Vincenzo De Cotiis, architect and artist was born in 1958 in Gonzaga, Italy. He studied architecture at the Milan Politecnico and founded his studio and gallery in 1997.

Kostas Lambridis (Greece, 1988), lives and works in Athens. After graduating from the School of Engineering, Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering of the University of the Aegean at Syros, in the Cyclades archipelago, he moved to the Netherlands to work in the studio of Nacho Carbonell, gaining important work experience over a span of eight years. In this same period, he studied in the master program in Contextual Design at the Design Academy of Eindhoven, taking a degree cum laude in 2017.

HARRY NURIEV (b. 1984) is a New York and Paris-based artist, architect and interior furniture designer as well as the founder and creative director of Crosby Studios, an interior architecture and design studio established in 2014. Nuriev’s creative practice spans a broad range, including immersive environments, virtual installations, public spaces and object design.

French designer Martin Laforêt was born in July 1991. Raised in Paris but now living in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Laforêt creates objects and furniture. His work does not follow any specific course of conduct, yet one can easily discover his overall use of techniques and interest in materials.

Léa Mestres is a French artist and designer based in Vernon, Giverny. Mestres counters a design world that in her opinion often feels too serious and too masculine. She stands out with fun, colourful objects, which are intentionally bright and breezy as a reflection of her own personality

Jacqueline Rabun’s poetic approach to design has resulted in the phenomenal impact of her jewellery creations worldwide.

The internationally renowned American jeweller seeks to illustrate the human experience through the medium of jewellery. Her signature approach combines fluid forms with concepts exploring philosophy and spirituality.

“My approach is about imbuing bronze with warmth and vitality by borrowing scarification techniques and visual motifs from tribal societies,” says Donat.

“If you’re an architect, your world is a building, a graphic designer works on a newspaper or a wall, while a landscape architect plays with nature itself. I try and draw all these worlds together and see what happens when they meet.”

DRIFT re-connects humanity with nature through technology.

DRIFT manifests the phenomena and hidden properties of nature with the use of technology in order to learn from the Earth’s underlying mechanisms and to re-establish our connection to it.

Baas is considered one of the most influential artist designers of the early twenty-first century. His works straddle boundaries between art and design.

“I like to see objects as living organisms, imagine them coming alive and being able to surprise you with their behaviour. I want to create objects with my hands; then I can give them my personality,” says Nacho Carbonell.

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a French architect and designer who aimed to created functional living spaces. Perriand followed the ethos that better design created better society.

José Zanine Caldas (1919-2001) was a self-taught artist, designer and architect from Belmonte, Brazil.

For over 10 years he ran a workshop specialising in architectural scale models, where he developed over 500 models for top Brazilian architects including Oscar Niemeyer and Lucio Costa.

Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, whose transformative self-portraits are largely concerned with problematics of femininity, addressing stereotypes of women in film, magazines, television, and the culture at large.