Josef Hoffmann
The Austrian architect Josef Hoffmann was a central figure in the evolution of modern design, and a leader in an aesthetic movement born in Europe in the late 19th century that rejected florid, extravagant ornamentation in favor of a new [...]
Jaroslav Jurica
Jaroslav Jurica was born in 1980. During his Bachelor's in product design studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology, he became interested in products as objects and searched for their functional principles. [...]
Tom Kelley
Born in eastern Germany designer Tom Kelley has travelled quite the road. Born in a small village in East Germany, he quickly learned the limits of personal freedom, the restriction he had been born into. He lost his mother young to cancer [...]
Alexander Gufler
Italian-born designer Alexander Gufler began his career working alongside his father, a goldsmith. It is here Gufler got his first taste of design and forms and began to develop his eye for simple, beautiful, well-designed things. He went [...]
Lounge Designgroup
The studio, Lounge Design Group, was founded in 2006 in Halle, Germany by partners Alexander Grimm and Ronny Eysser. Working with everything from product design to graphic and interior design, German designers are known for their [...]
Mads K. Johansen
Mads grew up in a small Denmark village close to local nature, which translated into his love for natural materials. For a long time, he has worked as a cabinet maker, carpenter and even furniture seller. Mads K. Johansen graduated from a [...]
Claesson Koivisto Rune
Founded in 1995 by Marten Claesson, Eero Koivisto, and Ola Rune in Stockholm, Claesson Koivisto Rune has emerged as one of Sweden's most notable design studios. Initially established as an architectural office, the studio has diversified [...]
Michael Thonet
\"Never was there an object as elegant, as well conceived, as precise in its execution, and practical in its usage.\" - Le Corbusier on Thonet\'s chairs Michael Thonet, a German cabinet maker by trade, failed at experiments with glues and [...]
Olgoj Chorchoj
The studio was founded in 1990 by Michal FronÄ›k and Jan NÄ›meÄek during their studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Since then they have devoted their time to industrial design, furniture design, [...]
kaschkasch
The German duo Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider established the Cologne-based design studio kaschkasch in 2011. The duo works in furniture design and lighting. Guided in their creative approach by discussion and collaboration, the [...]
Arik Levy
Artist, designer, photographer and film-maker, was born in Tel-Aviv in 1963. Nowadays, he works in his own studio in Paris. He moved to Europe in 1988 and graduated three years later with honours in the field of Industrial Design at Art [...]
Yonoh
Two young Spanish industrial designers - Clara del Portillo and Alex Selma, decided to establish a multidisciplinary studio in 2006. The results of their creative design-work are simple and functional products - from chairs, sofas, lamps, [...]
E-ggs Studio
The studio was founded in 2012 by Gaia Giotti and Giona Scarselli in Florence. Their work is a cross-section between product design, interior design and architecture. Their attention is directed to unusual phenomena in everyday life and [...]
