Archive

Philippe Starck

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Philippe Starck" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] PHILIPPE STARCK Philippe Starck, (born 1949 in Paris), is French designer known for his wide range of designs, including everything from interior design to household objects to boats to watches. He has also...

Continue reading

Ranya Sarakbi & Niko Koronis

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Ranya Sarakbi & Nino Koronis" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] RANYA SARAKBI & NIKO KORONIS NIKO KORONIS IS AN ARCHITECT WITH MASTER DEGREES IN BOTH ARCHITECTURE AND PRODUCT DESIGN. IN ADDITION, HE IS ALSO A RECIPIENT OF A PHD IN...

Continue reading

Sergio Rodrigues

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Sergio Rodrigues" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] SERGIO RODRIGUES (1927-2014) SERGIO RODRIGUES WAS A BRAZILIAN CARIOCA ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER. ALONG WITH JOAQUIM TENREIRO AND JOSÉ ZANINE CALDAS, HE WAS A PIONEER WHEN TRANSFORMING THE BRAZILIAN DESIGN IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN AND...

Continue reading

Namika Atelier

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Namika Atelier" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] HALA MATTA HALA MATTA WAS BORN IN BEIRUT IN 1970. AFTER 20 FRUITFUL YEARS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD, SHE DECIDES TO PURSUE A CAREER AS A CERAMICIST. TRAINED IN THE STUDIO OF CERAMICISTS...

Continue reading

Maria Group and Spock Design

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Maria Group" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] MARIAGROUP MARIAGROUP IS A DESIGN STUDIO LED BY THE BROTHER AND SISTER DUO GEORGES AND MICHÈLE MARIA. BASED IN BEIRUT, THE ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE UNDERTAKES WORKS OF ALL SCALES, SPANNING FROM SMALL INTERIOR PROJECTS TO...

Continue reading

Marguerite le Maire

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Marguerite le Maire Rug" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] MARGUERITE LE MAIRE MARGUERITE LE MAIRE IS AN FRENCH ILLUSTRATOR AND TEXTILE DESIGNER. THIS DOUBLE VOCATION ALLOWS HER TO CONCEIVE AUDACIOUS AND TAILOR-MADE RUGS AND CARPETS. EACH DESIGN IS A UNIQUE...

Continue reading

Georges Mohasseb

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Georges Mohasseb" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Georges Mohasseb GEORGES MOHASSEB (BORN IN 1973 IN LEBANON) IS AN ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER. HE STUDIED ARCHITECTURE IN WASHINGTON D.C, AT ECOLE BOULLE IN PARIS AND DOMUS ACADEMY IN MILAN. IN 2007, HE OPENED...

Continue reading

Maloles Antignac

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Maloles Antignac" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] MALOLES ANTIGNAC Born in Spain, Maloles Antignac lives and works between Paris and Madrid. Leaving her first career in fashion, since 2016, she has devoted herself to the arts. She has developed a...

Continue reading

Giotto Stoppino

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Giotto Stoppino" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Giotto Stoppino [/vc_column_text] [/vc_tab] [/vc_tabs] [/vc_column] [/vc_row]...

Continue reading

Gilbert Valentin

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gilbert Valentin" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Gilbert Valentin BRUNO GAMBONE (BORN 1936) IS A PROTAGONIST OF CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS. AFTER STARTING TO WORK IN HIS FATHER’S CERAMICS WORKSHOP IN FLORENCE, IN 1963 HE MOVED TO NEW YORK AND BECAME A...

Continue reading

Joaquim Tenreiro

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Joaquim Tenreiro" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Joaquim Tenreiro (1906–1992) Joaquim Tenreiro was among the leading furniture designers and visual artists in mid-20th century Brazil. Tenreiro was born in Portugal into a family of woodworkers and carpenters. In the late 1920s, he...

Continue reading

Jean Prouvé

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Jean Prouvé" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) Jean Prouvé was a revolutionary architect and furniture maker of the 21st century. He was the founder of the Union of Modern Artists, alongside Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte...

Continue reading

Bruno Gatta

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Bruno Gatta" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Bruno Gatta Bruno Gatta founded Stilnovo in 1946 in Lainate, a city part of the industrial suburbs of Milano. Stilnovo is lead by a market logic unlike Arredoluce or O’Luce which, despite his...

Continue reading

Eric Astoul

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Eric Astoul" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Eric Astoul (1954 - ) Eric Astoul is a contemporary French ceramic artist born in 1954. He is moving to the world reknown ceramic center of La Borne in 1982 and starts a...

Continue reading

Mauro Mori

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Mauro Mori" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Mauro Mori (1965 - ) Born in Cremona, Italy in 1965, Mauro Mori grew up traveling the world, discovering the cultural heritages and natural environments that have influenced (which now influence) his vocation as...

Continue reading

Angelo Lelli

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Angelo Lelli" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Angelo Lelli (1915–1979) In 1947 that he founded Arredoluce, a premier manufacturer of furniture and lighting, in Monza. During the same year, at the VIII Triennale di Milano, he exhibited the lamp 12128, which became known...

Continue reading

Martin Szekely

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Martin Szekely" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Martin Szekely (1956 - ) Martin Szekely is the son of ceramist Véra Székely and sculptor Pierre Székely. His work comes to prominence with his design of the « Pi » long chair in...

Continue reading

Maria Pergay

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Maria Pergay" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Maria Pergay (1930 -  ) Maria Pergay was born in Moldavie in 1930 and emigrated to Paris in 1937. In 1947, she studied at L'Idhec as well as the atelier of Zadkine. Pgay...

Continue reading

Bruno Gambone

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs][vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"][qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Bruno Gambone" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"][vc_column_text]Bruno Gambone (1936-) Bruno Gambone is a protagonist of contemporary ceramics. After starting to work in his father’s ceramics workshop in Florence, in 1963 he moved to New York and became a close friend...

Continue reading

Jose Zanine Caldas

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Jose Zanine Caldas" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Jose Zanine Caldas (1918 - 2001) Born in Bahia, in the North of Brazil, the self-taught designer, artist and architect moved to Rio and started an architectural scale model workshop where he...

Continue reading

Gino Sarfatti

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gino Sarfatti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text]   Gino Sarfatti (1912 - 1985) Gino Sarfatti was an Italian and designer. After his studies in engineering, he became one of the leading designers of the Italian company Arteluce Company from 1939. Arteluce quickly...

Continue reading

Martin Eisler & Carlo Hauner

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Martin Eisler & Carlo Hauner" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Carlo Hauner (1927-1997) & Martin Eisler (1913-1977) Hauner & Eisler were the primary designers for the iconic Brazilian furniture company Forma - their work counts as one of the best...

Continue reading

Jorge Zalszupin

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Jorge Zalszupin" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Jorge Zalszupin (1922 - ) Jorge Zalszupin was born in Warsaw, Poland, and studied architecture in Bucharest before moving to Paris to work as an architect, and then to Brazil in the late...

Continue reading

Eugenio Escudero

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Eugenio Escudero" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Architect and interior designer of Spanish origin Eugenio Escudero worked from his decoration and furniture showroom D’Escudero, S.A. located in Dinamarca #54 in Mexico City. He worked mostly for the wealthy families in Mexico from the...

Continue reading

Garouste & Bonetti

[vc_row] [vc_column] [vc_tabs] [vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"] [qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="4" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Garouste & Bonetti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"] [/vc_tab] [vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"] [vc_column_text] Elizabeth Garouste (French, born 1949), a former costume designer, and Mattia Bonetti (Swiss, born 1952), a photographer, together used to form a Paris-based design team specializing in furniture that was at once...

Continue reading

Gio Ponti

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs][vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"][qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="3" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gio Ponti" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"][vc_column_text] One of the most influential designers of the mid-20th century,  Gio Ponti (1891-1979) helped to establish Italy as a global design center through a diverse career that spanned architecture, industrial design, art, and...

Continue reading

Ettore Sottsass

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs][vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"][qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="3" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Ettore Sottsass" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"][vc_column_text] Ettore Sottsass (1917 – 2007) was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.   Early career   In 1956, Ettore Sottsass...

Continue reading

Gabriella Crespi

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_tabs][vc_tab title="Works" tab_id="5f90a361-71b7-1"][qodef_product_list type="standard" columns="3" order_by="date" sort_order="DESC" taxonomy_to_display="tag" taxonomy_values="Gabriella Crespi" underline_element="no" product_slider="no"][/vc_tab][vc_tab title="Biography" tab_id="1403ce03-f4c6-3"][vc_column_text]Gabriella Crespi (1922 - 2017) Gabriella Crespi was an Italian architect and designer. She studied at the Politecnico in Milan and her work was greatly inspired by Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright...

Continue reading