blur the distinctions between production and craft, between industry and art, and more recently, between industrial and decorative arts. The intention is to force a view of each piece based on the context of its presentation, rather than its function or material. At Moss, context is fundamental, and value can be inferred from inaccessibility. The shop intentionally looks and feels like a museum, with everything locked behind glass or raised onto platforms. It’s cold. It’s white. The music is tense. The selling staff wear dark monotone clothing. And Asian, black or white, male or female, they register as one — young, good looking, courteous, helpful, and informed. Above all, informed. Provenance, designer, manufacturer, materials, manufacturing process — the staff is poised to discuss all aspects of each product, including the assembling of component systems of shelving, tables or seating. The shop functions as arbiter, advocate, and presenter, as well as gallery, showroom and salon. Moss has been instrumental in shaping the direction of design retail, with influence far out of keeping with its size. Its reputation is global but its roots are firmly in New York. After a brief foray into Los Angeles demonstrated the singular strength of its base in New York, Moss is once again fully and firmly grounded on Greene Street.

Maarten Baas

Dutch designer Maarten Baas (19/02/1978) was born in Arnsberg, Germany but moved to The Netherlands in 1979 where he grew up.
Upon graduating from high school in 1996 Maarten Baas began his studies at the prestigious Design Academy Eindhoven.
Maarten Baas designed the candleholder Knuckle, which was taken into production, while he was still studying.
In 2000 Maarten Baas studied for several months at the Politecnico of Milan.
In June 2002 he graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven with two designs.
Maarten Baas two design works comprised of a series of charred furniture, popularly known as the Smoke series and an ingenious sundial, displaying the hours in shadow.
Maarten Baas works were nominated for the René Smeets and Melkweg design awards. This led to his collaboration with a group of former Design Academy students, with which they were rewarded during the Design Week in Tokyo.
Three of Maarten Baas’s Smoke works have been reproduced by Marcel Wanders’s international design company MOOOI. It is thanks to the international exposure of successful exhibitions in Milan, London, and Paris that the Smoke series is considered by museums, critics, collectors and the design-informed public an iconic collection of contemporary design.
Smoke pieces have been acquired by important designers and collectors such as Lidewij Edelkoort and Phillipe Starck. Maarten Baas’s Smoke chandelier was showcased at the Victoria and Albert Museum 2004 exhibition ‘Brilliant’ in London while a smoke chair was included in the ‘Nest’ exhibition 2004 at the Stedelijk Museum (www.stedelijk.nl) in Amsterdam.
In May 2004 Maarten Baas debuted his Smoke series stateside in a solo-exhibition at Moss in New York. This monumental exhibition titled ‘Where There’s Smoke...’ offered 25 extraordinary unique pieces, each methodically burned with a blow torch and salvaged by translucent epoxy resin sealant. Maarten Baas, without fear or reserve, torched the classical designs of Gaudi, Eames, Rietveld, Sottsass and the Campana Brothers among many others. The “Where There's Smoke...” concept with Moss was continuing, with one of its highlights in July 2007, when Moss opened their new store in Los Angeles presenting a burned 1934 Steinway grand piano.
The publicity surrounding his New York exhibition lead to the Groninger Museum’s commission of an new collection of works which was exhibited in their ‘Nocturnal Emissions’ exhibition in 2004.
Without hesitation, the Groninger Museum turned over an entire suite of antique furniture from the original museum collection, for Maarten Baas to transform and resurrect from obscurity.
In 2005 Maarten Baas began collaborating with Bas den Herder, who is now responsible for the production of all of Maarten Baas’s works. The founding of studio Baas & den Herder made it possible to produce Maarten Baas’s unique pieces on a larger scale. This new collaboration allows for all pieces to continue to be handcrafted in Holland and for Maarten Baas to take on even more ambitious projects and private commissions from hotels, restaurants, galleries and museums all over the world. Each of the pieces which are made in this studio, are uniquely handmade by Baas and his team of ten assistants. All these pieces are signed, dated and -where required- numbered by Maarten Baas.
Maarten Baas approaches design without knowledge of, or care for, predisposed boundaries. This method of approach was further strengthened by his 2005 exhibition at the Salone del Mobile in Milan, where he unveiled his Treasure, Hey, chair, be a bookshelf! and Flatpack Furniture which was yet again received with great anticipation and critical acclaim. At the Salone del Mobile in 2006 Maarten Baas launched Clay Furniture, which is recognized as the natural successor to Smoke and ultimately one of the most surprising projects unveiled at the festival. After which point, Cibone organized a solo-exhibition in Tokyo titled Clay and Smoke thus bringing his works to the Eastern market. 2006 also marked a second exhibition at Moss when they presented the Clay collection at the ICFF in New York and at Design Miami design fair.
That same year saw the Design Museum in London display 18 pieces from the Clay collection. Maarten Baas newest collection, Sculpt, was launched in 2007 at the Salone del Mobile, Milan. Baas’s new collection consists of gracefully oversized chairs, cupboards, tables and chests-of-drawers. Each piece begins as a rough, hand-carved miniature model which Maarten Baas scales to life-size deliberately producing well finished furniture which naturally contradicts their some times wood-veneered and metal construction. Each new work comes in a limited edition of eight.
In 2005 Maarten Baas collaborated with Ian Schrager’s design team on the new Gramercy Park Hotel. Maarten Baas supplied Smoke furniture for each room, several Clay works and a Smoke billiard table for the lobby.
All pieces were hand made by studio Baas & den Herder and debuted at the August 2006 opening. Maarten Baas lives and works in Waalre, near Eindhoven, in the Southern region of the Netherlands. It is there where Maarten Baas produces his handmade furniture and is continually developing new concepts and designs. New solo exhibitions will be launched in Los Angeles, London, Tokyo and Shanghai this coming year.

Marco Dessí

After an apprenticeship in the technical field, Marco Dessí(born 1976 in Merano, Italy) studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where some of his student projects already drew international attention, like his concept for a radiator adapting an industrial function and aesthetics to the living space. In 2007 Marco Dessí founded his own design studio and since then realizes projects with renowned manufacturers like Lomeyr, Augarten or Richard Lampert.
For Augarten Vienna, second-oldest porcelain manufacturer in Europe, Marco Dessí recently designed their first dinner service in forty years, guiding the company a considerable step further into the present. Marco Dessís approach of tinkering with shapes and possibilities until they "fit"and feel light and intuitive again, Marco Dessí close reading of the production process, be it crafted or industrial, and the sparse but effective use of fine detail leads to products that suggest both the radically contemporary and aesthetic longevity.Marco Dessí lives and works in Vienna.

Michael Anastassiades

Michael Anastassiades launched his studio in 1994 to explore contemporary notions of culture and aesthetics through a combination of product, furniture and environmental design.
Positioned between fine art and design, his work aims to provoke dialogue, participation and interaction.
Michael Anastassiades creates objects that are minimal, utilitarian and almost mundane yet full of a vitality one might not expect. Anastassiades’ work is featured in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Michael Anastassiades clients and patrons include Rosenthal, Swarovski and Hussein Chalayan. Michael Anastassiades pieces also feature prominently in landmark interiors including Soho House New York and the Grand Hotel Stockholm.
Michael Anastassiades, the company, was established in 2007 to introduce Michael Anastassiades’s signature pieces, a collection of lighting, furniture, jewellery and tabletop objects. The company’s philosophy is a continuous search for eclecticism, individuality, and timeless qualities in design. Michael Anastassiades trained as a civil engineer at London’s Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine before taking a masters degree in industrial design at the Royal College of Art. Michael Anastassiades lives and works in London.

Marc Newson

Marc Newson is one of the most accomplished and influential designers of his generation. At 45, he has already worked across a wide range of disciplines to create everything from chairs, household objects, a bicycle and a concept car to restaurants, a recording studio and interiors of private and commercial jets, for clients based in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia..

Born in Sydney, Australia, Newson spent his childhood travelling in Europe and Asia, before studying jewellery and sculpture at Sydney College of the Arts. He started experimenting with furniture design as a student and, after graduating in 1984, was awarded a grant from the Australian Crafts Council, and staged an exhibition - featuring the Lockheed Lounge - at the Roslyn Oxley Gallery in Sydney.

In 1987 Newson moved to Tokyo where he lived and worked until 1991 designing such pieces as the Orgone Lounge, Black Hole Table and Felt Chair, which were widely exhibited in Asia and Europe.

Newson set up a studio in Paris in 1991, and won commissions from prestigious European manufacturers including Flos for lighting, Cappellini and Moroso for furniture. He formed a joint venture, the Ikepod watch company, to manufacture the watches he designed, and produced limited editions of aluminium furniture including the Event Horizon Table and Orgone Chair, exhibited at the Galerie Kreo in Paris, whose proprietor, Didier Krzentowski, is the leading expert on Newson’s works and composes his Catalogue Raisonné. During the mid-late 1990s, Newson also designed a series of restaurants - Coast in London, Manchester’s Mash & Air, Osman in Cologne and Canteen in Manhattan - the interior of Syn, a Tokyo recording studio and a retail system for Belgian designer, Walter Von Beirendonck’s W.&L.T. street wear label.
In 1997, Newson moved to London, where he set up Marc Newson Ltd as a larger studio capable of tackling more ambitious industrial projects. He has since designed mass manufactured glassware for Iittala, kitchen and bathroom accessories for Alessi, furniture, lighting and household objects for Magis, B&B Italia, Idée and Dupont Corian. Newson has also designed vehicles such as a bicycle, the MN01, for Denmark’s Biomega, a concept car, the 021C for Ford, and the interiors of a Falcon 900B private jet. In 2002-3 he designed the Lever House Restaurant in the famous Lever House Building in Manhattan, New York, a Business Class seat, Skybed for Qantas, a cookware range for Tefal and a bathroom range, The Newson Suite, for Ideal Standard. He opened a second studio in Paris.

In 2004/5 Newson received the commission from Qantas Airways to design entire aircraft interiors for the new A380 fleet and new airport lounges for Sydney and Melbourne. He designed Talby, a mobile telephone for Japan’s KDDI, the uniforms worn by the Australian Olympic team (in collaboration with Richard Allan), and worn at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, a shoe, Zvezdochka, for Nike, collections of clothing for G-Star, and Scope a range of luggage for Samsonite. He designed the bar and the sixth floor of the Hotel Puerta America in Madrid. In April 2005, Marc Newson was named as one of Time magazine’s Top 100 most influential people in the world.

In 2006, Marc was appointed Creative Director of Qantas Airways, and continued working on the A380 interiors and airport lounges. He designed the Marie-Hélène de Taillac (MHT) jewellery store in Tokyo and the Azzedine Alaia shoe boutique in Paris. He created a limited edition champagne magnum container for Dom Pérignon. He was awarded the Designer of the Year prize at Design/Miami.

2007 saw the opening of Marc Newson designed Qantas First Class lounges at Sydney and Melbourne airports and in June the unveiling of his spaceplane, designed for EADS Astrium, the fulfilment of a lifelong personal ambition.
In 2008 he designed ovens and hobs for Smeg, the Atmos Clock (561) for Jaeger-leCoultre and the first commercial flights of the Newson designed Qantas A380’s began. He was awarded ‘Designer of the Year’ at the London Design Festival. 2009 has seen the first of Newson’s work in high-end jewellery with the Julia necklace for Boucheron.

As well as winning numerous awards, including six Good Design Awards from the Chicago Atheneum, Newson has exhibited extensively. He created Bucky, a sculptural installation for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris in 1995, and a major retrospective of his work was held at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney (August 2001 - February 2002).

In 2003, Newson was commissioned by the Fondation Cartier to design a piece of his choosing, coinciding with his 40th birthday. The result was Kelvin40, a concept jet, exhibited at the Fondation Cartier in Paris (January – May 2004) and included in Marc’s first major European retrospective originally staged at the Groninger Museum, Holland (May – September 2004) and consequently at London’s Design Museum (October 2004 – January 2005). An exhibition of Marc Newson’s new unique and limited edition pieces was shown at the Gagosian gallery, New York from January – March 2007 and a further show of new pieces at the Gagosian gallery in London from March – May 2008.

Newson’s designs are present in most major permanent museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, London’s Design Museum, Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou and the Vitra Design Museum. A book on Marc Newson’s work was published by Booth-Clibborn Editions in 1999, and one by Thames & Hudson in 2001 and in 2005 a DVD was released. In March 2008, Marc Newson was the subject of a documentary in the BBC ONE ‘Imagine’ series presented by Alan Yentob.

Marc Newson holds Adjunct Professorships in Design at Sydney College of the Arts and Hong Kong Polytechnic University and in the UK has been appointed ‘Royal Designer for Industry’.

Michael Sodeau Partnership

Michael Sodeau Partnership is a multidisciplinary design studio.
Michael Sodeau Partnership designs furniture, lighting and product for a variety of international clients.
Michael Sodeau Partnership also undertake commissions and have designed interiors and exhibition spaces, often curating the exhibitions.
In addition, Michael Sodeau Partnership also design web sites and graphic/brand identities for several clients, art directing the entire process. Another important aspect of the service Michael Sodeau Partnership can provide is project management, whether it is the production of furniture for a hotel, managing an interior project or overseeing a print run. Michael Sodeau Partnership specialise in creative thinking and simple solutions.

Mikko Laakkonen

Mikko Laakkonen was born in Espoo, Finland in 1974. After training as a musical instrument maker he studied design at the Kymenlaakso Polytechnic (Bachelors of Arts degree) and at University of arts and Design Helsinki.(Master of Arts degree) After several years of working at design offices Mikko Laakkonen founded his own design studio at 2004 in Helsinki.
Mikko Laakkonen has participated in several International exhibitions including Abitare con il rame 2007. Materia e colore / Triennale di Milano Promosedia Caiazza Memorial Challenge 2007 - Section by Invitation, Rehti exhibitions at the Milan furniture fair 2005, 2006, 2007 Saunabus exhibitions, 2003.
Mikko Laakkonen has also awarded The Young Designer of the Year Prize in 2009 and special mention on Design Report awards in 2005.
Today Mikko Laakkonen works for various international clients in the areas of product and furniture design.

Mathias Bengtsson Design

Born in Copenhagen in 1971, Mathias Bengtsson studied furniture design at the Danish College of Design (Danmarks Designskole).
From 1992-3, Bengtsson attended the Art Centre College in Switzerland, then returned to Copenhagen where he formed the design collective known as ‘Panic’ together with four other graduates.
Panic’s mission was to give young designers a voice within the Danish furniture industry, and as a result, they succeeded in creating new opportunities.
Bengtsson moved to London in 1996, where he enrolled in the furniture and product design course at the Royal College of Art, directed by Ron Arad.
After he received his degree in 1999, Bengtsson collaborated with fellow graduates to create the design studio named ‘At the Third Stroke’.
A year later, he co-founded ‘Design Laboratory’ in partnership with Sam Buxton, then went on to establish his own studio in 2002. Bengtsson’s work began gaining acclaim internationally in 1998, when his Slice and Homage to Panton chairs were exhibited at Galleria Post Design in Milan.
In 2002, Bengtsson’s work was shown in the ‘Design by Aluminium’ exhibition held at the Design Museum in London, and also exhibited by Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department, who presented Bengtsson’s work again in 2003 and 2004. In 2003, the British Council featured Bengtsson’s furniture in the ’Great Brits’ exhibition held in Milan during the Salone del Mobile, which later travelled to Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
Across the Atlantic, the plywood version of the Slice chair was acquired by the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, Texas. In New York, gallerist Barry Friedman began exhibiting Bengtsson’s work, and Phillips auctioneers, also based in New York, exhibited and subsequently sold Bengtsson’s Spun carbon-fibre chaise longue in 2004.
The following year, Sweden’s Röhsska Museum held a one-man show of Bengtsson’s work, simply titled ‘Mathias Bengtsson’.
Today, Mathias Bengtsson lives and works in London, where he shares his studio with his wife, graphic designer Sara Hildén Bengtsson. Together, they collaborate on consultancy projects, yet also maintain their respective design practices.

Mariyo Yagi

born : Kobe, Japan Bachelor of Fine Arts ( Kyoto city University of Art )
Doctor of Humanities Honoris Causa Anaheim University (formerly Lambert University)
Japanese multi-disciplinary public artist

Mariyo Yagi is an environmental sculptor
Mariyo Yagi is a painter, performer and poet
Mariyo Yagi is a licensed landscape engineer and contractor
Mariyo Yagi is a designer of lighting and interior objects
Mariyo Yagi is a construction contractor of her original parks, water gardens, and
monumental earthworks
Mariyo Yagi defies categorization, and has an canny ability to transform communities and the built environment through her unconventional interactive art practice.
1986
Guest Artist, Banff Art Center ( Canada )
1988
Guest Professor, Concordia University ( Canada )
1995-98
Professorship at Kobe Women's University
1991
Delegate Survival of The Arts Sundance ( USA )
1992
Delegate "Omame Project" Earth Summit Arts ( Brazil )
1997
DAAD Grant ( Germany )
1998
Japan Foundation Fellowship Grant ( Estonia)
1977
The Italian Good Design Award (Italy)
1984
Copper Prize Award World Print/San Fransisco Museum of Art ( USA )
1995
Urban Design Award ( Toyonaka City, Japan )
1995
Urban Art Award ( Mauberge, France )
2002
Spain/ Foundation Valparaiso fellowship
2003
The 21st Kyoto prefecture culture prize merits prize
2007
Italy/ Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship

Morphosis

Founded in 1972, Morphosis is an interdisciplinary practice involved in rigorous design and research that yields innovative, iconic buildings and urban environments. With founder Thom Mayne serving as design director, Morphosis today consists of a group of more than 50 professionals, who remain committed to the practice of architecture as a collaborative enterprise. With projects worldwide, Morphosis’s work ranges in scale from residential, institutional, and civic buildings to large urban planning projects. Named after the Greek term, morphosis, meaning to form or be in formation, Morphosis is a dynamic and evolving practice that responds to the shifting and advancing social, cultural, political and technological conditions of modern life. Over the past 30 years, Morphosis has received 25 Progressive Architecture awards, over 90 American Institute of Architects (AIA) awards, and numerous other honors.

Mike and Maaike

Mike and Maaike is a progressive industrial design studio led by Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers.

Formed as a design laboratory, the San Francisco studio works both independently and with clients to create innovative solutions for products, technology, furniture, environments, packaging and transportation.

Maaike Evers is Dutch, Mike Simonian, Californian. These distinct backgrounds inform a diverse body of work marked by experimentation, substance and strong conceptual narratives.

Milton Glaser

Milton Glaser, Inc. was established in 1974.
The work produced at this Manhattan studio encompasses a wide range of design disciplines. In the area of print graphics, Milton Glaser produces identity programs for corporate and institutional marketing purposes - including logos, stationery, brochures, signage, and annual reports. In the field of environmental and interior design, Milton Glaser has conceptualized and site-supervised the fabrication of numerous products, exhibitions, interiors and exteriors of restaurants, shopping malls, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail and commercial environments. Milton Glaser is also personally responsible for the design and illustration of more than 300 posters for clients in the areas of publishing, music, theater, film, institutional and civic enterprise, as well as those for commercial products and services.

Martin Azua

Martín Ruiz de Azúa
Martin Azua currently living and working in Barcelona.
Martin Azua graduated from the University of Barcelona with a degree in Fine Arts, speciality of Design. Martin Azua teaches the History of Design at the Elisava School.
He collaborates with several companies as an industrial designer, an activity he combines with his research work.
The latter has been included in several solo and group exhibitions in Barcelona, Milan, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, etc...Some of Martin Azua projects have also been published in prestigious international publications.
Martin Azua has works in the collection of MOMA New York, Vitra Design Museum, Museo de Artes Decorativas de Barcelona and Centro de Arte La Panera de Lleida
Martin Azua recently the Ciudad de Barcelona Award 1999, Prize Delta de Plata 2007, Prize FAD arquitectura/efímeros 2008, Prize Design Plus 2009, Prize Interiorismo Plus 2009.

2010
AD Prize to the best spanish designer of 2010.

Matteo Thun

Matteo Thun was born in Bolzano, Italy, in 1952, studied at the Salzburg Academy under Oskar Kokoschka, took his degree in architecture in Florence in 1975 with Adolfo Natalini and moved to Milan in 1978, where he met and started working with Ettore Sottsass. In 1981, he was a co-founder of the Memphis group, the design movement that so shaped events in the eighties. The next year, the Vienna Academy for Applied Arts appointed him to the chair in product design and ceramics. Leaving Memphis, he founded the Studio Matteo Thun in Milan in 1984 and served as Creative Director with Swatch in 1990-93. Matteo Thun stands for long lasting solutions with holistic approach. Architecture means designing the soul of the place. This implies an aesthetic, economic and technological sustainability. It means to create a synthesis of the existing, the purpose and the area. The solution is different, each time. Product design must reflect the soul of the brand. It is architecture of simple, pure and beautiful gestures to serve a daily life that goes well beyond our present life. Matteo Thun has won the ADI Compasso d Oro Award for design excellence three times and only recently has received the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2010. His Side Hotel in Hamburg was chosen as Hotel of the Year in 2001, the Vigilius mountain resort won the Wallpaper Design Award in 2004 and the Radisson SAS Frankfurt was chosen as the best hotel opened in the year in the Worldwide Hospitality Awards in 2005. The Prix Acier Construction was given to him for the Hugo Boss Strategic Business Unit in Switzerland in 2007. Matteo Thun was inducted into the Interior Hall of Fame in New York in December 2004 and is a member of RIBA, the Royal Association of British Architects.

Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988.
Marcel Wanders’ fame started with his iconic Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog Design in 1996. He is now ubiquitous, designing for the biggest European contemporary design manufacturers like B&B Italia, Bisazza, Poliform, Moroso, Flos, Boffi, Cappellini, Droog Design and Moooi of which he is also art director and co-owner. Founded in 2000,
Moooi has grown into an internationally renowned design label. Additionally, Marcel Wanders works on architectural and interior design projects and recently turned his attention to consumer home appliances.
Marcel was the editor of the International Design Yearbook 2005. In the same year, together with Chef Peter Lute, he established the extraordinary LUTE SUITES hospitality-concept, the first “all over city suites” hotel in the world. He also designed the interior of Blits, a new restaurant in Rotterdam and the interior of the restaurant ‘Thor’ at the Hotel on Rivington in New York including bar, lounge and private club.
Marcel is the first and among the most important designers of Droog design. He was a juror for various prizes like the Rotterdam Design Prize (for which his own products were nominated several times) and the Kho Liang Ie prize. He lectured at SFMoMA, Limn, the Design Academy, Nike, IDFA, FutureDesignDays and has taught at various design academies in the Netherlands and abroad.
Various designs of Marcel Wanders have been selected for the most important design collections and exhibitions in the world, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York and San Francisco, the V&A Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Central Museum in Utrecht, Museum of Decorative Arts Copenhagen and various Droog Design exhibitions. Coverage on Marcel has been published in all leading design magazines and newspapers such as Domus, Interni, Blueprint, Design Report, Frame, I.D. magazine, Abitare, Wallpaper, Nylon, Elle decoration, Icon, Esquire, the International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, the Financial Times, the New York Times and Business Week.
Marcel Wanders website