Arihiro Miyake was born in Japan in 1975. He started his design studies in his motherland at Kobe Design University, then moved to Finland to finish a Master’s degree in furniture and space design at Aalto University. Arihiro Miyake Studio opened in 2014, allowing him to investigate multiple areas including interior, product and lighting design. His collaboration with Nemo started with projects such as In the Wind and Kepler, creating new paradigms in the lighting world.

1990 – BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA & 1986 – BARCELONA, SPAIN, Artist and designer Andrés Reisinger bridges the imagined and the tangible. His works are conceptual yet accessible, with immersive 3D visuals, otherworldly compositions, and experimental use of textures. Andrés’ worlds are dreamy and almost meditative. Júlia Esqué is a product designer with a focus on textile design. Her projects are based on the experience of research and hands-on making. Besides making her own work, Júlia shares her knowledge of textile design by teaching and running workshops at several design schools.

“1980 – PORDENONE, ITALY, Cristina Celestino (1980, Pordenone) established her studio in Milan in 2013. After graduating in 2005 from the IUAV School of Architecture in Venice, she worked with various design studios, focusing on interior architecture and design. In 2011, she created her own design brand, Attico Design. The activities of Cristina Celestino and her studio range from residential, hospitality and commercial projects to creative direction and product design. Innate freedom of observation, erudite, curious and playful. A great capacity for scientific and aesthetic investigation. Obsessed by material and geometry, she moves across history and traditions, altering the scale of objects, creating new conceptual and decorative canons, where nature speaks to us in unanimity. She intertwines a transdisciplinary approach with analytical rigour, leading to unexpected spaces, objects and experiences. “

Rick Tegelaar (Rotterdam, 1986) graduated with honours from the ArtEZ Arnhem product design department in 2011. Since then he works independently from his studio and workshop in Arnhem. As a material-oriented designer, Rick’s work is characterized by the use of very uncommon materials, finding new beautifully shaped forms with an innovative approach. Rick is interested in machinery and mechanical processes since childhood. This fascination for engineering, combined with his delicate sense of esthetics, are reflected in his designs, which shed a new light on undervalued materials and existing techniques. “I’ve always gotten a lot of satisfaction out of the processes of making something. When I was a kid I was always playing with technical Lego. Even now, I sometimes use Lego for making a scale model. I’m a designer who combines thinking and doing for developing new designs.”

Markus Jehs born in 1965 in Stuttgart and Jürgen Laub born in 1964 in Ulm, have met each other during their academic studies of industrial design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd and became friends after an internship in New York in 1990.

Luca Nichetto was born in 1976 in Venice. He studied at the city’s Istituto statale d’arte, before undertaking a degree in industrial design at the Università Iuav di Venezia, from which he graduated in 1998. In 1999, Nichetto began his professional career with Murano-based glass maker Salviati, later becoming a product designer and consultant for lighting company Foscarini. In 2006, he founded his eponymous practice in Venice. In 2011 he moved to Stockholm, Sweden, to open a second studio and he continues to live in and work from this city.

EST. 2011, EINDHOVEN, Studio Toer is a Dutch multidisciplinary design collective with a strong exploratory and experimental approach. Founded in 2011 by Castor Bours (1984) and Wouter Widdershoven (1986); their work push both the technical and aesthetic limits of design within the world of applied arts. They create innovative light objects & installations and interactive experiences. Evolutionary elements and a suggestion of movement are ever-present in all of their projects. Studio Toer received worldwide attention for their interactive installations: Cumulus, an autonomous parasol that inflates into a cloud-like shape with solar energy. Fiet, a kinetic light sculpture that reacts to changes in its environment. And Shaped By Time, a clock that forms itself over time. Studio Toer’s projects were on view at countless international festivals and are visible worldwide.

Working with Fiam on new table, opened an unique opportunity to create design where my inspiration with nature, organic forms and modern architectural design is supported with Fiam’s state of art glass manufacturing technology. I love the great synergy between modern futuristic design and traditional artisan manufacturing, they are both influencing each other allowing new ideas to materialize. I am astonished that in the age of 3d printing, we created an artistic 3d fused vibe in glass using traditional Fiam artisan manufacturing technology where each table has a foot print of glass master and foot print of Fiam’s leadership in artistic and innovative glass manufacturing.

I would never have thought of making a glass armchair… My initial scepticism regarding an idea that seemed unreal was overcome by the desire/challenge to see if it was actually possible to make it; and if Fiam would have been capable of making it.

TYPE is a collection of coffee tables, in three sizes, constructed like a writing and drawn like a language. It is a series of pictograms, three monotypes which can be composed into an infinity of logotypes. These three tables can overlap to form new glyphs, new formal expressions. With each use, a new formal language emerges.

“A first Newton prototype was made in 2002, as a tribute to the discoverer of the gravity field, an apple reflects the light that passes through the diffuser disk. After seventeen years the lamp is now put back into production with Nemo. It is not the first time that my projects are appreciated after many years”.

Piero Gatti, (Turin 1940-2017), Cesare Paolini (Genua 1937-1983) and Franco Teodoro (Turin 1939-2005) had worked together since 1965, following the design in the fields of: architecture, decorating, industrial design, urban design, corporate image and product development, graphic. Their works have been reviewed and mentioned in Italian and foreign magazines, in addition to books on architecture and design. They have taken part in competitions, exhibitions and reviews in Italy and abroad. They designed the “Sacco” seat manufactured by Zanotta(1968/1969), symbol of Italian design, displayed in galleries and museums and awarded worldwide.

Many winning ideas often derive from teamwork. This has been the experience of Studio Italia Design, a creative workshop that gathers together intuition and gives shape to the ideas of the company’s people – technical and creative staff, those who know the sector deeply. The results of the synergy of craft, curiosity and speed, contaminated by the endless energy of Andrea Tosetto, are firmly established stories of success, like the suspension lamp Sky-Fall and the A-Tube and Puzzle collections.

Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo, Spain. She lives and works in Milan. She studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Polytechnic University of Milan, where she graduated in 1989 under Achille Castiglioni. She was an assistant lecturer for Achille Castiglioni; she collaborated with Vico Magistretti; and she was head of design for Lissoni Associati. In 2001, she opened her own studio, working in the fields of product design, interiors, and architecture. Her most recent architectural projects include the Jewellery Museum in Vicenza, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Barcelona, the Das Stue Hotel in Berlin, and the spa at the Four Seasons Hotel in Milan; as well as retail and exhibition designs for Gianvito Rossi, BMW, Cassina, Ferragamo, Flos, Missoni, Molteni, Officine Panerai, H&M, Santoni, and Pitti Uomo in Florence. She has designed products for leading Italian and international companies, including Agape, Alessi, Axor-Hansgrohe, Baccarat, Boffi, Budri, De Padova, Driade, Flos, Gan, Georg Jensen, Glas Italia, Haworth, Kartell, Kvadrat, Listone Giordano, Louis Vuitton, Moroso, Mutina, Rosenthal, and Verywood. Some of his products are exhibited in major art and design museums, including the MoMA in New York, the Musée des Arts decoratifs in Paris, the Design Museum in Zurich, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel, the Victorian & Albert Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Triennale Museum in Milan. She has won several international awards, including the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts from the Spanish Government; the Order of Isabella the Catholic, awarded by His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain; “Designer of the Decade” for Home and Häuser magazines; and “Designer of the Year” for Wallpaper, AD Spain, Elle Decor International, and Architektur und Wohnen magazines.

Sofia Lagerkvist and Anna Lindgren are the members of Front, a Swedish design group. Their products are based on shared discussions, explorations, and experiments: they collaborate on every project, from the initial idea to the final product. Front’s objects often tell the viewer a story about the design process, the material they’re made from, or the industry’s conventions. Front’s work draws inspiration in part from animals, computers, and machines. They have created constantly evolving interiors, objects with explosions, robotic furnishings, and a series of furniture inspired by the allure of magic.

Le Corbusier’s interest in fine arts from an early age led him to focus on architectural designs made up of lines and geometric colour blocks. For him, painting, sculpture and architecture are not isolated disciplines.

Paul Cocksedge is an internationally acclaimed British designer, who has spent the last decade building a reputation for innovative design, underpinned by research into the limits of technology and materials. His catalogue of work spans design products, architectural projects, installations and sculptures, all infused with the sense of simplicity, joy and wonder that has come to characterise his work. Having studied under Ron Arad at the Royal College of Art, Cocksedge was nominated for Designer of the Year by London’s Design Museum in 2004, just two years after graduation. He established Paul Cocksedge Studio with Joana Pinho in the same year, and the practice has participated in design festivals around the world, adding a sense of playfulness to technologically ingenious sculptures and installations. He presented his first solo show at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York in 2013, and in 2017 partnered with the gallery and Beatrice Trussardi to show an exhibition of pieces during Milan Design Week, made from materials excavated from the foundations of his own studio. In 2018, Cocksedge was shortlisted to design the UK Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai. Other notable recent projects include designing a 45-foot outdoor sculpture for the Central Norman Public Library, and creating the landmark Please Be Seated installation for London Design Festival – a new edition of which went on tour in China in 2020. Cocksedge is also working with Arup and Grimshaw on a 33-metre-long canopy for the Oman Botanic Garden, which will be one of the largest gardens of its kind in the world, as well as a bridge for Cape Town, South Africa, and a forthcoming exhibition, Performance, with Friedman Benda New York.Cocksedge has collaborated with major brands including such as British Land, Swire Properties, Swarovski, Fendi, NHS, BMW, as well as private clients, and his work is included in collections at the V&A, MoMA and Vitra Design Museum. His work has received accolades from Wallpaper*, the Design Museum, Homes & Gardens and the German Design Council.

Cypriot-born, London-based Michael Anastassiades balances industrial production with artisanal techniques. His design philosophy honours the inherent qualities of materials, creating lights that engage with their environment rather than existing in isolation.

Roberto Palomba and Ludovica Palomba Serafini, architects and designers, have been working together since 1994. After graduating in architecture at the University of Rome, they founded the Palomba e Serafini Associated Studio, based in Verona. The Studio deals primarily with architecture, design, art direction, communications and marketing consulting. They collaborate with several international leading design companies and their projects have been awarded with several international prizes. The architect Roberto Palomba’s been working as professor at the Polythecnic of Milan – Industrial Design Department – since 2003. They have been working for Zanotta since 2004.

Daniel Germani is the Creative Director and Founder of Daniel Germani Designs, a firm that specializes in custom modern furniture, interior design and architectural renovation. After earning his architecture degree in his country of Argentina, Daniel spent eight years in Europe working in various creative and entrepreneurial endeavors.

García Cumini is the result of a merger of two cultures with a multi-disciplinary approach, whereby design, installations and artistic direction follow the personal philosophy of Slow Design. This approach to design constantly pursues the balance of function and also the balance of the object’s soul. Creations blending art with technology to make every project, space and experience truly unique. They have been working with Zanotta since 2017.

Luis Calabuig and Ana Segovia received their Degree in Industrial Design from the UPV of Valencia in 2001 after which they worked for several national and international companies such as design studios. They established Odosdesign in 2005. Our work is based on a common search for new basics and on the combination of functionality, creativity, and aesthetics, as they aim to offer optional design solutions to their clients.