Eeshaan Kashyap is the founder and creative force behind Eeshaan Kashyap & Co. A multidisciplinary talent, Eeshaan uses food, beverage, design, photography, art, styling and social media to tell inspiring stories.

Eeshaan began his journey as a trained chef, graduating from the prestigious Oberoi Centre for Learning and Development in 2011, with specializations in Western Culinary Arts and Indian Coastal Cuisine. He quickly became one of the Oberoi Group’s youngest executive chefs, with residencies at the Oberoi Vrinda and the Trident in Kochi, and then at the Italian specialty restaurant Traventino, at The Oberoi, New Delhi.

During an exciting period of growth for the Indian restaurant industry, Eeshaan joined Pass Code Hospitality as Vice President and Partner, launching and heading operations and branding for award-winning boutique restaurants in Delhi, Goa and Kolkata. These include PCO, India’s first speakeasy-style cocktail bar; PDA, an intimate martini bar; private members’ club À Ta Maison; SAZ, an American brasserie; Ping’s Café Orient serving healthy Asian street food, and regional Indian powerhouse Jamun. Now a non-executive partner in these ventures, Eeshaan has become a much sought after hospitality consultant for others.

As a culinary designer and food stylist, Eeshaan’s style is effortlessly sophisticated while full of delight and surprise. His narrative approach to food and beverage incorporates a unique visual vocabulary and distinctive flair. Whether it’s as a curator of special occasions or as a bar concierge accelerating the diversification of India’s beverage scene, Eeshaan leaves an indelible signature on all his work.

Beyond his culinary curiosity, Eeshaan’s passionate interests in travel, photography, art and design have contributed to his eclectic vision. His own home in New Delhi has been covered in Architectural Digest India, where he is now a contributing editor. As a columnist and an industry consultant, Eeshaan is also emerging as an influencer through his Instagram page (@eeshankas), which captures his myriad interests and unique voice.

Based in New Delhi, Eeshaan is currently working on debut coffee-table book. Among other exciting new ventures. He has launched a limited-edition collection of handmade tableware and objects to share a piece of his tablescape with you.

After completing my schooling in Kolkata, I studied law at National Law University, Jodhpur, one of the premier law institutes of the country. While working as a tax lawyer in renowned law firms of India, I was beginning to feel disconnected from myself and began seeking some form of creative expression. Looking for fresh earth in which to plant my roots, I found clay in 2013.

I like to work at the cusp of function and sculpture. All of my work is hand-built using techniques like pinching, coiling and slabbing. I also incorporate a lot of texture into the clay. I actively engage with contrasts in my work - contrasts between organic and geometric aesthetic and between the high-gloss of glaze vis-à-vis matte unglazed ceramic surfaces. My focus primarily is on the form and everything else organises itself around this.

I’m a self-taught artist, relying on years of trial and error instead of formal training. In pursuance of a career in the arts, I have also done a year-long post graduate course in art history ‘Modern and Contemporary Indian Art and Curatorial Studies’ from Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai in 2018-2019.

I explore my practices in ceramic as well as drawing with ink from my studio in Wadala, Mumbai.

Over the years of working with clay, I have realized that it is not me that molds the clay but it's clay that molds me. Every piece I create takes me closer to the artist I aspire to become. Though that perfect piece is still a far-off dream yet every step of this journey is truly amazing. There has been no better satisfaction than to know that someone somewhere is using a piece that I have created. A part of me has become a part of their world and I thus live vicariously through their life's journeys.

Clay has taken me to distant places and introduced me to so many amazing people. My exhibits in this show are a catalog of these journeys and experiences. Some have been crafted here in India and others during a residency in Denmark. Exploring the medium in different spaces has given me the opportunity to experiment with different types of clays, kilns and ways they are fired.

A common thread that binds my work is - the emphasis on the duality of clay in the forms created. The strength and robustness of the material, juxtaposing the fragility and fluidity of the same… Ying and Yang.
A symphony called 'Life'.

The journey of discovery and form has created a community around me that continues to fuel the search for perfect piece in this ever giving medium…
I feel humbled and proud to be a part of this community and to showcase my work to you and thus become a part of your lives.

Rahul has been in clay for 25 years. He completed his masters from the USA on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2008 and received the Charles Wallace award to study in the UK in 2013. He has had 9 solo shows in the US and India (including with Exhibit320, Threshold Art Gallery, Cymroza Art Gallery, Art Heritage, and Apparao Galleries). His works have been auctioned at Sotheby's London in 2012 and is a three-time recipient of the AIFACS National Award. In 2014 he received the Junior Fellowship for Excellence in the Field of Visual Arts by the Government of India. Published critiques include essays authored by Kristine Michael, Kishore Singh, Roobina Karode, Aman Nath, and Keshav Malik. He collaborated with RAQS Media Collective for a work that was part of their solo show at the NGMA-Delhi. A large-scale ceramic installation, funded by India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) was showcased as a special curated project at the India Art Fair 2015 edition. His works are part of prestigious collections in India and abroad, including India Habitat Centre and Kiran Nadar Museum of Art. Rahul was selected for the First Indian Ceramics Triennial held at Jaipur in 2018. He was recently named as one of the five-Indian-ceramic-artists-you-need-to-know by the Architecture Digest, the leading international design journal and has been honoured by the Bharat Nirman Foundation for his contributions in the field of art. He is an art journalist with by-lines in various publications. He is an Editor with STIR.



About the series ‘body city’:

My recent works focus on abstract rendition of what may look like the aerial view of a city, with a grid like structure, criss-crossing lines, patches and undulations. On a closer inspection, it also evokes a sense of microscopic vision of veins and muscles, tissues and cells. The body as a city, and the city as a living being, metaphorically, is a concept that intrigues me. I made architectural blocks in clay with a diptych element. The second component in the series for each block is a skeletal frame using welded iron-rods, accentuating the play of light and shadow. The gold gilded portions reference preciousness in an ironical way. The work juxtaposes geometric with organic, the man-made with industrial. It celebrates the 'ghostliness' of human development.

I am Priya Sundaravalli from the International cultural township of Auroville in Tamil Nadu. My professional engagement with ceramics started at a later age. I am a medical doctor by training (MBBS India 1986-1992) and I also have 2 post graduate degrees in Biomedical Engineering (Drexel University 1992-1995) and Industrial & Operations Engineering (University of Michigan Ann Arbor 1995-2002) from the USA. My exposure to ceramics happened during the last year of my studies at the University of Michigan when I signed up for classes at the art school. In 2002, I returned back to India, teaching science at the local schools in Auroville while ceramics remained a hobby. In 2012, I decided to fully plunge into ceramics. I took a sabbatical, returned to the USA to study under my teacher, the late Felipe Ortega, a master craftsman in micaceous pottery of the Jicarilla Apache tribe, in New Mexico USA. Since then, I am a full-time ceramic artist working out of my studio ‘Pottery Sipapu’ in Auroville.

My work is inspired by the poetry and the beauty of Life, as well as life’s qualities of abundance and hope. My creative process relies on spontaneity and serendipity. I work by hand-building and use a variety of techniques for decorative effects. The works undergo multiple firings in an electric or wood fuel kiln.

I have participated in eight solo shows (six in India, and two in S. Korea) and multiple group shows including the one at Taoxichuan in the year 2019. I have participated in ceramic residencies outside India such as at the Clayarch Gimhae Museum, South Korea (2014), the EKWC The Netherlands (2018) and at the Jingdezhen International Studio (2019). In 2020, I received the guest artist fellowship at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan, which has been postponed due to the pandemic.

My ceramic work is in several collections both in India and abroad: the Wistaria Tea house in Taipei, the Jaya He GVK New Museum at the new Mumbai International airport, the Aravind Eye hospital in Chennai, as well as the Busan Domestic Airport (S. Korea).

Since December 2021, I have been elected as member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Artist Statement

As a Sculpture graduate, clay found me in my very first year at college, and Completed Masters degree in Ceramic Sculpture from Baroda in 1999. It’s been over 2 decades since then and I believe I was very fortunate to have found my passion so early on. Years of working in clay has been a wonderful journey with various milestones. Shows, residencies, collaborations, curatorial projects and student interactions have all been opportunities to express myself through ceramics.

My work has been rooted in the coexistence of the old and the new; the conflict of leaving behind the familiar while stepping into unknown territories. Exploring that quiet space between comfort and discomfort and constantly trying to strike a balance.

My art is a reflection of my training. I have never felt bound by any one medium, and as a result I have no boundaries of form and technique. My art is my reaction to my space and surroundings, each piece mirrors a certain moment of my existence.

I respond best to the theme of space, be it the open sky or, microcosmically, the inner spaces of my mind. I enjoy the containment of two dimensional pieces, as well as the challenge of multidimensional forms. Clay is my medium and I need look no further to be in touch with my inner core. My works are often spontaneous, always intuitive, and very often a reaction to an architectural language or an organic form.

I am particularly interested in Geo-Sociological Conditions, architectural spaces geological references and imprints or fragments that contain within them a sense of nostalgia. Memories, Current affairs and impressions are central to my thought process and the visuals I like to play with.


Artist Bio

Falguni Bhatt a Sculptor, ceramist and installation artist is hailed from Baroda, Gujarat. With her heart set on a creative journey she completed her Bachelors and Masters degree in Fine Arts with specialisation in Ceramic Sculpture from the Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda in 1999. Falguni's art is all about deconstructing stereotypes of thought and practice reflecting an intense and deeply sensitive relationship with her surroundings as well as her state of mind at any given point in time.

Credited with a number of distinguished solo shows at home and abroad. She has received Awards among them the IAFACS award, All India mini sculpture award, national scholarship and junior fellowship from ministry of culture, India. Have curated Several International Ceramic Residencies at Art Ichol Maihar, at Rann of Kutch under Global Art Festival Event. Participated in many Residency programs, among them Jingdezhen International Studio, Solo Show at Taoxichuan Art Avenue Museum 2019, International Ceramic Studio kecskemet, Hungary.

She is a member of AIC-IAC International Academy Of Ceramics, Founder member of ICAF - Indian Ceramic Art Foundation & “Afsa Fired Art” Kolkata.
She lives and works in Kolkata.


Concept Note

The humble values of the everyday objects can show us the meaning & value of life.

It is not ‘some - where else’ in some transcendent realm made secure by absolute knowledge, but in ordinary everydayness.

My work represents some common everyday objects like a vase in a different way..., more playful and spontaneous.

Shreya Alok completed her undergraduate ceramic design course at Indian Institute of Crafts and Design, Jaipur in 2014. She has exhibited at Lalit Kala Akadamie and Samanvai gallery, Jaipur amongst others. Drawing inspiration from the various craft clusters in India, she has recieved a fellowship from CEPT to work with the pottery clusters in Kutch, Gujarat.
After being an artist-in-residence at The Cold Mountain Studio, now she takes her ceramic journey forward by setting up her own 'Studio Karamica' in the lower Himalayas of Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.

BIO
Élodie Alexandre is an artist based in the village of Andretta in Himachal Pradesh, India. Originally from France, she lived in the UK for ten years and joined Cardiff School of Art and Design in Wales in 2008. She holds a BA and an MA in Ceramics from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. Her work was selected for the British Ceramics Biennial in 2011 and for the Biennial of Ceramics in Belgium in 2015. She was artist in residence at the Jakarta Contemporary Ceramics Biennale, Indonesia, in 2016. In 2018, she was selected to participate in the first edition of the Indian Ceramics Triennale in Jaipur. She is co-founder of Atelier Lālmitti, a clay centre in Andretta.

ARTIST STATEMENT
This series of work investigates relations between inside and outside spaces by exploring the functional form of the cup and saucer set. The pieces are flat-back ornamental objects telling stories inspired by thoughts which occurred in the mind of the artist while she lived in Delhi. The decorations on the cups reference relationships to the domestic space and the outside world, mapping moods (such as ‘Rainy day’) as well as a longing for nature (‘Looking for birds’). The juxtaposition of pieces allows layers to be created and visual conversations to emerge, engaging viewers in an intriguing, poetic world of personal images which mix the familiar and the unfamiliar, the personal and the universal.

Born and brought up in New Delhi. Pondicherry in South India has been home to Indrani for almost 2 decades. She has been working in Ceramics since 22 years. Her works are organic and strong forms. She is in the forefront of Anagama firing in Indian Ceramics. After building her own Anagama Kiln, she holds workshops to share her firing techniques at her studio Phoenix Potteries & Sculptures, Auroville – Pondicherry. She has participated in various National and International shows, workshops and symposiums held in India, UK, Italy, Croatia, Japan, China.

Nandini Chandavarkar is a ceramic artist and visual designer currently living in India. She is a graduate of Visual Communication from Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, India. She attended a 2-month advanced pottery programme at Atelier Lālmitti, Himachal Pradesh, under the guidance of Élodie Alexandre and Reyaz Badaruddin, which marked the starting point of a dedicated and sustained practice in ceramics. She will be completing a one-year mentorship under them. She is looking to bridge her graphic design background and her clay practice and create a substantial body of work addressing personal narratives. Recently, she was featured in Verve Magazine India and Kinship+Craft’s instagram.

Artist Statement
How can one discern the personal and political through ceramics?
My sculptural objects are an ongoing exploration of unpacking my shame & insecurities, focussing on unsolicited comments I have received about my body to this day– bent nose, chicken legs and perky breasts. At the same time, I feel compelled to address my own beauty standards by challenging the body politics surrounding it and understanding the importance of the personal and shared human experience.

My narrative is a slight departure from 'home' being a place where I find ease and comfort because, personally, it is where it all started. What resonates with me about clay as a material is that it records my lived experience, the body's fragility when perceived as an object.

Writer’s CV reads like a travel retrospective. Wander-lust is what he says takes him across the world for invited residencies, workshops and exhibitions. Adil is an architect with a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Houston, Texas. He worked in Bombay as an architect before reaching Pondicherry to learn ceramics at the iconic Golden Bridge Pottery. Since 2000, he is a partner at Mandala Pottery in Auroville, an international community tucked away in the forests of south India where he strikes a fine balance between making functional tableware and his own studio ceramics and large-scaled unfired clay paintings.

Writer’s ceramics and large scale paintings have been showcased at several solo and group exhibitions in Japan, China, India, Indonesia, Australia, Estonia, France, Taiwan and USA. Writer has been instrumental in arranging a residency for eighteen Indian ceramists to Fuping for the proposed Museum of Contemporary Indian Ceramics in China.

At Shigaraki, one of the oldest kiln-sites in Japan, Adil culminated his three-month invited residency with a solo show titled “Himitsu Te Uso”. He also featured in, “Six by Six: Interpreting Craft in Gondwana”, a path-breaking collaborative Indo-Australian show at the Australian Triennial in Canberra which was subsequently also shown in Yingge, Taiwan in 2018. This spirit of dialogue led to “In Collaboration” with the celebrated artist Laxma Goud, at Pundole Art Gallery in Mumbai. His curatorial exhibitions include ‘Table Manners’ 1 & 2, ‘Porcelain’ and ‘Clay Off the Wall’. The pandemic years he spent co-curating www.QuartzInversion.com with American artist Janet Adams, a project that has become a mini encyclopedia of pandemic art in the ceramic field.

Writer is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva.

I am Jigisha Patel, a Ceramic Artist, born and bought up in Mumbai. Started Tiny Clay exactly 2 years ago. It was something that came out of sheer passion before I started my career aspiring to be a Chartered Account. And somewhere in the middle I saved myself.

Changing 8 jobs before I got here wasn’t an easy journey. Because people around thought I was not serious about anything I ever did. Nothing ever clicked very honestly (until of course I was introduced to pottery). I’d always ask myself every morning that do I really need this job? And the answer to it was ‘NO’. I still kept going thinking that maybe someday I’ll fall in love with my job.

During my very first 10 session course I told to myself that pottery isn’t for you. But destiny has its own plans. Lockdown made me discover so many new things; about pottery - about myself!

Reyaz Badaruddin is a contemporary Indian artist and teacher who lives and works from Himachal Pradesh. He graduated in ceramic and design from Banaras Hindu University and went to Cardiff School of Art and Design, UK on Charles Wallace Fellowship for his further studies in ceramics. His works are in the collections of various national and international museums and private collections. He has several awards to his name including national awards and fellowship from the Government of India.

Nucleo is a studio collective of artists and designers based in Turin, founded and directed from 1997 by Piergiorgio Robino, guest professor at the Politecnico of Turin, at Domus Academy of Milan and Bezalel Academy of Jerusalem.

Our work can be described as an investigation of time-frames; their matrix and their existences. Distinctive, curious and tactile, we draw comparisons between the past and the future. A theme that influences the perception of the “self” and the surroundings. We play with the presumption of interlacing time-frames and exploring the space they create. With a focus on three dimensional shapes, the physical and tactile experience is an important part of the expression. We have always been interested in working with history, the lack of history, and the creation of it. Aspects necessary to build a memory. We believe that through making a past of the future, we can create a curiosity of history that has not yet happened.

Nucleo’s designs have been exhibited worldwide and exhibiting in leading Fairs specializing in art and design.

Carolina Palombo Píriz, (born December 9th, 1978 Montevideo, Uruguay) is an architect and industrial designer.

Established her studio in 2007 and since then she is known for her wide range of designs, including furniture, houses, stores, household objects and small apartment buildings.

A'Design Award winner, Italy 2017

Her pieces of designs are now on sale in Uruguay, UK and Brazil.

Has participated in Design Junction 2017 and 2018, London, UK.

In 2019 has attended the London Design Fair, London UK.

Yago and Juan Cuevas grow up together sharing common interest on creating objects with repurposed materials. After specializing in different fields, architecture and civil engineering, Yago experimented with natural materials in rural areas of Europe, while Juan focused on environmental passive strategies on large scale architecture projects in Asia.

The brothers joined paths in Thailand in 2015, where Estudio Cavernas was spontaneously established with the purpose of building sustainable architecture for displaced migrants from Burma.

The material palette in their projects follows the vernacular architecture of the context. The preference for handcrafted finishes sets a particular rhythm at the construction site; earth is pressed into bricks and rammed into walls, solid timber truss beams are assembled in situ with a minimal set of tools.

Since then, the studio has successfully completed several interventions in different marginalized communities in the Thai-Burma border with the collaboration of local organizations and educational institutions.

Nataša Perković is a product designer from Sarajevo. She aims to create innovative products of a high aesthetic value which users will enjoy for many years.

She holds a graduate and postgraduate degrees in product design from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Sarajevo, where she also works as an assistant professor. She made her first professional steps at The Partners in London and at Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto in Italy. She has collaborated with the Royal College of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design in London. She worked as a design associate at Kyoto Institute of Technology D-Lab.

Through her design practice, Studio Nataša Perković, she collaborates with manufacturers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. She has exhibited extensively and globally.

Among awards Nataša’s products have received are D&AD Best New Blood, several Imm Cologne ICONIC Interior Innovation Awards, German Design Award Special Mention, Grand Prix Collegium Artisticum, Belgrade Furniture Fair Golden Key, BIG SEE Grand Prix for Product Design, as well as the Balkan Architectural Biennale Grand Prix for Furniture Design.

Born in Germany in 1974, Christian Haas established his Studio in 2000. The Industrial Designer creates ever since products through multiple disciplines from furniture and lighting to porcelain and glassware.

His design approach merges simplicity and elegance. His sense of aesthetics is driven by the harmony between sobriety, usefulness, emotionality, longevity and uniqueness. The Studio works for international brands such as Rosenthal, Karakter, Arita2016 and Tecta as well as for selected design galleries. Throughout the years, his work was honored with awards like the Red Dot Design Award and the Elle Decoration International Design Award.

Notable works include the lighting edition ROPES, part of Vitra Design Museum’s permanent collection; the broad furniture range for Japanese producer Karimoku New Standard and some of the most successful tableware series of the past 10 years.

Christian Haas lives and works in Porto, Portugal.

Based in Beirut, Lebanese-Polish sisters Tessa and Tara Sakhi co-founded in 2016, T SAKHI, a multidisciplinary architecture and design studio. In an increasingly fast paced world, the sister architects place human interaction at the core of their practice, and question our contemporary understandings of identity and living. They design both permanent and ephemeral spaces & objects, drawing from the emotional and physical experiences by incorporating all five senses and memory.

From modern residences, to portable nightclubs, readapted urban designs, or satiric dining installations, their synergetic projects are diverse, playful and interactive. They range from small-scale architecture, public and urban installations, commercial and residential design, collectible hand-made objects, scenography and film. Despite their versatile talents and contrasting affinities, the sisters combine their duality to create a hybrid occidental-oriental inspiration, and collaborate with creatives and artists from all over the world, provoking an exchange and dialogue to reach craftsmanship and innovation.

Their work have been exhibited in Beirut, Paris, Milan and Dubai Design Weeks and donated in Philips’ London Auction house in support of Lebanese talents and several NGO’s in Beirut supporting architecture, reforestation and sexual health. They have participated in lectures and talks in Dubai, Sharjah, Sydney and China. Their projects have been nominated for awards in China, Milan and Berlin, and have been highly published worldwide in magazines and online platforms.

Lani Adeoye is a design consultant and the founder of Studio-Lani, an award-winning design studio. Driven by an innate desire to add creative value, she uses design as a dynamic tool to express her unique perspective and conceptualize inspired solutions.

Prior to studying at Parsons - 'The New School,' Lani was dedicated to her work as a Management and IT Consultant to Fortune Global 100 clients; following her graduation from McGill University, where she earned her Bachelor's degree in Commerce. Her versatility as a designer is a testament to her eclectic roots and diverse life experiences, having lived in four major cities, namely Lagos, Montreal, Toronto, and New York.

As a design consultant, she has developed concepts for various brands including YouTube, Bacchus and NetGear. Conceptualizing unique products and experiences with immense intangible value.

Most recently, Lani Adeoye was selected by Elle Décor as part of its ‘Women of the World: 75 Global Female Designers Worth Celebrating.’ Dwell Magazine also included her in its annual list of ‘Young Guns – New Designers Making Waves.’ And in 2017, she won the Wanted Design’s Launch Pad Furniture Competition in New York City.

Lani is a strong believer in the power of design as a tool to solve problems, empower communities, and positively impact our livelihood. Lani enjoys collaborating on design projects at various scales and she welcomes creative challenges!

After graduating at Master of Contextual Design at Design Academy of Eindhoven, in 2017 Francesco Pace founded Tellurico, a multidisciplinary design studio specialised in objects, spaces and installations design.

The investigation of alternative solutions through the study of folklore, together with the relationship between crafts and the environment has been the centre of the Tellurico’s practice. The context in which a project is born has been the primary focus of these years research. What binds the objects of a place to the characteristic of the place itself intertwines the historical, geological and social aspects of humankind, as well as the uniqueness and simplicity of every-day life. It is an always expanding field of investigation, as endless are the ways to live.

So far, Tellurico’s works have been presented in many international venues such as Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Van AbbeMuseum in Eindhoven, M.A.D.RE. in Naples, Triennale di Milano, Brohan Museum in Berlin, Beirut Design Fair, Italian Pavilion in Barcelona, Zoya Gallery in Bratislava and others. He works closely with private clients and received commissions from differents galleries such as Palau de Casavells in Barcelona, Mint London, Camp Design Gallery and Functional Art Gallery in Madrid.

Tellurico is currently based in the Netherlands.

We are an interior and furniture design studio founded in 2014 by Andrea Flores and Lucía Soto in Mexico City.

Lucia studied industrial design in UNAM, the National and most important university in México while Andrea ended up studying in Barcelona and Milano. The highly technical education of Lucia complements perfectly the concept-centered educational background of Andrea.

Our work is very influenced by our culture. The big spectrum of great craftsmanship is one of the values we appreciate the most of Mexico.

We think that design is a cultural conduct that has the power to generate changes from the individual to the collective spheres. We have the capacity to start a conversation with society and it is our responsibility to know what we want to say.

We also develop interior projects where we love to study the relation between people and spaces. We offer spatial solutions with an aesthetic approach that encourage the integration between individuals and living spaces.

Abha Narain Lambah is a practicing Conservation Architect and a recipient of the Eisenhower Fellowship (USA) 2002, the Charles Wallace Fellowship (U.K.) 1998, the Attingham Trust Fellowship 2007, the Sankriti Award 2003, Architect of the Year Award 2019 Architectural Digest and Architect of the Year Award CNBC Awaaz 2017. Her firm has been included in the Top 50 Architects List by Architectural Digest and Construction World for the last 5 years. She is a consultant to ICCROM, Global Heritage Fund and World Monuments Fund, is on the Governing Council of the Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage (INTACH) and has served on the heritage committees of both Delhi and Mumbai.

Abha Narain Lambah Associates is the largest architectural conservation consultancy in India and has won 10 UNESCO Asia Pacific Awards for Heritage Conservation. For over 2 decades, the practice has focused on conservation and museum projects across the country and includes the restoration of 15th Century temples in Ladakh and Hampi, mosques, palaces, forts and caravan sarais in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Punjab, ancient Buddhist sites of Ajanta and Bodh Gaya, regional conservation in Kancheepuram and Shekhawati and colonial heritage across Delhi, Pune, Nainital, Kerala and Mumbai. The firm has prepared Management Plans for UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the ancient sites of Ajanta Caves and Bodh Gaya, medieval monuments of Amber Fort and Mughal Gardens Kashmir as well as Le Corbusier’s Capitol Complex Chandigarh, the icon of modernism.

An advocate for Mumbai's heritage, Abha has, in the past 25 years, done pioneering work on urban guidelines for heritage precincts such as Banganga, Khotachiwadi, Dadabhai Naoroji Road and has prepared the successful nomination inscribing Mumbai's Art Deco & Victorian ensemble as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. She has spearheaded the restoration of 19th century landmarks such as Mumbai University's Convocation Hall, Elphinstone College, Sir JJ School of Art, Tata Palace (Deutche Bank), Municipal Head Office, Asiatic Library, High Court, Old Secretariat and Crawford Market. She has advised on museum design for Indian Museum Kolkata and Rashtapati Bhavan Museum Delhi, Prince of Wales and Mani Bhavan Mumbai, Bharatpur and Bangalore State Museums, Chowmahalla Palace Hyderbad, Swaraj Bhavan and Anand Bhavan Allahabad and is currently working on the Nehru Memorial Library & Museum, Balasaheb Thackeray National Memorial and the Lal Bagh Palace Museum in Indore for World Monuments Fund.

Abha has authored and edited a range of books including "Punjab: Land of the Five Rivers", “Architecture of the Indian Sultanates”, “Custodians of India’s Heritage: 150 years of the Archaeological Survey of India” and “Shekhawati: Land of the Merchant Princes” for MARG Publications. She has authored a range of books on Mumbai including the "The Victorian & Art Deco Ensemble of Mumbai", “Kala Ghoda: Celebrating Mumbai's Art District”, "Through the Looking Glass: The Grade 1 Heritage of Mumbai" and co-authored “A City’s Legacy: The Indian Navy’s Heritage in Mumbai” and “Conservation After Legislation: Issues for Mumbai”.

Pascal Hachem, 1979 based in Beirut, is an artist / product designer represented by Selma Feriani Gallery in Tunis / London and Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery in Milan. He won awards in different competitions like Bang & Olufsen and the Boghossian prize, Brussels, Nadour Collection in Germany and Kamel Lazaar foundation in Switzerland. He lectured at Art Basel Talks in Switzerland, at the City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand and at the Mosaic Rooms London.

Hachem’s work is always inspired by the everyday life and he tends to contextualise his way of thinking with the social and political situations in Beirut. His practice is influenced by an unconscious way that he cannot escape. The artist does not impose any set of rules upon himself, but rather he is prompted by nothing but a single impressionable moment, to produce. As a result, he has a varied catalogue of work using various mediums, including his own body and common objects.

In 2013, he co-founded 200Grs. The studio’s two founders are both drawn from Beirut’s constraints and the many challenges facing those who live in this complex city. In response, 200Grs works actively with local Lebanese artisans, to promote their craftsmanship and keep their knowledge and skills - which are at risk of disappearing - alive. Recently the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A in London, UK; acquired from 200Grs the ‘Stuck Stick’ series.

Hirante Welandawe graduated from the University of Moratuwa and obtained her Masters from the Alvar Aalto University in Helsinki. Welandawe worked initially under Master Architect B.V. Doshi whose work had a profound influence in the direction of her work. She started work with numerous personalized homes which helped her to develop a particular people centric way of approaching architecture focusing on socio cultural profiles and lifestyle.

She is a Visiting Design Tutor at the City School of Architecture, has received several Design awards and was nominated for the Aga Khan award for Architecture in 2010.

Welandawe’s interest is in exploring the potential that Architecture offers to enhance the lived experience of the individual and the community.

My practice began in Chile working with the multiple, with the sense that the unique object is challenged by industrial modes of productions and rarely the experience of everyday life for the many. It became a fundamental trope of my practice to estrange the multiple with repeated but different multiples: the many. In our contemporary world the immaterial or virtual object could be said to predominate, however, my central concern remains with the material object of lived experience.

Livia Marin lives and works in London. She has exhibited widely both in her native Chile and internationally.

The studio is a collaboration between Claudia Perez and Pedro Ochando that combines two different profiles to take charge of creative projects that encompass all areas of design. They develop projects in which the design is a necessity of consulting, graphic design through furniture and lighting products. In addition, they operate as teachers in universities and teach workshops on product design and collaborate simultaneously with the innovation consulting agency Lead to Change.

They have collaborated with companies such as Sancal, Missana, Inclass, Naturtex, Artesa, Arlex, Kendo furniture, Fambuena, David Design, Lékué, Zurich Insurance, Polytechnic University of Valencia, EASD Valencia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Roche, Affinity Petcare, Banc Sabadell, Adevinta or CRUE Universidades españolas.

The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distils spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture. Light is fundamental to her process. Begum’s works absorb and reflect varied densities of light to produce an experience for the viewer that is both temporal and sensorial.

Born in Bangladesh in 1977, Rana Begum lives and works in London. In 1999, Begum graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design and, in 2002, gained an MFA in Painting from Slade School of Fine Art. Exhibitions include: Is This Tomorrow?, Whitechapel Gallery (2019), Space, Light & Colour, Djanogly Gallery (2018), Solo show, TATE St Ives (2018), Actions, Kettle’s Yard (2018), Women to Watch: Heavy Metal, NMWA Washington (2018), curated Occasional Geometries, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017), Space Light Colour, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (2017), Tribute to Sol Lewitt, Gemeente Museum Den Haag (2016), Flatland/Narrative, MRAC Serignan (2016), The Space Between, Parasol Unit (2016), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2016), Geometries of Difference, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York, USA (2015), Solo Project, Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2014).

Begum has received the Jack Goldhill Award for Sculpture (2012) and Abraaj Group Art Prize (2017).

Forthcoming exhibitions: Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh (2020), Group Show, Istanbul Modern (2020), Meads Gallery (2021)

MUAR diseño is a studio established in Montevideo - Uruguay, created in 2011 by designers Federico Mujica and Carolina Arias, it works in multiple disciplines, from architecture, interior design, furniture , lighting and refined objects design.

The studio develops projects with a unique approach that results in differential and innovative concepts, provides aesthetic and functional solutions, always taking care of the quality, the materials, their processes, and the longevity of the products.

Contemporary design of simple forms, aesthetic care, use of noble materials and a close link with artisans and their production are the characteristics of the studio.

Their products have been awarded at the Salão Design Awards, Brazil in several editions and at the NYCxDESIGN Awards in 2020. They have exhibited their work at the London Design Fair, Designjunction and The Aram Gallery - London, and at High Design and Design Weekend - São Paulo.

Zhekai Zhang is a young product designer dedicated to bringing new insights into home products with innovative processes and sustainable materials. My philosophy is to develop unique design languages from the perspective of the relationship between fundamental industrial production and craftsmanship.

My design practice is carried with emotions, blending the exploration of handcrafts with the experimental making process, taking everyday materials and reinterpreting them with a contemporary flair.

Lisa Turner’s practice is inspired by the natural environment and its relationship with our interior world. Turner founded Quake Studio in 2013, with a vision to provoke intellectual and visual curiosity by synthesizing organic forms with industrial design.

Working with a variety of locally sourced materials, including steel, cedar, marble and aluminum, her practice reinterprets natural occurring formations and histories into sculptural functional objects.

Her work has been collected by the Canadian Government and private collectors in Canada and the USA.

Turner has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and Interior Design Degree from Humber College, Etobicoke, Ontario. She practiced commercial and residential interior design for 25 years before founding Quake Studio to create a venue for her art practice.

Turner lives and works in Vancouver, BC

Antrei Hartikainen (b. 1991) is a master cabinetmaker and designer from Finland known for his exquisite works in wood. The award- winning pieces, including functional products and pure art works, achieve heights of sensuality, elegance and craftsmanship that place them with finest examples of modern Nordic carpentry.

Sensuality, elegance and the importance of craftsmanship are emphasized in Antrei Hartikainen's work, which constantly seeks to challenge and blur the traditional categorizations between functional objects and visual arts. Hartikainen’s sculptural approach can be studied through his organic body of work, which simultaneously highlights the inspiration drawn from his material of choice, wood.

Antrei Hartikainen has shown his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions all over the world. He was selected Young Designer of the Year in 2018, followed by being shortlisted for Emerging Designer of the Year by the international architecture and design magazine Dezeen in 2019.

Yasaman Esmaili is an architect and educator from Tehran, Iran. In 2017, she founded Studio Chahar, a research-based studio, formed through the interconnected global platform of design and focused on projects that engage the community at every step of the design process. Studio Chahar’s highly recognized collaborative project, Hikma Religious and Secular complex in Niger, received the 2018 Global LafargeHolcim Silver Award and the 2017 Gold Award for the Middle East Africa region. Yasaman’s collaborative work in Afghanistan, The Gohar Khatoon Girls’ School, was recognized with a 2018 AIA National Award of Honor.

Yasaman believes that architects can play an important role in empowering the community through forming a social shift. In 2018, she co-founded Color My Home with Rania Qawasma, a community-based project focused on finding the meaning of lost homes through architectural thinking by working with recently displaced immigrant and refugee children.

Yasaman is also a founding member of united4design, an international design collective formed in 2013 to simulate a dialogue about architecture and intelligent global practice. united4design’s project, Niamey 2000, received an R+D award from Architect Magazine and an Award of Merit from AIA Seattle.

Yasaman is an adjunct professor at Keene State College, University System of New Hampshire. She has also thought at the University of Washington and has been an invited guest critic at Yale, Washington State University, and Portland State University. Her work has been widely published and has been exhibited in New York, Munich, Venice, Washington DC, and Seattle.

With a reductive approach to his craft, Brad Ascalon believes in design that is uncomplicated, rational and manages to find the perfect balance of form, function and concept. This philosophy coupled with his business-driven approach to design has made Ascalon widely regarded as one of the leading American designers of his generation.

Founded in 2006, Brad Ascalon Studio NYC collaborates with brands around the globe, including Carl Hansen & Son, Ligne Roset, Bernhardt Design, Restoration Hardware, DWR, Nude Glass, Skandiform, L’Oreal and others.

Immersed in the world of art and design from an early age, Ascalon is a third-generation designer who attributes his passion for creating to the two generations before him who instilled in him the values of craftsmanship, materiality and rigor.

In addition to his design practice, Ascalon teaches graduate level design courses at the renowned University of Pennsylvania as part of the school’s IPD (Integrated Product Design) program, a curriculum that bridges the university’s schools of Architecture, Design and Wharton School of Business.

Ascalon and his wife live and work in Manhattan, as well as the bucolic North Fork of Long Island, NY.

Founded in Tokyo, JAPAN in 2016, Kansai Noguchi Studio is a mid-century inspired pottery label dedicated to stylishly enhancing living spaces.

Kansai Noguchi Studio embraces bringing fine taste, functionality and perfection to the houses, dining of everyday people.

In 2013, Noguchi moved to New York to study music. After that time, he returned to Japan to interact with the world's art and become an artist. Under the sculptor of Kanagawa he perfected the study of iron sculpture as an object. After that, he studied as a research student in a pottery studio. Noguchi has held several solo exhibitions mainly in Tokyo.

Isabell Gatzen graduated in 2005 with a degree in Industrial Design from University of Art and Design Zürich. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she received awards and accolades.

After working with major global players in consumer electronics, such as Microsoft and HP, as well as sportswear brands like Burton and Adidas, both in Switzerland and the US, Gatzen established her own studio in Zurich in 2010.

Her work is based on deep appreciation of the user experience. From mass-produced consumer products to limited editions, she creates objects designed to last a lifetime. She aims to challenging conventions with new classics that combine simple, minimal designs with a poetic narrative.

Gregory Beson is a designer and sculptor practicing in New York City. He works in collectible furniture, sculpture, lighting, artifacts, interiors and industrial product design. His work is mainly driven by historical research, material truth and concept formulation. Gregory is currently a professor at Parsons School of Design in New York. He began as a woodworker craftsman before becoming a designer. Many varied pathways led him to design: from music to historic restoration to fine furniture making.

“The poetics of material culture is where my interest is focused: a chipped favorite mug, the joinery and materiality of an artifact, a well-worn door knob. I search for depth and richness to bring joy, connection and knowledge to all who interface with my work. I believe the designer has a unique responsibility and power. One which should not be taken lightly. Remember and study the past, understand and reflect on the present, and push and project what the future can be” said Gregory.

Simone Post (b. 1990, the Netherlands) is a Dutch textile and product designer based in Rotterdam. She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2015 with honors and has won several international awards. Her independent design studio is built on the principles of experimental research, sustainability, and cultural heritage. Post’s work is characterized by bold material and pattern experiments that enlist traditional techniques and technologies. Her work has been acquired by museums including the Vitra Design Museum, the Centraal Museum Utrecht, and Cooper Hewitt New York.

My name is Hanna-Kaarina Heikkilä. I grew up in Kemi, a small town in the northern part of Finland. Having an architectural background I have also studied design at Aalto University. During my design studies I specialized in material oriented approach having ceramics and glass in focus. I have worked as a designer at IKEA of Sweden for 2 years. During my professional career I have also done architecture across many different kinds of projects. I have worked in architecture offices such as OOPEAA and Sou Fujimoto.

Currently I am working as a creative director at my own Studio together with my business partner Anni Pitkäjärvi. Studio Finna operates across product and furniture design to spatial and conceptual design. We are mainly working with international partners such as Ferm Living, Le Klint, Bolia, Vitra and Ikea. We are also collaborating with Finnish companies such as Hakola and Artek.

I have lived and worked abroad in Copenhagen, Sweden and Tokyo. I am extremely interested in different cultures, materials and working methods. Working abroad with my projects is in high priority. I am applying the know-how of different scales and various materials to my daily work. I also want to take a unique multi-disciplinary approach to different kinds of design tasks. With my creations I aspire to generate unforgettable experiences and new stories, phenomena and memories. An open-minded attitude, outstanding multi-tasking skills and passion to design incite my interest to explore new methods. To see and experience the world from new perspectives is in high priority. The main thing is to stay curious, keep finding new tracks and enriching experiences. I am a passionate creator, who loves creative challenges.

Aalto+Aalto is a Helsinki-based design office working with products, spaces and exhibitions. Their aim is to create special everyday objects with a strong identity and story. They are inspired by time-tested old techniques, all kinds of factories and flea markets. Their special skill is managing to make things which are imaginative and different but still simple and timeless. Their work has been widely exhibited, is included in the collections of the Design museum in Helsinki and in Quebec and has been awarded the iF golden product design award. Aalto+Aalto are Elina Aalto and Klaus Aalto.

Graduated in Design at ISIA in Florence Cosma Frascina feels the urge to slow down his life pace focusing on his own ideas. Goes back home, fixes an old space where to set and work, wins his fear to make mistakes and builds his self knowledge on constant trying. The lack of tools while working resulted in a pleasant rediscovery of traditional artisanal techniques and natural materials.

He finds his main inspiration in the roughness of nature, particularly in contrast with humans artifacts. Cosma likes not to determinate too much before starting creating, to be as free as possible in the making.

His design is concretized through the voice of hands, which is inherently imperfect. As a medium to find the pureness of this life he goes by upending traditional notions of beauty and comfort/functionality.

My name is Willem van Hooff, 27 years designer based in Eindhoven. I’m a driven builder, were I like to see design as my tool to express and remember stories. I’m fascinated how objects, buildings or traditions can capture stories. My stories always comes from my interest in history, the start of all my design projects. I like to work with these old stories, techniques, cultures and give them new life in contemporary products.

I feel the need to bring more freedom and joy back in making. I think this is lacking A sertain form of imperfection, joy and traditions. which are not based on our consumerism world.

Farrokh is an Iranian architect, designer and maker based in London. His work pursues an interest in the beauty of everyday objects, industrial processes and the idea of artistic production. These notions are explored through various mediums and within architecture, furniture making, ceramics and other disciplines.

Artist and designer John Born started Humble Matter in 2014 after escaping from the world of advertising. Humble Matter ceramics and sculptures are available across the US and around the world. They have been featured in print and online in publications including Elle Decor, Elle Decor UK, Milk Decoration, Wallpaper, and Vogue. In 2019, John had the first Humble Matter solo exhibition at the Dobrinka Salzman Gallery in New York.

Not a New York native, but definitely a transplant who’s taken hold, John has lived in Brooklyn since moving to New York in 1993. When he's not in the studio, John can be found running throughout Brooklyn or relaxing on the beaches of Truro, MA with his family. John has a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Based in Philadelphia, ceramic artist Leah Kaplan explores movement, texture and translucency through sculptural forms. Her signature porcelain vessels blend fluidity with minimalism, belying intricate construction that beckons viewers to take a closer look. Light also transforms Leah’s work, casting shadows and setting surfaces aglow, as it illuminates her pieces.

Leah draws inspiration from architecture and the natural world, as well as other craft mediums. The latter influence grew out of her years helping artisans preserve their artistic heritages and find markets for their work. In that role, Leah was fortunate to meet craftspeople making extraordinary objects using time-honored techniques and materials, an experience that continues to inform Leah’s artistic practice decades later.

BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Zurick is a self-taught artist specializing in black willow bark which she has been harvesting and weaving into baskets since 1980. She is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship and two Kentucky Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. Zurick has traveled to Ecuador and Japan as a cultural exchange artist and was honored with a Kentucky 2017 Governor's Award in the Arts. Her work resides in a number of museum collections, including the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and has won prizes and awards at national shows and exhibitions. She has exhibited her baskets internationally and created special commissions for Spanish firm Loewe (2019 Salone del Mobile Milano) and Irthi Contemporary Craft Council in Sharjah, UAE (2019 London Design Fair).

ARTIST STATEMENT
I aspire to create simple, elegant woven vessels that possess a richness of spirit and a presence embodying the soul of the tree from which they came. A fascination with old tribal textiles, finely woven functional containers and ancient processes fuels my inclination to manipulate fiber. Employing various weaving techniques to inject texture and rhythmic design elements, I draw significantly upon the inspiration of early Native American and contemporary Japanese basketry. As my work evolves, I am compelled to create more intricate, textile-like sculptural forms, finding great satisfaction in emulating the art and integrity of fine basketry.

Zhu Ohmu is a contemporary artist currently based in Melbourne, Australia and works primarily with ceramics to explore the resurgence of the handmade and in the age of mass production and automation. Through her delicate craftsmanship, Zhu has created a coiling technique that imitates the machine methods of 3D printing. Built through stacking, folding, and pressing, the ceramic vessels are often dictated by the weight of moist clay with forms emerging intuitively, often pushed to their structural limits. By spending time with the physical matter through play and observation, the insight into plasticity and workability allows the artist to compromise with the material. The artist’s hands are able to build forms that the present-day 3D printer cannot, and this is because humans are capable of the patience, care, and curiosity needed for an intimate relationship with clay.

80e8 was created in 2011, after a strong connection between partners Antonia Almeida and Fabio Esteves while studying Industrial Design at FAAP University in São Paulo. Its logo carries the year of their birth, a fact punctual which makes the partnership unique and mystical, like a premonition that they would meet in some years. Curiosity drives them. They believe in conscious consumption and in the valorization of production means and products, so they may generate more intimate and lasting relations. They seek to get out of the common place, by proposing differentiated solutions and new uses for materials. Currently, Antonia and Fabio see a broader potential for performance in the market, with different production fronts: creation, production and own marketing; partnership with brands and stores through the creation of exclusive pieces for such; special projects to order for companies, and development of unique and/or serial pieces aimed at a more restricted market and conceptual design.

Marcelo Stefanovicz is a designer and visual artist, working and residing in São Paulo, Brazil. Self-Taught, he has taken on multiple different career roles with work that includes experimental videos, stamping, photo montage, sculpture, paintings and drawings, visual arts as well as experimental and product design. His work exudes elements of humour and surprise in an aesthetic that leads to agglomeration and deconstruction as one of his vehicles.

Don McCollin and Maureen Bryan set up McCollin Bryan in 1998. The fusion of their backgrounds in textiles (McCollin at the Royal College of Art) and ceramics (Bryan at Middlesex Polytechnic) has led to a distinctive portfolio of designs.

Their joint approach is strongly driven by the materials they work with and a mutual need to be active in the craft of making. The experimental processes and the development of visual concepts is a real collaboration between the two; McCollin explores surface textures, reflections and patterns, Bryan designs forms that have sculptural impact. They are both driven to exploit the intrinsic qualities of the materials that will surprise and intrigue the viewer and hopefully, imbue longevity to the design.

Their designs are a mixture of one off pieces, limited editions and open editions. They are distributed worldwide and can also be purchased directly from their London Studio.

Each piece is designed, made in the UK.

Don McCollin and Maureen Bryan set up McCollin Bryan in 1998. The fusion of their backgrounds in textiles (McCollin at the Royal College of Art) and ceramics (Bryan at Middlesex Polytechnic) has led to a distinctive portfolio of designs.

Their joint approach is strongly driven by the materials they work with and a mutual need to be active in the craft of making. The experimental processes and the development of visual concepts is a real collaboration between the two; McCollin explores surface textures, reflections and patterns, Bryan designs forms that have sculptural impact. They are both driven to exploit the intrinsic qualities of the materials that will surprise and intrigue the viewer and hopefully, imbue longevity to the design.

Their designs are a mixture of one off pieces, limited editions and open editions. They are distributed worldwide and can also be purchased directly from their London Studio.

Each piece is designed, made in the UK.

Tero Kuitunen works as a spatial and product designer in Helsinki. He has graduated as a designer from the Applied Arts MA program at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. He’s inspired by the interface of design and art, the unprejudiced apposition of things, floating sceneries, and the meaning of humor and touch in design. Alongside product design, Tero is known for concept and space planning as well as memorable projects of contemporary art and design. Currently he has curated and created the concept for the Wild at Heart exhibition that is touring in 2019-2020 to Vienna, Budapest, Stockholm, Tokyo and Helsinki. He has participated in international exhibitions and fairs in e.g. Beirut, Stockholm, Japan and Italy.

Throughout his work, Tero wants to find something that moves and touches people. Materials and colours are often his biggest inspiration when starting a new design project.
"I love to use bold colours, unexpected forms and humor. With these choices I want to evoke people with questions, make them happy and find insightful solutions."

Marco Piscitelli is an architect and designer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His design experience at a number of influential design firms in New York ranges in scale from urban planning to furniture design. Having experienced first-hand the loss of agency for the architect and her diminishing role within cultural production, Piscitelli asks how a playful, research-based practice may operate as an alternative to market-based, client-driven methods of creating.

Eschewing traditional notions of Craft in favor of contemporary digital and mechanical fabrication practices of the mass-produced, his design work probes the rituals, imagery, and obsessions associated with domestic spaces. Though Piscitelli is an architect by training and utilizes many of the skills and practices of the discipline, his work straddles art, design, and research.

He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing studies in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Hyein Choi and Jihee Moon are Studio newtab-22, a designer duo based in Seoul and London, started from Royal College of Art 2019.

We are interested in natural, new or overlooked materials. We seek the beneficial and intriguing properties of the materials, trying to bring them into the modern life with our design. We aim to critically bring sustainability into society with the outcome of our work. We suggest the possibilities for today and tomorrow, facilitating innovative experiments, while following the aesthetic pleasing aspect of natural itself.

Growing up the youngest of four kids, I learned pretty quickly to go with the flow in most situations and I still live my life by that code today. I am a native Austinite that left home to live here, there and visited everywhere in between. I receive my degree from Southwestern University studying under Mary Hale Visser. Additionally, I interned for three artists in NYC; Nene Humphrey, Elise Siegel and Nancy Bowen. While living in Houston, I taught art at an inner-city Middle School and was the foundry assistant under David Medina at the Glassell School of Art. My husband and I then moved to Dubai and proceeding to have three kids in four years. That time abroad profoundly changed me as a person and my prospective on the world. I now live and practice in Austin and try to make the most of everyday.

In life as well as at work, Valérie Barkowski’s appetite for style is endless : inspiration is everywhere. Her career covers a wide range of paths : from strategic consulting (creating and developing brand identity), to interior design (colors, shapes, textures) to design (product and set design).

Twenty years of highly productive collaborating work have shaped Valérie Barkowski’s consistent approach to style.
Style is always of essence, but Valérie Barkowski doesn’t surrender to short lived fashions and trends.

Authenticity and timeless style are values that are essential in her work. Whether for occasional projects or long term assignments that tackle all the steps, from developing the concept, selecting the brand name, building teams all the way to creative execution and strategic positioning : it is always about creating a universe and bringing it to life.

Twist the world !
Discovering the world is at the center of Valérie Barkowski’s creative process. Without yielding to methodical processes, Valérie’s philosophy consists of opening up to others and letting herself be guided by her curiosity and desire to learn more about her peers.

The world remains undiscovered. Therefore, Valérie Barkowski’s approach to style is often a testimonial, from crossing borders to exchanging with exceptional individuals and exploring inspirational territories (Russia, Morocco, India, Vietnam, France, ...).
From these experiences and exchanges, a modern mindset emerges from traditions.

Adi Toch is a metal artist exploring the morphological qualities of vessels and objects around us. Her projects engage the viewer by sensorial interaction through play in perception, movement or investigation of embodied experience.

Beginning with a flat sheet, Toch forms and fabricates metal into delicate hollow objects. She creates unique visual language of metal through intricate surface marks, texturing and patination.

Toch comments that, ‘Vessels are an innate method of communication. They convey a story of gathering, holding, storing… not only do they surround us in our daily lives; they shape our perception of the world and the division between inside and out. The practice of making vessels enables me to work both with metal and space as materials, thereby redefining these borders.’

Toch’s work is exhibited internationally and included in major public collections such as the Victoria and Albert museum, Museum of London, National Museums Scotland and The Jewish Museum New York. Toch was a 2017 Loewe Craft Prize finalist and has won prestigious awards including The European Prize for Applied Arts 2018.

Panter&Tourron is an award-winning studio founded by Stefano Panterotto and Alexis Tourron based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Driven by material investigation and technical innovation, the studio creates products and visual experiences at the intersections of design, technology and society.

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty are architects and urbanists based in Bombay. They are co-founders of SEA (School of Environment and Architecture), CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) and partners at BARD Studio. They believe that the urban realm is incoherent, unbound, unstable and gets worked out through multiple and messy logics. Their conceptual journey has moved from an urge of mapping cities, articulating problems and developing corrective interventions, to, looking closely at urban conditions, formulating newer ways to speak about them, and developing engagements to live and find delight. Their work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, storytelling, teaching, conversations, walks and spatial interventions. They have a wide range of publications and have worked, taught and lectured across the world.

Some of their joint works include Multifarious Nows (2007) shown at Manifesta 7 at Bolzano, a multi-media map of the textile mill lands in Mumbai, Studies of Housing Types in Mumbai (2007) produced for the Urban Age initiative of London School of Economics, a compilation of twenty-one housing typologies, Being Nicely Messy (2012) a proposition for the future of Urban Mobility shown in Istanbul for the Audi Urban Future Initiatives, Gurgaon Glossaries (2013) a methodology to read cities, shown at Sarai 09 Delhi, Mumbai Art Room and the Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale and Transactional Objects (2015) an installation that is both a way of reading cities and a projection, shown at the 56th Venice Art Biennale, Spatial design for the X Shanghai Biennale (2016), Conversations between Systems and Madness at the Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture (2017), a curatorial project titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture (2018), Belly of the Strange, an architectural installation at MACBA Barcelona (2018).

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty are architects and urbanists based in Bombay. They are co-founders of SEA (School of Environment and Architecture), CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) and partners at BARD Studio. They believe that the urban realm is incoherent, unbound, unstable and gets worked out through multiple and messy logics. Their conceptual journey has moved from an urge of mapping cities, articulating problems and developing corrective interventions, to, looking closely at urban conditions, formulating newer ways to speak about them, and developing engagements to live and find delight. Their work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, storytelling, teaching, conversations, walks and spatial interventions. They have a wide range of publications and have worked, taught and lectured across the world.

Some of their joint works include Multifarious Nows (2007) shown at Manifesta 7 at Bolzano, a multi-media map of the textile mill lands in Mumbai, Studies of Housing Types in Mumbai (2007) produced for the Urban Age initiative of London School of Economics, a compilation of twenty-one housing typologies, Being Nicely Messy (2012) a proposition for the future of Urban Mobility shown in Istanbul for the Audi Urban Future Initiatives, Gurgaon Glossaries (2013) a methodology to read cities, shown at Sarai 09 Delhi, Mumbai Art Room and the Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale and Transactional Objects (2015) an installation that is both a way of reading cities and a projection, shown at the 56th Venice Art Biennale, Spatial design for the X Shanghai Biennale (2016), Conversations between Systems and Madness at the Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture (2017), a curatorial project titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture (2018), Belly of the Strange, an architectural installation at MACBA Barcelona (2018).

Pinakin Patel is a self-taught multi disciplinarian designer. His innovative and energized approach to learning has enabled him to practice architecture, landscape, interior, furniture and even fashion design.

As early as 1999, he ‘socially distanced’ himself from Mumbai’s chaotic urban life to experience a commune with nature. This ‘now visionary’ move has been celebrated in national and international print and television media, painting him as the ‘discoverer of Alibag’.

With a career spanning nearly five decades, Pinakin is considered as a legend of the ‘India Modern’ aesthetic. He has led several causes related to Art Craft and Design with NGOs and Public Institutions related to Art Craft and Design. In the year 2010, Pinakin established the Dashrath Patel Museum in Alibag, that houses his guru Padma Bhushan Dashrath Patel’s Art and Design legacies. In 2018, he visualized the Kolkata Centre for Creativity, of which he is now the Creative Director.

Brodie Neill is renowned for creating striking, sinuous and sculptural designs ingrained in material research, technical rigour and digital innovation. A University of Tasmania and Rhode Island School of Design graduate, Brodie gained immediate industry acclaim at the global launch of his debut designs resulting in inclusion in TIME Magazine’s Design 100: the most influential designs.

Brodie represented Australia at the inaugural London Design Biennale in 2016 at Somerset House where he presented the now-iconic Gyro table which highlights the issue of ocean plastic waste. Gyro was acquired by National Gallery of Victoria for its permanent collection and exhibited at the recent NGV Triennial. A champion of using design to combat ocean plastic waste, Brodie has spoken at the European Union Parliament and the United Nations.

In 2013, Brodie founded Made in Ratio, an innovative yet enduring contemporary furniture collection which harnesses nature's perfection of ratio and proportion. The collection is forged from the desire to take exceptional ideas from inception to production by embracing advanced technologies and enhancing traditional techniques.

Critically acclaimed through awards and publications, the collection includes the now-iconic Cowrie chair, recognised for its curvilinear monocoque form, and the critically acclaimed Alpha in 2015, a stacking chair with a sculptural silhouette that embraces natural design and honest craftsmanship. Exuding originality and elegance, both designs are celebrated in Taschen’s 1000 Chairs.

Brodie has worked with an impressive roster of clients, collaborating with international brands including Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Alexander McQueen and Swarovski. His limited-edition works are included in museums, galleries and private collections around the globe.

Dominique is a self-taught designer. He was born in France and after escaping a corporate life, he founded ASTANA Dom Jean Lavabre Design Studio in 2016, a multidisciplinary hospitality concepts and interior designing consultant studio based in Udaipur, India. Dominique’s style is in line with a natural relationship with the environment. It is very important for him to respect the architecture of the space - the box, the light, the proportions, the circulation it all starts with.

He likes the simplicity of shapes and the neutrality of tones, luxury for him lies in the simple brutality and nobility of the materials. He creates environments where first and foremost we feel good, or friends will feel good, places that allow people to communicate in a natural way. He enjoys creating authentic spaces and working on history and experience when it comes to boutique hotel projects. Places, Dominique says, offer their own inspiration and speak, it's a bit magical ...

Dominique likes classic lines on the condition of working with their metamorphosis; he also likes to divert objects to give them new functions. He does not remain frozen in a specific universe- for each project he follows a guideline, keywords that define the project from start to finish as a way of maintaining the consistency of the whole. Nothing worse than stacked spaces between which there is no dialogue.

Dominique’s work has been published in many magazines. He is a contributor for Elle Decor magazine and is always excited to participate in design fair symposiums, to share experiences and mentor young professionals.

My work is about simplicity of design and shape, bringing these in relationship to the surface. I am inspired by the elemental colour and shape of ancient Korean pottery. What I love about ceramic is that it starts of as a soft lump and can become pretty much anything you want it to be. After the firing it is hard and durable and can survive centuries. But at the same time, it’s fragile and can be broken into pieces in a moment. I aim to create timeless vessels for contemporary interiors. Each piece is individually made from porcelain on the potter’s wheel. Naïve, spontaneous pencil strokes, graphic simple patterns that create movement and direction. Every line is drawn by hand which makes the work preserve the moment of making. The imperfections in the pattern make it lively, rough and immediate and unique but still holding an order or direction to bind them together. The Narrative to my work is coming from little snippets of observation in my environment. Lines are jumping out on me in almost anything – stripes on cloth, wires and cables, plants and grasses, architecture and streets just to name a few.

After growing up in my mother’s pottery business, I trained professionally at college in Austria and Germany for 6 years. I set up business in Cambridge in 2011 and have been given the silver award 2013 and 2015 by Craft and Design magazine in the ceramic category. In 2014 I was chosen to join the Crafts Councils Hot House program. In 2016 I was accepted for selected membership of the Craft Potters Association (CPA). In 2018 have been shortlisted for the international Nasser Sparkasse Ceramic Price Westerwald/Germany. 2017 I exhibited for the first time at Ceramic Art London and have shown at CAL three times since. I also got an honourable mention for two of my entries into the International Ceramic Festival competition Japan. My work was featured in the 289 issue of Ceramic Review for their Masterclass series in 2018.

WOLFS + JUNG is an art/design collective founded by Emmanuel Wolfs (Belgium) and BoYoung Jung (South-Korea). BoYoung and Emmanuel met while studying at the RCA in 2003 and have been working together ever since.

Their works, rather than being dictated by the choice of material or production methods, focus on translating their observations of contemporary society and culture into objects. Examples of such approach can be seen in their projects: [Nature V2.01] intended as a catalyst for the debates on the correlation between human, nature, and the industry; and [Land] exploring the individual and collective relationship to physical places and time in a hyper-connected and urbanized world.

In the summer of 2012, they relocated their practice to Seoul after 4 years of living and working in Beijing, China. Through their inquisitive journey, Emmanuel Wolfs and BoYoung Jung constantly question and reflect on their surroundings and value systems, and hope to communicate common human values and share their views on the symbolic and intangible property of objects.

Marc Thorpe earned a Bachelors Degree in Industrial Design from the University of Maryland, followed in 2004 by a Masters Degree in Architecture, with Honors, from Parsons School of Design in New York. Thorpe was awarded the 2003 Scholastic Award for Scholarly Pursuit by the American Institute of Architects and the American Architectural Foundation and received the Alpha Rho Chi medal for architectural leadership and professional excellence in 2004. In 2014, he was awarded the Good Design Award by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and Metropolitan Arts.

In 2010, Thorpe established New York-based Marc Thorpe Design, as an architectural and design studio. He has worked extensively in Europe, Asia and the US as an architect and designer, and continues to collaborate on projects with a wide range of partners. He has taught in the Architecture Department at Parsons School of Design and the Industrial Design Department of Pratt Institute in New York City.

Thorpe has been published internationally in design journals and texts including Wallpaper*, International Design (ID), Viewpoint, Mix, Surface, Interni, Frame, Absolute Architecture and Interior Design Magazine. Thorpe was selected for inclusion in the text Ultimate New York Design, highlighting 50 of New York City’s top design talents and is one of the youngest signature designers for Italian design house Moroso. In 2016, he was selected as the feature cover story for international design magazine Intramuros. His firm, Marc Thorpe Design (MTD) has worked with leading international brands including LVMH, Mercedes Benz, Under Armour, Stella Artois, IBM, Saatchi & Saatchi, Hearst, Cappellini, Tod’s, Acura, David Yurman, L’Oreal, Esquire, Moroso, Yahoo, Casamania, Davidoff and Infiniti to name a few.

Thorpe is known internationally for his innovative and dynamic work, taking a rigorous approach to the integration of architecture, design and technology. The studio conceptualizes design while embracing process and has the resources to produce consistent communication platforms. These include architecture, interior design, graphic design, furniture design, product design, retail and exhibit design.

The studio designs relationships. The focus of Marc Thorpe Design is in the systemic intersections a project presents. In order to discover a project’s potential, the studio works closely with clients and collaborators to foster new ideas, establish common vision and innovative strategies of approach to nurture the design process. The results are design solutions with the highest degree of precision, quality and character.

The studio offers itself as an open system of exchange. Thorpe has dedicated the studio to the research, professional practice and education of systems thinking through the discipline of architecture and design. Thorpe states, “We believe in a holistic design approach, which engages the social components of space and form.” Collaborations with digital artists, interactive designers, new media designers, sound and lighting engineers and social media experts have advanced the practice’s diversity and knowledge.

We are a Mallorca based independent design and manufacturing studio that offers projects inspired by the Mediterranean feel, adding a contemporary and eclectic approach to the traditional craft.

The history behind 2monos is all about ‘thinking with hands’, making a difference by altering frontiers in a creative, timeless and sustainable way, to create unique pieces or small series, always with our own language that goes beyond trends.

We manage the entire production process to create collection in a very small- scale production, executing every detail with the highest sharpness thus achieving uniqueness of each project and fleeing the industrial logic - which often sacrifices the emotional aspect- always leaving emotions to count.

Our work is marked by our devotion to a subtle, timeless and durable design based on compromise, on sensitivity in the choice of raw materials (choosing materials which age well: iron, wood, leather ...) and on commitment to sustainability (using natural and traditional treatments for a more sustainable form of production).

We are Nicoletta Mantoan (Italy) and Alejandro Dumon (Spain/France)

Heather Rosenman is a ceramic artist and designer based in Los Angeles. A New York native, she studied at The Cooper Union and The Basel School of Design in Switzerland. Combining a primitive aesthetic with modern sensibilities, her ceramic collections are inspired by ancient and futuristic relics that are surviving memorials of culture.

Heather has shown in solo and group exhibitions. Her work is available internationally and has been featured in print and online publications including Architectural Digest, Dwell, Wallpaper, Luxe, Elle Décor, Interiors, Vogue Australia, Galerie and The Intangible by Kerry Joyce.

Maia Beyrouti studied Conservation of 19th Century Photographic Materials and Visual Communication in London before moving back to the south of France in 2005. As a multi-disciplinary artist her body of work ranges from painting, writing and ceramics, often using the methodologies of rules-based art to express collective and personal experiences of absence and the elsewhere, and the urge to conjure what is lost or forgotten.

Her work is defined by her French-Palestinian roots, both cultures having pronounced and ongoing traditions in craftsmanship and storytelling.

Founded in 2016, Moio Studio is a place for research and collaboration, creating objects that inhabit the space between functionality and these emotional impulses.

She is now based in Berlin, Germany since 2009.

Paul Mathieu’s furniture and lighting designs are like the man himself—unique with depth and style. The commonality of his designs, whether they are a bespoke creation or one of his collections, representations or licensees, are pure Paul Mathieu in their exquisite craftsmanship and aesthetic austerity fabricated from the finest materials and with innovative technology.

It is between Aix-en-Provence, New York, Murano and India that his work takes shape, where his drawings, are breathed into life in the workshops of master artisans. Immune to the epigonic constraints of industrial production, the sculptural and ingenious forms of Mathieu’s furniture and objects express a purity of dynamic vision.

Transcending fashion and shaped by his travels and encounters with cultures, he has developed an instantly recognizable signature style: graceful, fluid, and considered; hewn from rigorously selected materials; characterized by sensual and sculptural forms; evoking a natural harmony expressed through the highest standards of craftsmanship.

Born in 1988 in the small Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Stelios Mousarris took the design world by storm at a young age. Stelios studied Modelmaking at the Arts University of Bournemouth, earning himself a Bachelor of Arts and lifelong experiences along the way. There, he immersed himself in various mediums of visual art, experimenting with photography, product, and architectural designs, constantly trying to refine his own conceptual vocabulary and creative personality. Whilst attending his degree programme, he was given the opportunity to work for internationally acclaimed high-tech architectural firm Foster & Partners.

Upon his return to Cyprus, Stelios set up his own workshop and studio in his hometown of Larnaca, focusing on small interior design pieces. He immediately drew the attention of designer Christopher Duffy who employed Stelios as an assistant designer in his firm Duffy London.

Growing a better understanding of the design industry and gaining priceless experience in London, Stelios decided to re-launch his own personal studio and brand with far more mature designs and ideas. Thus, leading to the birth of the reality bending Wave City Coffee Table. Following the immaculate success of his nature inspired table, Stelios continues to design and publish work under his brand Mousarris whilst also being commissioned for made to order one-of-a-kind projects.

From ephemeral to permanent, based in Brazil, Mariana Schmidt creates narratives in fragments between architecture and art. Founder and Partner of MNMA - a transdisciplinary architecture studio that develops projects with sensitivity, articulating the elements in a simple and intimate way. With the purpose of integrating disciplines with a strong plastic appeal, without restrictions to the use of materials and constructive techniques to develop projects with diversity of scales, from temporary facilities to urban interventions.

Pepa Reverter is an endlessly curious artist, who is constantly seeking new ways to make sense of the world around her. She wants to live in a kinder, better world, so consciously creates work that inspire us to do so. She graduated in print making, at the Llotja school of applied arts, followed, by a degree at the Barcelona faculty of fine art, and eventually a Masters’ degree in video and TV production at the Universitat Politècnica, Barcelona. An academic exploration from some of the oldest forms of communication to the most modern, a journey linked by the timeless need to make sense of the world through art and stories. Along the way she was fortunate to study under some of the great masters ; working for Jaume Coscuella and Magí Baleta, engravers of the work of Joan Miró, Jaume Plensa, Xavier Grau and Garcia Sevilla.

She has worked across many mediums as a visual artist, illustrator, designer, ceramicist, professor, photographer, videographer. Amongst her many professional posts; working at TV3, illustrating for the International Herald Tribune, designing ceramic pieces for Bosa, design for BD Barcelona and many other roles in between. She frequently collaborates with her partner, the Creative Director Ramón Ubeda with whom she created their shared studio in the @22 district of Barcelona.

Shigeki Fujishiro left the acclaimed IDÉE Co Ltd in 2005 to found his own studio; Shigeki Fujishiro Design.

He has been active in a broad range of areas, including interior products and exhibit installations.

Fujishiro typically focuses on interior products and furniture, working hard to achieve designs that are extremely elementary and that have universal appeal.

In his work structure becomes form, as demonstrated in the Eiffel stool. Fujishiro has recently collaborated with such well-known brands as Hermès and Adidas as well as producing his own self-initiated projects.

Based in Barcelona, Skye Maunsell Studio works on a wide range of international and local projects, from private residences to commercial spaces and product design.

British-born founder and architectural interior designer Skye Maunsell believes in merging existing contexts with impactful design solutions to create functional spaces that are elegant in their simplicity.

At the heart of the studio’s philosophy is a deep respect for nature and art, and how these interact with our everyday lives. Thus, top-quality noble materials are used whenever possible, helping to evoke a strong sense of timelessness in the finished products and spaces. Typically, the focus is to honour the heritage of each environment, resulting in truly authentic designs that leave a lasting impression and simultaneously instill a sense of calm and comfort to those who encounter them.

Industrial Designer based in Barcelona, focused in Lighting, Product Design and Architecture, Jordi Veciana earned his degree in Barcelona but worked for designers like Massimo Vignelli and Ralph Lauren while living in New York at the beginning of his career. In 1998, he opened his own studio in Barcelona focusing on Lighting Design, Hospitality and Retail Design. In July 2017, Jordi Veciana and Skye Maunsell founded Montoya, a professional nexus and network for creative communities. Since then, both collaborate in projects focused on Lighting Design, Interior Design and Architecture.

Mariam Kamara is a Nigerien architect.
Prior to architecture, she was a software developer for several years after obtaining a Masters and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science, respectively from New York University and Purdue University. She studied architecture at the University of Washington.

In 2013, Kamara became a founding member of united4design, a global collective of architects working on projects in the U.S., Afghanistan and Niger. They have collaborated to produce projects like Niamey2000 in Niger, which was awarded an American institute of Architects Seattle Award and Architect Magazine’s 2017 R+D Award for innovation.

In 2014, Kamara founded atelier masōmī, an architecture and research firm through which she tackles a wide variety of public, cultural, residential, commercial and urban design projects. A notable example is the Religious-Secular Complex of Dandaji in Niger, a collaborative cultural project that has won the 2017 Gold LafargeHolcim Award for Africa and Middle East, and the 2018 Silver Global LafargeHolcim Award for Sustainable Architecture. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Brown University and a recurring Architecture Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design (R.I.S.D.)

Kamara’s work is guided by the belief that architects have an important role to play in thinking spaces that have the power to elevate, dignify, and provide a better quality of life. Through her practice, she aims to discover innovative ways of doing so, while maintaining an intimate dialog between architecture, people, and context. Since 2018, Kamara has been Sir David Adjaye’s protégé under the Rolex Mentor Protégé program, and is a 2019 Laureate of the Price Claus Award, which recognizes creatives having a positive impact on their societies.

Architect / Exhibition Designer / Curator

Khushnu Panthaki Hoof is an architect. She is the Director of the Vastu Shilpa Foundation for studies & research in Environmental Design.

The main focus of her architectural practice have been to create spaces which integrate environmentally responsible approach and understanding of human behaviour patterns into their manifestation.

Khushnu has been involved with designing the publications ‘Paths Uncharted’ - an autobiographical writing of Balkrishna Doshi. In 2019, she co-authored and edited the publication, Balkrishna Doshi : Architecture for the People which won the Richard Schlagman award of Best book on contemporary architecture in 2019 and was listed in as one of the best books of 2019 by New York Times Critiques.

She was the creative director for ‘Celebrating Habitat’ - 4 min film & the 90 min documentary on Doshi which became the official selection at the Milano Design Film Festival in 2015.

In 2014 she was invited by the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Ministry of Culture to curate and design the retrospective exhibition of Balkrishna Doshi. This exhibition later travelled to at the Power Station of Art Museum in Shanghai, Vitra Design Museum in Europe, Architekturmuseum in Munich at Pinakothek de Moderne, Architekturzentrum in Vienna and it will now be shown at Wrightwood659 in Chicago in September 2020.

Petra Blaisse, Inside Outside’s lead designer, is experienced in a multitude of creative areas, including interior design, landscape architecture, exhibition and textile design. Blaisse has branched out from a broad background in artistic craft and the applied arts. In 1978, she went on to work for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam at the department of Applied Arts.

From 1986 onwards, Blaisse worked as a freelance exhibition designer. In realizing a series of award-winning installations and exhibitions with OMA, Blaisse acquired an extensive knowledge on the use of light, composition, colour, materials and acoustics to create environments that would impact her later work. She first gained international acclaim for her use of textiles and finishes in interior spaces. Her practice in the field of landscape design was strengthened through working on a broad range of projects from private gardens to landscape masterplans.

In 1991 she founded Inside Outside. The studio specializes in the offhand combination of interior and exterior design, interweaving architecture and landscape and transcending the borders in-between. She leads projects globally of increasing technical sophistication, ambition and scale. Working in close collaboration with teams of renowned architects, botanists and gardeners, engineers, artists, and textile manufacturers worldwide. Blaisse’s control of space and place-making puts her at the forefront. Italy, Lebanon, Taiwan, Germany, the United States and Switzerland are some of the recent contexts in which she has realized her characteristic outside, inside and inbetween environments.

Blaisse has lectured extensively in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Over the years, she has been a guest lecturer for the University of Tokyo, UCLA, Harvard University, Technical University in Delft, Cornell University, ARCAM, TedXTilburg, and many other prestigious platforms and universities.

Dutch-born designer Marie-Anne Oudejans made her name in the 1990s after creating the wildly successful label Tocca in New York. Renowned around the world for her unique and extraordinary vision, winner of the prestigious Perry Ellis award in 1995 for new talent from the CFDA, Council of Fashion Designers of America.

She has consulted for many International brands, Her first venture in India resulted in the beautiful and eminent Bar Palladio Jaipur, followed by several other great projects in India in and Abroad. Including Caffe Palladio, Palladio Delicatessen, the Gem Palace in Mumbai, Jaipur Hotel in the Himalayas, Debonaire - London and private clients. Currently based in Jaipur where she founded with Artist Vikas Soni their design studio Trust and Treasure Jaipur.

Lél A couture stone studio with its design collections handcrafted from semi-precious stones and marble was founded by Farhana Asad two decades ago and is now run in collaboration with her daughter Meherunnisa Asad. Under the creative direction of Meherunnisa – a conservation architect and graduate of the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Fine Arts – master artisans possessing outstanding skill and a passion for preserving traditional craft techniques handcraft each unique piece. The team of artisans comprises local Pakistani craftspeople and refugee artisans displaced by the Afghan conflict to neighbouring Pakistan. Lél’s designs straddle both past and present, and are the result of a wide range of diverse and thoroughly researched influences: from exquisite floral patterns that evoke Mughal miniatures to the ornamental in Islamic architecture. Lél expertly contemporises pietra dura stone inlay with other decorative techniques such as silver cloisonné, the French decorative technique that uses metal thin strips to separate stone or enamel inlay, and the Italian scaglioli, a composite now commonly known as ‘resin’. These artworks are then often placed on contemporary furniture forms. Lél is simultaneously dedicated to the preservation and progression of stone inlay, ensuring the art form is not forgotten, but also pushing forward its contemporary evolution. Lél’s palette includes a wide range of semi-precious stones: Onyx, Jasper, Ammozonite, Agate, Jade, Serpentine, Sandstone, and coloured marble: Mardan pink and Ziarat white sourced from the mountains of Pakistan. From further afield, Lapis Lazuli comes from Afghanistan, Malachite from South Africa, and Turquoise from Iran.

Production has continued at Lél’s Peshawar base, even during the height of the Taliban insurgency in the early 2000s when bomb blasts rattled the studio windows. “All of us lost a friend or relative at that time. But the work became a way of pushing back, changing the narrative. To conserve an ancient art in violent times is a therapeutic experience,” says Meherunnisa.

Lél has featured in some of the leading international art and design publications with clients spread across the globe.

Meherunnisa Asad
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Architectural Design from the National College of Arts in Pakistan, Meherunnisa Asad studied at the Pratt Institute Graduate School of Fine Arts in New York where she received a masters. Returning to Pakistan, she worked as an architect on the Conservation of the Lahore Walled City at the Aga Khan Historic Cities Program. Inspired by her work in conservation, Meherunnisa realised the importance of preserving the traditional arts, and in 2010 began training with her mother Farhana to learn the art of handcrafted pietra dura or stone inlay, the art form Farhana had been working to conserve for over two decades.

Meherunnisa continues to explore the convergence of her passion for the preservation of historic architecture with that of preserving classical traditions of the decorative arts. Through this convergence, she seeks to experiment and build bridges between contemporary creative styles and traditional craft techniques, all in an effort to showcase the wonders of natural stone.

Kirsi Enkovaara is a London-based product designer, Founder and Designer of ceramic brand NKDWare. Masters graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, her work combines an artistic design practice with a professional expertise in high-street homeware. Kirsi seeks to humanise mass-production and to develop innovative solutions for ethical retail. Originally from Finland, she has lived and worked in England, Spain, and Thailand, shaping her international perspective on design.

NKDWare is a ceramic brand that was founded by her in September 2020. NKDWare advocates a transparent production process and collaborative approach between designer and maker whereby a set of ceramicists from different regions of the world are given a same technique and shape to interpret using their own expertise and local materials, resulting in ceramic collections that are “same-but-different”.

Etienne Bastormagi is a practicing architect, urban planner, product designer, founder of Studio Etienne Bastormagi and co-founder of product line Borgi Bastormagi.

Etienne holds a masters degree in Architecture and Urban Planning. After working in multinationals for 15 years, Etienne’s multidisciplinary experience includes working on product design, interiors and architectural projects.

Etienne has been a senior lecturer since 2007 at several academic institutions in Lebanon such as the American University of Beirut, Lebanese American University, and the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik.

Etienne’s works have been nominated for many awards, including the World Architecture Festival Awards in 2017, and have been featured in regional and international design media publications.

OFFHAND PRACTICE was founded in 2017. Our projects are various in scale and program as we look for challenging assignments, which we love to study.

As an interior architecture design practice, we do not impose design concept, but aim to solve realistic problems of diverse sites of different projects. We are interested in the relationship between space and people. Space as an energy field for interaction, and how to reveal the potential that it is innate. This has been a key subject that we study and examine through our practice. The understanding of space varies among generations, therefore the problem we are solving is forever a problem that is happening, evolving and changing. This is where architecture and interior fascinates us.

Pani Jurek was founded by Magda Jurek, an artist and designer. She graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and brings a conceptual approach to her work with the aim of creating products which are not obvious and not standard. She designs products which you can changed and rearranged with space and which also awaken your own creativity. She is also an advocate sustainability. Pani Jurek was also a co-founder of the Association "Based in Warsaw" which was set up to achieve social design as well as design for public areas.

Rana Haddad, an AA graduate, acquired the title of an activist as she practiced architecture and design in the post war conflicting city of Beirut. Starting In 1997 her research workshop was setup with her practice with the aim of questioning the ability of objects and places to become means of political expression in Beirut. Soon after, these quests turned into installation works puncturing the city grabbing people’s attention locally and internationally. With her students and colleagues, Rana Haddad has produced several public installations and performances in Beirut, Mantes la Jolie, Bern, Geneva, Algiers, Italy, New Zealand and lately got exhibited in the MAM, USA. She has lectured and given workshops in many art and architecture international institutions that includes Urbandrift, Berlin, the Geneva School of Fine Arts and Design, with Studio Kajima at ETH University, Zurich and most recently in Copenhagen, the Architectural Association, AA, London, University and UC Davis, USA. She is currently an assistant professor at the American University of Beirut.
In 2013, she co-founded 200Grs. The studio’s two founders are both drawn from Beirut’s constraints and the many challenges facing those who live in this complex city. In response, 200Grs works actively with local Lebanese artisans, to promote their craftsmanship and keep their knowledge and skills - which are at risk of disappearing - alive. Recently the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A in London, UK; acquired from 200Grs the ‘Stuck Stick’ series.

Pascal Hachem, based in Beirut, is an artist / product designer represented by Selma Feriani Gallery in Tunis / London and Federica Schiavo Gallery in Milan / Rome. He won awards in different competitions like Bang & Olufsen and the Boghossian prize, Brussels. His work is part of Nadour Collection in Germany and Kamel Lazaar foundation in Switzerland. He lectured at Art Basel Talks in Switzerland, at the City Gallery Wellington in New Zealand and at the Mosaic Rooms London. Hachem conceives each work as a discrete experience, through processes that employ the visual. Working through performative acts, interventions into urban spaces, or by creating sculptural installations in gallery settings. Hachem sets up compelling situations which ask or even demand that the viewer pause and concentrate, take the time to think and work out visual conundrums. At its core, his work manifests his responses to the world, to the power relations and social situations he relentlessly examines and critiques. As a result, he has a varied catalogue of work using various mediums, including his own body and elements and forms of everyday life.
In 2013, he co-founded 200Grs. The studio’s two founders are both drawn from Beirut’s constraints and the many challenges facing those who live in this complex city. In response, 200Grs works actively with local Lebanese artisans, to promote their craftsmanship and keep their knowledge and skills - which are at risk of disappearing - alive. Recently the Victoria and Albert Museum, V&A in London, UK; acquired from 200Grs the ‘Stuck Stick’ series.

Farah Siddiqui is a specialist in contemporary art and design from Southeast Asia, offering an across-the-board consultancy service for private collections, foundations and Museums since 2004. In addition to working with private collectors, she has worked on projects with Forbes, India and The Times of India. Siddiqui has served several institutions and foundations including the BE OPEN Foundation, the Lodha Foundation and the Piramal Art Foundation in Mumbai where she curated a definitive exhibition on the legendary painter Raja Ravi Varma.

Under the patronage of Elephant Family’s joint Royal President’s TRH’s The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Charles and Lady Camilla Parker Bowles, Farah Siddiqui curated the first edition of The Elephant Parade for India in 2018. Siddiqui now serves on the Board of Elephant Family Foundation in India.

She has curated several successful exhibitions and has been involved with fundraising activities for charity. She also serves as the India (Asia region) nominator for the Swiss Prix Pictet award, a prize dedicated to contemporary photography and sustainability which was launched in 2008 by the Geneva-based private bank, Pictet & Cie. Siddiqui has organised special India visits for the curators, director and patrons of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and Vancouver Art Gallery (Museum). Often called upon to share her knowledge and experience on public forums she has been invited by prestigious education institutions as a guest to conduct seminars and workshops on contemporary art and design including IIT – Mumbai and SIMC – Pune

Natasha Mehta began her tryst with the fashion & design industry over a decade ago. She inherited this passion from a family who have been in the textile industry for over three generations. Specializing in sales and operations she lives her passion through her profession. Her horizons expanded further when she began curating private collections of embroidered garments and statement pieces for global boutique brands. Her eclectic style and charisma gave birth to her own brand Urban Arrest which pays homage to ‘the women who travel.’ A collection enthused by today’s trends made elegant with a sense of flair and individuality. Having lived & worked both in India and Internationally , Natasha’s experience is unparalleled when it comes to international business . It is not unusual for Natasha to wears several hats - from Business development and brand communications to marketing and strategy.

With her heart still at home, she then founded her own NGO, “Hum Bandhi”, where she works with imprisoned women, teaching them the skills to manufacture across all types of embroidered and hand-made pieces. Natasha has also served the ‘Chamar Foundation’, an initiative that has been established to promote both artists and artisans, and is focused on rehabilitating and empowering the community, recognizing their skill and expertise.

I am an experienced freelance graphic designer based in Mumbai, India. I have worked in the creative industry for over ten years, starting out in the art world.

I then moved to Mumbai and developed my creative skills in designing apparel. My passion for the digital space grew and I started developing in-house graphics as well as freelancing.

Since 2015 I have been providing graphic and web design services to a variety of clients throughout New York, London, Antwerp, Dubai and Mumbai.

I am working directly with my own growing list of clients, who are in a variety of sectors: contruction, healthcare, jewelry, retail (fashion) and IT.


Degree & Experience

BA Criticism, Curation & Communication: Art&Design Central Saint Martins, London, UK

• Serpentine Gallery, London. UK
  Art and Design research assistant
• Sotheby’s, London. UK
  Art Analyst
• Stellan Holm Gallery, New York. USA
  Art Curator
• Van de Weghe Gallery, New York. USA
  Art Curator
• ART BASEL, Miami. USA
  Art Curator for Pvt Gallery
• FIAC, Paris. France
  Art Curator for Pvt Gallery
• FRIEZE, London. UK
  Art Curator for Pvt Gallery
• Krishna Mehta, Mumbai. India
  Senior Designer