Artist, technician, photographer, designer, filmmaker, Levy's skills are multi-disciplinary and his work can be seen in prestigious galleries and museums worldwide. Hailing originally from Israel and moving to Europe after his first participation in a group sculpture exhibition in Tel-Aviv in 1988, Levy currently works in his studio in Paris. Respected for his furniture and light designs on all continents, Levy also creates hi-tech clothing lines and accessories for firms in the Far East.

www.ariklevy.fr

Born in 1959, Christophe Pillet has been living and working in Paris since 1988. He graduated from Nice’s Arts Décoratifs College in 1985 and became “Master of Domus Academy” in 1986. In 1993, he started to develop his activity independently. He engages in many fields : product and furniture design, interior decoration, architecture, scenography and artistic direction. He creates furniture and objects for Cappellini, Daum, JC Decaux, Driade, Ecart International, L’Oréal, Lacoste, Moroso, Renault, Serralunga, Shiseido, Shu Uemura and Whirlpool.

www.christophepillet.com

The Swedish design partnership Claesson Koivisto Rune was founded in 1995 as an architectural office but is, in the classic Scandinavian way multi-disciplinary, practising both architecture and design. On the list of completed architectural projects are: Sfera Building culture house in Kyoto, the Swedish Ambassador’s residence in Berlin, Ingegerd Råman house and studio, Kjell A Nordström residence, Sony Music headquarters Stockholm, One Happy Cloud restaurant, Gucci Stockholm, Louis Vuitton Stockholm, Scandinavian Airlines Euroshop, Asplund shop. Other works in progress include several private houses.

www.ckr.se

Jonathan Prestwich spent six years as chief assistant to German designer Burkhard Vogtherr in France. He managed projects ranging from residential furniture for Arco (NL) to office furniture for Fritz Hansen (DK) winning ‘best of Neo Con’ and the ‘Red Dot’ design award, amongst others.

Since 2003 Jonathan has lived and worked in London as an independent design consultant. He has worked with several highly respected furniture producers, researching and developing new products.
Influenced and driven by the relationship between modern technology and nature, with a goal to create simple elegant innovation.

www.jonathanprestwich.com

Magnus Long is a British Industrial Designer and heads his eponymous studio based in London creating ‘useful and insightful designs that connect people with beautiful craft and engineering’.

Having cut his teeth working at design and manufacture pioneer ColebrookBossonSaunders and then twentytwentyone, Magnus founded his studio in 2012 and won the inaugural ‘Jonathan Hindle Award for Design Excellence’ from the Design Guild in 2015, along with subsequent design awards from the Guild. 

Magnus Long Design Studio has designed best-sellers for highly revered clients in both the domestic and contract markets, including the award winning and iconic Cross Leg Chair, Stix Table and Bloom Table. The studio continually works on new projects with new clients, as seen at www.magnuslong.com

www.magnuslong.com

Michael Sodeau was born in London in 1969. He studied product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design where he graduated in 1994. He was a founding partner in Inflate, and set up his own design studio Michael Sodeau Partnership in 1997, designing for MSP his own production company.

Michael has also designed for several other manufacturers that include Abet, Asplund, Bute, Christopher Farr, E&Y, Gervasoni, Gordon Russell, Isokon Plus, Livit, SCP and Wedgwood. Michael Sodeau has exhibited internationally and has had solo shows in London, New York, Paris, Stockholm and Tokyo. He also has designs in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Black Dog Published a book on Michael Sodeau entitled 'Once upon a line'.

www.michaelsodeau.com

Monica Förster, creator of some of the most internationally renowned objects in contemporary Swedish design today, is based in Stockholm but grew up close to the arctic circle in the very north of Sweden. Her work is categorized by a strong sense of pure form mixed with a never-ending curiosity for new materials and technology. Always trying to work in a cross-disciplinary way, she invents and renews typologies in industrial, furniture and object design.

She has been awarded with Excellent Swedish Design, Design Plus in Germany, and was awarded FutureDesignDays Award 2002. She has also been represented in the International Design Yearbook. Monica Förster design studio works worldwide with clients such as Poltrona Frau, E&Y Japan, Offecct, David Design, Nola, Väveriet and Skruf.

www.monicaforster.se

Morph uk is a design partnership established by Bill Holding and Ben Cox in 1999, after they met while studying Furniture and Product design in Nottingham. With common interests across the creative spectrum from music through to graphics, as well as a like-minded approach to design, it was a natural progression to start working together professionally.

The duo began to steadily develop a longstanding relationship working with Habitat, as well as independent designers such as Michael Young, Tom Dixon, and Michael Sodeau.

As morph moved forward, their wide-ranging interest in all things creative began to be reflected in the scope of projects within which they became involved, from the development of luxury products for Marc Jacobs, shop interiors for Manderina Duck with Michael Young, lighting with Chris Levine, Prada fragrance bottles with David James, a range of ceramics for Harrods, through to working with artists such as Sarah Staton and Gary Hume.

www.morphuk.com

“For me design means the moment of pleasure when one sits in an armchair designed equally well for the backside and the back as for the eye. The shared moment. The right moment. Product design is a business – with the ultimate goal of creating, I try things out, ask questions, try to understand and find solutions. My design is abstract, intellectual and radical. If I had to define my work, it would be more specification design than discourse design.”

www.patricknorguet.com

PearsonLloyd is an award winning industrial design and innovation consultancy based in London. The studio, founded by Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd in 1997, offers product design services and strategic thinking in sectors that have demanding spatial, ergonomic and social needs, including the workplace, healthcare, transport and urban environments. With a history of implementing strategic change within these areas, the studio delivers real value to their clients through research-led innovation and industrial design that focuses on practical commercial solutions that are pragmatic, elegant and memorable.

The studio has worked with a range of international clients including InterContinental Hotels Group, Joseph Joseph, Lufthansa, Steelcase and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Over the years, PearsonLloyd has won numerous awards, including the distinction of Royal Designers for Industry by The Royal Society of Arts in 2008 and in 2012 Tom and Luke were celebrated in the top 50 designers Shaping the Future by Fast-Co Magazine in New York.

www.pearsonlloyd.com

I started making furniture in my father's workshop when I was eight, going on to win national competitions for cabinet making. The practical experience and an affinity with materials and processes, gained from an early age, are central to my design work and service.

Understanding materials and manufacturing techniques is fundamental to my approach, combined with a passionate desire to create accessible production furniture with 'soul'. Understanding manufacturing culture and possessing knowledge of these companies markets is the only way to effectively work with manufacturers.

www.pengellydesign.com

Sir Kenneth Grange is Britain’s leading product designer, his prolific career spans over 50 years and he is responsible for designing some of the most iconic and familiar products and appliances that shape our daily lives. Kodak cameras, the silhouette for the Intercity 125 train, Kenwood food mixers, Parker pens, and the re-design of the London black cab are just some of his well-known designs.

In 1972 Grange, together with Alan Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes and Mervyn Kurlansky established Pentagram, a world renowned multi-disciplinary design consultancy. More recently, in the 1990s, Grange has produced distinctive designs that have become part of our landscape, from the Adshel bus shelter in 1993 to the Rural Post box for Royal Mail in 1998.

Grange SmithMatthias is a new collaboration of experience and youth. Sir Kenneth Grange is well known as a designer of many familiar products and Jack Smith who graduated from the prestigious Design Products course at the Royal College of Art in 2011.

Stephen Burks and his New York studio, Readymade Projects, have been responsible for creative design direction on projects ranging from retail interiors and events to lighting, furniture and industrial design. He has developed innovative concepts for international brands including Aid To Artisans, Cappellini, Covo, David Design, E&Y, Estee Lauder, Herman Miller, Idee, Missoni, Mogu, Moroso, Triple 5 Soul, Vitra and Zanotta.

He has consistently been the first African-American industrial designer to ever collaborate with these companies. As a lecturer, Stephen has been invited to speak at the Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute and the Beckmans School of Design 1998 international design seminar entitled “Disruption Contents” in Stockholm. In 1997, he was one of fifteen designers invited to host a design workshop at the Ecole Des Beaux Arts de Sainte Etienne in France as part of their first international design biennial in 1998. In 2002, he was also one of the judges of the Student/Concepts category of I.D. Magazine’s 48th Annual International Design Review.

As the international art director for the former Japanese brand Mogu, he designed the Mogu-fied Fun House exhibition in Milan, 2003, the first ever Mogu flagship store in New York, 2003, and the Missoni Mogu Fun Fun exhibition during the Salone del Mobile, 2004.

www.readymadeprojects.com

Harri Koskinen founded his design studio Friends of Industry in Helsinki in 2000.
Studio's experience covers many fields of design from design development to consulting and creational ventures.

Harri Koskinen
www.harrikoskinen.com

JIN KURAMOTO STUDIO was founded in Tokyo in 2008 by Jin Kuramoto. 
It engages in various product design development such as furniture, home electric appliances, daily necessities by approach to introduce the essence of things into by clear formative expression.

JIN KURAMOTO STUDIO
www.jinkuramoto.com

Rethinking everyday objects and giving contemporary forms of expression to new technologies - this is the design approach adopted by Stefan Diez. After studying at Stuttgart's Visual Arts Academy, he began to work for Richard Sapper, then with Konstantin Grcic. He opened his own design studio in Munich in 2003. In 2007 he was appointed to a project professorship in product design to the College of Advanced Design in Karlsruhe. With designs for e15, Established & Sons, Moroso, Wilkhahn and Thonet among others, Stefan Diez has made a name for himself internationally and won numerous design awards. His work has been exhibited by major museums, and he has long since acquired a reputation as one of the most innovative, internationally successful German designers.

DIEZ OFFICE
https://www.diezoffice.com/

This Icelandic designer was born in 1970 in Reykjavik and is now based in Copenhagen.

Her works are distinctly influenced by natural materials, organic shapes and traditional craftmanship. The clean language of her style impressively reflect her ability to conceive and convey things in their originality. For her, art and design have an important and mutual contagious association with each other and can therefore be extremly meaningful for people. A special feature of her work is the versatility of the objects and a playful approach to the design. Therefore, many of her designs can serve two different purposes or be used in various ways. Dögg studied industrial Design at the 'Istituto Europeo di Design' in Milan and graduated at the 'Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' in Copenhagen with a master degree in Design. Her designs have been nominated many times and have been displayed at exhibitions worldwide, such as in New York, Frankfurt, Barcelona, io de Janeiro and Tokyo. Dögg's works are permanently featured at the exhibition of the 'Indianapolis Museum of Art' (USA) and the 'Fond National d'Art Contemporain i Paris' (France).Since 2010 Dögg has been developing innovative furniture and product designs in close collaboration with the Danish architect and designer Rikke Rützou Arnved. They combine traditional Scandinavian design with elements of modern technology and a passion for materials and texture. Their vision is to create 'innovative, sustainable and timeless design' for the people.

Born 1984 in Bergen, Norway and graduated from 'The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture' in Copenhagen.

Knut has a great interest in the entirety and dynamics of his designs and creations. The pure use of shape in his design is an image of the traditional Scandinavian design and architecture, based on the material's natural ability. For him, design is seeing the balance in a product and trimming away all unnecessary details. Thereby only the raw design will be experienced. His thoroughness for details gives the products the highest standards of functionality and comfort. Following his contemporary artistic style and expertise, he has managed to merge his international inspiration together with the traditional merits from his Scandinavian roots. In 2007 Knut Bendik established KR with business partner Rune Krøjgaard. Together they design products characterized by being functional and pure but maintaining a great understanding of everyday life. For Knut and Rune, simplicity, aesthetics and comfort are the key elements in their creations. Their work has been displayed at numerous Nordic and International exhibitions.

Born 1991 in Nyborg, Denmark.
Graduated of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture

Kristian creates unique pieces through simple, functional and considered design. He has been studying architecture and design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan. His designs aim to merge traditional design methods and new production techniques into high quality pieces of furniture and product design. 

Since 2015 Kristian began a design collaboration with Tommy Hyldahl. From Tommys many travels around Asia and Kristians studies in Japan, they strive to combine their passion for Japanese simplicity, ethnic details and Scandinavian tradition in timeless pieces of furniture.

Born 1980 in Herning, Denmark.

His works are especially characterized by his high understanding for material and its properties. These are impressively reflected in a very unique, organic and pure use of shapes. A deep fascination for both individual and pure lines, combined with a filigree flair for current trends, shapes the hallmark of his designs. Often, he seeks constructive solutions from heavy industry and adapts them onto relevant products. For Rune design is all about being able to 'see new possibilities' and finding 'the simplicity through the shape and dimension' of a body. Thus his objects are menat to 'complement the eye and the body' and create a 'relation between shape and space'. In this context his Nordic roots and his ties to the classic Scandinavian design are destinct. Influenced by numerous visits to South-East Asia and an accompanying interest in the local, traditional culture of cabinetry, he combines streams of both style elements in an aesthetic form. Rune graduated in studies of Design and Industrial Form at the 'Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts'. His works have been displayed at numerous exhibitions in the Nordic and Baltic region. Since 2007 he has been collaborating closely with the Norwegian designer Knut Bendik Humlevik. Together they design products that are characterized by 'being functional and pure with a sense of normality'. In their words, 'simplicity, aesthetics and comfort' are the key elements of their creations.

Senior Founder of NORR11

After years of experience in the fashion industry, Tommy decided to pursue his passion for furniture and interior design and founded NORR11.

Tommy has been responsible for the creative DNA of NORR11 since 2010, and has worked with a number of furniture designers. His interest in materials and product manufacturing is clearly seen throughout the whole collection.

Since 2015 Tommy began a design collaboration with Kristian Sofus Hansen. From Tommy's many travels around Asia and Kristians studies in Japan, they strive to combine their passion for Japanese simplicity, ethnic details and Scandinavian tradition in timeless pieces of furniture.

Born 1926 in Gamtofte, Denmark.

His versatility and ability to recognize and realize design as a entirety, are the defining style elements of Verner Panton. Undoubtably he is considered as one of the most accepted and most visionary designers of the Danish Design Classics, as well as a pioneer of the modern furniture and interior design. Especially the interaction of colors and geometrical shapes, his specific sense for space, characterize his works. Often, his visions broke with what was considered as infeasible. For him, it was not the wish for 'evolution' but of 'revolution' that drove him. He is both a creator of new style era's and a symbol for timeless design at the same time. Verner Panton described his intention as "the main purpose of my work is to stimulate the people to use their own power of imagination". The stigmatization of furniture contradicted with his ideas. He rather saw the room and the furnishing as an indivisible unit. Resulting, flexibility and functionality are the key features in his creations. His visionary concepts are the basis for the space-age style of the early 70s, which is influential and still popular to this day. The same hold true for his way to work with colors and shapes in a flow, impressively reflecting his appreciation for space and shapes. Due to his interest in geometric shapes, many of his works are ergonomic innovations that are based on both body shapes as well as on a maximum of functionality - giving them the ability to get in line with the overall picture of the room. Again, here Verner Panton is a model for many other designers and artists and an initiator of an alternative, visionary and far-sighted thinking.
Verner Panton studied at the 'Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts'. Early on, he got in contact with other designers of Danish Classics, such as Arne Jacobsen, with whom he participated in the development of 'The Ant Chair'. He considered Poul Henningsen, until his death in 1967, as his mentor. Throughout his career, Verner Panton created numerous significant projects and works.

Panton is multiple awarded for his work, creations and designs.

Born in 1977 at La Louvière (Belgium), Benoît Deneufbourg studied interior architecture at Saint-Luc Brussels. He launched his studio in 2004 which covers a wide range of disciplines like designing furniture, lighting and accessories, and also interior design, installations and graphic design. Benoît also teaches in a Brussels art school.

Dana Cannam received his Bachelors in Industrial Design at the University of Alberta and his Masters in Social Design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven. Soon after graduation Dana established his own studio based in Rotterdam offering services in product development and design consultation.

Born in N.Ireland in 1986, David Irwin graduated in Three Dimensional Design at Northumbria University in 2007. He completed a fellowship on the Designers in Residence initiative at Northumbria’s School of Design in 2010 and subsequently went on to establish his own Industrial design Studio in 2011.

With a background in product design and applied art, Ian employs a mix of design and craft skills to his work. A deep understanding of ceramic materials and using retired machinery from Stoke-on-Trent, enables Ian to communicate qualities that can often get lost in the gap between design and production.

Born in Tokyo and raised in New England, Jonah received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. For several years, Jonah designed furniture that he built in a friend’s studio while he played bass guitar, touring and recording with several indie rock bands. Needing to develop and showcase a growing body of work that was filling his house but few had seen, Jonah founded Atelier Takagi in 2005

Marie Dessuant was born in 1984 in Paris. In 2008, she graduated with distinction from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in product design (MA). She wrote a thesis about ‘Wandering in Daily Life’ and designed a collection entitled ‘Objets Vagues’. Marie is now Head of Design at Another Country.

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.

Recently graduated from Heriot Watt University with a BA (1st Class hons) in Design for Textiles, Ruth Duff designed a collection of innovative, exciting and unique fabrics for Another Country. Pushing the boundaries of woven textiles by combining geometric and organic shapes through jacquard weaving to create complex designs.

Simon Donald is a London based product designer. He studied Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art and later completed an MA in Design Products at the RCA. After graduating 2007 Simon went on to work for Sebastian Bergne Ltd as a designer and project manager for four years, working with an array of large clients such as Tefal and Proctor and Gamble.