MATTER and SHAPE invites exhibitors, great and small, to present exceptional projects and products in an elevated setting, celebrating the culture of global design today.
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22 System — a project by Bocci
, Canada22 System is a patented innovation in the field of electrical products and accessories conceptualized by Omer Arbel and launched in 2009.
A marriage of technology and design, 22 System’s suite of flush-mounted electrical and data devices can be mudded into drywall or set into a variety of rigid finish materials – including stone, millwork, tile, glass and concrete.
The innovation allows electrical accessories to match the care and aesthetic applied elsewhere in the design/build process.
22 System offers a solution to minimize visual noise and create a cohesive experience right down to the details – propelling a necessity to a luxury.
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ABID JAVED
, UKAbid Javed is a ceramic sculptor and designer, creating collectible objects using clay.
With a background in Molecular Biology, Javed produces collections that evoke the unseen world. The studio takes an abstract, surrealist approach to create a biomorphic forms inspired by biology and biological narratives.
The objects are crafted such that they sit between sculpture and design.
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ANF Work
, France/JapanLed by French-Japanese duo Timothée Kaplan and Ayumi Yoshida, ANF Work is a Paris-based design studio and consultancy creating new narratives from the legacy of Japanese folk craft.
Rooted in contextual design, the studio explores archives, materials and processes, revealing their relevance in addressing today’s challenges.
Each collection is attuned to available resources, with pieces telling far-reaching human stories that go beyond the simple aesthetic function.
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Aleor Craft & Biodesign
, BelgiumA true platform combining a showroom, materials library, consulting practice, and publishing house, ALEOR Craft & Biodesign champions a life-centered approach to design, where renewable materials, traditional craftsmanship, and ecological narratives are given a dedicated space to address resource depletion and contemporary societal challenges.
Founded in 2024 by Nathalie Guiot—exhibition curator, collector, artistic director, and founder of the Fondation Thalie—ALEOR emerged from the impetus of the exhibition Regenerative Futures, presented at the Fondation Thalie to bring visibility to transformative research shaping the design of tomorrow.
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Ann Demeulemeester — Serax
, BelgiumFounded in 1985 by Ann Demeulemeester and Patrick Robyn, the eponymous label became a defining voice in international fashion.
Since 2014, Demeulemeester has expanded her practice to objects, furniture and interiors.
Since 2019, her collaboration with Serax has resulted in porcelain, tableware, lighting and a furniture collection. Her work embodies an intelligent, independent approach to design, celebrating contrasts between strength and fragility, poetry and function.
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BOTHI
, The NetherlandsBOTHI is an Amsterdam-based design house shaping furniture and objects with local partners across the Netherlands. Our work sits between gallery and retail: pieces made with the care of studio practice and the usability of everyday objects. Alongside our own work, we represent a growing circle of independent artists and designers, giving their objects a home within the BOTHI world. Keeping craft close to the consumer is central to our approach.
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Byredo
, SwedenByredo is a European luxury brand founded in Stockholm in 2006 by Ben Gorham, with an ambition to translate memories and emotions into products and experiences. Byredo is reinventing the world of luxury through a new approach, where creation is led by emotions, expressing a full and limitless brand universe. Byredo creates and develops a range of products such as fragrance, makeup, home, leather goods and accessories, and is sold in more than 40 countries in a very high-end exclusive network worldwide.
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CASSETTA
, DenmarkCassetta creates frames and mirrors with architects, designers, and artists. Informed by cultural memory, Cassetta is rooted in the belief that a frame should carry purpose.
The work draws lines between past and present—not in contrast, but in continuation. The frames are crafted by a handful of material specialists including local joiners in Copenhagen.
In addition to a core collection of profiles and limited editions, Cassetta produces commissioned frames for individual artworks and curated series.
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CHAPELLE INDUSTRY
, FranceIn a 17th-century chapel of France's northern pastoral, artisanal goods are underway.
A Parisian gold leafer adds precious touches to hooks and bookends hand-forged in the Mayenne. A 500-year-old family-run Austrian weaver turns archival jacquards into napkins, towels, cushions, and bed covers. A 19th-century Landais "maison" renews stitching motifs in varying warmths of duvet "couvre-lits", "bout de lits", and “gonflants”.
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Collection Particulière
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Completedworks
, UKCompletedworks documents the beauty and complexity of the everyday through the practice of jewellery, accessories, homeware and furniture.
Prioritising recycled and renewable resources, the brand’s signature pieces gently roll against the tide of convention – using sculptural forms that weave, loop, twist, enfold and expand to explore broader questions about the human condition and trade blows with history, politics and the language of art.
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DE TROUPE
, USAAnchored in Los Angeles & New York, De Troupe is a niche lighting and furniture design studio inspired by Modernism, Art Deco, and cinema, taking a narrative approach to its collections.
All products are designed by De Troupe with a focus on natural materials, exquisite craftsmanship and responsible production methods.
De Troupe stands between the old and the new, where hand and thought meet in balance. It is a place of collaboration, of clarity, of things made to last quietly.
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ECAL x Cristallina Design
, SwitzerlandCristallina Design is a Swiss luxury design brand born from a company with over 130 years of expertise in stone quarrying and craftsmanship. While rooted in this long-standing heritage, Cristallina Design is a new brand operating in the world of collectible design.
Its creations are made from Cristallina marble, the only marble quarried in Switzerland, formed millions of years ago from ancient marine corals.
Each block holds a unique geological memory, making every piece one of a kind. A vision of slow, cultural luxury where matter becomes memory and design becomes experience.
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FASSEN
, FranceParis-based design editor Fassen revives archetypes from the history of shapes from antiquity to the present day.
By tracking modernity through simple gestures, Fassen manufactures objects engaged in a long process of ownership and transmission.
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FR AR
, FranceFR AR is a design practice founded in Paris in 2021, working across spatial design, interiors, and objects. The studio develops projects where contemporary tools engage in dialogue with heritage, material culture, and craftsmanship. Rooted in research and experimentation, FR AR approaches design as a process that reinterprets traditional knowledge through innovative methods. Working closely with artisans and collaborators, the practice balances technical precision with material sensitivity to create thoughtful, engaging environments and objects.
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Frama
, DenmarkFRAMA forms sensory human connections through objects and spatial works.
Based in Copenhagen, FRAMA is a multi- disciplinary brand that is made up of furniture, lifestyle objects, self care, and fragrances that inspire the senses and encourage mindful living.
With an emphasis on spatial permanence, natural materials, and uncompromising quality, FRAMA’s work celebrates craftsmanship. True felt connection, whether it be person-to-person or person-to-object, directly informs FRAMA’s design sensibility, resulting in a timeless and honest sensibility.
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GRIEGST
, DenmarkEtablished in 1963, Griegst is a fine jewellery house embedded in art.
Led by Noam and Amalie Griegst, the brand inhabits a fantastical world where new lifeforms grow from archival treasures. Griegst’s enchanted jewellery language is reflected across the entire body of work, including seminal pieces from late goldsmith Arje Griegst such as the Triton tableware collection for Royal Copenhagen, a bespoke tiara for HM Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the Georg Jensen Spira silver cutlery.
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Garnier & Linker
, FranceGarnier & Linker is a furniture and objects studio founded by Guillaume Garnier and Florent Linker.
Each creation is designed in Paris and developed in a studio on the edge of the Fontainebleau Forest using the materials of alabaster, obsidian, volcanic stone, bronze, plaster and solid cast glass in a process that borrows as much from design as from craftsmanship and sculpture.
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Giopato & Coombes
, ItalyGiopato & Coombes is a creative studio that brings together a design approach and art research into their projects, founded in Italy by Cristiana Giopato and Christopher Coombes, an Italian-British architect and designer couple.
Their practice uses light as a medium merging material and immaterial, to redefine interaction spaces by capturing everyday moments and elevating them to a collective celebration of memories and sensations.
They call it the Supernatural Daydream, an experience that begins with our every day and goes beyond boundaries. For them, the creative process is aimed at evoking this experience, which is unique for everyone, and sharing it with one light creation at a time.
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HERALBONY
, Japan/FranceHERALBONY is a creative company redefining how society encounters disability, art, and value. Founded in Morioka, a quiet northern city in Japan, HERALBONY began as a deeply personal family story. The founders grew up alongside their brother with an intellectual disability, experiencing firsthand both the richness of his inner world and the limitations imposed on him by society. What began as their question—why are these extraordinary expressions unseen?—has grown into a global platform. Today, HERALBONY works exclusively with artists with disabilities, licensing their artworks for use across fashion, design, architecture, and branding. The company is not a charity. It is a for-profit creative enterprise built on a simple but radical belief: labels cannot define people. This approach has resonated internationally. HERALBONY’s work has been recognized by global institutions including LVMH, Google and Toyota, and awarded at the world’s leading creative festivals such as Cannes Lions and LIA. These acknowledgements affirm not only artistic excellence, but a new model of creativity that integrates ethics, aesthetics, and economic sustainability. Rooted in Japan yet globally oriented, HERALBONY stands at the intersection of contemporary art, design, and social innovation—inviting audiences to encounter difference not as something to be corrected, but as a source of profound creative power.
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HOSOO
, JapanFounded in 1688 in Nishijin in Kyoto, HOSOO was a weaver purveying to prominent temples.
Nishijin textile, Kyoto’s pre-dyed yarn textile, has been nurtured for 1200 years with the support of imperial nobles, the samurai class, and wealthy merchants.
Today, HOSOO combines traditional Nishijin techniques for obi and kimono with innovative methods and a timeless design sensibility to create one-of-a-kind textiles. HOSOO textiles are featured across luxury markets, art, mobility, fashion and design.
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Herzog & de Meuron
, SwitzerlandHerzog & de Meuron is an international architectural practice based in Basel, Switzerland.
Today, a team of over 500 collaborators is engaged in a wide range of projects across the world.
Throughout the development of these projects, Objects have been designed - pieces of furniture, lighting, textiles, and architectural details, such as coat hooks or doorhandles.
These Objects are tailor-made for specific buildings, places, and the people that use them.
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Iittala
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J.Hill's Standard
, IrelandJHS are makers of handmade, collectible and useful objects in glass and other natural materials. Our products celebrate the progressive and handmade, whereby the hand of the maker is revealed, not hidden. J. Hill’s Standard lives in that delightful tension - between legacy and invention, ritual and rupture. Their pieces are less objects, more odes: to landscape, to memory, to the stubborn joy of making things the slow way, the right way. They look like they’ve emerged from a collaboration between an ancient guild and an alien design council - part monastic relic, part Martian glassware.
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JUSTINE MENARD
, FranceJustine Menard is a French artist, designer & glassblower who explores glass as a medium for an artistic expression.
Based between Paris and Barcelona she seeks through glass, its beauty, its elegance & its Grace.
Mainly centred around jewellery and Objects, Justine's universe is a search for purity and magic inspired by a soft and feminine universe of organic shapes.
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Jianze x Ville Kokkonen
, ChinaLaunched in 2021, Jianze stands by the belief that design has the power to inspire self-expression.
We continually push beyond old standards to redefine the rules of space. By gathering diverse design talents from both local and international sources, Jianze creates inclusive and eco-friendly designs for the younger generation, making home living stress-free and a true representation of individual style.
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Jorge Penadés
, SpainJorge Penadés (b. Málaga, 1985) is a research-driven practitioner who designs new possibilities for our built environment.
Deeply rooted in Mediterranean culture, his office engages in objects, spaces and strategies, responding to ecological, social and cultural demands. Often reinventing materials and techniques, the office's ambition is to develop work that expands the limits of what is possible today.
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Juntos Projects
, USAJuntos Projects is an award-winning design studio creating furniture, objects, and spaces with refined forms and a distinct use of color. Named after the Spanish word for “together,” the studio believes craftsmanship is a practice rooted in partnership. Each design is made using locally sourced materials and developed in close collaboration with skilled artisans. The New York-based studio builds on years of experience in art and architecture to elevate natural materials and contemporary craft.
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Lindsey Adelman Studio
, USAFollowing her studies in industrial design at RISD, Lindsey Adelman launched her New York studio in 2006.
For her lighting designs, Adelman merges industrial precision with organic fluidity, and bold conceptual thinking with deep material sensitivity.
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Lobmeyr x Luca Guadagnino
, AustriaIn 1823 Josef Lobmeyr opened his first little shop in the heart of Vienna. Since then six generations unveil the miracle of glass.
Together with designers like Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos, formafantasma and Michael Anastassiades classics in handmade crystal and chandeliers were born, which are appreciated by connoisseurs all over the world.
Lobmeyr crystal can be found in collections like the MoMA New York, V&A London and the MAK in Vienna.
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MATHILDE MARTIN x SEBASTIEN GAFARI
, FranceMathilde Martin is a French designer based in Paris. She founded her ceramic studio in 2016, a space dedicated to explore forms, seeking balance, and volumes. Drawn to the art of vase, she explores the balance between utilitarian and sculptural dimensions. Each piece is handmade with Burgundy clay, using the ancestral pinched coil technique. Symmetry, precise proportions, and a love for raw materials are the heart of her work. Each creation bearing the unique traces of the hands that shaped it.
www.mathildemartinceramic.com
Sébastien Gafari Studio explores the mirror trumeau as a poetic territory at the crossroads of art and architecture. Rooted in historic salons and the traditions of the decorative arts, it carries the memory of walls and reflects our intimacy between imagination and reality. The mirror becomes a living material, both narrative and reflective. Each piece stands as an autonomous artwork or a bespoke architectural element, in dialogue with space, material, and gesture.
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MONIES
, DenmarkMonies is a Danish jewelry house founded in Copenhagen in 1973 by goldsmiths Gerda and Nikolai Monies. It’s an art jewelry studio that treats jewelry as wearable sculpture made out of natural materials. Since 2020, their son Karl Monies, has been leading the brand as creative director. With a background in fine arts his declared mission is to continue Monies’ dna while promoting and encouraging the beauty of nature by utilizing materials such as stones, bone, horn, wood, shell, fossils and leather.
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MUTINA
, Italy
Since 2005, Mutina has been challenging the conventional rules of ceramics, elevating its essence by creating timeless collections.
Mutina represents a new way of looking at ceramics, not merely as a surface covering but as an authorial project developed in collaboration with some of the greatest designers of our time, such as Michael Anastassiades, Barber & Osgerby, Ronan Bouroullec, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Konstantin Grcic, Inga Sempé, Patricia Urquiola, Vincent Van Duysen and many more. -
Marimekko
, FinlandMarimekko is a Finnish design house and one of the first lifestyle design brands in the world. Founded in 1951, Marimekko is globally renowned for its art of printmaking. Marimekko’s lifelong mission is to bring color and joy into lives and homes everywhere and encourage people to be happy as they are. The house’s product portfolio includes high-quality clothing, bags and accessories as well as home décor items ranging from textiles to tableware.
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Moonarij x Karak
, GermanyMoonarij was born from a passion for vases.
During her childhood in Egypt, Johanna loved the clay vases holding cool water she saw in the streets of Cairo, nurturing her deep appreciation of vases as expressions of art and craftsmanship as old as humanity itself.
Founded in 2022 in Berlin, her distinctive collections are handcrafted in collaboration with small studios in the region honoring the artisans who uphold the local rich glassmaking heritage. Moonarij‘s vases are Johanna’s personal tribute to the enduring artistry and cultural significance of vessels.
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Olfactory Signals
,Olfactory Signals is a B2B & B2C salon that explores the power of fragrance as an artistic medium and sensory experience. The project is part of a broader research movement that challenges the conventional perception of fragrance, removing it from commercial frameworks and placing it in a creative context. Through installations, interactions, and collaborations with artists and designers, Olfactory Signals offers an immersive experience that explores new connections between smell, art, memory, and emotion.
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PICCOLI SMALTI
, ItalyPiccoli Smalti celebrates craftsmanship through a poetic language of light and colour, giving life to works that become jewels for the living and transcend design to enter the realm of time. Founded by architect and interior designer Giovanna Ferrero Ventimiglia, this constantly evolving creative project is much more than a brand and works constantly around an intimate and contemporary vision of luxury.
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Paola Petrobelli
, UK
Born in Padova, Paola Petrobelli trained as a molecular biologist before starting her design practice in London in the early 2000s.
Her work negotiates a precise balance between material heritage and contemporary experimentation, positioning craft not as an endpoint but as a site of further investigation.
With glass, her chosen material, she explores the potential of objects to unlock creativity. Her works develop from single modules to open structures, where the order and arrangement of the various modular forms and colours are carefully calibrated and in constant flux.
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Petite Friture
, FrancePETITE FRITURE is an unconventional French design editor with a purpose-driven approach and a distinctly independent creative voice.
The brand has built a vibrant universe of furniture, lighting, and objects defined by elegance, playfulness, and poetic sensitivity.
Guided by the ambition to “make good out of beauty”, PETITE FRITURE develops collections that surprise, inspire, and stand the test of time.
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QUADRODESIGN + VERY SIMPLE: KITCHEN
, ItalyVery Simple: Kitchen creates modular solutions for the kitchen environment. Each element is a blank canvas, fully customizable for unlimited design. Simple, authentic, and expressive, its products are designed to shape the future of the kitchen, becoming an icon for a community that values these principles.
verysimplekitchen.com
Founded in 2001, QuadroDesign designs and manufactures stainless steel faucets and accessories defined by essential, enduring forms. Led by two brothers, the company places sustainability at the heart of its vision, collaborating with design studios that share a responsible and contemporary approach.
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RedDuo x JOV
, BelgiumFounded in 2001, JOV is a Belgian design brand creating bespoke hand-tufted rugs in its Portugal atelier. Using high-quality natural materials like New Zealand wool, Belgian linen, and silk blends, each rug is made to order, allowing full freedom in color, shape, texture, and pile. Collaborations with international designers, including Studio Mary Lennox, reflect JOV’s dedication to craftsmanship, artistic dialogue, and timeless, expressive interiors.
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Redduo x Leucos
, ItalyFounded in 1962, LEUCOS has long been a reference in high-end decorative lighting. Its rebirth in 2019, led by Abramo Manfrotto, embraced the challenge of merging tradition with innovation, the classic with the modern—beyond glass. Rooted in a solid industrial heritage, from photography with Manfrotto to retail design with ALU, LEUCOS brings decades of technical expertise and craftsmanship to create high-quality, functional, and enduring products, continually reinventing itself across time.
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Robinson Édition
, FranceIn 2026, Robinson Ferreux Maeght established Robinson Édition, a structure dedicated to the presentation and dissemination of the objects he designs beyond the gallery context in which he operates.
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SERAX
, BelgiumSerax is a Belgian design brand, creating contemporary homeware in collaboration with leading international designers and makers.
From dinnerware, home accessories, lighting, pottery and furniture, the Serax collections are imagined by both established designers and new talent, each with their own distinctive vision and design signature.
Their creations are realised by skilled craftspeople from across the globe. While unique in design and materiality, the collections remain true to Serax’s core philosophy of accessibility, quality and functionality.
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STUDIO KUKKAPURO
, FinlandStudio Kukkapuro preserves and expands the legacy of Finnish designer Yrjö Kukkapuro (1933–2025), one of the most internationally respected figures in Nordic furniture design.
Over a career spanning seven decades, Kukkapuro redefined modern furniture through a rigorous synthesis of ergonomics, industrial logic, and human-centered design.
Today, his chair and lighting designs are produced by twelve international brands.
Studio Kukkapuro owns all intellectual property rights of the works and licenses the original designs.
Studio Kukkapuro is based in the iconic concrete, steel, and glass studio-home designed by Kukkapuro in 1968–69 in Kauniainen, near Helsinki. Long serving as both home and workplace for Yrjö Kukkapuro and artist Irmeli Kukkapuro (1934–2022), the studio has become a landmark of late modernist architecture. In 2026, it will be opened to the public and will evolve into a platform for design thinking and education, led by the next generation of the Kukkapuro family. For Matter & Shape, Studio Kukkapuro presents one design from each decade, shown in collaboration with BLOND, Lepo, and Nikari.
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STUDIOSOSLOW
, Chinastudiososlow is a Shanghai-based design studio working across lighting, furniture, and spatial installation. studiososlow was founded in 2020 by GE SHENJUN and LI YUCHEN. We focuses its forms, materials and senses in everyday life and transforming into objects.
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Simon Dupety
, FranceSimon Dupety is a Paris-based light designer. He creates hybrid lighting systems that combine craftsmanship with industrial processes. His work questions the standardization of everyday life, and explores modes of making in a convivial way: both system - ingenious, reproducible, technical ; and wild - spontaneous, living, cultural. In collaboration with galleries, architects, and brands, he designs and develops bespoke lights, adapting to the unique universes he encounters. In 2025, he received the Grand Jury Prize at Villa Noailles for his UFO collection, a series of lamps blending natural resources with industrial components.
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Spaces Within
, SwedenSPACES WITHIN is a Stockholm-based label, crafting sculptural cabinet hardware with sensual forms, textural finishes and unique proportions.
Each piece is crafted from solid recycled brass at a second-generation foundry in Florence, where traditional craftsmanship meets contemporary design.
Intended to be composed freely, the hardware brings subtle elegance, character, and renewed energy to interiors.
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TAK
, The NetherlandsTAK is a full service design, development, and production firm bridging Indian craftsmanship with contemporary design. Working with a curated network of master led artisan workshops across India, TAK creates bespoke furniture and objects with exceptional precision while preserving rare techniques. Through global collaborations with world renowned designers and access to rare and precious materials, TAK positions craft as a forward looking practice rooted in expertise and cultural continuity.
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Tavares 1922
, PortugalIn 1922, Virgílio Aristides Tavares opened the doors of Tavares in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, marking the beginning of a family legacy of tableware and fine jewellery that has endured for over a century.
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Unknown, Untitled
, FranceEstablished in 2016 in Paris, Unknown, Untitled materializes its creative vision through global design development, strategic consulting, and brand imagery globally. The design office delivers forward-thinking concepts driven by societal awareness. Its name reflects an approach that transcends individual expression, prioritizing purpose and meticulous execution. This design practice extends to self-initiated production, taking the form of permanent or limited-edition collections.
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VEDA
, JapanVEDA is a way of seeing the world. Rooted in reverence for craftsmanship and Japanese elegance, it expresses a quietly evocative yet sensorially charged vision, shaped by restrained passion—subtle yet resolute.
Embracing contrasts of form, texture, and philosophy, VEDA offers a contemporary, timeless language where silence and space are essential to beauty.
Founded in Japan in 2021, VEDA creates incense, refined holders, and sculptural objects that merge craftsmanship with sensorial design.
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VandaVee Studio
, UKVandaVee is a London-based design studio redefining furniture as living sculpture.
Each piece carries the precision of couture and the intimacy of craft, where emotion is shaped through form.
Guided by a fascination with myth, ritual, and material poetics, VandaVee creates reflective worlds where beauty feels both quiet and commanding, and design becomes an act of storytelling.
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Verre d’Onge
, CanadaVerre d’Onge pieces are hand blown in Montréal by Jérémie St-Onge. His practice, whilst respecting the traditions learned from masters, allows for a more instinctive creative approach.
When the craftsman is also an artist, there is space for spontaneity and nuances. Every piece has an unforeseen aspect that distinguishes singular from ordinary.
This is not a production, but rather a large collection. The design is in the arrangement, the ensemble defines it.
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WE+
, Japanwe+ is a contemporary design studio founded in 2013 by Toshiya Hayashi and Hokuto Ando. The studio gives form to new perspectives through research-driven and experimental approaches.
They develop self-initiated projects in Japan and abroad, applying the insights gained to corporate and organizational collaborations. we+ has received awards includingDesigner of the Year – FRAME Awards2024and the Dezeen Awards2022. Their work is in the Vitra Design Museum collection.
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iiode
, Switzerlandiiode is a lighting brand making bright, caring products. In 2026 we launch Re27: a serviceable E27 LED bulb made from recycled materials, offering natural light quality and gentle smart control. Repairable by design and made in Lausanne, Switzerland with EU-made parts, Re27 updates existing luminaires and enhances new fixtures.