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MAURO PASQUINELLI
ITALIAN DESIGNER
BORN 1937
Mauro Pasquinelli had his first taste
of furniture making as a child in the
workshop of his carpenter father. After
graduating from the Florence Art Institute
in 1951, he won a series of awards, quickly
establishing himself as a significant talent
during a period when the Italian design
industry was becoming a world leader.
Designing more than 50 successful chairs,
he became a staple name in the ‘Triangle of
the Chair’, an area of north-eastern Italy near
the city of Udine re-sponsible for the design
and manufacturing of a huge swathe of the
world’s most successful wood-en seating
products. His pieces have regularly featured
in exhibitions across Italy and further afield in
Cologne, Chicago and Ljubljana. Now in his
80s, he is still designing in Scandicci, and his
work is being revisited outside Italy through his
collaboration with Established & Sons.
MICHAEL MARRIOTT
BRITISH DESIGNER
BORN 1963
London-based Michael Marriott is among
the small group of highly regarded designers
that helped reinvigorate British design in the
1990s and 2000s. He graduated from the
Royal College of Arts in 1993, and went on
to produce covetable and functional designs
with an approach that had been described as
“bare-bones” and “honest”. He now works as
both a sought-after designer and a curator,
having put together exhibitions at London’s
Design Museum and the Camden Arts
Centre among others and created products
for manufacturers alongside producing his
own work from his studio in east London.
Marriott generates new designs annually for
the Ace Hotel in Shoreditch as part of the
ReadyMadeGo initiative, curated by Modern
Design Review magazine, and contributed to
the interiors for the hugely popular London
restaurant Bird in collaboration with design
firm Brinkworth.
NAO TAMURA
JAPANESE DESIGNER
BORN 1976
Born in Japan to an industrial designer
father and an interior designer mother, she
grew up creating handmade gifts for her
family. Described as ‘a designer in the most
modern terms’, Tamura originally studied
communication design but her work today
is extremely varied, taking in conceptual art,
lighting, product and graphic design, among
others. She draws inspiration from an evolving
mixture of cultures, disciplines and concepts,
resulting in beautiful and gently emotive
solutions for a wide range of contemporary
scenarios. Tamura moved to New York in
2010 and is now based in Brooklyn. She has
exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo museum in
Paris, as well as Milan Design Week, Design
Miami and Tokyo Designer’s Week and has
won a number of accolades, including a Good
Design award from The Chicago Athenaeum
Museum of Architecture and Design and the
ADI Compasso d’Oro International Award.
PHILIPPE MALOUIN
CANADIAN DESIGNER
BORN 1982
Canadian designer Philippe Malouin lives
and works in London, where he founded
his own design practice in 2009 and is the
director of architectural and interiors studio
POST-OFFICE. He holds a bachelor’s degree
in design from radical Dutch school Design
Academy Eindhoven, and also studied at
the École Nationale Supérieure de Création
Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal.
In London, he worked for leading British
designer Tom Dixon before establishing
his own studio. Malouin’s diverse portfolio
includes tables, rugs, chairs, lights, art objects
and installations. His recent accolades include
W Hotels’ Designer of the Future Award, the
Wallpaper* Best Use of Material Award and
Wallpaper* Designer of the Year 2018 Award.
RAW EDGES
ISRAELI BORN,
LONDON BASED DESIGNERS
BORN 1976
Design duo Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer set
up Raw Edges, a London-based design
studio, after both graduating with a Masters
in Product Design from the Royal College of
Art. Yael’s main focus includes turning two-
dimensional sheet materials into curvaceous
functional forms, whereas Shay is fascinated
by how things move, function and react.
Alkalay and Mer have received several highly
respected awards including The British Council
Talented Award, iF, Wallpaper* Design Award
2009, Elle Decoration International Design
Award in 2009 and the 2009 Designer of the
Future Award from Design Miami Basel.
In recent projects Endgrain and Herringbones,
the duo have experimented with colour, using
the grain of the wood to carry the dye through
the timber. In 2015 the Stack-Up Series used
many different materials, textures and colours
to present new unique bespoke editions of
the design. Alkalay’s Stack is included in the
permanent collection of MoMA in New York.
RICHARD WOODS
BRITISH ARTIST
BORN 1966
A painter, designer and sculptor, Richard
Woods is a graduate of The Slade School
of Fine Art. His well-documented work
crosses boundaries between art, architecture
and design and is most often made up
of exaggerated, garish representations of
traditional British architectural and interior
motifs, such as wooden flooring, chintz
wallpapers, crazy paving or red bricks. These
“logos of reality” are created using traditional
woodblock techniques and then applied as a
second skin covering interior floors and walls.
His work has been applied to a courtyard
in the Henry Moore Project at the Venice
Biennale 2004, to a residential building in
upstate New York 2006, and a store interior
for Comme des Garcons in Osaka in 2003.
In these instances, Woods’ art expresses an
extreme version of Englishness by taking over
a space and saturating it with iconography.
Woods has also recently produced work
for the London Underground, Paul Smith,
collaborated on architectural projects in Sicily
and Tokyo and is currently working on a host
of projects including further architectural
commissions in New York, London and Seoul.
RONAN & ERWAN
BOUROULLEC
FRENCH DESIGNERS
BORN 1971/1976
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have been
working together for over 15 years,
bonded by diligence and challenged by
their distinct personalities. From designing
spaces to furniture, taking on architectural
projects to designing textile wall systems
or comprehensive collections, the brothers
maintain drawing and experimental activity
as essential to the development of their work.
Exhibitions of their work have been held at
London’s Design Museum, the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Vitra
Design Museum, Centre Pompidou Metz
in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art
in Chicago and the Arts Décoratifs, Paris.
Awarded Honorary Royal Designer for Industry
in 2015 their designs are part of select
international museums’ permanent collections,
including the Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts
Décoratifs in Paris, New York’s MoMA, the
Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum
in London, and the Museum Boijmans van
Beuningen in Rotterdam. Drawing, published
by JRP Ringier in 2012, provides a unique
insight into Ronan & Erwan’s design practice
containing more than 850 drawings made
between 2005 and 2012.
ROSS LOVEGROVE
BRITISH DESIGNER
BORN 1958
Ross Lovegrove describes himself as a
21st-century translator of technology into
relatable, everyday products. Inspired by the
logic of nature, he brings together technology,
material science and intelligent, organic forms
across architecture and design. Originally from
Wales, he studied at London’s Royal College
of Art, graduating in 1983 with a Master in
Design. After working abroad for three years,
he returned to London in 1986 and created
his studio in Notting Hill. Lovegrove’s work
has been part of numerous exhibitions and
is in museum collections around the world
including those of the MoMA, New York, Axis
Centre, Japan, the Pompidou Centre in Paris,
the Vitra Design Museum in Weil Am Rhein
and London’s Design Museum, for which
he curated the first permanent collection in
1993. Lovegrove was awarded Royal Designer
for Industry by The Royal Society
of Arts in 2003.
SEBASTIAN WRONG
BRITISH DESIGNER
BORN 1971
Design Director of Established & Sons
and an award-winning product designer,
London-born Sebastian Wrong has more
than 18 years of experience in manufacturing.
Wrong originally studied sculpture at
Norwich School of Art, before founding his
first production company in 2001. Spanning
both the creative and production side of the
design business, he has accumulated an
impressive array of technical skills. As a
designer, he has created commercially and
critically successful products for some of the
world’s leading brands, and his portfolio of
work spans furniture, lighting, accessories
and gallery projects. As a manufacturer, he
has collaborated with many of the preeminent
names in contemporary design.
SYLVAIN WILLENZ
BELGIAN DESIGNER
BORN 1978
Sylvain Willenz founded his multi-disciplinary
design office in Brussels in 2004, after seven
years of living in London and graduating from
the Royal College of Art. His early collections
explored the possibilities of natural rubber,
and Willenz has continued to investigate the
potential of new materials and manufacturing
techniques. Willenz’s work is often inspired
by archetypal objects and the simplicity and
familiarity with which they are associated,
interpreting these forms and qualities in new
designs. His studio focuses on products and
furniture, as well as installation and exhibition
design and creative direction. In 2009, his
Torch Light series for Established & Sons won
Best in Lighting and Overall Best Product of
the Year at the UK Grand Designs Awards.
TERENCE WOODGATE
BRITISH DESIGNER
BORN 1953
A modernist at heart, Terence Woodgate
is known for his simple, thoughtful and
understated designs. Woodgate works from
his studio in the UK where he continues to
seek ways to distil the essentials of design.
In 2003 he was elected a Royal Designer for
Industry (RDI). He has received prestigious
international design industry awards including
the German Red Dot ‘Best of the best’ award
and the IF ecology award. In the UK he has
won the Observer⁄ Elle Decoration design
award for furniture and a Wallpaper* design
award. Examples of his work are held in the
permanent collections of the Museu de les
Arts Decoratives, Barcelona and the Victoria
& Albert Museum, London.
WOUTER SCHEUBLIN
DUTCH DESIGNER
BORN 1979
Netherlands designer Wouter Scheublin
studied Industrial Design at both the Technical
University of Delft and Design Academy
Eindhoven, before founding his studio in
2005. In 2015 he merged studios with fellow
designer and long-term collaborator Lotty
Lindeman in Eindhoven, creating Scheublin
& Lindeman. Scheublin’s work expresses his
ongoing fascination with construction and
mechanics, in a variety of autonomous and
functional designs. Examples include his
walking furniture series, where normally static
pieces like a table or chair become animated
in response to human contact. He continues
to work on both self-initiated projects and
partnerships with other designers, researchers,
brands, and manufacturers.
ZAHA HADID
ARCHITECT
1950–2016
Zaha Hadid was the first woman to
be awarded the distinguished Pritzker
Architecture Prize in 2004 and is internationally
known for her built, theoretical and academic
work. Her recognisable and remarkable style
is characterized by fragmented geometry
and bold fluid forms. Hadid’s outstanding
contribution to the architectural profession
has been acknowledged by the world’s most
respected institutions. In 2010 and 2011, her
designs were awarded the Stirling Prize – one
of architecture’s highest accolades – by the
Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2010,
UNESCO also gave Hadid the title of Artist for
Peace, while the Republic of France honoured
her with the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres. TIME Magazine has included
her in their list of the 100 Most Influential
People in the World, and in 2012, Zaha Hadid
was made a Dame Commander of the Order
of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Her legacy continues through the many
projects in construction and in the
extraordinary talents of the Zaha Hadid
Architects team, which is still based in
London, where Hadid lived and studied.
