Profiles

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.

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.

We speak to the architect and educator about how Indigenous culture influences his work, and how empathy can dismantle colonialist approaches to design.

Every year, we present the most exciting designers making furniture, lighting, and other objects for your home. Here is this year’s list...

At Blue Green Works, creative director Peter B. Staples creates lighting fixtures inspired by film, architecture, and New York City.

New York–based designer Liam Lee is quickly gaining notice for his vibrant, captivating textile panels.

The furniture designers at Orior are applying a contemporary perspective informed by traditional methods.

At Atra Form Studio in Mexico City, Alexander Diaz Andersson makes globally inspired furniture that pulls from his Swedish-Mexican roots.

Tiffany Loy’s woven art draws from her deep knowledge of traditional techniques across Singapore, England, and Japan.

Studio Beson founder, Gregory Beson, harnesses his early experience as a woodworker to create thoughtful, one-of-a kind furniture.

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.

K-apostrophe is a collection of made-to-order accessories by Los Angeles–based artist K’era Morgan.

Brussels-based Studio Biskt combines ceramics and industrial design to explore innovative clay creations.

Multidisciplinary artist Llane Alexis utilizes discarded textiles and other materials to create distinctive furniture and home objects.

In North Carolina, Esi Hutchinson creates furniture that is deeply personal and deceptively simple.

With recent work including NFT collectors’ cards and a collaboration with French furniture brand Sifas, Döppel Studio’s body of work defies categorization.

Thabisa Mjo is a Johannesburg lighting designer whose work draws from her South African roots.

Beirut-based designer Richard Yasmine creates furniture and objects inspired by his Lebanese heritage.

At Cassius Castings, founder Thomas Musca makes furniture that pushes the boundaries of concrete.

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 Paris-based duo behind Sabourin Costes create playful designs across creative disciplines including product and furniture design, interior architecture, and visual...

Once an engineer in South Africa’s mine, Mpho Vackier now applies her pragmatism to designing for her innovative furniture line—TheUrbanative.

Informed by his studies in anthropology, the Austrian designer is making a new for himself in the design world.

Designer Martí Guixé is well known for his conceptual food design and ex-designer approach as well as commercial projects like Camper sneaker shops.

Viviana Matsuda’s vibrant ceramic line, Mud Witch, has built a community by opening up conversations about contemporary social issues.

The Seoul industrial designer creates art from castoff materials, sending strong messages about contemporary consumerism and environmentalism.

Casey Johnson creates functional, form-driven wood objects designed, built, and hand-carved in his North Carolina studio.

Wooj is a collection of accessible, ecologically responsibile home goods designed and manufactured in Brooklyn, New York.

After a career in the film industry, Brazilian textile artist Alex Rocca turned his sights to the wall tapestries he’s become known for.

We surveyed our designers to find out—the results may surprise you.