DESIGNER’s STORY
DRAGA OBRADOVIC
In her works she always tries to get a union between painting and style, and she eventually finds it in “textile design”.
Over the years she refines her own painting technique directly on fabric; this technique allows her to create a collection with a unique design, where colour, pattern and material meet, giving life to a harmonic mixture between past and contemporaneity.
AUREL K. BASEDOW
Has chosen to enhance resin’s potentials through a strong pictorial expressiveness. By applying epoxy resins and pigments, the objects he cures undergo unexpected transformations, becoming unique pieces. Moreover, together with the furnishings covered with Draga’s fabrics, they create a charming and stylistically successful union. Living and developing together the common passion for contemporary art, their artistic affinity grows with them, leading them to a common course of research, in-depth analysis and discussion.
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Ferréol Babin dedicates half of his time collaborating with various furniture and lighting editors where he can incorporate his singular vision and approach of design. The other half is spent on making unique pieces, with an obvious brutalist yet delicate approach.
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Earned his degree in Industrial Design in 1986 in Barcelona, he moves to New York to joint the Vignellis Studio. After four years, he was engaged at Ralph Lauren focusing his work in both furniture and interior design. Return to Barcelona in 1998 and began to collaborate with Grupo Inditex (Zara Group) as a creative
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Harry Thaler is a product designer whose work reinterprets fundamental design typologies by combining high-quality and traditional craftsmanship with clever and innovative forms.
