DESIGNERS

 

As well as rediscovering and reintroducing lost treasures of design history for the present generation, GUBI collaborates with a hand-picked global roster of visionary design studios to create icons for tomorrow.

 

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BILL CURRY

American designer Bill Curry captured the zeitgeist of the 1960s and ‘70s with his iconic lamp designs.

BONDERUP & THORUP

Thorup and Bonderup works are characterised by its honest and classic simplicity.

CARLO DE CARLI

A fine sense for modern material, design and industry and a willingness to experiment and invent.

CORSINI & RUIZ MILLET

'Powerful simplicity' is perhaps an apt description of Corsini's personal design style, as represented by the Pedrera Collection.

GABRIELLA CRESPI

Italian artist and designer Gabriella Crespi (1922– 2017) attracted a dedicated following thanks to her repertoire of furniture, jewelry, and sculpture.

GAMFRATESI

GamFratesi's design takes its creative drive from a fusion of tradition and renewal and in an experimental approach to their chosen materials and techniques.

GIANFRANCO FRATTINI

Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua in 1926 to a Milanese lawyer and the scion of a prominent Bergamo family. While he was still very young, they moved back to Milan – a city with which Frattini would be intimately associated for the rest of his life

GIO PONTI

Italian designer, architect and editor, Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is one of the most influential design visionaries of the 20th century.

GRETA M. GROSSMAN

Her achievements were many and encompassed industrial design, interior design and architecture.

ILLUM WIKKELSØ

Kristian Illum Wikkelsø believed that furniture should be built to last, to indulge the body and to please the eye.

JACQUES ADNET

As a true member of the avant-garde in his time, he was an innovative thinker and original in his choice of form and materials.

JOE COLOMBO

The life of maverick Italian designer Joe Colombo (1930–1971) may have been short, but his future-focused vision of intelligent technology and integrated living environments had a revolutionary impact on mid-century design.

KOMPLOT DESIGN

Founded in 1987, a partnership of the Danish architect Poul Christiansen and the Russian industrial and graphic designer Boris Berlin.

LOUIS WEISDORF

Weisdorf de­scribed himself as a specialist in versatility, which sums up the prodigious and notable career of this multi-faceted designer.

MADS CAPRANI

Danish lighting designer Mads Caprani’s distinctive and disruptive vision of what a lamp could look like has echoed through the ages.

MATHIEU MATÉGOT

Mathieu Matégot was a versatile, independent and self-taught Hungarian designer, architect and artist who spent most of his life in his beloved Paris

MATHIAS STEEN RASMUSSEN

Mathias Steen Rasmussen is a young Danish designer with a seasoned and rigorous approach to furniture design.

MARCEL GASCOIN

French designer Marcel Gascoin was one of the leading furniture designers of the post-war era.

OEO STUDIO

OEO Studio is a cross-disciplinary studio working across product design and interiors architecture.

OLIVER SCHICK

Schick engages with a range of more experimental projects with design-related themes, focusing on materials, functions, usage and sustainable development.

PAAVO TYNELL

Paavo Tynell was an industrial designer, known as the great pioneer of Finnish lighting design and fondly dubbed as “the man who illuminated Finland”.

PIERRE PAULIN

Pierre Paulin considered himself a functionalist who added “two little drops of poetry” to his work.

RAINER DAUMILLER

Rainer Daumiller has always demonstrated an acute understanding of his medium. His ability to ‘listen to materials’ mean that his designs were always inspired by the inherent characteristics of what they were made from.

ROBERT DUDLEY BEST

Robert Dudley Best was heir to the world's largest lighting manufacturing company Best & Lloyd, founded in Birmingham in 1840.

SPACE COPENHAGEN

The studio’s intuitive approach embodies designs that are distinctively shaped by the given circumstances, functional needs, and a fundamental interest in human behavior.

TOVE KINDT-LARSEN

Tove Kindt-Larsen was one of the first female designers to emerge during Denmark’s ‘Golden Era’ in the mid-twentieth century.