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Ramón Esteve
Creative Director
Luna, Posidonia, Hamptons, The Factory,
Tablet, Pixel, Gatsby, Kimono, Faz, Frame,
Quartz, Ulm, Vineyard, Vela
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
Suave, Venus
Jean-Marie Massaud
Milos
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.”
