Nacho Carbonell

Born in Spain in 1980, Nacho Carbonell graduated from Cardenal Herrera C.E.U. University in 2003 and went on to study at the Design Academy Eindhoven. His 2009 Evolution collection earned a Beazley Design of the Year nomination at the Design Museum in London, and his 2010 Identity series set the organic forms and rough, colourful textures that define his style.

Carbonell treats objects as living organisms, shaping them by hand so that they carry something of his personality: communicative objects that arouse feeling and imagination. His Cocoon lamps, tree-like steel structures wrapped in mesh and a plaster of sand and textile hardener, use materials found near his Eindhoven studio. The work is held by the Groningen Museum, SFMOMA and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.