At Air Division, we believe that good design today should be used to improve the usefulness and aesthetic forms of objects to better serve people's needs. Hence our design approach is based on the sincere application of the fundamental qualities of good design: creative concepts, honest use of materials, intelligent production techniques and exacting proportions all combines to achieve a holistic integrity for any product.

Akasaki Vanhuyse is a London-based architecture and design studio established in 2022 by Japanese architect Kenta Akasaki and French designer Astrid Vanhuyse. Merging their cultures, backgrounds and perspectives of architecture and industrial design, they collaborate on a variety of projects including space, furniture, product, innovation and research. Their approach is driven by the design of creative, thoughtful and lasting solutions. Kenta Akasaki (b.1989) studied architecture at Tokyo City University (BA) under Takaharu Tezuka and at Kingston University (MArch) in London. He worked for Matheson Whiteley (UK), where he collaborated on a number of projects in London such as residential development, house extension, workshop for designer Max Lamb and arts centre. In parallel, he developed his personal work. He has been finalist for Antepavilion (UK), for a public bath (Japan) and for several furniture and product design competitions. Astrid Vanhuyse (b.1991) completed a MA in industrial design at Rubika design school in France. She worked as Marc Berthier’s design assistant at Eliumstudio in Paris. Then she joined Nendo in Tokyo where she worked on product, furniture and exhibition projects. In London, she worked for several agencies and as an independent designer, gaining experience in various sectors including technology and circularity. She designed award-winning products and she collaborated with major brands and emerging start-ups.

Born in New York, of French nationality. Lives and works in Paris. Graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris. Founded the agency an-ARCHI DESIGN in 1997. "Design is the spirit of matter. This for me is the passing of a frontier, from the design on paper (a dream) to the reality of the object. Its function gives it its form. This intimacy lifts the architectural space, from the relationship between the object, the piece of furniture and the person. It is a ladder. Design is my means of thinking, and of living." OBJECT DESIGN / Creation of numerous made-to-order pieces Lauréate VIA, 'Dark Spirit' table, Paris. Galerie La Verrière, Hermès, Bruxelles. Lauréate VIA, 'Alice' armchair, Paris. Designers' Days, Forum Diffusion, Dupont de Nemours, Corian, Paris. Forum Diffusion, 'Yunnan' tray, limited edition, Paris ... SPATIAL DESIGN / Design and realisation of any kind of work Light scenography Headquarters of the Banque Populaire Sud Ouest, Bordeaux, architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. Galerie Yves Gastou, Biennale des Antiquaires, Paris. Groupe Pastor, Video 'AZUR', unique piece, Monaco. Dalkia, Congrès HLM, soirée at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Nantes. Bain Company, twentieth anniversary, Paris. Les Qu4tre Temps, illumination of façade, La Défense, Paris... Architecture Concept house 'Basses Energies', région des Baux de Provence. Concept apartment, 'Reflets et Lumière', Paris. BATIMAT 2007, Gerflor stand, La Matière Autrement, Paris. Concept chalet, 'Béton Acier', Chamonix. Galerie Marian Goodman, Art Contemporain, Paris....

Brad Ascalon’s eponymous award-winning studio was founded in 2006. The multidisciplinary designer specializes in furniture for the contract, hospitality and residential markets, as well as lighting, packaging, and other consumer products. With a reductive approach to his craft, Ascalon believes in design that is uncomplicated, rational and manages to find the perfect balance of form, function and concept. Through this approach, coupled with a strong understanding of strategy-driven design opportunities for his clients, Ascalon is widely regarded as one of the leading American design voices of his generation. Working with clients ranging from global brands to start-ups, branding agencies and private clientele, Ascalon’s long list of collaborators stretches the globe, from the US to Asia, Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Turkey and beyond. That list includes such companies as Carl Hansen & Son, Hightower, Ligne Roset, Bernhardt Design, Gunlocke, Stylex, Restoration Hardware, Design Within Reach, Skandiform, Gaia & Gino, Nude Glass, Mitab, L’Oreal, Redken, Maybelline, Umbra and many others. Ascalon’s work has been exhibited around the world, from the global design hubs of Milan, Paris, London, Cologne, Stockholm and New York, to Chicago, Los Angeles, Guangzhou and Moscow, where in 2013 he was singlehandedly invited to represent American design with an installation at Moscow Design Week. Ascalon’s work has been featured in top publications including Interior Design, Wallpaper*, New York Times, Architectural Digest, Intramuros, Whitewall, Esquire, Surface, Dwell, Objekt, Interni, Ottagono, Elle Décor, Metropolis and many others. In addition to his design practice, Ascalon teaches graduate level design courses at the renowned University of Pennsylvania, teaching both architecture students and IPD students (Integrated Product Design), a curriculum that bridges the University’s schools of Architecture, Engineering and Wharton School of Business. Born outside of Philadelphia, PA, Ascalon was immersed in the world of art and design from an early age. His grandfather was a noted sculptor and industrial designer, and his father is renowned for his large-scale art installations that can be found in public and private spaces throughout North America. Ascalon attributes his passion for design to the two generations before him who instilled in him the value of craftsmanship, materiality and rigor. Ascalon earned a Masters’ degree for Industrial Design from New York’s Pratt Institute in 2005, and that same year was recognized by Wallpaper magazine as one of the "Ten Most Wanted” emerging designers in the world. Ascalon and his wife live and work in New York, NY as well as the North Fork of Long Island, NY.

Grégory Blain 2007 - Internationale Möbelmesse Köln, " Inspired by cologne", with the projects "le Grenier et la Plateforme" 2006 - Exhibition: Off,5 - biennale de design de Saint-Étienne - Exhibition: VIA des écoles - DNSEP option design, école des Beaux-Arts de Saint - Etienne Hervé Dixneuf 2006 - Graphic design & editor of magazine AZIMUTS : n°26 & 27, published by the école régionale des Beaux-Arts de Saint - Etienne - Postgraduate in Design & Recherche at the école des Beaux-Arts de Saint - Etienne - Exhibition: Macadam - cowboys, biennale de design de Saint- Etienne - Research work on motorway signposts in partnership with the DDE de la Loire 2005 - DNSEP option design, école des Beaux-Arts de Saint - Etienne Atelier BL119 2009 - Exhibition: en Tremplin, Salon du Meuble Paris - Presentation of prototype "La niche", salon Maison & Objet, Paris, for Cinna 2008 - Participated in the Grand Prix de la création de Paris - Exhibition: Flight Number Ten, Accroches et supports, biennale de design de Saint - Etienne - Prizewinner, Cinna révélateurs de talents competition, category Objet décoration : "La niche" - Exhibition: "à l'état de maquettes" in response to the "délaissé urbain" request for proposal, galerie Roger Tator, Lyon 2007 - Exhibition: Design MAP, 100 Watts project, Saint - Etienne - Finalist in the AGORA scholarship with the project Accroches et supports, using the new wood technologies 2006 - Scenography and graphic design for the exhibition "Séverine : Mémoires d'habitants", for the city of Saint- Etienne and Alliade - Creation of design agency Atelier BL119 - Exposition Off, Le champ, biennale de design de Saint - Etienne - Study on the fit-out and reception and bedroom furniture for the centre hospitalier privé de la Loire, Saint - Etienne.

Lauréat de la villa Médicis hors les murs (2003) ; Lauréat du Grand Prix du Design de Paris (2004) ; three times lauréat du concours Top Plastique ; lauréat du concours du Musée des Arts Décoratifs. François Azambourg devotes himself to the alliance of techniques and the art of the Applied Arts. He obtained his DSAA in 1987 for a study of the saxophone which he had developed over ten years in co-operation with Selmer, l'IRCAM, boursier de la Fondation de France, la Fondation de la Vocation et la Direction de la Musique et de la Danse. In 1994, having been declared lauréat du concours CTBA, he invented a number of new materials and registered a patent on 'sandwiches souples'. Between 1999 and 2003, his works were on show at the VIA. In 2002, he developed fibre optic lights for the Designer's days. For Lille 2004 he devised a 'micro-restaurant', which was treated as an 'objet hors d'échelle'. François Azambourg's designs have been produced by Hermès, Cappellini, Domeau&Peres, Ligne Roset, Domestic and Poltrona Frau. He also designed an enormous chandelier for the Galeries Lafayette de Toulouse in 2005 and works with Japanese industrialists in the field of plastic recycling.

Bambú Studio is a design studio and creative consultancy based in Spain, let by the industrial designer Javier Moreno ( Alcoy, 1984 ) Working across a wide range of product typologies, from furniture to electronics, Bambú Studio work is supported by an international network of clients with awarded products: ADCV awards, Red Dot, Good design, among others.

American René Barba was born in Havana, Cuba in 1965. He studied at Miami Dade Community College between 1986 and 1988, and graduated in design from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (1991-1994). Has worked for many years to produce pure, clean lines allying both minimalism and comfort. Amongst his most notable designs: Pirelli Bedding, Italy : new-concept mattress 'Mille feuilles'. Umbra, Canada : Penta multi-faceted chair Koizol, Germany : Stixx screen and placemat in polycarbonate. Cristal de Sèvres, France : Carat crystal vases in three sizes. Markhbein Kibic, France : collection of coloured glass stem holders, collections of glasses and wine carafes. Soca, France : collection comprising armchair, settee, chair, table BBBemmebonacina, Italy : Spin armchair, made in PVC and fabric.

Guillaume Bardet was born in Rouen in 1971, where he lived until the age of 15 years before moving to Paris. At the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, from which he graduated in 1999, he met Jean-Marie Massaud, which whom he worked until June 2001. Independent from then on, he worked on his own designs in collaboration with a range of French (Dix heures dix, Vivendi Environnement, Triode, Louis Vuitton'), Belgian (Aquamass') and Italian (de Vecchi, Livit'') companies. Selected by the VIA in 2003 in the 'Appels à projets' section, he is currently working on his Paranox light with an Italian manufacturer. Selected by the VIA again the following year, he presented his Equilibre light at the salon du meuble de Paris in January 2004. A pensionnaire de l'Académie de France, he worked at the Villa Médicis for a year, developing a collection of nine pieces in marble entitled 'Mobilier immobile': these were shown at the galerie Yves Gastou in October 2003. In September 2004, he presented a collection of bath tubs designed for Aquamass at the salon de Now. At the same time, he was furthering his activities as an interior architect, working for both private clients (an apartment in Paris, a barn in Normandy) and companies such as Renault, for whom he designed two stands at the International Motor Show in September 2004. Since February 2005 he has been course leader at the Ateliers of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle. He lives and works in Paris.

Anne-Charlotte Baudequin born in Grasse in 1995 and Mathieu Maldes born in Toulouse in 1992, met during their degrees in applied art/design at the University of Toulouse II—Jean Jaurès. After different masters, their collaboration becomes a permanent dialogue, nourished by their singularities, and their common passions. Following her bachelor in Toulouse, Anne-Charlotte Baudequin, specialises in sensory design with the validation of a master's degree in Creation Research and Innovation in Sensory and Food Design at ISCID (Higher Institute of Applied Arts, Colour Image Design). She is currently doing a doctorate in design (Allph@ doctoral school) with the following thesis project “Olfactory Sensory Design for an Anthropology of space”. She teaches olfactory design in collaboration with a perfumer at ISCID. Mathieu Maldes, after his degree in Toulouse and a master's degree in Transdisciplinary Design Cultures and Territories at the University of Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès, trained in photography at the ETPA school, where he explored the possible relationships between photography and design. It was after working for studios such as Studio Daguerre and Studio Jaspar in Paris that he decided to return to Toulouse with the desire to explore the know-how of the south of France. Their work, guided by a quest for simplicity, questions contemporary uses to develop possible or imaginary worlds. They are particularly interested in materials, sounds, smells, or gestures that offer new interactions and new experiences. This common vision allows them to consider creation as a work of research in motion on the sensory and poetic dimensions of everyday objects. By moving away from the principle of the pure shape as a purpose, their desires are to bring out intentions, links and common values. In 2019, their first project "Hestia" won the special mention of the Jury for the competition "Grand Sud: Enhance the granite of Sidobre". In 2021, they are the winners of the call for expressions of interest "New Worlds" launched by the Ministry of Culture where they propose the exploration of their sensory methodology in situ for the development of their project "Small inventions of the landscape ".

Designer of furniture, objects and tableware ; scenographer and interior architect. He was elected 'créateur de l'année 2002' at the Salon du Meuble de Paris. In 2000, the Musée des Arts décoratifs organised a personal exhibition centring on his work. Since 1999, he has collaborated with the agency and gallery Kreo, for whom he regularly designs new collections. From 1984 to 1998, he worked with galerie Neotu, where he regularly presented new collections. In 1985, he worked on a project for the petit café de la fondation Cartier in Jouy-en-Josas, for whom he also fitted out offices in 1987. That same year, he was invited to participate in the Documenta de Kassel. Various fitting-out projects followed : windows and reception furniture for the Centre d'Art de Vassivière in the Limousin, a reception area for the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie de Saint-Etienne, studies into 'inter-quartier' relations, 'Du jeu de mail à la basse ville' for the city of Dunkerque, exhibition and café furniture for the galerie du jeu de Paume, and furniture, walkways and follies for the parc du château d'Azay-le-Rideau' His furniture and objects are currently being produced by the following companies : Kreo, Cinna, Ligne Roset, Ercuis and Haviland.

Born in 1991. Guillaume Bloget is an independent designer based in Paris. He has worked for the architects Jacques Ferrier and Dominique Perrault. In 2018 he opened his own industrial design studio. His work aims to establish economic relationships between material, technique and use. He seeks fluidity in the convergence of gestures which combine to achieve a shape. Since 2016, he has explored the history and production of common objects with the Typologie design collective. In 2019, they showed the results of their investigations at the Vitra Design Museum : "Typologie : An Ongoing Study of Everyday Items".

Both born in 1978 Böttcher & Kayser is a Berlin-based studio founded in 2007, working in the fields of consumer product, furniture, lighting and interior design. Co-founders Moritz Böttcher and Nikolaus Kayser already met in kindergarden and went to school together. After that they took different ways for their education and gained work experience in various countries, cities and design companies before they met again and made their dream of working together become true. Today they are running their own studio and working for clients such as ANTA, Böwer, freistil by Rolf Benz, Johanson, Gejst, Mater, Normann Copenhagen, Prostoria, RIG-TIG, Schönbuch, Stelton, Vertigo Bird, WON and Zero. Moritz Böttcher (right) and Nikolaus Kayser have been awarded with numerous design prizes such as the Interior Innovation Award, several iF and Red Dot Design Awards, including the prestigious Red Dot ‚Best of the Best’. Their projects have been published in books and magazines around the world.

Erwan Bouroullec is a French designer, born in Quimper in 1976. In 1998, he graduated from the École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy. His studio is currently located in Paris, with another workspace in Burgundy, in the French countryside. After working side by side for decades and forming an influential creative duo in the world of design, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec are now concentrating on their own independent projects. Together, they have designed numerous creations in various fields, allying traditional craftsmanship with industrial production, along with long-term installations in public spaces. The principal producers with whom they have collaborated are Flos, Hay, Kvadrat, Samsung, Roset, Vitra, etc. Their works are frequently presented in prestigious exhibitions and museums all over the world, most notably at the MOCA (Los Angeles, 2004), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, 2011), the Musée des Arts décoratifs (Paris, 2013), etc. Their creations also feature in many renowned public and private collections, such as the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago, demonstrating their lasting impact on contemporary design. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have received numerous awards such as the London Design Medal (2014), the Compasso d’Oro (2022), etc. Erwan Bouroullec is represented by galerie kréo for his original designs and by the WrongShop for his limited and non-limited editions.

Rémi Bouhaniche is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieur Art & Design de Saint Etienne (ESADSE). He was a pupil of Eric Jourdan and François Bauchet, by whom he was greatly influenced. He has worked with the Institut Bocuse. He spent a year in India, where he collaborated with MAGPIE on a range of stainless steel products and on retail spaces ; he has also worked on presentation furniture for Seiko France. In 2010, he won 1st prize in the D3 Contest at the IMM Cologne for his Etirement light: this was when he first came to the notice of Michel Roset. 2012 : Label VIA for a table. 2014 : prix national de la construction Bois. 2015 : launch of TOA, his first armchair for Cinna. With the help of his professors, he acquired techniques and researched 'l'excellence dans la recherche du Bel Obje't. Remi expresses the positivity of his personality. He is a worker who also dreams of living in an isolated cabin in complete harmony with nature.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec were born in Quimper, in 1971 and 1976 respectively. On leaving the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Ronan began working independently, assisted more and more by Erwan, who was then studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Cergy. They have been working together officially since 1999. Their collaboration is a permanent dialogue, feeding on their individual qualities and driven by mutual requirements. Giulio Cappellini discovered them in 1997, when their 'dis-integrated kitchen' was presented at the Salon du Meuble de Paris. From this meeting was born an uninterrupted collaboration, which was cemented by numerous projects from 1999 onwards. In 2000, Issey Miyake called on them to design a space to house his new clothing collection A-Poc in Paris. That same year, a meeting with Rolf Fehlbaum, President de Vitra, led to the production, in 2002, of a new desk system called 'Joyn', which marked the début of their collaboration. Today, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec work regularly with a number of manufacturers such as Vitra, Cappellini, Issey Miyake, Magis, Ligne Roset, Habitat and Kréo. Simultaneously, they also work on architectural projects such as 'la Maison flottante', an artist's studio destined for the Centre d'Art, Chatou. Elected 'créateurs de l'année' at the Salon du Meuble in 2002, they have been awarded, to name but a few, the New Designer Award of the New York International Contemporary Furniture Fair in 1999, the Grand Prix du Design de la Ville de Paris in 1998 and the first prize in the Biennale du Design de Saint-Etienne in 1998. They were also named Designers of the Year by Elle Décoration Japan in 2003. Their pieces have been shown in numerous collective and personal exhibitions such as 'Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec' at the Design Museum, London in 2002. In June 2004, a personal exhibitions was dedicated to them at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec have been the subject of two monographic publications: 'Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec - Catalogue de raison', Editions Images Modernes/ Kréo, 2002 and 'Ronan et Erwan Bouroullec', Edition Phaidon, 2003. They lecture from time to time in a number of art or design schools. Ronan Bouroullec lectures at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne, Switzerland.

Born in Rennes, France in 1978, Florian Brillet is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Bretagne. Since his studies his interest has been the depiction of complex forms, most notably developing the roof structure of the St Petersburg Opera House for Dominique Perrault and the auditorium of the Paris Philharmonia for the Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Since 2007 he has been working in Paris as an independent architect and designer. He divides his time between furniture design and interior design.

1972 : Graduate of the Ecole des Métiers d'Art, holder of Certificats Architecture from the Ecole des Arts et Métiers Jean Prouvé. 1973-1974 : L'Abaque Marc Alessandri design bureau, hotel fit-outs. 1975-1976 : Compagnie d'Esthétique Industrielle R.Loewy, siège TGV, normalisation Total. 1977-1983 : Société Lita - Groupe Mazda, decorative and architectural lighting, stand, exhibition and showroom. 1984-2008 : Groupe Roset, designing upholstery for Ligne Roset and Cinna, head of upholstery design office for Ligne Roset, Cinna and Roset Hotels & Contracts.

Born in Haifa, Israel in 1974. Graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem - department of industrial design. Having graduated in 2002, he has collaborated on a broad range of projects with a large number of international companies. In his studio he creates everything from household products made from injected plastic to electrical appliances, high-end furniture and lighting. Since 2006, his pieces have been shortlisted by the VIA on a number of occasions. His pieces have earned the approval of companies such as the VIA, Environment, Jofebar and Metalarte.

Manuela Busetti and Andrea Garuti met while studying Industrial Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, where they were already teaming up to work on design issues. In 2004, the year of the XX Compasso d'Oro ADI, they were accorded the 'Progetto Giovane' selection for their degree thesis project 'Double', an innovative cooler bag made of neoprene. Since 2004, they have collaborated with various Milan-based studios specializing in product and advance design; they also work together on a freelance basis, designing for both international competitions and manufacturers in a range of sectors including tableware, bathroom fittings, sanitary ware and furniture. In 2007, their project 'Culla Belly' won them 1st prize in 'Playing Design', the international competition run by the city of Lissone in partnership with the Milan Triennale. In 2008 they were both selected for the experimental project 'Prime Cup 01' promoted by the Regione Lombardia and the Milan Triennale with a view to improving the level of innovation amongst selected SMEs in the Lombardy region. These projects are exhibited to the public in the Agora Theatre at the Milan Triennale. Matteo Redaelli graduated in Industrial Design from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 2007. In the same year, the three young designers' working lives converged during a collaboration with a design studio in Milan. In 2008, they began working together on new projects, making full use of their different skills and sensibilities. New collaborations followed with manufacturing companies in various sectors: kitchen and bathroom taps, tableware, kitchenware, ovens and hobs, indoor and outdoor furniture, etc. In 2010 they won the Cristalplant design contest, promoted by Zanotta and Cristalplant, with an innovative coffee table project, christened 'Naica'. In 2012, they won it again with their versatile 'Verve' table project for Poliform. In 2014, the jury of Young & Design 2014 selected their 'Log' upholstered chair, designed for Pedrali. ------------------- Our design approach: We are three industrial designers who have worked together since 2008, developing new products for various areas of home and also the contracts market. The projects we develop arise from a synthesis of our personal visions and sensibilities. Our intent is to develop objects that satisfy both the new demands arising from changing lifestyles and the consolidated needs of everyday life. In developing all our projects we aim to achieve simple solutions, both technical and formal, favouring the usability and legibility of the object. In this process, we reinterpret both traditional and innovative materials, allowing the resulting objects, when placed in their own context, to become discreet and gentle life companions. Usually our projects are the result of the reflection stimulated by a brief submitted to us by a company; they might equally be defined autonomously when we identify an opportunity; or even an unexpected intuition that emerges unpredictably. Having defined a concept, we develop it in many divergent directions then make a selection, which we then process and redefine in more detail. We always like to work with different types of products by collaborating with companies in different industry sectors, such as furniture, tableware and kitchenware, taps and ceramics, etc. We can define our approach to design as being rooted in Italy, but with a European flavour. In addition to the masters of Italian design, we owe a lot to the design of Continental Europe and Scandinavia.

Born in 1962. A trained plastic artist, Pierre Charpin has dedicated most of his time to the design of furniture and objects since the beginning of the 1990's. Since then his work as been just as likely to veer towards experimental projects on which he works with, amongst others, C I R V A (1998/2001) and C R A F T (2003/2005); he also designs products for prominent international manufacturers such as Alessi, Venini, Post Design, Montina, Zanotta, Ligne Roset, la Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres... His continuous research work is made possible by his collaboration with the Galerie Kréo, Paris, with which he has been working under a worldwide exclusivity agreement since 2005, producing limited edition items. In 2004 he won an award for his 'Eau de Paris' carafe in moulded glass, of which 60,000 were produced. He was elected 'créateur de l'année 2005' by the salon du meuble de Paris. Several of his pieces form part of the collections of the Fond National d'Art Contemporain, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris.

Chape&Mache is the creative partnership of Aurélie Chapelle (born 1986) and David Machado (born 1984). Having graduated with honours from the école supérieure des beaux arts d'Angers in 2011, their collaboration really began in 2013, under the name Chape&Mache. Their work is symbolic and full of imagery drawn from observations of daily life, perpetual interaction and the blending of their two worlds. They approach numerous fields through singular pieces which question collective or individual practices. Each new Chape&Mache project is a piece of creative alchemy.

CP — RV is a collaborative design project run between London and Marseille. Formed by designers gathered together from different backgrounds, the practice designs products, home furnitures, interior spaces and things to live with. The studio, co-founded by designers Camille Paillard and Romain Voulet, works from an intuitive understanding of contemporary life, resulting in a patient production that remains relevant in the context of our daily lives and aims to create enjoyment out of simple utility of its designs. Camille Paillard (1988), practiced as designer at JLK DS studio and Tom Dixon, where she worked on bespoke furniture as well as on hotels, restaurants and private interiors; for clients such as Tom Dixon, Philippe Malouin, a:tifact, Hennessy and Pierre Marcolini. Prior to this, her experience as designer included positions at Front Design, Philippe Starck and Blackbody Oled. She studied design for luxury and craftsmanship at ECAL in Switzerland, where she graduated in 2012. Romain Voulet (1989), former designer at Industrial Facility, under Sam Hecht and Kim Colin, where he created home furniture, office systems and things to live with; for industry pioneers such as Herman Miller, Muji or Mattiazzi. He previously practiced at Youmeus Design where he designed everyday objects for clients such as Panasonic, Joseph Joseph, Nokia and Kenwood. He studied industrial design at EID in the South of France, where he graduated in 2011.

Maryna Dague and Nathan Baraness are two French designers who have founded their respective studios in Paris, with experience in New York, London and Milan. Working together or independently, the forms of their projects are nourished by heterogeneous and cosmopolitan influences gleaned from their travels or from the films they love. Both passionate about antiques, they like to draw their inspiration from old or forgotten objects and from their hunted finds. Their drawings with archetypal lines leave a clear place to the materials and want to witness the know-how.

The Damaris & Marc design studio was founded in 2007 by Damaris Bilbao from Paris and Marc Navarro from Barcelona. Initially the studio worked on a self-generative basis, managing both the creative process and the production of their creations. In 2008 they were selected to exhibit at the Maison & Objet fair in Paris. That same year they began collaborating with the company EIG, the representative of Cradle2Cradle in Spain, on a range of ecological furniture which was presented at Barcelona Design Week. A range of exhibitions followed in both Spain and France (Côté Sud, Casa Decor, Fundation Palo Alto...). In 2011, the studio won an Aide à Projet VIA for its Wabi-Sabi shelf, which was presented in Milan that same year.

Born in 1956. Architecte D.P.L.G (diplômé par le gouvernement). Founded the company Tebong with P. Bauer (1986-1995). He has devised scenography for the VIA (1997), La Villette (2000) and the T.N.B (Théâtre National de Bretagne), in addition to numerous 'luminous scenography' projects. In terms of his design work he has collaborated with Ligne Roset and Cinna since 1997, and also with many other French and Italian manufacturers.

Daniel Debiasi (1981) and Federico Sandri (1977) founded their own design studio in 2010 and work within various fields of design, ranging from objects to spaces. Multiple experiments and the relationship between manufacture and craftsmanship form the basis for a much broader thinking, where objects are always considered as part of a bigger picture. Daniel and Federico have created work for renowned clients such as Antoniolupi, Lema, Ligne Roset, Normann Copenhagen, Offecct, Rosenthal and Stelton among others. Many of their projects have received international design awards and are featured in publications worldwide. In addition to their work as designers, they regularly teach, hold workshops and lectures at various institutions including IUAV Venezia and Politecnico di Milano. a little sentence explaining your view of design, philosophy, inspiration... “In what we design we usually aim to give a positive experience to those who interact with our products. It can be the simple relationship with an object, recalling a memory, make other people feel a pleasant sensation or perhaps even getting a smile out of them.”

Born in 1991, Mathieu Delacroix is a french Designer graduated from Higher Education School in Art and Design of Saint-Etienne. In 2013, his Aeon project won the ORANGE Young Designer Competition that then led him to be exhibited as a part of the Dubai Design Week " Global Grade Show " in 2017. In 2015, his Kuro project is showcased in the " Mirage " exhibition organised by the F93 Cultural Center in the town of Saint-Etienne, France. The same year, he went studying in Japan, in Nagoya City Design University. The designer remains strongly linked to what he has learnt in Japan, relating his knowledge to his work. He participated in the " Fukushima Mon Amour " exhibition, commissioned by his school ESADSE and the local city council for the 2016 Milano Triennale. More recently, he won the First Prize of Cinna Young Talent for his wood vases collection called " Tasso ". Today, Mathieu Delacroix is living and working in Paris. He is assisting a few design practices including Mathilde Bretillot , Frédéric Forest & Clémentine Giaconia or Guillaume Delvigne. Working on personal projects aside, the designer is driven by his passion of bringing meaning into archaic designs. His main purpose is to shape products that are emotionally linked to our lives, creating synergy between hand drawings and personal feelings.

After an initial training in cabinetmaking and carpentry, Jan Christian Delfs studied industrial design at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel. Since 2005 he has designed products for international companies. He also lectures in design schools in both Kiel and Bremen. He has been awarded numerous prestigious design prizes for his work, such as the IF, Red Dot and the Good Design Award.

Born in 1979, Guillaume Delvigne studied at the Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique and the Politecnico di Milano. After graduating in 2002, he began working in Milan and Paris with major designers such as George J. Sowden and Marc Newson, before launching his solo career. In 2011, he unveiled his first solo exhibition at ToolsGalerie and won the Grand Prix de la Creation de la Ville de Paris. He works with manufacturers, producers and artisans, mainly in the fields of furniture, objects and lighting. His clients are the great French houses such as Hermes, Habitat and Tefal, foreign companies such as Fabbian, Hanoia or Frandsen, and also up-and-coming names like La Chance, Harto and ENOstudio.

Avril de Pastre was born on 20th April 1987. After three years spent studying at the école des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, she was awarded her DNAP (Diplôme National d'Arts Plastiques) 'avec les félicitations du jury' (with honours). In 2009 she entered the ESAD, Reims to study for her DNSEP (Diplôme national supérieur d'expression plastique), looking at objets which improve the acoustic comfort of domestic spaces. This project is to be presented in June 2011. During her studies her works have been displayed at the Exposition des écoles at the VIA, the Designhuis, Eindhoven, and at the Lieu du design, Paris. In 2009 she won the competition, 'Lumière sur l'Art' organized by the BHV. Her first collaboration with Cinna is the Solveig light.

Cabinetmaker and Compagnon du Tour de France, Thibault Desombre, impassioned by furniture and design, enrolled at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris in 1981. On leaving ENSAD, his first products were produced by P. Parent (1983), then Grange (1986), for whom he designed the collection 'Shaker's, his first great commercial success. His star continued to rise as he produced ever more contemporary pieces in fields as diverse as office furniture (Macé, Addform), contracts (Soca Line) and domestic furniture (Ligne Roset, Cinna, Atlantis), and has been the recipient of numerous prizes. Lecturer and consultant designer to La Redoute for the past Two years, Thibault Desombre is a designer with a clear-cut career path, steering his path irrespective of current trends. He designs furniture with pure, clean lines which he hopes to charge with emotion . His collaborations with Ligne Roset and Cinna have brought him much success, as evidenced by his Finn chair and Mondo and Soho settees.

Minimum design is a 3D printing studio founded in 2016 by Philippe and Mélisande, born in 1988 and 1990 respectively. Far from being a simple production technique, 3D printing reshapes the very spirit of design, imposing new constraints at the heart of which is born a singular freedom and innovation. Moving with unequalled rapidity from the idea to the object, we work on detail and texture with a precision that owes nothing to the human hand. The material used, a mixture of recycled wood and bioplastic, either black or natural in colour, provides a simple elegance which respects the environment. This ecological conscience is constitutive of 3D printing which, instead of removing materials, adds them, thus limiting the generation of offcuts. Fluid, sculpted lines, minimalist geometries, our studio wants to return to the very essentials of design: an accessible object which adds something to the everyday without degrading it, the essential characteristics of beauty.

Studio Désormeaux/Carrette is a design studio which was founded by Nathanaël Désormeaux and Damien Carrette in January 2014. Specialising in industrial design, its vocation is to create objects suitable for series production. Today, the studio works with a range of clients from start-ups to prominent brands in the retail furniture and objects markets. Passion for materials and an instinctive understanding of what an object is meant to convey are fundamental to our creative approach. Deconstruction is at the centre of our design methodology. By taking apart and rethinking an object holistically, we reveal its technical heart. Thus our work consists of beautifying technicality with a view to not only integrating but also transcending it so that it becomes an object’s aesthetic heart. Through this prism, our studio seeks to question current production methods and to imbue industrial objects with poetry. CV: Nathanaël Désormeaux: 30 years old (1988) 2013 (and currently) Paris Désormeaux/Carrette studio: Founder of studio Industrial design, furniture design, interior architecture Founding of studio. Product development, conceptual research, 3D sketches, creation of models and prototypes L’Oréal Paris, Cinna, Roche Bobois, Lancôme, YPLFAL, Brandt, De Dietrich, Technicolor, Canal+ 2015 (and currently) Paris Ecole de Condé: lecturer in industrial design Design methodology, visual culture, case studies, partnerships Nike, Coca-Cola, Mairie de Paris, Théatre de l’europe, ecole 42 2012-2013 (2 years) London Benjamin Hubert LTD: designer, studio manager Furniture, spaces, scenography Product development, 3D sketches and models. Research into materials, colours, textures. Creation of industrializable 3D models. Design development (manufacturing monitoring: UK, Italy, France, Portugal), management of a team (5 persons) 2010 (10 months) Hong-Kong Michael Young LTD: Junior Designer Furniture, industrial design, scenography Audio headset (Itech, Eops), bags & accessories (XigXag), furniture (Emeco, Trussardi), Stand (Chivas) CV: Damien Carrette: 30 years old (1988) 2013 (and currently) Paris Désormeaux/Carrette studio: Founder of studio Industrial design, furniture design, interior architecture Founding of studio. Product development, conceptual research, 3D sketches, creation of models and prototypes L’Oréal Paris, Cinna, Roche Bobois, Lancôme, YPLFAL, Brandt, De Dietrich, Technicolor, Canal+ May 2012 - December 2013 Assistant designer at Doshi Levien, London Furniture, spaces, scenography Product development, 3D sketches, models Research into materials, colours, textures. Creation of industrializable 3D models and final renders 2010 (10 months) Trainee designer at Plastique Omnium environnement/ Sainte Julie Containers and contract furniture Worked in collaboration with engineers from the R&D team. Research into materials, colours and textures. Formal research and 3D development of products.

DESJEUX DELAYE is an interior architecture and design agency founded by Dorothée Delaye and Daphné Desjeux. This duo dreams up almost masculine decorative schemes with sharp, clean lines. They love to mix genres and eras so that spaces do not become ‘fixed’. The heritage of each place inspires them to fashion a unique atmosphere without limiting themselves: infinite detail, a monumental object, measure and excess. Their former lives in the media taught them to think of spaces as stages on which stories can be related. Designers, craftsmen, graphic designers and architects come together and work with the same expectation: never sacrifice their ideas for the sake of trends. Desjeux Delaye never loses sight of its ambition to imbue all its forms with a spirit of chic informality. Their agency specializes in the hotel industry and has been working on a range of projects since 2018: a hotel in Formentera and two hotels in Paris, two high-end apartments also in Paris and multiple product projects such as an eponymous collection of lighting, sold in Bon Marché and produced by MR Agency, and a range of furniture for Versant.

Nathalie Dewez lives and works in Brussels. Having graduated from the école des Arts Visuels de La Cambre in 2001, the main focus of her work is lighting design. A mélange of poetry and rigour, her chandeliers, wall lights and floor lamps are light and airy, exploiting the potential of the chosen material to the very maximum. Creating pieces such as Sol-air (a halogen light perched on a carbon fibre tube), Lamp06 (a study on the structure of a classic shade) or the Prism ceiling light with its three-dimensional frame, her hallmark is coherent lines displaying essential character. Her presence at various exhibitions and trade shows in France, Belgium, Italy, the UK and elsewhere has enabled her to enter into a wide range of collaborations, with not only architectural bureaux, but also furniture manufacturers and private projects.

Emmanuel Dietrich was born in Besançon in 1969. He graduated from the Ecole Boulle in interior architecture, and rapidly discovered his own way of working. After working for Facom and Ardi, he designed the famous 'Harnais' watch for Hermès. Since then, Emmanuel Dietrich has travelled through other galaxies : Häagen Dazs, Dinh Van, Artelano, Mobilier International, Haworth, etc, and is soon to work with Daum, Baccarat, Ruinart, Calvin Klein, Louis Vuitton...

© Dögg & Arnved Design Studio is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. An agency capable of operating in fields as varied as the design of installations, products or furniture, interior design and graphics. The creative approach of Dögg & Arnved Design is based on Scandinavian design traditions, adding modern technologies and their passion for materials and textures. Through their cultural understanding of design, personal interpretations and expressiveness, they seek to create contemporary and timeless design for all. They work to create functional, high quality products with respect for both nature and future generations, in the belief that this will bring added value to the product. Rikke Rützou Arnved A graduate (2001) of the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. After her graduation she established her own design office, Ark Type, where she primarily designed furniture and indoor design. At same time she was lecturing at the DTU (The Danish Technical University, Institute of Design and Innovation). She has worked for Danish architectural studios in the fields of industrial design, lighting and interior design, it being a professional skill of hers to work in such different capacities. Since 2006 she has worked on a wide range of projects from city planning, urban design and building design competitions to furniture. It inspires her when architecture and design create an interdependence. Working with design at any level, the essence is, for her, to work in such a way as the overall project and its individual details are seen as a unified whole. Dögg Gudmundsdottir Studied industrial design at the Istituto Europeo di design, Milan, graduating in 1996. Between 1996 and 1998 she was a guest student in the glass, furniture and graphics departments of the Danish Design School. In spring 2011 Dögg attained her Masters in Design from the School of Architecture of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, her main focus being, 'New Strategies: Design management with applied sustainable Innovation'. In 2000 Dögg Gudmundsdottir established her own studio, Dögg Design, working in fields ranging from industrial design and graphics to art and installations. Dögg Gudmundsdottir's brand of design retains close links with the art world, drawing inspiration from natural materials, organic shapes and traditional craftsmanship. She believes that design and art exist in an important mutual contagious association with each other. Her work has been exhibited and published throughout the world.

Claudio Dondoli and Marco Pocci met at the Faculty of Architecture, Florence. In 1983, having shared not only their studies but also an intense artistic and theatrical experience, they founded their own design agency at Colle Val D'Elsa, against the romantic backdrop of the Tuscan countryside around Siena. Christened Archirivolto, this agency has concerned itself solely with industrial design since 1989. They maintain that today, true innovation is based on the use of technology and materials. Technology serves not to create an image, but to give service to the client : to be of genuine quality a good design-led product must therefore be beautiful, effective and comfortable. Besides Ligne Roset and Cinna, they collaborate with Bonaldo, Desalto and Fasem.

Paris, Tokyo, London : soujourns abroad which kick-started the career of Marie-Christine Dorner. Designer, interior architect and graduate of the école Camondo, Paris, she spent a year in Tokyo designing her first collection of furniture for Idée, before opening her first office in Paris. The sheer diversity of her projets is astonishing : amongst the best-known, the La Villa at St Germain des Prés, the restaurant de la Comédie Française, the presidential grandstand (tribune présidentielle du 14 juillet) at the top of the Champs Elysées, street furniture for the city of Nîmes, designs for le Mobilier National. A Londoner for more than 10 years, she designs and fits out ambassadorial residences for the French Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, undertakes special projects for private clients, and designs for manufacturers as diverse as Ligne Roset, Montis, Bernardaud and Baccarat. Her collection 'Une Forme, One Shape', exhibited in 2004 in Paris, Tokyo and Kyoto, is just one demonstration of her taste for perfection. The best artisans in France and Japan made up her jewellery, objects and furniture in wood, gold, porcelain, bamboo, ceramic and composite materials. Marie-Christine Dorner has lectured in both London and France, and was awarded the Grand Prix du Design de la ville de Paris in 1995.

In 1997 Julia Dozsa and Jan van Dalfsen started Dozsa & van Dalfsen a studio for design and architecture, based in Amsterdam. Julia Dozsa (1960) studied architecture for 2 years before attending the Gerrit Rietveld Academy graduating in industrial design. After graduating at the University of Amsterdam in mathematics, specialization topology, Jan van Dalfsen (1959) started studying architecture and building technique at the Polytechnic of Amsterdam while working for a building contractor. They work together but also separately for corporate and private clients on projects in furniture-, product-, interior-design and architecture. Among their clients are Calligaris, Colé Italia, Deknudt Mirrors, Driade, Estinée, Fiam Italia, Glas Italia, Ikea, TAFT Shoes, Tonelli Design. Prize: Elle Decoration Award 2003 for Best Accessory Design for Nembus vases designed for Driade. Exhibitions: in December 2003 at Yamagiwa Corporation in Japan of all the work for Driade, Design Museum Brussels. Architectural projects in the Netherlands include: apartment block and interior of a shoe shop in the center of Amsterdam, interior of a shoe shop in Almere, façade for a house and shop in Zaandam, renovation of several apartment buildings and shops in Amsterdam, new apartment block in Utrecht, villas in Schoorl and Heiloo, garden house in a garden of a canal house in the center of Amsterdam, ‘Victorie Poort’: old extensions transformed into five tiny houses in the tradition of a 'hofje' in the center of Haarlem, renovation and design of a façade and interior of IINN-sustainable beauty in Amsterdam, interior of Estinée hair salon/gallery in Haarlem. The variety of our backgrounds and the synergy it can generate, determines our designs. Also the co-operation with others, especially skilled craftsmen, is an important source of inspiration. Influenced by images from art, nature, architecture and design, often absorbed subconsciously, respecting the context of a project and giving intuition free rein while trying to surprise ourselves, we create our designs.

Martin Drechsel. Born 1980. Grown up in socialist GDR, then reunited Germany. Lived/worked in London, Berlin, Milan, Florence, Dresden & Amsterdam, today Zurich. German & Swiss citizen.  He is known for his work in branding and identity design, with many brands, organisations and businesses calling on him for his creative ideas and unique visual language. He has been active in the design community since 2006 and has worked on projects for clients including Apple, Amazon, BMW, Google and Microsoft. He has also collaborated with some of the most renowned designers in the creative industry, including Peter Saville, Shepard Fairey and Olly Moss. His philosophy as a designer is to create attractive and authentic solutions that inspire people to engage with a brand's story and mission. His passion for art and technology allows him to create striking and timeless projects.

After their BTS in product design, Léo Dubreil and Baptiste Pilato met during their degree course at the Ecole Supérieur des Arts Décoratifs – DNSEP in Strasbourg. They presented their project, "SHELL" (renamed "Clam") at the 11th Concours Cinna révélateur de talents, winning both first prizes: both the prix du Jury and the prix du Public. They also participated in the D’Days de Paris exhibition in 2016.

A designer of both environments and objects, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance was born in Mende, France in 1974. Raised in a creative environment, he defines his own language with the help of forms which are at once natural, flexible, organic, fluid and structured. Trained in metal sculpture (ENSAAMA), he then moved into the sphere of 'Mobilier des Arts Décoratifs'. Noé is interested in unusual projects: such as the Sketch restaurant in London, which launched his career in 2002 and earned him his first prize, Time Out’s Best Design award. He then delivered a number of major interior architecture projects, amongst which the “La Transhumance” chalet, the Air France Business Lounge and the “Ciel de Paris” restaurant. Current projects include the new interior architecture concept for the Montblanc boutiques, which will be for worldwide application, and is designing the lounge area of the #cloud.paris building as part of its refurbishment. Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance works on projects which vary in size from the very smallest to those on the grandest scale. He has designed his first line of furniture for Ceccotti, and is continuing his collaborations with the Italian manufacturers Zanotta and Tacchini. He also began working with the American manufacturer Bernhard Design, for whom he is working on a varied collection of seating and occasional tables. Luxury houses court him. Hermès has added his Sellier settee to their collection. For Saint Louis there is the prestigious Folia collection of furniture, lighting and tableware. His name is linked to the success of the One Million perfume, for which he designed the bottle. His singular approach naturally leads him to design exceptional pieces which are presented and exhibited in prominent galleries and at high-end events. Working with the Made in Situ gallery, which opened in 2020 in Lisbon, where he is based, he is building on this appetite for materials and the handmade. This is how he describes his work in his own words: "An object is naturally obliged to respond to a need, without creating others. From this absolute necessity, it must be a vehicle for meaning and emotions. This is the angle from which I approach the design of an object, using a language rather than a style, which I develop as a result of my experience. A language in a permanent state of evolution, expressed by forms and materials and inspired by my surroundings, whether natural, real or idealised, and my emotions, whether experienced or dreamt. For I sincerely believe that there are emotional threads woven between men, spaces and objects. The objects and spaces I create in symbiosis lean towards the same direction, aided sometimes by a dash of provocativeness, but always avoiding falling into the traps of gratuity and seduction."

Born into a family of industrialists and designers of contemporary furniture. Trained at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Lyon. Having joined the Roset Company very early on, at a time of rapid growth, he has constant access to insightful marketing and a highly capable technical team. He has responsibility for the research, development and design submissions vital to ensuring the company's brands ever-more secure positioning on the market. He designed a range of furniture for young people (chambre DN...), along with numerous upholstery models, settees and contract furniture (459 fireside chair...). With the advent in the 1960's and 1970's of new materials such as foams, quilting and thermoformed plastics, he designed a large number of pieces for the domestic market : Adria, Koufra, Kashima, Safi, Kali... ...not least the model Togo, a 'seat-cushion' which still forms part of the Ligne Roset collection today.

Born in Versailles in 1946. After a classical education, extensive travels all over the world very quickly opened my mind. A few brief, varied jobs then I spent 10 years or so working as a buyer for a company specializing in 'handcrafts from across the world'. In 1989, I founded my own company, Wood&Cane Company, the concept of which - 'creation / importation' - endured until 2011. By 2016 I was in 'active retirement', working for a number of 'dear customers' and still more than active in the fields of design and product development.

Tim Brauns and his two partners founded e27 in Berlin 25 years ago. Since then he has designed objects, taught students all over the world and realized projects in all categories of design. The idea of 'softruck' came after the birth of his son. "I bought a new sofa and I needed side tables. My son likes everything with four wheels, so I combined those elements. 'softruck' was the solution. It is useful for the living room; it does not look like a toy but my son loves to play with it."

Colombe Faber, born in 1998, is a French interior designer and designer who graduated from the Camondo school in 2022. Colombe began her career at the Académie Charpentier where she discovered illustration and continued her career at the prestigious Camondo school in Paris. In 2019, she moved to Buenos Aires as part of an academic exchange. Argentina will inspire her a lot and will offer her a first creative freedom far from European codes. During her Master's degree in Interior Architecture and Design, in 2021 she was invited to the Dubai World Expo 2020, as part of the "Art de Vivre à la Française" exhibition in the French Pavilion. She created a display where three brands were highlighted: Bernardaud, Christofle and Baccarat. Undoubtedly happy when she blossoms during her travels and eager to follow her adventure spirit, she makes the choice, after her graduation, to leave for Indonesia. Eight months later, she has made enriching new discoveries, at the crossroads of other cultures and know-how, more artisanal, closer to natural environments.

After graduating from the Politecnico University of Milan with a degree in Industrial Design, Mario Ferrarini began practicing as a consultant for a number of renowned architecture, furniture and product design studios. In 2007, he opened his own studio first in Como and then in Lugano, Switzerland working alongside international companies on different projects ranging from industrial products, furniture and interior design as well as exhibition stand design. The studio works for various companies such as: Antoniolupi, Bitossi, Castelli, Crassevig, Desalto, de Sede, Franke, Jacuzzi, Living Divani, Poltrona Frau and many others. We work to create products that are timeless and transcend passing trends. Balance is a principle goal in our global concept. Our products are a result of the technical, aesthetic and functional solutions we use in designing them. We aim for perfection, with the subtlety that defines our approach, attitude and orientation, and is one of our distinguishing features.

Ramy Fischler is a Belgian contemporary designer living and working in Paris. He graduated from the École nationale supérieure de création industrielle in 2004. Between 2001 and 2010, he collaborated with Patrick Jouin. « Lauréat de l’Académie de France à Rome » in 2010-2011, he is a « pensionnaire de la Villa Médicis », where he considered, in situ, the welcome accorded to visitors and artists within the site, and developed a particular interest in the history of furniture and its association with power. Ramy Fischler then founded RF Studio in Paris, where he designs furniture and objects and creates spaces for work, culture, commerce or living. He has been joined by around ten colleagues over the years. From 2013, his agency has collaborated with personalities as varied as the chef Thierry Marx, the restaurateur Oliver Peyton, the director Cyril Teste or even the composer Jesper Nordin. Since February 2017, he has also had responsibility for the architectural design of the Chanel fashion house’s fragrance & beauty, watches & fine jewellery strands. He was named « créateur 2018 » by the Maison & Objet fair.

Born in 1991, Constance Frappolli graduated in interior architecture and design from the école Camondo in 2016. She now lives in Paris, where she works on a range of projects as part of a design studio. In her own projects, she seeks to use the object to tell a story in which shapes, materials and function are at the service of the environment. Focussing her work on a search for balance between functionality and emotion, Constance confers on her pieces a poetic, practical nature in which forms and materials tell a story. With a love for playing with glimpses, ironies, metaphors and images, Constance construct her design around recognisable realms. Her rug, Mémoire d'une Trame, signals her first collaboration with Ligne Roset.

In 2006, Danish architect Stine Gam and Italian architect Enrico Fratesi founded their agency GamFratesi in Copenhagen. Stine Gam was born in Copenhagen in 1975 and studied architecture in Aarhus, Denmark until 2006. During her studies she both studied and worked as an architect in Italy and Tokyo. Enrico Fratesi was born in Pesaro in 1978 and studied architecture at the University of Florence and Ferrara, graduating in 2007. During his studies he studied and worked as an architect in both Stockholm and Denmark. The work of GamFratesi is based around a constant, curious dialogue, and on their respective cultures. They favour a Scandinavian approach to craftsmanship and simplicity, with a strong, appreciable accent on the conceptual research behind their work. GamFratesi have been awarded numerous important prizes such as the Vico Magistretti Award from DePadova, "best danish designer 2009" and "Walk the Plank award 2009". Their creations have recently been displayed at the Kunstindustrimuseet (Museum of Art and Design), Copenhagen and the Artmuseum Trapholt Kolding, as well as in collective exhibitions such as Mindcraft Milan, the Royal Danish Embassy, Tokyo and the Dansk Design Center Copenhagen.

We are Gaia Giotti born in 1983, Giona Scarselli 1974, Cristina Razzanelli 1978 and Erica De Candido 1979 and since 2013 we deal with design with a transversal approach ranging from product design, interior design and architecture. Architects and designers, we had gained our professional experience in different areas of design before starting our collaboration. Since 2018 we have been teaching Product Design at IED Firenze. Here some selected awards Leaf Armchair Ton a.s. German Design Award / winner 2020 Botera | Miniforms s.r.l. Archiproducts Design Award / winner 2019 Leaf | Ton a.s. Red Dot Award / winner of furniture design 2017 Wallpaper Design Award / winner 2017 German Design Award / winner 2017 IF Product Design Award / winner 2017 Interior Innovation Award / selection 2017 Archiproduct Design Award / best of category 2016|

Born 20th November 1969. Lives and works in Paris. Having obtained a degree in Lettres et Arts, Alban Gilles continued his studies in Jean-Claude Maugirard's furniture training workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. On leaving ENSAD in 1998, he met Didier Gomez, with whom he works on a freelance basis, overseeing high-end projects; he also works on the same basis for a number of prominent manufacturers. At the same time, he designs pieces for manufacturers such as Cinna and Design Affairs; his Fifty-Fifty armchair was awarded a 'label des industries de l'ameublement' on its launch at the Salon du Meuble of 1997. His creations for Ligne Roset include the Neo rocking chair (2002), and the Jul et Jil armchairs (2006). He has participated in numerous events and exhibitions, and in 2004 opened his own interior architecture and design agency in Paris.

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 is 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 Qui est Paul ? (FR), Galerie Gosserez (FR), O'Sun (BE-HK), Buzzispace (BE), Design is Wolf (BE), Vincent Sheppard (BE), Varaschin (IT), Verreum (CZ), Casamania (IT), La Chance (FR) and Bonaldo (IT). Named "Designer of the year" in 2012 by the Interieur Kortrijk fair and Knack/Le Vif Weekend and the Museum of Design in Gent. Born: 1970 in Brussels (BELGIUM) AWARDS 2015 - Henry Van De Velde LABEL ( BE ) for the "Structure Sofa collection" designed for Bonaldo. 2014 - IMM Innovation award ( Cologne, DE ) for the the multifunctional BuzziPicnic table collection designed for Buzzispace. 2014 - "Good Design Award" ( USA ), awarded by the "Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design" for the Tracks table designed for Bonaldo. 2014 - "Good Design Award" ( USA ), awarded by the "Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design" for the multifunctional BuzziPicnic table collection designed for Buzzispace. 2014 - "BOY Winner" ( USA ), organised by Interior Design Magazine, in the "Furniture Contract/System" cathegory. 2014 - "Contract Magazine Editor's choice Award" ( USA ) in the "Collaborative Furniture" section for the BuzziPicnic table designed for Buzzispace. 2014 - "HIP Award Winner" ( USA ) in the "Collaborative / Large" product cathegory for the BuzziPicnic workbenh designed for Buzzispace. 2014 - "HIP Award Winner" ( USA ) in the "Flexible Office Solution" product cathegory for the BuzziVille workbenh designed for Buzzispace in collaboration with the Buzzispace Design Team. 2014 - "ADEX Silver Award for Design Exellence", ( USA ), for the BuzziHive designed for Buzzispace. 2013 - "Green Dot Award" ( Los Angeles, USA ), for the Nomad solar portable lamp designed for O'Sun. 2013 - "Red Dot Design Award - Best of The Best" ( DE ) for the "Welded" table designed for Bonaldo. 2012 - "Design for Asia - Golden Award" awarded by the Hong Kong Design Center for the "Nomad" solar designed for O'Sun 2012 - "Henry Van De Velde Public Award" ( BE ) for the "Nomad" solar lamp designed for O'Sun. 2012 - "Henry Van De Velde LABEL" ( BE ) for the "Nomad" solar lamp designed for O'Sun. 2011 - "Designer of the Year" awarded by the Interieur Kortrijk fair, the Design Museum in Gent, the Grand-Hornu Museum, Design September, and the magazines Knack Weekend and Le Vif Weekend ( BE ). 2011 - "Henry Van De Velde LABEL" ( BE ) for the BuzziBooth designed for Buzzispace. 2009 - "Good Design Award" ( USA )by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design - for the "Big Table" designed for Bonaldo Bonaldo. 2008 - "Henry Van De Velde LABEL" ( BE ) for the Tectonic Table designed for Bonaldo.

A designer since 1978 (the year in which his first furniture collections were launched) and an interior architect since 1985, Didier Gomez designs both furniture and spaces (boutiques, large stores, apartments, private homes, head offices) all over the world. Amongst his clients : Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Bergé, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Carrousel du Louvre, LVMH, Bernard Arnault, Céline, Louis Vuitton, Galeries Lafayette, Vivendi Universal, Kenzo, Christian Dior, Pomelato, De Beers, L'Oréal, BNP Paribas, Bouygues Telecom, Le Méridien' In January 2002, jointly with Ligne Roset and Cinna, Didier Gomez was awarded the 'Nombre d'or' bestowed by the Salon du Meuble de Paris, in recognition of his exemplary collaboration with the Roset Group. He was created lauréat du Janus de l'industrie 2005 for his Atmosphère kitchen, produced by Arthur Bonnet.

Bernard Govin is a French designer and interior architect, born in 1940. During his life, he has created a range of pieces which, fluid in appearance and with audacious, futuristic curves, are still attractive today. He began working with the celebrated manufacturer Ligne Roset from the late 1960’s. Having studied at the école des arts appliqués Duperré and the institut d'esthétique industrielle, he opened his own agency in 1963. His investigations centre on the new materials. In 1966 he showed an emblematic work at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs (SAD) : his Asmara floor seating, produced by Ligne Roset from 1967. He then presented his Dunes seating, also produced by Ligne Roset, at the SAD 1972. His innovative pieces surprise by their very inventiveness and their great modernity. Bernard Govin was to see other models of his produced as a result of collaborations with a range of manufacturers and he eventually moved to the South of France to work on interior arrangement projects.

Diplômée avec félicitations du jury de l'Ecole Camondo en 2013, Lara Grand, architecte d'intérieur et designer, a travaillé pour diverses agences à Paris et à l'étranger. C'est dans ce cadre qu'elle a participé à des chantiers d'appartements privés, à la conception de présentoirs à bijoux, à différents travaux graphiques, à l'aménagement d'un salon de coiffure ou à la mise au point de projets mobilier pour Ligne Roset aux côtés de Marie Christine Dorner, ou encore pour les marques Zeus et Montis. Son projet de fin d'études à Camondo a été la création de la lampe conique Peak up, une lampe de chevet associant éclairage diffus et éclairage directionnel, le passage de l'un à l'autre se faisant par simple basculement de sa partie supérieure. En 2016, Ligne Roset édite son lampadaire Headlight.

Born 10th August 1980 Education 15th March 2006 - obtained diploma from E.N.S.C.I. with special mention for his diploma project. Diploma project: 'Paysage domestique / Environnement naturant'. 4 contemplative objects, mentored by Erwan Bouroullec. Thesis : Sentinel - ARIZONA A study on landscape and contemplation through the western, mentored by Marie-Haude Caraës. March 2003 - March 2004: Internship with Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec Work experience: April 2006 - May 2006 - Assistant to Mathieu Lehanneur - Development of a restaurant chain - Design of a perfume bottle for Issey Miyake, - Development of scenography for the City of Paris. July 2006 - Collective exhibition, DESIGN Parade à la Villa Noaïlles - Presentation of 3 aquaria and 3 pools. October 2006 - Collective exhibition, biennale du Design de Saint-Etienne. - Presentation of my diploma project, Paysage domestique. - Presentation of two tattoos. September 2006 - Assistant to RADI DESIGNERS. - Development of domestic electrical appliances for Moulinex, - Development of small electrical appliances for Violet, - Design of a perfume bottle for Prada, - Creation of a lounge area for Nuit Blanche 2007. January 2007 - February 2007 - collaboration with Valérie Mréjen. - Project, 1% artistique for a school January 2007 - Collective exhibition, presentation of a light with the VIA at the Paris and Milan furniture fairs. February 2008 - Beginning of collaboration with Domeau & Pérès.

Designer Pierre Guariche was born in 1926. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, graduating in 1949. He then worked in the studio of Marcel Gascoin and presented his first designs at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and the Salon des Arts Ménagers. In 1953, he designed the mythical « Tonneau » chair for Steiner, first in plastic (1953) and then in bent plywood (1954). In 1954 he founded the Atelier de Recherche Plastique with Joseph-André Motte and Michel Mortier. In 1957, he was named Artistic Director of furniture manufacturer Meurop. He then shared his knowledge with the students of the Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture de Tournai and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. He knew how to bring a personal, innovative touch to design, combining aestheticism and series production. His heart’s desire was to respond to the requirements of his era by making use of series production techniques. His creations, such as the Tonneau chair (1953 and 1954), the Tulipe chair (1956) and the Président desk (1961), have become legendary pieces.

guggenbichlerdesign… loves to create and design furniture and products with clear elegance, timeless simplicity and independent character for wonderful environments. Harald, born in Klagenfurt in Austria, and Heike, born in Vienna, founded the industrial design studio located in Vienna in 2004. Ever since they jointly design living, contract and office furniture, for in- and outdoor use and cooperate with international well known companies such as Tonon, Fermob, Crassevig, Neudörfler, Rossin, … and Ligne Roset. Both started with very different types of education: Harald is a graduated designer and a skilled master carpenter. Heike studied business administration with a main focus on advertising and market research. Now they unite knowledge of marketing with experience, technical know-how and an organic-emotional feeling for materials, function and aesthetics. The process of design is complex like creating a symphony. It requires sensitivity, intuition and experience: a little bit of this and that, mixed to a perfect whole - something significant, delightful and sustaining. For guggenbichlerdesign… the cooperation with Ligne Roset, an extraordinary family run company with long tradition, intensive handcrafting experience and a wide variety of design classics, represents something very special.

Denis Guidone is a design and architecture studio based in Milan and Tokyo. Fascinated by the contrasts between the East and the West, he merges the aesthetics of these two extremes with unconventional and strict precision into an elegant, eye-catching appearance. He has won international awards, including the IDA Design Award in Los Angeles. He was also given the Bruno Munari Prize by Gillo Dorfles in 2009 at the Triennale di Milano and was selected for the ADI index 2010. In 2018 was elected by Triennale of Milan and by Ministry of Foreign Affairs as ambassador of Italian design in the world. He has designed for Ligne Roset, FontanaArte, MAGIS, Roche Bobois, Hidetoshi Nakata, Nava Design, Bolia, Mingardo, Ichendorf, Serax, Projects Watches, Shuji Nakagawa, Shinji Terauchi, Arita Risogama and other companies in Italy and abroad.

BIOGRAPHIE After product design studies and working for Benjamin Hubert Meike Harde started her business in 2013 with the participation at several design-talent shows. She is inceasingly active for international brands like Freistil Rolf Benz, Bolia, Puplo and many more. The 1987 born Meike Harde works and lives in Cologne. DESIGN APPROACH / INSPIRATION "lamp name" is a result of experimenting with paper models and the variation of cones. Attached to an elegant stand the shade starts linear on the top but ends in a circle. This transition causes soft waves in the outline and generates an overall smooth and friendy feeling.

Sebastian Herkner (born 1981) studied Product Design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. During his studies he began to focus on designing objects and furniture, honing his keen feel for materials, colors and textures. For a short while he then worked for Stella McCartney in London. In the year 2006 Sebastian Herkner founded his own studio. Since that time, he has designed furniture, lamps and smaller items for manufacturers such as Ames, and Tradition, Cappellini, ClassiCon, Dedon, Ligne Roset, Linteloo, Moroso, Pulpo, Rosenthal, Thonet, Wittmann and Zanotta. Herkner also works on interior architecture projects and museum and exhibition design. His works have won numerous accolades – among others the IF Award, the Iconic Award and the Elle Deco International Design Award (EDIDA). As Guest of Honour at imm cologne 2016, Sebastian Herkner provided the design for “Das Haus”. In 2019, Maison&Objet elected him “Designer of the Year”. An unconditional love for traditional craftsmanship paired with a good feel for new technologies, a true flair for colour, authentic materials and textures, an unadulterated curiosity for different cultures, for embracing and integrating them, and a commitment to taking responsibility for the things and people one works with, not to mention consideration and respect for all of the details and steps necessary to create an extraordinary object...: Since the success of the Bell Table for ClassiCon in 2012, Sebastian Herkner has never looked back, whilst remaining true to his word – and himself. Balance and intuition are important and enduring factors in his work, which he sees as a continuous dialogue that straddles the disciplines: It takes him to the far corners of the world in search of almost forgotten crafts techniques, of factories that have a tradition going back centuries, to the crafts Sleeping Beauties of the craft world that he can awaken from their slumbers. In the process he creates not just chairs, sofas, lamps, tables, vases and carpets, but an entire cosmos that shines a new light on how objects can appeal to the senses, and where beauty is cultivated from within the process itself and from his empathy towards people.

Moisés is a Mexican born designer based in Mexico City (born 1983). His hometown, being chaotic and over populated, as well as Mexican objects, traditions, textures, social contrast and chromatic diversity are elements influencing Moises’ work. Moisés obtained his Bachelor in Industrial Design from ITESM in 2007, graduating with honors. Moisés have always been attracted by simplicity and fresh ideas and that is why he decided to study at Ecal, in Lausanne Switzerland where in summer of 2013 he became a Master of Product design obtaining special mention. Moisés has exhibited his work in USA, Italy, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turkey, Hong Kong, Spain and Mexico. His work has been awarded by the Mexican Design Biennial INBA, The Good Design Award by the Chicago Atheneaum among others recognitions. In 2013 Moisés creates Diario, a brand that redesigns everyday Mexican objects, Diario is a social, cultural, curatorial and design project. Moisés believes in the transfer of design knowledge and this is why from 2014 - 2017 he joined as professor at Centro, one of the most important Design Universities in Mexico City, where he was awarded as the best Industrial Design professor. In August 2017 he was named as Regional Design Director at ITESM, the most important private University across Mexico.

Peter Christian Hertel, born in 1968, and Sebastian Klarhoefer, born in 1966, have known each other since childhood. They studied architecture in Berlin and Venice, completing their studies in 1994, and in Berlin in 1996. Their first joint furniture projects arose from their studies at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice, and were very much in the style of Aldo Rossi. In 1999, the founded the design agency Hertel & Klarhoefer. Since 2001, they have been working as architects and designers in their agency in Berlin. Designers, interior architects, model-makers and carpenters form part of their team. In the years that followed they designed furniture and accessories for renowned brands such as Authentics, ClassiCon, Elmarflötotto, Ligne Roset, Nils Holger Moormann and Zeitraum. They position themselves as a 'Full Service' creative agency, covering the full spectrum of services from initial design conception to technical production. Berlin, a city filled with creative potential, has inspired them from the beginning. It influences their work to this day.

Martin Hirth was born 1987 in Horb in the Black Forest (Germany) and graduated 2014 from the the University of Art and Design Offenbach in product design. While still studying, he founded his own studio and worked also as assistant of designer Sebastian Herkner from 2011-2014. Martin Hirth's numerous awarded designs - widely noticed by the international trade press - were exhibited among others in Paris, Milan and Berlin.

Maria Jeglinska was born in France 1983. In 2007 she graduated from écal's Industrial design program. For the past two years worked for the Gallery kreo in Paris and in the office of Konstantin Grcic in Munich. In late 2009, she set up her own Office for Design and Research in between London and Warsaw. The work is focused on industrial design projects (ranging from furniture, lighting to products), exhibition design, spaces, writing as well as research-based projects. Convinced that in today's culture research can question and generate new forms of answers and services. In 2010 she is a cofunder of EESTT: Eastern European Study Think Tank. A think tank focused on eastern European countries.

Eric was born in Chatou in 1961. He graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Saint Etienne and the L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Paris. He began collaborating with the gallery Neotu and in 1991 was the subject of a personal exhibition at the Cartier Foundation. In 1995 he undertook a study based on a piece of bridging furniture for the 'Carte blanche VIA'. The galerie Gilles Peyroulet et cie displays a number of collections of furniture designed by Eric Jourdan. In 2002 he designed signage for the cité universitaire internationale de Paris in conjunction with Ruedi Baur. Since 2002 he has also collaborated with Ligne Roset, with whom he was awarded the Red Dot Design Award for the Snowdonia settee. Several of his upholstery and furniture models have appeared in the Ligne Roset collection, the Shaman armchair being the latest. The Hyannis Port collection is amongst his designs for Cinna.

Design studio kaschkasch was founded in 2011 by florian kallus and sebastian schneider. the duo works in furniture, lighting design and art direction for several national and international clients. being a duo, collaboration is a crucial aspect of kaschkasch’s work. discussion is key. kaschkasch approaches design as a helpful and practical component of life that conveys character and attitudes through the expressiveness of restraint. basing themselves on this approach to design, kaschkasch wields a characteristic formal language that is inherently present in each design: it is a symbiosis of straightforwardness and beauty that toes the line between function and formal severity. the results are modest, challenging, intelligent and logical. kaschkasch questions prevailing norms and offers new answers to existing everyday demands. florian kallus and sebastian schneider share a background that combines hands-on and academic education: both are trained as cabinet makers followed by studies in product design. this versatility informs everything kaschkasch does. the studio appreciates the hands-on insight, practice and technical understanding, which contributes to their design method: traditional craftsmanship techniques and a mindset geared towards innovation, disruption and new technological solutions.

Hiroshi Kawano was born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1971. He studied interior architecture at Tama Art University, Tokyo. In 2004, he began working as an independent designer. Since 2006, his works have been exhibited in Stockholm, London, Cologne, Bonn, Munich, Paris and Tokyo.

Michael was born in Aachen in 1971, to a Dutch mother and a German father. He grew up in the part of Germany which borders the Netherlands and Belgium. Michael's grandfathers were skilled craftsmen, so he became acquainted with all kinds of materials at an early age and loved making and creating all kinds of things. After school Michael trained to become a cabinet maker. He studied design in Aachen, where he gained an honours degree. One year later, at the age of 27, he started work as a lecturer at the University of Aachen, teaching product development. During this time Michael started work on his own projects with small German design labels such as Details and Freiraum. After his first booklet mailing in 1999, Michael came to the attention of Habitat and Ligne Roset. These were the first major international companies he worked for, and they have remained loyal clients. For several years now, Michael has had his own studio in Hamburg, where he moved to after starting a family. Michael, his Turkish wife and their two daughters, live in the northern part of Hamburg. The studio is responsible for a wide range of design projects in the fields of furniture, accessories, lighting and interior design, making use of many different materials and all kinds of technologies. What is Michael's secret? The answer is simple - take an everyday article and give it a twist in respect of its use, function and material and, in many cases, add a touch of humour. Since 2008, Michael has been responsible for art direction for the firm of Flora in Halver, Germany. Clients include, Artepuro, Details, the Danish Consulate in Germany, Flora, Freiheit, Freiraum, Cinna, Clic, Habitat, Jasmim, Kaether & Weise, Ligne Roset, Louise Poulsen, Magazin, Morfoso and Rapsel.

Andreas Kowalewski’s work encompasses a wide range of creative fields such as in furniture, lighting, consumer electronics, and strategic design consulting. The Berlin-born designer was initially trained as a carpenter before he began studying industrial design at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, followed by 10 years at Philips Design in Amsterdam. In 2017 he founded his own studio practice and started working with renowned brands and manufacturers. The numerous collaborations have won many international design awards. In 2021 he was appointed visiting professor at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Germany. His Studio aims to create contemporary and meaningful product solutions for everyday life, by reducing complexity in form and function while striving to create objects that center on the value of longevity with a brand focus.

The day I left for Vietnam, I had no idea that I was about to begin an entirely new career' I left the United States at the age of 24, hoping to discover new horizons - and, impressed by the country, I decided to remain in Vietnam. In 1999 I met Michel Kuehne, a young Swiss entrepreneur based in Saigon and the founder of Wetter Indochine, a business specialising in lacquered goods. We were brought together by our mutual love of Vietnam, and of design. We soon found an interesting and enthralling way of showing the world the talent of Vietnamese artisans which combines colour, Western design, and quality.

Neeru Kumar, an Indian textile designed based in New Delhi, is a graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. An exceptional, inspired talent who, in the course of the past two decades, has been at the forefront of a revolution in the field of Indian textiles. With her use of traditional techniques and indigenous materials, and by dint of research and reflection, she has created an entirely new vocabulary for textile design. This innovation was made possible by the combination of her unique sensitivity, most notably in terms of tones and textures, her profound understanding of weaving and other textile techniques, and her determination to support craftsmanship. Highly productive, she has created a captivating, original and highly contemporary palette whilst pushing at the frontiers of the traditional skills on which she bases her work, which is often described as 'contemporary classic'. Her works have been exhibited in Japan, Europe, the United States and Australia, in prestigious stores and boutiques and in the shops of the foremost international museums. She counts the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art amongst her most loyal clients.

Born in 1997 in Rennes and trained as an interior designer. Vital Lainé founded his design studio in 2021, in which he develops and creates furniture and objects dedicated to the living spaces. Attentive to the impact of his creations, he pays particular attention to the material, with which he tries to develop an esoteric exchange, during the design process. From the listening of the material to the production of the object, the model and the drawing, integrate his creative process and play an important role in the development of his projects. Creating objects halfway between the usual and the sculptural, his singular approach to design allows him to offer a brutalist, yet sensitive vision of each object. Industrial product, small series or unique pieces, the formal simplicity of his pieces offers an elementary functionality to his creations.

The winner of numerous design prizes, Julian Langevin is active in the fields of product design, furniture design and interior arrangement. Alongside his collaborations with architects, start-ups and manufacturers, he conducts his own research which is based around imbalance, the use of materials in unexpected ways and interactions evocative of play. His work has a tendency to extend beyond function, making everyday life exciting once again.

Born in 1982, Pierre Lapeyronnie grew up between Paris and South-Western France, where his grandfather - a blacksmith and self-taught engineer - had a factory producing tools and equipment for vineyards. He graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in 2006, having investigated the possible interactions between soundscapes and their individual uses. On his return to Paris he began working as a freelance project manager, working on numerous projects for various agencies including those of Nathalie Crinière (stand design) and Jean Nouvel (product design). During this period he collaborated with craftsmen all over France, visiting them in their workshops to learn such basic skills as glass blowing, ironwork, ceramics, cutlery-making and cabinetmaking. In March 2010 Pierre Lapeyronnie founded PLII, his industrial design agency. This agency works on various projects, both commissioned and self-initiated, focussing mainly on the design of high-quality products, rationally designed, imbuing each with several levels on which it can be 'read'. His aesthetic approach is simple, precise and uncompromising. Pierre Lapeyronnie lectures in product design at the School of Design of the Strate Collège de Sèvres. His course alerts students to industrial realities whilst guiding them through the entire economic life-cycle of a product, from the initial sketch through to the production stage.

Thomas Larbain is a designer born in 1995. He graduated in 2018 from the Saint-Etienne School of Art and Design with his project : "The Grail". Since 2019, he has been working in Paris where he continues his personal practice by creating objects and illustrations diverting codes borrowed from mythical objects, medieval architecture and Indiana Jones. In April 2019, he exhibits his project "The Grail" at the French Institute in Milan during the design-week. In 2020/2021, he is a finalist of the design parade competition organised by the Villa Noailles with the project Pr Tournesol. In 2021, he won the 2nd prize in the accessory category of the Cinna young talent contest with the project Aubier.

Born in Lyon (1979), a mechanics graduate from the institut universitaire de technologie de Lyon, he then went on to study design at the école cantonale d'art, Lausanne. After his graduation in 2004, he moved to Paris, where he began working as an assistant to Pascal Mourgue. In 2005, he worked in the office of Andrée Putman and began working on his own projects, designing Cage, a collection of lighting, for Mat&jewski. Since 2006 he has been workign as an assistant to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, also continuing with his own projects for Ligne Roset and Oliban. In 2008, his Ariane light for Ligne Roset was awarded the Red Dot Design Award.

Philippine Lemaire was born in Saint-Etienne in 1984. After spending time at the ESADSE in Saint-Etienne, she graduated from the ESAD, Reims in 2008. Since then she has been working on a freelance basis, either alone or with a colleague. She divides her time between designing objects and furniture, scenography and interior arrangement. Scrutinizing our contemporary lifestyles, she tries to adopt a sensitive approach to each one of her projects. A material, a function or a production method are just some of the starting points in terms of project development. Today she works with a range of manufacturers such as the Faïencerie de Gien or the Cristalleries de Saint-Louis.

This product was designed and developed using all the expertise of our R&D department in Briord, in the Ain region.

Mauro Lipparini's intensive activities in the field of industrial design encompass furniture for both home and office, textiles and other products created for numerous companies in Europe and Japan. In terms of architecture and interior design, he focuses mainly on residential and commercial buildings such as corporate headquarters, showrooms, shops, restaurants and exhibition spaces. In addition, he designs and produces advanced image and corporate identity systems ranging from graphics to editorial services and production. The style of Lipparini, based on pared-down forms and clear, vigorous lines, the characteristics of natural minimalism, is heavily influenced by gaiety of spirit, and an intoxicating sense of aesthetic pleasure and creativity. Through the free use of colours, organic frameworks and original visual ideas, Lipparini broadens the palette of minimalism by converging instantaneousness and the power of this aesthetic quality in new era of maturity and a sense of wellbeing. For Mauro Lipparini, design is the inevitable tension between aesthetics and function, art and application. He enables a product to become both agreeable and intriguing, a functional or superfluous object to be transformed into one charged with aesthetic sense and semantics, thus enriching the domestic landscape. He enables a space or its ergonomy to come alive with an ever-new relevance. Design engenders desires which will improve the quality of life, it enables us to view progress with increased involvement, it renders the understanding of function and therefore the perception of one's habitat both passionate and agreeable. Design is not the application of form like make-up, it is the object in itself, it is the tradition, the culture which enables people to have more or less indirect contact with the intellectually avant-garde by democratising art. It can be more or less poetic, constructive and considered, but it must always push the very limits of risk by forgetting habits and customs. These considerations form the base of my work and, through simple, vigorous lines, graphic abstractions, compositions and purely geometric decompositions, I am ever on the trail of beauty and pleasure with a view to allying form and function. A natural minimalism of pared-down forms, paying particular attention to materials, colours, surfaces, to thick and thin, light and shade.

David Corraux invites you to enter an urban, dreamlike forest in which the imagination runs riot. Through a singular, retro-futuristic universe, Maison Le LOUP brings us an alternative, artistic take on ceramics which brings a renewed aesthetic to this marvellous art which is at once timeless and constantly evolving. David Corraux is part of the wave of creative ceramicist-designers who all share a common contemporary desire: To render everyday objects more singular, more poetic, in osmosis with our time. To revisit trends and subscribe to them. To offer an approach, a new view of ceramics in order to touch and meet with our contemporaries.

Paolo Lucidi (1974) Luca Pevere (1977). Both graduated and professionaly trained in Milan, they started to develop their first projects together since 2003 and in 2006 founded their studio LucidiPevere. They are facing constant challenges using unusual technics and aesthetic means to develop new forms of products. Some of the brands LucidiPevere work with are De Padova, Zanotta, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Agape, Ligne Roset, Foscarini, Kristalia, Living Divani, Normann Copenhagen, Very Wood, Emu, Casamania, DeCastelli, La Cividina, Teracrea. Their products appeared in different museums and won major awards such as Designpreis Deutschland, Red Dot Design Award, Good Design Award, Compasso d'Oro Honourable mentions and many others. They took part in various exhibitions in Europe and in the U.S. and appeared in different publications.

Anne Lutz graduated in industrial design from the ECAL (école cantonale d'art de Lausanne). On leaving the school in 2010, she worked for Ionna Vautrin in Paris. Anne studied ceramic art for 10 years (hence her work on 'the product'), along with graphic design, hence her interest in 2D. She first designs on a flat (2D) surface then works on the volumes to combine 2D and 3D. She does a lot of photography and is influenced by Swiss-style graphic design. She loves and feels particularly close to the architecture of the Twenties and the Bauhaus movement. She was a winner of the Concours Cinna révélateur de talents in 2013 with a project for an LED light, exploring indirect lighting with a view to modelling the wall light and making it pivot.

Pieter Maes, born in 1979, is a designer who lives in Paris. His work is about the power of pure forms and spaces that transcend time, about the areas of human history that have never been written down and about artefacts that suggest a distant past or a potential future. 2004 - Graduated from Design Academy, Eindhoven 2005 - Internship at Ora-ïto, Paris 2007 - Furniture Design at Vincent Van Duysen Architects 2011 - STVDIO collaboration with Marc Merckx 2014 - Illum outdoor furniture collection for Tribù 2016 - Furniture design in collaboration with Moroso for Hotel National des Arts et Métiers, Paris 2017 - Skillet design for Demeyere / Zwilling 2018 – Practice moves to Paris 2018 - Boon Gallery Paris

Peter Maly studied interior architecture at the Fachhochschule Detmold, graduating in 1960. Between 1960 and 1970 he worked as a journalist and interior designer for a German interiors magazine. He opened his own design and interior architecture studio in 1970. He has worked for many years with companies such as Anta, Behr, Cinna, Cor, Interlübke, Jab Anstoetz, Ligne Roset, Mauser, Thonet et Tonon. His scope of works takes in product design, textile design and 'exhibition design' for certain events such as trade show stands for Ligne Roset. In addition he has worked on the design and fit-out of Ligne Roset stores all over the world, including Moscow, New York, Hamburg and Berlin. His works have been recognised with numerous design awards.

Valentine MAUPETIT, née le 01/09/1995 à Paris Formation 2018 - 2020 ESADSE – Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Etienne DNSEP – Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique option design mention objet, félicitations du jury. 2014 - 2017 EESI – Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’Image, Poitiers DNAP – Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques beaux-arts, sculpture et installation. 2013 Lycée Fénelon, Paris VI Baccalauréat littéraire, mention assez bien. Expériences professionnelles 2020 - 2021 ENSCI – Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle ENS Paris-Saclay, CRD – Centre de Recherche en Design Chaire S’entendre, partenariat Clen R&D – Les environnements acoustiques des espaces de travail tertiaires 2020 CAFA – Académie Centrale des Beaux-Arts de Chine, Pékin Workshop – La mobilité des travailleurs dans une mégalopole chinoise. 2019 EU Policy Lab – Commission Européenne, Bruxelles Commande – Projet prospectif sur l’agriculture européenne en 2050 nov.-déc. 2019 Flavien Delbergue, Paris Assistante stagiaire, design objet sept.-nov. 2019 Wendy Andreu, Paris Assistante stagiaire, design objet et mobilier 2016 Balancing on chin – Sylvain Bourget, Poitiers Commissariat et montage d’exposition, médiation culturelle 2015 Séminaire Réseau Canopé et Rurart, Poitiers Edition sur l’éducation artistique en milieu rural Distinctions 2020 Prix Dess(e)ins 2020, Les Traces Habiles Prix dans la catégorie "Itinérance" Concours Cinna, Révélateur de Talents, 13e édition Prix "Coup de coeur du jury" avec la console Aube 2019 Concours Desjoyaux Prix du jury avec le projet Fuga Concours Cinna, Révélateur de Talents, 12e édition Finaliste avec la lampe Kamakura

Fattorini, Rizzini & Partners design contemporary furniture for a number of manufacturers in both Italy and abroad. Founded in 2009, their agency brings together Bruno Fattorini, President and founder of the MDF brand, Robin Rizzini, Design Director, and Lucio Quinzio Leonelli, Partner and a management specialist for several furniture manufacturers. "The PRODUCT is more important than the sum of its components". This holistic vision is the agency's philosophy.

Teddy Moissant is a designer of objects, furniture and lighting based in Strasbourg. He is very sensitive to the exploitation of short circuits and the sustainability of the local craft scene. He believes in sharing knowledge, skills and developing networks. He is constantly looking for new techniques or technologies in order to create objects in self-production (use of FabLabs). A graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Rennes, he also developed skills of the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg.

Philippe Moine is full of sincerity and humanity, deeply anchored in an approach where man is at once the source and the end purpose of his creativity. A sensitive lover of pictorial art and sculpture, he is nourished by the inexpressible which is illustrated through pared-down lines, emotions emanating from a sketched-out movement. Philippe Moine was born in the Seventies in St Etienne, a town recognised by Unesco since 22nd November 2010 as one of a network of 'villes créatives Design'. Was this an omen? A childhood lover of Lego, Meccano and carpentry sets, he very quickly showed a marked leaning towards a career in which the process of construction and woodworking would satisfy his appetite for creation. His first cabinetmaking courses confirmed his particular attraction to this career path, where wood enabled him to give shape to his ideas with great ease. Ideas, his head was full of them ! To help them gush out, he signed up with the école Boulle, Paris where he learned to master the movements and skills which would enable him to craft wood, metal and fabric with both quality and genius. With a degree in Interior Architecture under his belt, he then went on to specialize in Industrial Design at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris: a course with the educational mission of providing artistic, scientific and technical training in all spheres of the decorative arts. At the same time, Philippe Moine joined the design team at Renault: plunging into such a hotbed of creativity was a catalyst for him. The designers, from the best schools in the world, were young like him; the multicultural nature of the team and the means laid at their disposal enabled them to produce designs of limitless creativity. This experience, coupled with his talent, was to open the doors of various design agencies, where he became known for his striking creations. Philippe Moine opened his own studio in 1996 and now divides his time between industrial design, which he has been developing more broadly for a number of years, and 'le Mobilier de Création'. > Industrial design is a field in which he knows how to make the best use of his achievements whilst adhering to a set of specifications which have been scrupulously defined by issues relating to business, the market, the production process, the user...his expertise in this field is acknowledged, his creations arresting. il maîtrise des réalisations en adéquation avec un cahier des charges scrupuleux défini par une problématique d'entreprise, de marché, de fabrication, d'utilisateur... > Le Mobilier de Création is his secret garden where he designs exceptional pieces. Unique items of furniture worked in a single material or in a range of material types, a harmonious marriage of wood, metal or glass. > Graphic and spatial design are areas in which he plunders the very DNA of the business, offering sensory voyages using forms, images, materials and colours whilst remaining true to simplicity and clarity. As the town of Saint-Etienne was making design one of its axes for economic recovery, Philippe Moine came together with two other local designers to found the collective DESIGNERS+ in 2007. Today, this collective is a veritable platform for design and development, aiding the region's economic players by making design an innovative lever for the whole area. Today, Philippe sits on both the management committee and the Design & Industries commission.

Born 1st February 1985. Founded in 2013, Simon Morasi Piperčić is a Zagreb-based design agency which works on a range of projects from furniture and spatial design to specialist on-site installations, artistic direction to design consultancy. The studio’s distinctive identity arises from the intercultural space between elitism and egalitarianism, avant-garde experimentation, and highly commercial products : this has enabled the team at Simon Morasi Piperčić to successfully build themselves a specific position which is easily recognizable in the global professional context. The agency has won some of the most prestigious awards – the German Design Award 2017, the Red Dot in 2013 and 2015, and the Interior Innovation Award in 2015. In 2014, they were part of the team which designed the Croatian Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia. Their work has appeared in a range of major publications such as Dezeen, Domus, Frame and Designboom, and has been exhibited all over the world.

1957 : began his studies at the école Boulle, at the age of 14-and-a-half. 1962 : made the acquaintance of Charlotte Perriand by telephone. 1968 : began designing furniture. 1988 : exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 1994 : designed his first collection for Cinna, including most notably the Calin armchair. 1995 : designed the Mourgue bed for Cinna. 1996 : awarded the Grand Prix National de la Création Industrielle du Ministère de la Culture. 1997 : designed In Fine for Cinna. 2000 : designed Smala for Cinna. Label VIA 2000 IF Design Award and Red Dot Best of the Best 2001. 2007 : designed Pas si Classique for Cinna.

Born in Belgrade in 1973, she graduated from the Ecole d’architecture Paris la Villette in the year 2000. Ana Moussinet has worked in her studio, ANA MOUSSINET INTERIOR DESIGN, since 2012. Liberated and inspired, Ana Moussinet owes her expertise to her architectural degree from the Beaux-Arts de Paris and to the professional path she has taken. Design as an art form, technique as a foundation, to her, volume is a material to be sculpted, to be adorned before being inhabited. Her Slavic origins inspire her on a daily basis and give her approach a sensitive, lively twist. An architect, she sculpts spaces of all sizes. From an 180-bedroom 5* hotel on the other side of the world to the identity of a boutique located a few steps from her studio in the Le Marais district, to the design of a jewel-like light, Ana devotes the same level of enthusiasm and the same expertise to each project. A stylistic vocabulary which interweaves French elegance with contemporary design and Slavic joie de vivre, from which Ana draws the necessary inspiration to sketch out the features of each interior, making it a unique piece, at the service of both sponsors and users.

Thomas Müller : born in 1959. Studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Stuttgart and the Royal College of Art, London. Has shared a design bureau with Jörg Wulff since 2001. Jörg Wulff : born in 1968. Studied at the Hdk Berlin, the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Berlin and the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design. The focus of our inspiration, our lives and our work is Berlin. Architecture, interior architecture and design are our working priorities. The aesthetic quality of our creations is defined through the search for balance between creative restraint and the communication of the main concept. The starting point of all our creations is a substantial story as the leitmotif of creation. The opportunity for change, for an experience, for a memory, amongst many others, show the emotional side of a product. This is how furniture communicates to us over and above its pure function.

Studied Applied Arts (bac F12, BTS Design industriel à La Martinière - Lyon, DSAA Design produit & mobilier - école Boulle), during which time he designed the 'Ailleurs' garden in Chaumont-sur-Loire and the Flac light (winner of a Habitat competition) in conjunction with C. Gardet. Since 1999 he has worked as a freelance designer, and also with studio De Lucchi in Milan, where he has participated in numerous projects developing products, furniture, lighting, interior architecture, events and scenography for Olivetti, Poltrona Frau, Artemide, Alias, Caimi, Interni, Feg, Listone Giordano... At the same time he has also worked on projects for Nube Italia, Felicerossi, NavaDesign. In 2008, he was awarded 2nd prize in the 'Autogrill' restaurant competition, with M. Biffi. Since 2005, long-term furniture projects have been supported by the VIA, thanks to which he was able to design the Spiral shelf, Storage-Unit chest and Intersection divans and, in January 2009, the Twin-Chairs chairs and the Tréteau universal table base. Certain of his projects have been put into production, such as Cross-Unit (Sintesi) or Intersection, from which sprang the Confluences collection of upholstery, produced by Ligne Roset.

Biography : Jean-François Dingjian and Eloi Chafaï, alias Normal Studio, founded their industrial design agency in 2006. Jean-François Dingjian, a graduate of the école des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Etienne, was named 'lauréat de la Bourse Agora' in 1996, and was awarded the Prix de la Création de la ville de Paris in 1999. Eloï Chafaï, who studied at the Ensci, Paris, was awarded the Grand Prix design parade 01, by the Villa Noailles, Hyères in 2006. Observers of technical processes and customs for technolognical transfer, they revisit everyday forms through a simple, precise design which intensifies user quality. Their interests extend to product design, scenography and, most recently, commercial fit-outs' Amongst their most recent projects: - the 'Paysages de Table' collection, produced by ligne roset in 2008: a project which originated in a partnership with Craft (Centre de recherche sur les arts du feu et de la terre), Limoges. - 'Atrium', a range of urban waste bins, for Plastic Omnium, 2008. - 'Diamond Boxes' lighting, designed for the Villa Noailles and produced by Tools Galerie, 2007. - the 'Contaners et Bloc' collection, produced by Tools Galerie, 2007. - creation of sales spaces for shoe stylist Karine Arabian, Paris, 2008. - scenography for 'RIPPP!!! paper fashion', Benaki museum, Athens, 2007. Presented at the Mudam, Luxembourg in 2008, moving on to Anvers in 2009. - scenography for 'L'homme paré', Musée de la mode et du textile, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2005. - scenographic plan for 'Drogland, plaisir, risques dépendances', an itinerant exhibition organised by CIDEM (citoyenneté et démocratie), 2005-2008.

Jean-Philippe NUEL comes from a family of architects whose passions are design and contemporary creation. He gained his architectural diploma at the Paris fine art school (Ecole des Beaux-Arts) and soon won recognition after winning an international competition presided over by Kenzo Tange. Shortly afterwards, he realises an overall project of architecture and decoration for a Parisian hotel. After this first commission, many other boutique hotel projects followed, both in Paris and elsewhere in France: LE VICTOIRE OPÉRA, LA VILLA ST GERMAIN, L'HOTEL THÉRÈSE, LE GÉNÉRAL, LE DUO, the REGENT PETITE FRANCE in Strasbourg or the JIVA HILL PARK HOTEL, near Geneva and soon the hotel LE GRAND BALCON in Toulouse. Since these, many major hotel chains have called upon his services, including SOFITEL (Budapest and Paris La Défense), HILTON (Evian and Malta) and CLUB MEDITERRANEE (Peisey Vallandry). Other projects are in progress with LE MERIDIEN (Paris Etoile, Brussels and Dubai), RADISSON (Nantes), WESTIN (Aqaba in Jordan) and also TAJ HOTEL (India), MARRIOTT (Marrakech) and two cruiser ships for the Compagnie des Iles du Ponant. The studio is currently working in Japan, in the Middle East and, of course, in Europe, on hotel projects, private houses, spas, concept stores and restaurants.

Numéro111 is composed of three separate individuals, Sophie Françon, Jennifer Julien and Grégory Peyrache. Childhood friends from St-Etienne, the trio studied separately - at the Ecole supérieure d'Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne and the Ecole nationale supérieure d'Architecture de Saint-Etienne - then embarked on solo apprenticeships before coming together again to found Numéro111 in 2010. They proclaim a global dialogue-based approach which is not limited to a single scale or discipline. The team comes together to work on a variety of projects in the fields of objects, furniture, architecture, interior design and scenography. Appreciative of forms and materials, Numéro111 questions and invites, through its creations, a reflection on use which arises from the three distinct characters' transversal view of our daily lives.

Tobias Nickerl - Né en 1987 à Taunusstein en Allemagne. Zifan Wang - Né en 1988 à Sichuan en Chine. Obvision est un studio de design et de recherche proposant un service multidisciplinaire qui s'étend du design produit, au design d'espace jusqu'à la recherche et l'expérimentation. Le studio s'oriente vers l'exploration des nouveaux usages et experiences pour une société en mutation à travers de la conception de produits innovants. L'équipe germano-chinois est constitué de Tobias Nickerl et Zifan Wang, tous les deux diplômés de l'ENSCI-les ateliers : complémentaires par la mixité de leurs approches culturelles, ils le sont également dans leurs parcours et dans l’alliance de leurs compétences respectives. Après avoir collaboré avec des agences de design et travaillé pour des clients variés (Montale, EDF R&D, Jean-Marie Massaud, Fabernovel) ils fondent en 2020 le studio de création : Obvision.

After I graduated from ICS COLLEGE OF ARTS in 1998, I worked for BY STEP DESIGN STUDIO. I began working as a freelance designer in Europe in 2008. Based in Milan, I'm currently working on designs for furniture and products.

Kensaku Oshiro was born on Okinawa Island, Japan, in 1977. After gaining a Master's degree in Industrial Design at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan in 1999, he began working with various studios until 2004, when he joined the design team at Lissoni Associati where he worked until mid-2012. In June 2012, Kensaku moved to London to join BarberOsgerby studio. In June 2015, Kensaku established his own studio in Milan. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions and has obtained a range of prestigious international awards. Kensaku Oshiro works with Boffi, De Padova, Gan, Glas Italia, Kristalia, Ligne Roset, Poltrona Frau, Viccarbe and Zanotta.

During the 1990's, we were both attracted by the energy of the formerly divided Berlin, absorbing creative young people from all over the world. In 1996, amidst an atmosphere of constant change and seemingly endless possibilities, we started to study at the University of Fine Arts, Berlin. Though coming from different backgrounds, we soon started to collaborate - and this collaboration soon turned out to be an amazing kind of teamwork, achieving results well beyond our individual capacities. In 1998 we founded the design studio 'wunschforscher' (roughly translated as 'desiresearchers'), creating objects between design, innovation and art. The most famous works from this period are the 'SushiRoller' and the 'top.table'. At the same time we produced scenography and visual concepts for fashion shows, events and parties, amongst others for MTV Designerama On Stage and Adidas Originals. In 2005 we founded 'osko+deichmann', with the aim of making straightforward objects which nevertheless have an additional layer, or else tell a story. In 2006 we designed the PONTON low table for Ligne Roset. One year later the ABYSS light by Kundalini and the CLIP CHAIR by MOOI were presented at the Salone di Mobile, Milan. In autumn 2007 the PEBBLE collection of seating was launched by elmarflötotto. The designs of 'osko+deichmann' have been shown at the musée du Louvre (Paris), the Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein (Berlin), Cube Gallery (Manchester), MoMA (Berlin), Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin), Galerie VIA (Paris) and 107 Rivoli (Paris).

Donia Ouertani and Nolwenn Michéa met during their studies at the École Supérieure d'Art et Design of Saint-Étienne (France). During an academic exchange in Scotland in 2015, they discovered a common approach to the practice of design and began their collaboration. In autumn 2020, they végétalesfounded the Foghar design studio. The two designers develop research and creation projects around the depreciated resources of a territory, particularly vegetal, such as urban dead leaves. A key importance is given to manual work and experimentation.

1977 : graduated in decorative arts 1978 : creation of the furniture department at Ensad 1979 : creation of Pagnon & Pelhaitre design 1981 : Amarante, Dariosecq 1982 : Sara, tables basses Habitat 1983 : First, Cinna 1984 : furniture for the programme 'Formule 1 de France Gall' 1985 : Straty, Cinna 1986 : collection for Artelano 1987 : Domus collection, Ligne Roset 1988 : Atal desks 1989 : Scoop, Drimmer 1990 : Gong desks, Frezza italie 1991 : Dune living & bedroom furniture, Cinna (Roset group) 1992 : Mobile, Cinna 1993 : Treves research centre, groupe Treves 1994 : Treves factories, groupe Treves 1995 : Square, Ligne Roset 1996 : Treves training centre, groupe Treves 1997 : Yoyo tables, Ligne Roset. Macé desk 1998 : Treves head office, Fbg.St.Honore, groupe treves 1999 : Ipso Facto 2000 : Playtime, Espace Prive, Ligne Roset 2001 : Zinc Zinc restaurant. Familia, Mobalpa 2002 : PP900, Ligne Roset. Addform showroom 2003 : Travel, Ligne Roset. Tremois factory, groupe Treves 2004 : Cineline cinna 2005 : professors of furniture at Ensad. Strates, Ligne Roset 2006 : Schmidt kitchen 2007 : QM in china

Architect and designer Roberto Paoli associates deep technical competence with mastery of material performances, thus enabling him to create highly innovative products. His studio works on numerous projects in a range of design spheres such as product design, interior arrangement and architecture (designing homes, stores, showrooms and exhibition stands). Roberto Paoli is currently developing products for high-end furniture and lighting brands such as Ligne Roset, Fiamitalia, Artemide and Nemo Cassina . In 2013, alongside his collaborations with renowned companies, he created his own brand, Seminato Mercadente, to self-produce products characterised by vigorous research, experimentation and innovation. The brand takes its name from its head office, an evocative space restored by Roberto Paoli, in an historic building (early 1900s) in Milan. Roberto Paoli has won the Chicago Good Design Award four times and has also been nominated for the Compasso D'oro; he won the Interior Innovation Award in 2014. Roberto Paoli is also the creator and curator of design events and exhibitions. He is also a member of several international juries.

Born in Paris in 1927, made his début in the 50's, known for his designs and installations (TV, Thonet, Bertrand Faure, Disderot, Artifort), he brought modernity to the Elysée Palace for President Pompidou in 1971. He designed all the furniture for the official office of François Mitterrand, and renovated the dining room for Jacques Chirac. At the same time, he founded ADSA with two associates, working on industrial projects (Calor, Allibert, Stamp) and brand image (Air France) as well as fitting-out railway stations (Gare de Lyon, Gare de Versailles Rive Gauche). His pieces figure amongst the collections of numerous museums across the world, and various exhibitions have been dedicated to him in 2007/8. MOMA, New York has enlarged its collection of Paulin pieces.