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Ramón Esteve
Ramón Esteve
Creative Director
Faz, Frame, Fusta, Gatsby, Hamptons,
Kimono, Luna, Mel, Pixel, Posidonia,
Quartz, Tablet, The Factory, Ulm, Vela
and Vineyard
Ramón Esteve Cambra is Architect and
Designer; arising one facet as a conse-
quence of the other. In 1991, he founded
Ramón Esteve Estudio with the premise
that architecture is a global discipline.
His training as an architect became a
transversal vision where Architecture and
Design form one single concept, almost
inseparable, both generated under the
same laws and the same design premis-
es. Its aim is the development of complete
environments through a mutual interaction
between both disciplines, so design acts
on architecture and vice versa and the im-
portance and difficulty of both disciplines
are equally acknowledged.
Marcel Wanders
Marcel Wanders
Suave and Venus
Jean-Marie Massaud
Jean-Marie Massaud
Milos and Pasadena
Born in Boxtel, Wanders graduated cum
laude from the Hogeschool voor de Kun-
sten Institute of the Arts Arnhem in 1988
after being expelled from the Design
Academy Eindhoven.
In 2000 he opened his studio in Am-
sterdam, gaining attention in 1996 with his
Knotted Chair, which paired high tech ma-
terials with ‘low tech’ production methods
and in 2001 Wanders co-founded the de-
sign label Moooi., of which he is co-owner
and art director.
Marcel Wanders’ chief concern is
bringing the human touch back to design,
ushering in what he calls design’s ‘new
age;’ in which designer, craftsperson and
user are reunited. In his process, Marcel
Wanders defies design dogma, preferring
instead to focus on holistic solutions rath-
er than the technocratic. In this universe,
the coldness of industrialism is replaced
instead by the poetry, fantasy and ro-
mance of different ages, vividly brought
to life in the contemporary moment.
Since the beginning of his career (a 1990
graduate of Paris’ ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Par-
is Design Institute), Jean-Marie Massaud
has been working on an extensive range
of works, stretching from architecture
to objects, from one-off project to seri-
al ones, from macro environment down
to micro contexts. Major brands such as
Axor, Cassina, Christofle, Poliform, Toyota
have solicited his ability to mix comfort
and elegance, zeitgeist and heritage, gen-
erosity and distinction.
Beyond these elegant designs, his
quest for lightness – in matters of es-
sence – synthesize three broader stakes:
individual and collective fulfillment, eco-
nomic and industrial efficiency, and envi-
ronmental concerns. “I’m trying to find an
honest, generous path with the idea that,
somewhere between the hard economic
data, there are users. People.”
