MATERIAL INTENTCOLOR AND FORM

Aki+Arnaud Cooren is a design studio that seeks to integrate subtle references to nature into everyday objects and interiors. Through a minimalist design aesthetic that draws from both Japanese and French influences, the duo builds harmonies that constantly evolve, just like nature, inviting audiences to immerse themselves in the present moment.

Batten and Kamp is the collaborative art and design practice of New Zealand-born, Paris-based couple Alexandra Batten and Daniel Kamp.

Charles Trevelyan is an Australian-born artist and designer based in London who creates objects inspired by the ways in which people respond to the textures, patterns and structures of the natural world.

DRIFT is an Amsterdam-based studio choreographing the future of art, nature and technology. Founded by Dutch artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, the studio looks to manifest the natural properties and phenomena of the earth and learn from its underlying mechanisms to reestablish our connection to it.

Ingrid Donat is one of the most influential living artists working in decorative arts. As a contemporary designer and sculptor whose artistic identity has been shaped by her rich cultural heritage, Donat channels an inner creative force that allows her to reinvent the timeless elegance of French decorative arts traditions. Known for imbuing bronze with warmth and vitality, the artist integrates sculptural practices into the production of functional pieces.

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. In 1949, Caldas created the Fábrica Moveis Artísticos Z to produce standardised plywood furniture for a wider public.

Léa Mestres is an experimental French artist who seeks to counter a design world that she sees as too serious and too male-dominated. She uses play, humour and whimsy as aesthetic devices to create colourful, anthropomorphic, larger-than-life sculptures that act as windows into the artist’s vivid imagination.

The influential Dutch designer and artist Maarten Baas works at the intersection of art and design. Known for his rebellious, intellectual style, his oeuvre spans conceptual art, craft, installation, public space and performance.

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 pattern-making and draping.

Studio Job is a ground-breaking atelier based in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy and celebrated for its fusion of historical techniques and contemporary themes. Led by Job Smeets, a pioneer of contemporary sculptural art and design, the studio focuses on decorative arts for the contemporary age, producing objects and interiors that exist somewhere between sculptural and functional art.

Sylvain Rieu-Piquet is a Paris-based designer whose work encapsulates the essence of natural elements, with mineral, vegetal, aquatic and animal worlds colliding to produce hybrid, intense and brooding works of art. With their soft, liquid curves and free, sensual vision of nature, Rieu-Piquet's collections of jewellery and ceramics invite viewers into an intimate dialogue with nature, emotion and the human body.

Thibault Hazelzet is an experimental French artist whose practice spans sculpture, photography, painting and jewellery. With works that are instinctive, poetic and grounded in a deep respect for materials with prior lives, Hazelzet describes his visual language as delicate brutalism – a play of raw materiality and formal finesse, where abstraction meets figuration.

Dubourg poetically fuses the crafts of glassblowing, wood-bending, and metal-casting to bring simple forms to life. In Napoleon A Trotinette, the solid form of a bureau is harmoniously combined with the graceful curves of bronze branches.

A pioneer of contemporary collectible design, Vincenzo De Cotiis is known for merging art, architecture and design into a singular, sculptural language. Through manifestations that conflate archaic idioms with futuristic expressions, his evocative works embody a vision of design as poetic and non-replicable.