DESIGNER’s STORY

Ichiro Iwasaki

Born in Tokyo in 1965. He started his career at Sony Design Center, afterwards moved to Italy and joined several design studios in Milan.

After returned to Japan, in 1995 he set up IWASAKI DESIGN STUDIO in Tokyo. Since its founding, he has been collaborated with various
clients in and outside Japan, and involved in various design projects ranging from Tableware,Watch, Lighting, furniture to electronic devices such as Digital Cameras and Mobile phones.

He has been awarded a number of international design awards, including Japan’s Good Design Award gold, iF Design Award Gold,Red Dot Best of the Best and German Design Award Silver.

He also serves as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts and Tama Art University.

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Ferréol Babin

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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Chiaramonte Marin

The passion for objects meant as industrial products is the glue of the professional partnership between Alfredo Chiaramonte and Marco Marin, promoting partners of the homonymous Designstudio.

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NO-MADE

Under label NO-MADE Cleo Maxime and Linde Freya, who met at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2008, collaborate on creating objects that combine their interest in materials and cultural dialogue. Working ‘apart together’ they aim to combine their forces and views on aesthetics to create tactile, elegant and sturdy objects.

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Jordi Veciana

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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Partisans – Alex Josephson

Alex Josephson cofounded PARTISANS in 2012 after studying architecture at the University of Waterloo, the University of Rome, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). PARTISANS is comprised of architects, designers, thinkers, and cultural enthusiasts whose work across all scales is devoted to a cause: high-performance design that strives to make the improbable possible.

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Harry Thaler

Harry Thaler is a product designer whose work reinterprets fundamental design typologies by combining high-quality and traditional craftsmanship with clever and innovative forms.

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