Braun designs are simple, useful and built to last
It’s been a century since 1921, when Max Braun, a mechanical engineer, opened a small engineering store in Frankfurt, producing components for radio sets. In a […]
Design icons
Design icons are those who have made the history of this industry or represent a benchmark at present. This section is dedicated to the protagonists of the world of design: designers, companies, studios, who set new, higher standards with their activities.
Charles and Ray Eames were the first designers to mass-produce molded plywood with compound curves
Looking back at the history of design, it looks like many landmark contributions at the heart of architecture and design’s most fundamental trends and methods came […]
Cassina is the Italian story of a furniture brand that builds its collections without using nails – just glue and joints.
Almost a century ago, brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina from Meda, a town in Northern Italy, founded Cassina as a family workshop processing wood for furniture. […]
Blown away – Dyson’s key to success is failure
Today, Dyson’s yearly revenues grew to more than 5 billion pounds. When James Dyson and his wife moved into their new house, he found himself unsatisfied […]
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, started his first business at 5 years old
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, started his first business at 5 years old, with matches that he bought cheaply in bulk in Stockholm and sold […]
Raymond Loewy, more than any designer ever, worked on the connection between functional styling and profits
Born in France, Raymond Loewy emigrated to the United States after completing engineering studies in 1919, and moved into industrial design towards the end of the […]
Naoto Fukasawa is the craftsman that gives shape to subconscious values.
It’s a fact – the human body instinctively knows what is comfortable and efficient. Naoto Fukasawa‘s style inspires and intrigues because it actualizes an intangible instinct, […]
Ingo Maurer, a poet of light: new geometries, new emotions and new inspirations
Ingo Maurer‘s creations really are distinctive, and his touch is recognizable at first sight: his new method included new geometries, new emotions and new inspirations, materialized […]
HKS designs places that heal, perform, care
Harwood Knox Smith began his architecture journey in 1939 with a one-man studio office in Dallas, focusing on commercial and residential projects and high-rise office buildings. […]
HAY’s democracy: good design is for everyone
HAY‘s design takes place in contemporary culture, following the evolution in the use of spaces, where traditional divisions between personal and professional settings blur: collections of […]
Kazuyo Sejima’s sophisticated aesthetic is a quest for airiness, dematerialization and idealism.
Kazuyo Sejima doesn’t consider any of her projects to be finished until its inhabitants put life into it. The social aspect of her work is realized […]
Anna Castelli Ferrieri, the plastic touch of Italian design’s golden era
One of only three women in her class, Anna Castelli Ferrieri studied architecture at the Milan Polytechnic Institute, where she met the Italian Neo-Rationalist architect Franco […]