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Ramón Esteve
Creative Director
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 consequence 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 transver-
sal vision where Architecture and Design form one
single concept, almost inseparable, both generated
under the same laws and the same design prem-
ises. Its aim is the development of complete en-
vironments through a mutual interaction between
both disciplines, so design acts on architecture and
vice versa and the importance 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 Kunsten Institute of the
Arts Arnhem in 1988 after being expelled from the
Design Academy Eindhoven.
In 2000 he opened his studio in Amsterdam,
gaining attention in 1996 with his Knotted Chair,
which paired high tech materials with ‘low tech’ pro-
duction methods and in 2001 Wanders co-founded
the design 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, crafts-
person and user are reunited. In his process, Marcel
Wanders defies design dogma, preferring instead
to focus on holistic solutions rather than the tech-
nocratic. In this universe, the coldness of industri-
alism is replaced instead by the poetry, fantasy and
romance 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, Paris Design Institute),
Jean-Marie Massaud has been working on an ex-
tensive range of works, stretching from architecture
to objects, from one-off project to serial 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, generosity
and distinction.
Beyond these elegant designs, his quest for
lightness – in matters of essence – synthesize
three broader stakes: individual and collective ful-
fillment, economic and industrial efficiency, and
environmental concerns. “I’m trying to find an hon-
est, generous path with the idea that, somewhere
between the hard economic data, there are users.
People.”
