Designcraft

Christian Dell was born in Offenbach am Main in Hesse. He completed the silver forging studies at the academy in 1911 and from 1912-13 he studied at the Saxon college of arts and crafts in Weimar.

From 1922 to 1925 he worked as a foreman of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar where he was the man behind a highly innovative and pioneering style of design. 

With a grand sense of adventure, Charles and Ray Eames turned their curiosity and boundless enthusiasm into creations that established them as a truly great husband-and-wife design team. Their unique synergy led to a whole new look in furniture. Lean and modern. Playful and functional. Sleek, sophisticated, and beautifully simple. That was and is the “Eames look.”

Carol Catalano, principal of Catalano Design in Boston, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design - focusing on industrial design. Carol Catalano, principal of Catalano Design in Boston, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design - focusing on industrial design. Her Capelli stool took out the Silver Prize in the prestigious International Furniture Design Competition in Asahikawa competition in 1999—one of only eight awards given and the only American design selected from over 700 entries from around the world.

Torsten Thorup and Claus Bonderup are both graduates from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in 1969, and subsequently went to work together at Danish architect, Henning Larsen’s
studio in Copenhagen. The two architects teamed up professionally and worked together for the majority of
their careers. Together they have designed watches and in-store displays for Georg Jensen, the Arktikum
museum in Finland and the harbour area in Elsinore, where they designed everything, from urban planning to 

bernabeifreeman was established in 2002 by Rina Bernabei and Kelly Freeman, an industrial design company focusing on surface decoration and patterning for interior products and finishes. They have earned an international reputation for creating award-winning products from perforated metal. Their products can be found at the Establishment Hotel and BLUE Hotel, Sydney. bernabeifreeman have recently ventured into textiles and homewares.

Barba Corsini (1916-2008) was a leading functionalist architect who won international praise for his architecture and his design for La Pedrera in Barcelona. Corsini was strongly inspired by the German architect Mies van der Rohe and the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He also had a great affinity to Finnish architecture, which he believed to be the finest in Europe on account of the powerful simplicity of the designs. 'Powerful simplicity' is perhaps an apt description of Corsini's personal design style, as represented by the Pedrera Collection.

Arnold Merckx grew up in a family of carpenters and learned his trade skills at a very young age. After his graduation from the Academy of visual arts and technical science in Rotterdam, he wanted to gain more experience and completed his practical training with Kho Liang Ie in Amsterdam; and André Motte and Pierre Paulin in Paris. He founded his design studio ‘Arnold Merckx Design’ in 1978, but he actually received his first gold medal before founding his own company.