Profiles

From interviews with current innovators to profiles of the biggest names in history, Dwell is your guide to who's who in design.

Design Cities: Quito, Ecuador
Design Cities: Quito, Ecuador
Architects Daniel Moreno Flores and Marie Combette describe how the city’s young designers use traditional knowledge and regional resources to forge a new cultural identity.
My House: Amid a Pandemic, a Restaurateur Rebuilds Her Career and Life in Oakland
Sequoia Del Hoyo leaves the beloved diner she helped open to launch a Mediterranean-inspired meal delivery service, testing recipes in the kitchen of her new home.
Studio:Indigenous Founder Chris Cornelius Is Decolonizing Architecture
We speak to the architect and educator about how Indigenous culture influences his work, and how empathy can dismantle colonialist approaches to design.
The Dwell 24: These Are the Designers You Need to Know in 2021
The Dwell 24: These Are the Designers You Need to Know in 2021
Every year, we present the most exciting designers making furniture, lighting, and other objects for your home. Here is this year’s list...
The Dwell 24: Blue Green Works
At Blue Green Works, creative director Peter B. Staples creates lighting fixtures inspired by film, architecture, and New York City.
The Dwell 24: Studio Liam Lee
New York–based designer Liam Lee is quickly gaining notice for his vibrant, captivating textile panels.
The Dwell 24: Orior
The furniture designers at Orior are applying a contemporary perspective informed by traditional methods.
The Dwell 24: Atra Form Studio
At Atra Form Studio in Mexico City, Alexander Diaz Andersson makes globally inspired furniture that pulls from his Swedish-Mexican roots.
The Dwell 24: Tiffany Loy
Tiffany Loy’s woven art draws from her deep knowledge of traditional techniques across Singapore, England, and Japan.
The Dwell 24: Studio Beson
Studio Beson founder, Gregory Beson, harnesses his early experience as a woodworker to create thoughtful, one-of-a kind furniture.
The Dwell 24: Mac Collins
The Dwell 24: Mac Collins
Mac Collins is a young designer making a big name for himself through his functional furniture and objects that are rooted in the art of storytelling.
The Dwell 24: K’era Morgan
K-apostrophe is a collection of made-to-order accessories by Los Angeles–based artist K’era Morgan.
The Dwell 24: Studio Biskt
Brussels-based Studio Biskt combines ceramics and industrial design to explore innovative clay creations.
The Dwell 24: Llane Alexis
Multidisciplinary artist Llane Alexis utilizes discarded textiles and other materials to create distinctive furniture and home objects.
The Dwell 24: Esi Hutchinson
In North Carolina, Esi Hutchinson creates furniture that is deeply personal and deceptively simple.
The Dwell 24: Döppel Studio
With recent work including NFT collectors’ cards and a collaboration with French furniture brand Sifas, Döppel Studio’s body of work defies categorization.
The Dwell 24: Mash.T Design Studio
Thabisa Mjo is a Johannesburg lighting designer whose work draws from her South African roots.
The Dwell 24: Richard Yasmine
Beirut-based designer Richard Yasmine creates furniture and objects inspired by his Lebanese heritage.
The Dwell 24: Cassius Castings
At Cassius Castings, founder Thomas Musca makes furniture that pushes the boundaries of concrete.
The Dwell 24: Joyce Lin
Like an enthusiastic anatomy professor redecorating her living room, the Texas designer exposes, explodes, and suspends the components of formerly familiar pieces of furniture.
The Dwell 24: Sabourin Costes
The Paris-based duo behind Sabourin Costes create playful designs across creative disciplines including product and furniture design, interior architecture, and visual...
The Dwell 24: TheUrbanative
Once an engineer in South Africa’s mine, Mpho Vackier now applies her pragmatism to designing for her innovative furniture line—TheUrbanative.
The Dwell 24: Laurids Gallée
Informed by his studies in anthropology, the Austrian designer is making a new for himself in the design world.
Q&A With Designer Martí Guixé
Designer Martí Guixé is well known for his conceptual food design and ex-designer approach as well as commercial projects like Camper sneaker shops.
The Dwell 24: Mud Witch
Viviana Matsuda’s vibrant ceramic line, Mud Witch, has built a community by opening up conversations about contemporary social issues.
The Dwell 24: Jinyeong Yeon
The Seoul industrial designer creates art from castoff materials, sending strong messages about contemporary consumerism and environmentalism.
The Dwell 24: Casey Johnson
Casey Johnson creates functional, form-driven wood objects designed, built, and hand-carved in his North Carolina studio.
The Dwell 24: Wooj
Wooj is a collection of accessible, ecologically responsibile home goods designed and manufactured in Brooklyn, New York.
The Dwell 24: Alex Rocca
After a career in the film industry, Brazilian textile artist Alex Rocca turned his sights to the wall tapestries he’s become known for.
The Design Life: How Do the Dwell 24 See the World?
We surveyed our designers to find out—the results may surprise you.