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DESIGN DIALOGUES

Creative Complementarity: A Chat with Ladies & Gentlemen Studio

Jean and Dylan share with us how their mutual love for design has turned into a beautiful partnership, both personally and professionally.

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Ander Lizaso

Ander Lizaso

After studying design and engineering at Mondragon University and IED Madrid, Ander Lizaso founded his design practice in San Sebastián in 2022, working across furniture and product design. His work follows a simple and essential approac...

Chris L. Halstrøm

Chris L. Halstrøm

Chris L. Halstrøm mainly works with furniture and smaller objects for the home always taking her starting point in everyday situations. She finds it interesting to work with familiarity, openness and anonymity as topics in order to creat...

Christian Haas

Christian Haas

Born in Germany in 1974, Christian Haas established his Studio in 2000. The Industrial Designer creates ever since products through multiple disciplines from furniture and lighting to porcelain and glassware. His design approach merges s...

Claesson Koivisto Rune

Claesson Koivisto Rune

The Swedish architecture studio Claesson Koivisto Rune was founded in 1995 by Mårten Claesson, Eero Koivisto and Ola Rune. Today an internationally renowned practice, working with both architecture and design. The first Swedish studio to...

Falke Svatun

Falke Svatun

Falke Svatun is a Norwegian designer whose practice bridges furniture design, sculpture, and material experimentation. With a background in industrial design, his work often explores the tension between utility and abstraction.Through a ...

Gabriel Tan

Gabriel Tan

Gabriel Tan Studio is a design practice working across the borders of craft, culture and technology. Exploring new ways to interpret luxury and break archetypes, the studio designs furniture and products for internationally renowned bran...

Hallgeir Homstvedt

Hallgeir Homstvedt

Hallgeir Homstvedt holds a BA of Industrial Design and honors from Newcastle University in Australia. After completing his degree in 2006, Hallgeir went on to work for the pioneer design studio Norway Says before opening his own design s...

Jenni Roininen

Jenni Roininen

Jenni Roininen is a Finnish designer who has been the creative director of Nikari since 2011. Nikari specializes in high-quality wooden furniture and is known for its commitment to sustainable development and craftsmanship. Jenni is reco...

Kaja Dahl

Kaja Dahl

Atelier Kaja Dahl collaborates with companies on creating products and concepts based on the meeting of craft and design, sculpture and production. Kaja Dahl specializes in sensory and fragrance design. The atelier was established by Ka...

Kajsa Melchior

Kajsa Melchior

Kajsa Melchior is a Stockholm-based designer whose work bridges the disciplines of design, art, and architecture. Trained as an interior architect at Konstfack, the University of Arts in Stockholm, Melchior has always explored the inters...

Ladies & Gentlemen Studio

Ladies & Gentlemen Studio

Ladies & Gentlemen Studio is a multi-faceted design studio based in Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood. Our aesthetic and design philosophy embraces complementary opposites with an unexpected balance of warm minimalism, playful austerity, ...

Matteo Fogale

Matteo Fogale

Based in Copenhagen, Matteo Fogale is a furniture and product designer working across interiors, installations, and creative consultancy. Educated at IUAV University of Venice, he has collaborated with studios including Patricia Urquiola...

Norm Architects

Norm Architects

Norm Architects was founded in 2008. We work in the fields of industrial design, residential architecture, commercial interiors, photography and art direction. Much like human well-being, the essence of Norm Architects’ work is found in...

Nuno Grade

Nuno Grade

Nuno Grade was born in Lisbon, in 1972. He studied graphic design at the António Arroio Applied Arts school, from which he graduated, in two different moments, in communication design and then in product design, starting early his profes...

Pauline Deltour

Pauline Deltour

Pauline Deltour was born in 1983, in Landerneau, France. She graduated from les Arts Décoratifs in 2007 and has worked for 4 years for Konstantin Grcic in Munich, Germany. She has opened her very own studio in Paris in 2010. Distinguishe...

Philippe Malouin

Philippe Malouin

British-Canadian Philippe Malouin holds a bachelor’s degree from Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal. He set up his studio in 2008 a...

Ruben Costa

Ruben Costa

Ruben Costa is a Portuguese product designer working between industry and craft. Through collaborations with manufacturers and artisans, he explores the relationship between material processes, proportion, and production. His work focuse...

Sebastian Herkner

Sebastian Herkner

Sebastian Herkner (born 1981) studied Product Design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. During his studies he began to focus on designing objects and furniture, honing his keen sense for materials, colors and textures. For a ...

Shane Schneck

Shane Schneck

Shane Schneck is an American designer based in Sweden, where he founded his Office for Design studio in Stockholm in 2010. International in his attitude and outlook, he previously lived and worked in Milan with the Piero Lissoni studio. ...

Signe Hytte

Signe Hytte

Based in Copenhagen, Signe Hytte draws inspiration from nature, culture and art with the intent to create objects that tell a story. Every design is an expression of a feeling, a dream, or an idea that has been stripped to its core, lea...

Silje Nesdal

Silje Nesdal

Silje Nesdal takes her inspiration from her west Norwegian homeland, with a rich heritage of combining handcrafting, wool and wood processing, and furniture production. Her designs are timeless and purist, yet their strong connection wit...

Suave

Suave

Suave was founded in 2015 by Paulo Rodrigo and Raquel Silva Sá, connecting a team with different skills in the fields of architecture, interiors, design, photography and film. Having a background of architecture and engineer studies, we...

Théophile de Bascher

Théophile de Bascher

Théophile de Bascher is a 2024 graduate of ENSAD in Paris who specializes in working with stone, wood, and ceramics. He prioritizes manual shaping and mastering techniques, combining design and sculpture. Théophile began sculpting five...

TORAFU ARCHITECTS

TORAFU ARCHITECTS

Founded in 2004 by Koichi Suzuno and Shinya Kamuro, TORAFU ARCHITECTS is a Tokyo-based studio working across architecture, interiors, exhibitions, product design, and installations. Known for projects such as airvase and Light Loom, the ...

Yuzuru Yamakawa

Yuzuru Yamakawa

Yuzuru Yamakawa (1933–2012) was a renowned Japanese designer known for his deep passion for rattan. For more than 40 years, he developed iconic pieces recognized for their elegant lines and ergonomic focus. Combining Japanese aesthetics ...

Zoë Mowat

Zoë Mowat

Zoë Mowat established her studio in 2010 with a focus on thoughtful and material driven furniture and product design. Zoë’s approach is a sculptural and intuitive exploration of color, material, and form, that is counterbalanced by a des...

Keiji Takeuchi

Keiji Takeuchi

Born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1977, Milan-based Keiji Takeuchi spent most of his youth in New Zealand where he graduated with a bachelor in product design. In 1999 during his study he also moved to Paris for his scholar study at ENSCI / Les ...

Rui Alves

Rui Alves

Portuguese born, Rui Alves comes from a family of skilled craftsmen. His father and grandfather were cabinetmakers and since his childhood he lives surrounded by tools and materials. Rui studied Industrial Design, graduating in 2001. In ...

DESIGN DIALOGUES

The Chalé Chair: A Conversation with Hallgeir Homstvedt

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