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

Roger Herman is an artist based in Los Angeles, renowned for his innovative work in ceramics, painting and various other mediums.

Born in Kansas in 1932, Wendell Castle received two degrees from the University of Kansas, one in industrial design in 1958 and the other in sculpture in 1961.

Paul Cocksedge is an internationally acclaimed British designer who has spent nearly two decades building a reputation for innovative design infused with the sense of simplicity, joy and wonder that has come to characterise his work.

“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.

Terry Castro spent a lifetime interrogating the world around him and translating his experiences into highly personal jewellery designs. Castro always felt like an outsider from the jewellery world but saw this as a virtue that left him free to hand-craft intense, sculptural, artworks that conveyed the strength of his character.

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.

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.

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

Rick Owens grew up in Porterville, a small town in California’s San Joaquin valley. Drawn to pre-gentrified Hollywood and L.A.’s punk underground in the 80s, Owens studied painting at what is now Otis College of Art and Design. He then switched to Los Angeles Trade Technical-College to learn patternmaking and draping.

“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,” Frederik Molenschot.