The Designers

In 2006 Luca Nichetto founded a multidisciplinary design studio in Venice, Italy, which specialised in industrial design, product design and design consultancy. From the very beginning, this studio collaborated with a number of different brands and organisations, quickly expanding its influence far beyond Venice and Italy’s borders. Five years later, in 2011, Nichetto opened a second studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Note is a Stockholm-based design studio founded in 2008 working within the fields of architecture; interior; product and graphic design as well as design strategy.

Our philosophy is to stand out from the crowd: “To note something, to get noticed: we are named after what we try to achieve. We like to pay attention to our surroundings, and try to create things that make others do the same. 

Steffensen & Würtz is a collaboration between the two designers Thomas Steffensen and Pia Würtz Mogensen.

With an honest approach to design we strive to create design that pokes your boundaries and creates value in your everyday life. We love challenging our creative and methodological approach in order to create products and furniture that make sense and possess great personality. A product design should awake your curiosity and even make you smile.

Moritz Böttcher and Sören Henssler completed projects together even during their studies. After their graduation, they gained experience in various design offices and in 2007 founded their own studio in Berlin. Nikolaus Kayser completed the team starting in 2013. The trio works for international brands in the design areas of consumer goods, furniture, lights, and textiles. With various approaches, the three designers use their individual experience to create unique, functional and poetic objects.

Oliver Schick was born in 1969 in Darmstadt, a small town which is one of Germany‘s most important places regarding the history of the Art Nouveau movement in the end of the 19th century. Affected by the cultural past of his hometown, he studied product design at the HBK - University of fine arts and Design in Saarbruecken. The first years after graduation, he worked as freelance designer for several studios and in 2005 he founded his own studio with the focus on furniture, lighting and interior design and since he works for outside companies such as Ligne Roset, Skandiform and Gubi. In addition he works on a range of experimental projects with design-related themes like materials, functions, usage and sustainable development.

365° north - a Danish design studio based in Aarhus. Our core business is lifestyle-based design, ranging from furniture to lighting.  In our design solutions we adopt an international approach since our market place often spans the world.

Since 1955, when the Wendelbo furniture business was founded in Aarhus Denmark, Upholsterer and founder Tage Petersen had a goal of producing custom-made sofas using the old-fashioned styles of craftmanship and incorporating values such as quality, precision and pride. With the next generation of design leadership under Lars Wendelbo, the company has innovated into what it is today with a renewed sense of urban-contemporary Danish design that is timeless in its appeal.

Jonas Wagell is a Swedish architect and designer born in 1973. The studio JWDA was founded in 2008 and is today located in a converted car repair shop in central Stockholm, but collaborations span from Scandinavia to China, Italy and North America.

Toan Nguyen founded his Milan studio in 2009, embarking on a series of successful collaborations with several major brands in high-quality industry and fine craftmanship in Europe, North America, and Asia, on furniture, lighting, ceramics, as well as on technological products. Toan Nguyen combines auteur design and the demands of industry with ease. Above and beyond

Torbjørn Anderssen and Espen Voll were born respectively in Elverum, 1976 and in Trondheim, 1965. They both come from creative upbringings; Torbjørn the son of a musician and a teacher and Espen the son of a ceramist and an architect.

Born in France, Sarah Rousselle lives and works in London. After graduating from Strate Collège Designers in 2007, she worked for design agencies in France, The Netherlands, the US and in the UK.In 2016 she founded her studio, a multidisciplinary design and creative direction consultancy.Driven by an analytic approach Sarah develops elegant functional products made from premium materials.

Sebastian Herkner is a German designer, educated from the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. Having founded his eponymous studio in 2006, Herkner’s work spans itself across furniture, objects, interior architecture and exhibition design—all these permeated by Herkner’s inherent focus on merging traditional craftsmanship with a curiosity towards modern technologies and a bold approach to color, materiality and textures.

Italian designer Mario Ferrarini is educated from the Politecnico University of Milan and worked for a number of renowned design studios until founding his eponymous studio in 2007.