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.
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. […]
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, with matches that he bought cheaply in bulk in Stockholm and sold […]
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 […]
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, […]
Introducing the Bic Pen, an unremarkable yet ubiquitous household and office staple that’s used by millions every day. Cheap and disposable are not normally words that […]
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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
Founded in 1977 as an interior design firm, in more recent times NELSON Worldwide has expanded its reach: starting from a single discipline, the brand is […]