"My work explores themes of modularity and multiplicity, driven by a fascination for simple, flexible structures with a forthright attitude toward material. I am interested in three-dimensional works which are simultaneously graphic in nature, and contribute to composing simple, bold environments" - says Rachel Griffin

American-born, Rotterdam-based designer Rachel Griffin has a background in graphic design, and spent five years producing exhibitions and books before moving to the Netherlands to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven. She launched her own studio in 2012, with a focus on furniture, lighting and accessories.

Arianna Lelli Mami  graduated at Politecnico di Milano in Interior Design. She has always been fascinated by the ways people live and inhabit space, she looks at design from a viewpoint that is free from rigid schemes. Passionate about art, she collects objets trouvés that are then re-explored and utilised to create installations that often inspire projects for the agency.

Recently, she has been working on a personal project that unites rediscovered photography with collage.

Chiara Di Pinto  Following her academic training in fine arts, Chiara received her degree in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano. In 1996 she started working as an interior stylist and journalist for many Italian and international magazines. Due to her artistic path, she has always had a strong interest in materials, shapes, and colours; her approach to design and her love of research is instinctive and endless.

'There are many good approaches to design. For me personally, it is important that design is honest: sustainable, authentic materials; clear forms, nothing decorative unless it adds something.'

Berlin-based designer Hanne Willmann was born and raised in northern Germany and has already enjoyed a rich and varied career. She worked as an industrial designer in Berlin, Barcelona, and Istanbul before returning to Berlin, where she set up her own studio. These myriad influences serve to explain Hanne’s love of experimentation with materials, which she combines in countless ways.

A great passion for small details is a hallmark of Hanne’s designs. Her style is sharp and linear, although she is also able to soften her focus where necessary. Hanne’s work has been honoured with accolades such as the 2017 German Design Award. As a professor at Bauhaus Dessau and Berlin University of the Arts, she shares her ideas with the designers of tomorrow.

Hanne Willmann is behind the design of the Nana series for German brand Freifrau. She found the inspiration for the design in everything that is soft and voluminous.‎

Hanne found the inspiration for the design language of Nana in everything that is soft and voluminous.‎ It is certainly no coincidence that the finished model is reminiscent of cloud fragments.

“Go through life with your eyes open, and inspiration will come to you from all sides.” 

"I try to find a design approach which is both innovative and embodies a clear-cut idea. I draw inspiration from travelling, visiting art exhibitions or from the natural world." says Birgit Hoffman

German born designer Birgit Hoffmann is passionate and spontaneous by nature, with a preference for trying out something new. Birgit, who trained as a ceramicist before taking her degree in design, is also senior art director at Freifrau and produce furniture designs and concepts for interiors.

Her designs are always functional, never cold and recognisable by their elegant, yet soft and organic form. Together with Christoph Kahleyss she has set up design bureau Hoffmann Kahleyss Design in Hamburg. The duo produce design after design with an expressive, individual look and a sensuous feel for brands like Freifrau, Janua and Moller Design.

Their furniture pieces are characterised by elegance, by a certain lightness which balances the soft with the straight, the decorative with the voluminous, and the playful with the structured.

“I cannot stay away from colour”

says Rosita Missoni... and we hope she never does.

Her personal vision of the home atmosphere and furnishings has coloured the Missoni Home brand. Unusual, captivating fabrics; innovative, simple shapes for sophisticated settings; a feeling of artiness but with a light touch; important, seemingly simple elements that blend easily into existing environments, adding vibrancy and colour. Forms for separating and uniting, easy to move around including from indoors to outdoors or vice versa, enabling the magic atmosphere of the garden to be brought indoors.

Rosita Missoni is the woman behind Missoni, one of Italy's most iconic fashion brands. Rosita and her husband Ottavio (Tai for short) started with nothing but passion and persistence. Although she stepped down in 1997, she has hardly stopped! In 2004 she launched Missoni Home.

An explosion of colour, pattern and luxurious texture, the Missoni Home collection now incorporates design for every part of our lives from rugs and upholstery fabrics to bedding and towels to soft furnishings and furniture. The fabrics convey different, unpredictable moods all rich in humour and magic.

Theresa Rand is based in Copenhagen and is working on furniture and interior design related projects. The focus of the her work is on the use of natural, authentic and lasting materials and the way in which they are combined. Creating functional but poetic furniture with a story to tell, as well as spaces with a warm atmosphere for the people living and being in them. Originally, Theresa Rand studied languages at the University of Cologne and graduated in 2005. Her later career was followed by architecture studies at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture in Düsseldorf, in Germany. Afterwards, Theresa Rand graduated with a concentration in a Master of Arts in Architecture & Furniture Design at the Royal Academy of Arts, in Denmark. Alongside her studies, Theresa Rand worked as freelance with namely design offices, like Norm Architects or Space Copenhagen. That was when her first introductory pieces for Audo Copenhagen were sketched.

"Although functionality is very important, too, the atmosphere, which furniture and objects create and the impact, which they have on a space and on people using this space is crucial." - says Theresa Rand

Cecilie Manz  is a Danish designer whose work within furniture, glass, lighting, and ceramics has received international acclaim and is sold and exhibited all over the world. She is educated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts with additional studies at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. Cecilie Manz founded her own studio in Copenhagen in 1998, and has since received numerous awards and honors for her work - amongst others The Crown Prince Couples Cultural Award and the 3-year working grant from the Danish Arts Foundation.

"I design things that have meaning to me. My general objective is to always have a clear argument that legitimises the designs that I make. Function is essential and if I cannot formulate a good reason for a new product to exist, it is better to refrain from making it."

She began to live out her passion for textiles, based on principles of authenticity, outstanding quality, well-being, and with a keen eye for detail in 1995. Since then, her design universe has expanded to include items for the entire home, whose characteristics are based on the same strong values. She enjoys creating a tactile, Scandinavian and stylish interior design in spaces all over the world - and with a little twist of something unexpected. Her holistic approach to interior design allows the whole home to be a place of calm, contemplation and creativity.

Mette Ditmer has designed iconic accessories for the home for more than 25 years. The design craft is self-taught. Her interest in design, shapes and colours has been with her since childhood – and it has only been reinforced and further advanced over the years.

Salla Luhtasela / Studio Kasikko

Helsinki-based design studio that specialises in ceramic tableware and wooden furniture, founded by Salla Luhtasela and Wesley Walters. The duo shares an interest in functional, understated forms that highlight each material’s tactile qualities, as well as in the production process itself.

Emma Olbers is a Swedish designer, born on a farm on the Swedish west coast in 1972. Olbers graduated from the Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm 1997, and opened her own studio two years later.

She prides herself on being “a furniture designer with an eco heart” and has always tried to make products that are as environmentally friendly as possible, keeping a close eye on every step of the production process.

Sandy Chilewich has a unique and personal design aesthetic that revolutionised two distinct industries and, indeed, the modern design world. She is a true entrepreneur and a leader in the business of design, having taken the style conscious consumer from legwear to tableware - quite a leap, but the translation appears effortless. One of the highlights of her design career is the Raybowl - introduced in 1997, the bowls are made from netting (usually found in lingerie). The bowl uses a simple yet highly inventive mechanism to transform the fabric into a concave shape. In this same experimenting vein Sandy looked at Vinyl - commonly considered to be an industrial material - and saw the possibility for placemats, flooring, fashion accessories and more. Through combining style with the durability inherent in these materials Sandy has opened up a world of possibilities! Sandy continues to seek new uses for existing textiles and weaves, working out of a New York City studio.

Ragnheiour Osp Siguroardottir
By helping her grandfather who was a signmaker in Iceland, Ragnheiour Osp Siguroardottir was inspired to work creatively at an early age.

After studies at the Iceland Academy of Arts and Cranbrook Academy of Arts, Ragnheiour opened her own studio in Reykjavik. The Knot cushion was born in 2011, while she was making bear figures made of crocheted tubes.

“There was always this strong sense of DIY and making things happen. This way of thinking inspired me to open my mind and see that it is possible to create anything.”

Kenita-Lee McCartney  is a First Nations artist with a lifelong dedication to artistic expression and narrative exploration. She weaves intricate tales through her captivating artworks.

Marie-Louise Gustafsson studied at Konstfack School of Art and Design in Stockholm and at the Royal College of Art in London. Her conceptually pragmatic designs have been shown around the world.

Cecilia Xinyu Zhang  produces designs intended to alter perceptions of objects and space. She creates optical illusions, making two-dimensional objects that expand into 3-D proportions, or creating large-scale designs that look smaller in appearance.

Panisa Khunprasert design aesthetic has been influenced by growing up in her family’s toy business, and many of her early projects focused on children’s learning and playing experiences.

Antoinette Ferwada loves colour and pattern. Antoinette draws inspiration from the natural world to create artworks in acrylic paint, ink, and collage.

Deb Jones work as an artist and as a designer is honest and responds to the beauty of the glass she uses. Her work employs a minimalist sensibility and she is a strong believer in the mentality of 'less is more.'

Helen Kontouris is one of Australia's leading designers and takes a great amount of inspiration from her observations of everyday experiences and objects.

Dana Dion is an Australian artist whose artworks explore the vast reaches of a rich inner landscape through a language that she has developed over the years.

Galina Dixon  is a designer and typographer who believes it's the simplicity of beautiful words on gorgeous paper that bring much happiness.

Maria Berntsen  takes inspiration from architecture, nature and fashion. Working with a variety of materials, she loves working with glass the most.

Frances Costelloe   is a creator known for her free flowing line drawings of quizzical faces, serene shells, and florals. After working in fashion and interiors, Frances combined her love of drawing and ceramics to found her eponymous brand with her signature playful aesthetic.

Maria Karlis is a Swedish artist working with glass as a design material. She takes inspiration from the shape of the tulip to create sculptural and decorative glass art.

Louise Campbell  is a leading figure in Danish design. She is a driving force behind the new movement in Scandinavian design and has been awarded Designer of the Year in Denmark.

Natalie Sun is a creative technologist and art tech curator who realised the creative industry’s lack of exposure to truly interesting, cutting-edge creativity in tech. As a result, she began curating and producing shows to inspire the creative community with the artistic possibilities of technology.

Patricia Perez is a Spanish designer who is driven by a curiosity for how things are made, Perez loves to visit factories to watch the machinery and engineering process taking place. ‘I love the idea of thinking of something that doesn’t exist and making it into a reality’ she says.

Nina Jobs  is one of the leading ladies of Swedish design. She strives for simplicity and a clear-cut relationship to nature. With a background as a graphic designer, Nina studied product design at the Ecole Nationale Superiuere des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.

Anna Utzon

Director of Content and Styling