Jorge Pensi Design Studio

JORGE PENSI DESIGN STUDIO was established in 1984. Since then the studio has consolidated its position as a global point of reference for contemporary design. Its minimalist and expressive designs have received numerous prizes and awards. Some of its first products, such as the Toledo chair or the Regina lamp, have since become Spanish design icons. In 1997, Jorge Pensi was awarded the National Design Prize by the Ministry of Industry and Energy and the BCD Foundation for outstanding professional achievement. If there is one thing which defines Jorge Pensi Design Studio’s products, it is their timelessness. They constantly seek a balance between poetry and realism, material and space, abstraction and emotion. The aim is to create as many sensations as possible with as few resources as possible, challenging the usual logic in order to establish whether or not it is possible to create something new.

Yonoh

YONOH is a design studio founded in 2006 by the industrial designers Alex Selma and Clara del Portillo. Today, Yonoh is a team of experts with multiple disciplines linked to the different fields of design. The studio provides industrial, communication and graphic design services.

Creativity, passion, responsibility, and discipline are part of the studio philosophy. The design style is clearly recognized by its purity, beauty, timelessness, functionality and good taste. Yonoh designs have received numerous and prestigious international design prizes.

IF Product Design Award 2013

Designpreis Nominee 2013

Delta Selection 2012

RedDot Design Award 2012

Peter Maly

PETER MALY is a well known architect and interior designer from Hamburg. Born 1936, he specialises in furniture collections, trade fair architecture, store designs, showroom and store concepts. Characteristic of Maly’s work is the love of geometric shapes and his striving for clarity, functionality and timelessness.

Paolo Nava

PAOLO NAVA was born in Seregno, Italy in 1943. Nava studied Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan, continuing his studies in Advanced Industrial Design in Florence. After working with several industrial design studios in England, Nava founded Citterio in 1972, a partnership between him and Antonia Citterio. Together they designed some of the icons of 70’s Italian design. Since 1982 Nava has worked independently, focusing on furniture design for many of the world’s most prestigious brands.

Martin Ballendat

MARTIN BALLENDAT was born in Bochum in 1958 and lives and works in Simbach (Germany). In 1983 he obtained his diploma for industrial design at the Folkwang Schule University, Essen. For more than 20 years now, he has been a successful interior designer. Today, he lectures at Fachhochschule Graz for industrial design. Since 1994, he has received over 30 international design awards.

Marc Sadler

Early in his design career Marc Sadler patented the first ski-boot made from completely recyclable thermo plastic. It’s this innovative use of materials (in particular, plastics, on which he wrote a thesis while studying at ENSAD, Paris) that has characterised Sadler’s work. Since the seventies, Sadler has acquired numerous patents for product design, and has worked as consultant for some of the largest multinational sports, home furnishings, lighting, and advanced materials companies in the world.

Lepper Schmidt Sommerlade

Christian LEPPER, born in 1958 in Bonn, began carpentry training in 1978; from 1983 to 1989 he attended the Product Design School in Kassel and from 1989 to 1992 he attended an university course in Architecture while working as a self-employed designer.

Roland SCHMIDT, born 1961 in Peine, a trained carpenter, attended the Product Design School in Kassel from 1983 to 1989 and from 1990 to 1992 worked for the Innsbruck based “Lichtplanung Bartenbach”.

Uwe SOMMERLADE, born in 1961 in Calden, trained as a carpenter after secondary education and attended the Product Design School in Kassel between 1983 and 1990; subsequently he did work in many architects offices and with experts for furniture in Kassel and Berlin.

These 3 designers have worked together since 1992 and have won many awards to testify the quality of their various creations.

Guggenbichler Design

HARALD GUGGENBICHLER is a qualified carpenter and designer, while Heike Guggenbichler graduated from Vienna University where she studied marketing and advertising. Together they form Guggenbichler Design – a company specializing in the balance of quality materials, functionality and aesthetics. Harald Guggenbichler’s back-to-basics approach aims to produce furniture with an elegent, timeless simplicity.

Gabriela Raible

Born in Hamburg in 1962, Gabriela Raible’s distinctive work expresses an enthusiasm for aesthetic, creative and bespoke design solutions. Raible studied at interior design at the University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim, and then Mastered in Design at the Domus Academy, Milan, in 1988. After several years of freelancing and an office partnership with Bernhard Leniger, she founded her own interior design firm in Munich in 2001. As specialists in bespoke interior solutions, Gabriela Raible and her team plans and implements solutions for private and business environments. Her work expresses a passion for living spaces, and an enthusiasm for aesthetic, creative, and bespoke furniture. Using quality crafts and production and natural materials, Raible’s designs are underpinned by a straightforwardness and clarity that is associated with sophistication.

Francesco Geraci

FRANCESCO GERACI was born in Rijeca in 1943. In 1962 he moved to Florence, where he still lives and works. Since 1969 he has dedicated himself to industrial design. He has collaborated with prestigious companies in Italy and internationally.

Edi & Paolo Ciani

EDI & PAOLO CIANI formed their studio in 1987 to create and develop products for the furniture industry. Together they have created furnishings for home, office and garden with a design process they carefully manage from product planning to realization.

Daniele Lo Scalzo Moscheri

MOSCHERI’s style is concise, contemporary and expresses an interest in matching innovative materials. His multidisciplinary background in advanced industrial design, architecture, product design and advertising, blends to produce furniture that re-imagines tradition with minimalism, attention to detail, and the modern living space. Moscheri collaborated with Piero Lissoni until 1993, when he opened his own office, dealing with product design and advertising.

Annette Lang

ANNETTE LANG, born in 1960, studied industrial design at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart. Annette runs her own design studio in Wiesbaden. Her work focuses on the development and design of consumer goods in the fields of household utensils, tableware, offices, furniture, lighting and medical technology.
She has taken part in many national and international exhibitions, and has received numerous awards for her work. Annette lectured at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart from 1994 to 1999.