His factory floor in Foshan has been shipping kitchen and bath fittings into homes and hotels across North America for twenty-five years. He talks about ceramics the way an engineer …
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Marc Meeuwissen of Dear Objects, Belgium: The Designer Who Builds With One Sheet and One Saw
Marc Meeuwissen of Dear Objects, Belgium: The Designer Who Builds With One Sheet and One Saw He spent years designing corporate identities, and the physical work that came with them, …
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On thirty years of Dutch design, the seriousness of play, and why the most interesting word he has learned recently is brainrot The most interesting word Richard Hutten has learned recently …
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Femo Design has a quiet confidence to it. What was the initial impulse behind starting your own design studio, and what did you feel was missing in the design landscape …
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Australian Designer Adam Goodrum: The Man Who Believes Nothing Should Exist Without a Reason
In his Sydney studio, Australian designer Adam Goodrum has spent years asking a single, quietly radical question: Does this piece deserve to exist? Design Diary International’s Shweta put a series …
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Rajesh Bhandari of A-Class Marble, India: The Man Who Reads Stone the Way Others Read People
Five decades of sourcing the world’s finest natural stone. Quarries in Africa. Technology that thinks like a geologist. Design Diary International’s Shweta speaks with Rajesh Bhandari, Director of A-Class Marble, …
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Neha Jain of UDC Homes, India: The Woman Who Turned a Paint Business Into a Wall Covering Empire
She read economics at Warwick and spent years in financial analysis before walking into the décor business and quietly rebuilding it. Neha Jain, co-founder of UDC Homes, talks to Design Diary International …
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In the finest spaces, what separates a room that truly endures from one that simply ages is often something you cannot see, cannot touch, and will almost certainly never think …
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Elena Salmistraro, Milan: The Italian Designer Who Puts Feeling Into Every Object She Makes
Her studio in Milan moves between product design, art, fashion, and illustration without apology. Her objects feel alive, sometimes mythological, always unmistakably hers. Alisha M. of Design Diary International speaks with Elena Salmistraro …
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Andrea Turri of Turri, Italy: A Century of Making Furniture That Tells You Exactly Who Lives There
Founded in a small workshop in Brianza in 1925, Turri has spent four generations building furniture that sits somewhere between art and architecture, between heritage and tomorrow. Andrea Turri, CEO …
