Carlos Ferrater

4 June 2019

Doctor of Architecture and Professor of Architectural Project Design at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Director of the Cátedra Blanca, Barcelona. Awarded the 2009 National Architecture Award by the Spanish Ministry of Housing for his overall career and since 2011 member of the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA. Academician-Elect of the Real Academia de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi. Conferred as Doctor honoris causa by the University of Trieste. In 2006 he set up, along with Xavier Martí, Lucía Ferrater and Borja Ferrater, the Office of Architecture in Barcelona (OAB), with Núria Ayala as Project’s Director. He has won five FAD Prizes, the 1999 and 2008 City of Barcelona Prize and the 2005 Brunel International Architecture and Engineering Award. He has four times been a finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award.

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Felicia Ferrone

8 July 2022

Felicia Ferrone is an architect, designer, academic, and entrepreneur. Her international namesake brand fferrone, with locations both Chicago and Milan, is known for delivering the unexpected through a seemingly simple gesture. Archetypes are reinvented; typologies are crossed and blended. European influences, minimalist aesthetics, mastery of proportion, and meticulously considered details are the hallmarks of fferrone. Often lighthearted and whimsical, the furniture and objects are timeless. Through close collaborations with master artisans, each piece is handcrafted allowing for innovative use of materials and production techniques, underlying another fundamental attribute to her design philosophy and approach merging form and function.

Born in Chicago, Felicia Ferrone graduated with a degree in architecture from Miami University, Ohio, after which she moved to Milan, Italy. Ferrone’s expansive reach is informed by her early experience as an architect in Milan, where she was first taught to “blur boundaries.” In a series of positions with some of Italy’s most notable design luminaries she developed her belief that all aspects of design are interdependent and always in relation to the environment, objects, and systems that surround it.

Ferrone’s award winning work of glassware, home accessories and furniture designs have been widely exhibited, published internationally, and included in museum collections. She was recently included in Phaidon’s historical survey of women as one of 200 women who have contributed to the field of design in the book, Woman Made: Great Women Designers by Jane Hall. In addition to her studio practice, Felicia is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Industrial Design and a Clinical Associate Professor at theUniversity of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and previously a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for many years.

Producing and distributing her own designs under her brand, fferrone, Felicia also does commissioned work for clients, such as Audi, Boffi, and The Macallan among others. Clients include: The French Laundry, Per Se, Trussardi, Audi, Rimadesio, Bulthaup, Poliform, Molteni, Minotti, Peck, Flexform, Meridiani, Ernestomeda, Arclinea, Starbucks, Society Limonta, and high end hotels around the world.

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Tamaryn Fourie

13 July 2016

SAOTA is a firm of architectural designers and technologists including in-house CGI and marketing teams, as well as a strong support staff. It is driven by the dynamic combination of Stefan Antoni, Philip Olmesdahl, Greg Truen, Phillippe Fouché and Mark Bullivant who share a potent vision easily distinguished in their design.

This, paired with both an innovative and dedicated approach to the execution of projects, has seen SAOTA become internationally sought-after, receiving numerous awards and commendations from some of the most respected institutions worldwide. Capitalising on a unique understanding of an ever-evolving industry, SAOTA continues to build on past experiences and is well positioned to offer expert services to the corporate, institutional, commercial and residential marketplace. With roots in South Africa, SAOTA now has an international footprint with projects on five continents.

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Tim Fu

8 June 2023

Founder @ Studio Tim Fu – UK

Formafantasma

15 June 2020

Andrea Trimarchi (1983) and Simone Farresin (1980) are Studio Formafantasma, an Italian designers duo based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Their interest in product design developed on the IM master course at Design Academy Eindhoven, where they graduated in July 2009. Since then, Formafantasma has developed a coherent body of work characterised by experimental material investigations and explored issues such as the relationship between tradition and local culture, critical approaches to sustainability and the In perceiving their role as a bridge between craft, industry, object and user, they are interested in forging links between their research-based practice and a wider design industry.

As a result, works by Studio Formafantasma have been commissioned by a variety of partners including Fendi, Max Mara – Sportmax, Hermès, Droog, Nodus rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Gallery Giustini / Stagetti Roma, Gallery Libby Sellers, Established and Sons, Lexus, Krizia International and Flos. Whether designing for a client or investigating alternative applications of materials, Studio Formafantasma apply the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail to every project they undertake. The added nuance for the duo is that they do so with an eye to the historical, political and social forces that have shaped their environments. Their work has been presented and published internationally and museums such as New York’s MoMA, London’s Victoria and Albert, New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, Paris’s Centre Georges Pompidou, the TextielMuseum in Tilburg, the Stedelijk’s-Hertogenbosch, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MUDAC Lausanne, the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina and the MAK Museum in Vienna have all acquired Formafantasma’s designs for their permanent collections. In March 2011 Paola Antonelli of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and esteemed design critic Alice Rawsthorn listed their studio amongst a handful of practices that would shape the future of design. Andrea and Simone are lecturing and heading workshops in various Universities and Institutions.

Currently they are teaching at the ‘Well Being’ and ‘Contextual Design’ Departments of the Design Academy Eindhoven. Since October 2016, they are at the head of the Design bachelor at MADE Program in Siracusa, Italy.

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Michael Gabellini

19 June 2019

Working with space and light as sculptural materials, Michael Gabellini constructs architectural settings that concentrate the experiential and functional to create spaces of elemental simplicity. As founder and creative director of Gabellini Sheppard since 1991, he has developed aspirational projects that are conceived as spatial portraits reflecting the clients’ lifestyles and needs, imparting a distinct identity to each. Gabellini has designed signature boutiques and large-scale retail centers for Jil Sander, Giorgio Armani, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bergdorf Goodman, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Westfield, among many others. He has directed condominium and hotel interior design projects for Ian Schrager, Tishman Speyer, the Related Group, Sumaida + Khurana, Marriott International, and The Four Seasons. His expertise and passion for contemporary art have earned commissions from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Cooper-Hewiitt National Design Museum, and his respect for and knowledge of architectural history have resulted in the successful preservation and adaptive reuse of historic landmarks such as the Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock and Rainbow Room.

Gabellini is a registered architect in New York and Nevada and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). He has won numerous awards from professional organizations including the Progressive Architecture Award, the National Design Award in Interior Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Interior Design Hall of Fame award, and he has lectured at academic institutions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

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David Gianotten

17 June 2024

Managing Partner – Architect of OMA – NL

Alain Gilles

5 June 2019

Design as a second life. After studying Political Sciences and Marketing Management, Alain Gilles went on to work in the financial world. But one has to live his own life. So, thanks to the moral support of his wife, he went back to studying Industrial design in France.

He opened his own studio in 2007 in order to pursue his own dreams and develop his personal approach to product design, furniture design, art direction and interior architecture. He has since started to collaborate with several international editors such as as Ligne Roset (FR), Buzzispace (BE), Qui est Paul ? (FR), O’Sun (BE-HK), Varaschin (IT), Casamania (IT), Deknudt Mirrors (BE), Zee (BE), Green Mood (BE), XL Boom (BE), Designer Box (FR), Verreum (CZ), Evolution (FR), La Chance (FR), Vincent Sheppard (BE), and Bonaldo (IT).

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Anne Sophie Goneau

12 June 2017

Anne Sophie Goneau obtains a degree in interior design from University of Montreal in
2008. She worked for a firm before starting her own office in 2011.

She designs and creates interior spaces of residential, commercial and corporate that have all or
nearly earned one or several design awards in Quebec, Canada and abroad. Anne Sophie Goneau
like challenges, rigor, black and white, the rhythm breaks, opts for raw and noble materials. From
residential to commercial, it’s always the same rigor. We find the same laws: the mastery of
space, a subtle balance between light and shadow, a link between past and present.

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Martin Gran

11 June 2017

Martin is partner and Managing Director in Snøhetta Brand Design. Prior to this, he was Scandinavian Design Group’s New Business Director and Strategic Advisor, responsible for major brands in Europe and the Nordic region. In 2006 he worked at McCann Erickson New York with clients like Master Card and Air Canada.

He began his career at Leo Burnett Insight in 1998 as a Strategic Planner.

In 2001, he became Head of Advertising in Rimi (ICA Ahold) Norway. From 2000 to 2003, Martin was an Account Director at Leo Burnett Advertising Agency. Some of his advertising clients include McDonald’s and CocaCola / BonaAqua.

Martin’s design clients include Carlsberg, The Norwegian Postal Service, Coca Cola, TV2, The Norwegian Bank, Avinor, ResMed and FMC Technologies.

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