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Yonoh Studio is a multidisciplinary design practice in Valencia, Spain, that’s producing simple, original and functional designs for LZF, Sancal and other European brands. And while there is no excess or extravagance to their creations, there is still a playfulness or whimsy to many. Clara del Portillo and Alex Selma founded Yonoh Studio in 2006. Having trained as industrial designers...

The Creatives is Bernhardt Design’s ongoing initiative to collaborate with people outside the traditional world. In The Creatives, Part 3, we introduce you to Tift Merritt and the Tift Merritt Collection. Tift Merritt is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and musician who hails from Raleigh, North Carolina. Throughout her 20-year music career Merritt has travelled across the States and the world...

The Creatives is Bernhardt Design’s ongoing initiative to collaborate with people outside the traditional world. In The Creatives, Part 2, we introduce you to Joe Gebbia and the Neighborhood collection. Airbnb has changed the way we experience destinations by providing travellers with access to accommodation they wouldn’t have otherwise. Now Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb, is changing the way we...

The Creatives is Bernhardt Design’s ongoing initiative to collaborate with people outside the traditional world. In The Creatives, Part 1, we introduce you to Terry Crews and the Terry Crews Collection. Crews could be what you call a triple threat: an actor, athlete and artist. You may be more familiar with him as an actor on Brooklyn Nine-Nine or in...

Neri&Hu has added another accolade to its multi award-winning practice, picking up Designer of the Year at the ELLE DECO International Design Awards 2017. ELLE DECO held their fifteenth annual awards ceremony at Salone del Mobile in Milan this past April, recognising the achievements of the world’s leading designers and design companies. Neri&Hu was the deserving winner of Designer of...

Designer Eugeni Quitlett describes his Tube chair for M114 as a story of the beauty and the beast. But to us it’s all beauty – and the best. Barcelona-based furniture manufacturer M114 has collaborated with a who’s who of designers including Isamu Noguchi, Alvaro Siza and now Eugeni Quitlett who was awarded Designer of the Year 2016 by Maison&Objet. Eugeni...

TomMarkHenry directors Chloe Matters, Jade Nottage and Cushla McFadden. TomMarkHenry is a young and ambitious interior architecture and design firm that is definitely one to watch. In just four short years, TomMarkHenry has not only become a force in the Australian design scene, but is a rising star in the international design world. The company already has a slew of...

We are proud to have yet another award-winning designer in our ranks: Spanish designer Mario Ruiz has been awarded his country’s prestigious National Design Prize for 2016, which he now adds to a long list of accolades, including Delta de Plata prizes, Red Dot, Design Plus and Wallpaper* awards. The National Design Prize, granted on behalf of the Spanish government...

The Obi is a luxuriously comfortable bed-like sofa designed by Rafa Garcia. With Spanish siestas in mind, Rafa looked to Japan and translated elements of the kimono into a sofa that embraces the user, much like the traditional dress itself. “I like to find inspiration in photography and found some pictures of Japanese women dressed in kimonos – clothes that...

Take an Argentinian architect, a German designer and stylist, and a Spanish industrial designer, and commission them to collaborate with some of the world’s best furniture manufacturers, and the result is a stunning portfolio of work as diverse as the designers themselves. Based in Barcelona, Lievore Altherr Molina is a multi-disciplinary studio specialising in furniture, product, packaging and interior design...