e27
The Berlin-based design agency e27 was established by Tim Brauns, Hendrik Gackstatter and Fax Quintus to incorporate different areas of design, including web-, graphic-, corporate and product design into a consolidated design environment.
DESIGNER’s STORY
Giampiero Peia
Giampiero Peia was born in 1961 in Lodi, Italy, and obtained a degree in Architecture at the architectural faculty of Milan. Between 1987 and 1994 he was a close collaborator and partner of the Ignazio Gardella study. In 1995 he created the Peia associati studio in Milan, designing innovative solutions, from architecture to industrial design. In 1998, 1999 and 2000 he was nominated by the magazine Casabella as one of the 40 italian “under 50” architects.
He won numerous architecture competitions and realised the headquarters of some important companies at industrial level, the concept store tad in Rome and cooperated with public corporations with works of extension and restoration. Regarding preparations he realised several stands, shows – like the andy warhol show at the triennale of Milan in 2004 – events and exhibitions. Between 2004 and 2006 architect Peia was partner of Pietro Lissoni.
Among the current realisations we can name master plans, residential towers and commercial buildings in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur; Residential buildings in Milan, tourist complexes on the lake Maggiore and the new buddhist italian centre I.B.I.S.G. in 2005 another concept store tad in Milan was opened. In Doha, Qatar, the alfardan towers and the “Oyster Pavillion”, the first building on an artificial island for 40,000 inhabitants, finished in 2006. Further projects including private villas, luxury apartments, design hotels and residential complexes in Ghana and benin are in progress and some of them were already finished. In November 2007 the study participated to the international architectural competition for the design of the “Tower at suk al Thalath al Gadeem” in Tripoli, Libya. in India, on the Adaman islands, an eco resort and in goa a residential complex are under construction.
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Atelier Oï
atelier oï was founded in 1991 in La Neuveville, Switzerland, by Aurel Aebi, Armand Louis and Patrick Reymond. The name oï, derived from the Russian word “troïka”, a team of three, conveys the dynamism and holistic energy generated by a trio.
Lucie Koldova
Lucie Koldova is an acclaimed Czech and international product and furniture designer. Her collaboration with Brokis began in 2010 with the iconic Muffins and Balloons lighting collections, which she designed while living and working in Paris.
Lyndon Neri & Rossana Hu
Neri&Hu desires to anchor its work on the dynamic interaction of experience, detail, material, form, and light rather than conforming to a formulaic style. The ultimate significance behind each project comes from how the built forms create meaning through their physical representations.
Jaime Hayón
Spanish artist-designer Jaime Hayon was born in Madrid in 1974. His artistic vision was first fully exposed in the ‘Mediterranean Digital Baroque’ and ‘Mon Cirque’ installations. These collections put Jaime at the forefront of a new wave that blurred the lines between art, decoration and design, also added a renaissance in finely-crafted, intricate objects within
Dan Yeffet
Dan‘s work stretches from space to objects – and everything in between – and in various methods, from classic craft work to cutting edge technologies. He designs furniture pieces, glass sculptures and lights, objects of desire – chic and pure – daily products, conceptual space, urban spaces, gallery objects and limited series.