Jens Risom is enjoying his place in the canon of mid-century furniture designers while also distinguishing himself as a great contemporary designer. At 93, he shows no sign of putting down the pencil.

Alex Bozikovic is a Toronto based writer and editor for the Globe and Mail and frequent Dwell contributor. While interviewing Studio Junction's Christine Ho Ping Kong and Peter Tan, the architect-residents of the Courtyard House, he was impressed by the couple's remarkable DIY chutzpah and became inspired to try a major project himself. Someday. Maybe.

Enzo Mari was born in Novara, Italy where he studied classics and literature at the Academia di Brera in Milan from 1952 to 1956. As a student, Mari supported himself by working as a visual artist and freelance researcher. In a period when Italian design was flourishing as enlightened industrialists collaborated closely with designers to rebuild their businesses, he also became interested in design and painstakingly taught himself about it. His first project for Danese was 16 Animali, or 16 Animals, launched in 1957.

Born to world famous architect and Cranbrook Academy of Art director Eliel Saarinen and textile artist Loja Saarinen, Eero Saarinen was surrounded by design his whole life. Eero studied at sculpture in Paris and architecture at Yale before returning to Cranbrook himself to work on furniture design and practice architecture with his father. IT was there that he met Charles Eames, with whom he collaborated closely on their molded plywood chair designs. He also met Florence Knoll at Cranbrook, who eventually brought him to Knoll where he designed some of their most well known pieces over the course of 15 years.

After 25 years in San Francisco, Rick Rochon considers himself a Bay Area native. Born in Seattle, Rick was naturally drawn by the entrepreneurial spirit that is the Bay Area and moved here after college. Before joining Sotheby’s, Rick worked at the executive level of the corporate world, managing complicated businesses and transactions, leading sales teams, and coaching and mentoring colleagues throughout the tech sector. During that time, Rick always had a hand in real estate; buying, renovating and selling properties for investment as well as personal use. Turning that passion for real estate into a career and applying all of his business acumen to the effort is the ultimate "perfect combination." Real estate transactions don’t have to be anything but enjoyable, and Rick’s deep experience and solid business judgment puts clients at ease. At Sotheby’s, Rick’s extensive network of world-class colleagues also provides Rick and his clients with unparalleled access to buyers and sellers. Search properties and read my blog at www.rickrochon.com

Pat Kim is a designer/maker born in Virginia, educated in New York City and Germany, and currently working in Brooklyn, NY. After working in toy design and high end furniture, Pat struck out on his own to create for himself. In pursuing his own work, he discovered a knack for creating fun, thoughtful, and timeless objects. Pat seeks to make beautiful things and bring them to world.

Grant Gibson is an architecture writer living in Farnham, England. Leaving behind a cold, miserable day, Gibson found himself having an impromptu barbecue on the balcony of Christof Meili and Farzaneh Moinian's modern home outside Zurich, Switzerland. "It turns out I was a little overdressed." he reports. "I realized I wasn't going to require the wooly overcoat and the heavy cords when Christof met me off the plane wearing a T-shirt and a pair of shorts. "

Benjamin Parco is a Bay Area architect with over twenty years of experience in the architectural profession. Over this period he has established himself as a leader in the field of architectural design, acting as the chief designer on an unusually wide range of challenging project types ranging from high-rise office towers and aquaria to performing arts theaters and airports.

Morne Patterson is a positive, driven individual and considers himself to have good leadership skills. He is adaptable to various challenges and believes that he is a dynamic person. Morne is confident, has a high work ethic, and always takes responsibility for his work. He is a fast learner and easily grasps new concepts. He believes that he has an analytic mindset and considers himself to be logical. He enjoys new challenges and interacting with people.

From the late 1970s, Ramon de Oliveira embarked on his journey and began to make a name for himself in the world of investment banking. He devoted himself to honing these skills, covering both securities and trading sales, as well as equity markets and assets related to fixed income. This lasted until around the 1990s when he had made a huge impact on his industry over 43 years since his start.

Brendan Crain is a blogger (thewhereblog.blogspot.com) and nonprofit renaissance man living in Chicago, Illinois. He took a two-hour bus ride north to Milwaukee, borrowed a relative's car, and then turned around and drove an hour and a half south to get to the Edstrom Residence featured in the article "Opened House." As a result of getting lost on the backroads of rural Wisconsin–the drive south was only supposed to take an hour– Crain now considers himself an intrepid reporter.

Born in Los Angeles in 1904, Japanese-American designer and artist Isamu Noguchi made a name for himself as one of the preeminent sculptors and furniture designs of the mid-twentieth century. Noguchi spent much of his youth in Japan, where he was trained as a cabinetmaker, before returning to the United States and attending Columbia University. Though originally enrolled to study medicine, he shifted his focus to sculpting when he realized that it was his true passion. Noguchi applied his artistry to furniture, lighting, and product design, creating pieces--such as the IN-50 Coffee Table, Prismatic Table, and BB3 Lamp--for companies including Herman Miller, Knoll, Vitra, Ozeki, and Akari. His work also includes sculpture gardens around the world, notably at the Bienecke Rare Book Library at Yale University and at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Noguchi's home garden in Long Island City, New York, was opened to the public as the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in 1985, three years before his death.

Israel-born designer Ron Arad (born 1951) has made a name for himself with highly expressive sculptural furniture, employing a variety of materials, from high-tech to ready-made. Trained at the Jerusalem Academy of Art and London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture, Arad defies pigeonholing, exploring the possibilities of materials in works like his Fantastic Plastic Elastic (FPE) chair made from a single sheet of and Swarovski chandeliers and furniture pieces that can receive and display text messages. In 2009 and 2010, the designer was celebrated around the world with retrospectives at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Barbican Art Gallery in London.

Gaurav Nanda is a sculptor, designer, and entrepreneur. Growing up in Michigan, he found himself building, bending, and joining materials to give them new purpose. His early creative impulses included constructing human sculptures from wire, printing t-shirts using his homemade screen-printing machine, and throwing clay pots with vintage-modern composition. After college, Gaurav worked as a sculptor in automobile design. The practice taught him the foundations of shape and line quality. He reveled in the work but entrepreneurship was in his blood. riven by his passions for making functional yet sculptural objects, Gaurav pursued his vision for a new brand, which he called Bend.

Currently living in a former factory - previously lived in a historic synagogue. My partner does all of the work on our nontraditional home himself. We lived in a normal house once, but he got antsy and bought this project. We're about to move into a single room downstairs so we can completely gut our 750sqf living space and add a rooftop deck.

dream. HAUS. live. - pairing unique like minded individuals with inspiring properties. With more than a decade of experience in Orange County real estate, Todd Bousman understands the coastal lifestyle - and delivers it to his clients through strategic and knowledgable representation. Bousman develops a deep personal connection with each of his clients, placing their goals and interests first and foremost in every transaction. In addition, his unsurpassed expertise, proven track record and impressive network of contacts has forged one of the region’s top real estate practices - bouHAUS living (a division of Nook Real Estate) with a focus on Dover Shores, Newport Heights, Eastside Costa Mesa, and the Upper Newport Bay submarkets. Bousman’s prior career as a professional surfer, and then as a marketing and sales executive in the action sports industry, gives him a deep and meaningful understanding of the area, its one-of-a-kind culture and enduring appeal, and the dynamic nuances of its real estate market. As a result, he’s become one of the region’s most trusted real estate advisers, consulting for buyers, sellers, and developers alike on single-family homes and urban lofts from Los Angeles and Long Beach to Orange County. Bousman is especially known for his passion for unique homes, including many Mid Century-inspired properties, modern homes, and eclectic residences that break the mold of the typical Orange County tract home and beach house. Bousman prides himself on finding properties to suit each and every client, whether it’s uncovering a turn-key architectural gem or leveraging his background in design to transform an ideally located property into a client’s dream home. Regardless if they are buying or selling, Bousman’s clients can expect his mix of successful advertising, marketing, and sales campaigns — as well as his exceptional negotiation skills — to ensure that the each and every deal gets done, and done well. This SoCal native, who’s lived in OC for the past 40 years, now resides in Eastside Costa Mesa with his daughter Ever Grae and their pup Coal.

Paul Barbera is a lifestyle and interior photographer with a reportage style spanning cultural anthropology to luxury living. He strives to capture the complex, emotional honesty of his subjects by reverting to a minimalist approach. He shoots in natural light and avoids overly complicated technical arrangements which permit authenticity and a voyeuristic thrill to come to the fore. He has established himself as an interior and lifestyle photographer and has worked with publications like Vogue Living, Bon Appetit Magazine and Elle Décor and has worked with public figures including the Spanish tennis champion Rafael Nadal, New York based artist Olaf Breuning and designer and architect Mario Bellini and has worked with clients including Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Bugaboo and Dedon. Paul was born in Melbourne, Australia and currently resides in New York City.

As a 49-year-old entrepreneur, Elliott Allan Hilsinger is no stranger to hard work. These are only some of the many other activities Elliott Allan Hilsinger engages himself in outside his entrepreneurial job; these are just a few examples of the many other activities Hilsinger engages himself in. In addition to swimming and teaching young sports, Elliott Allan Hilsinger also likes participating in water sports. After graduating from the University of Cincinnati (UC), Elliott Allan Hilsinger began his career as an entrepreneur and investor. In 1995, he graduated from the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Marketing.

Moorhouse is a Finnish-English photographer based in Helsinki, Finland. She found it inspiring to photograph Eero Aarnio's home and to meet the man himself, whome she found to be very young at heart. At home, Moorhouse's Bubble chair is best-loved by the cats.

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Since the birth of Re-Edge in 2011, Chansan Hun has directed the design completion of numerous projects of different types and scales. These projects are designed with the architectural approach of cultivating the dialog between a building and its environment﹘a concept depicted from Hun’s Master’s Degree Thesis: “Re-Edging Retails.” A native to Cambodia, Mr. Hun has spent more than 15 years studying abroad in Singapore and the United States. In 2009, he graduated with a Master of Architecture from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Soonafter, Hun returned to Cambodia where he quickly established himself as a lecturer and guest professor at multiple universities in Phnom Penh. Still today, he continues to enlighten students about the beauty of Design & Concept through architecture. Mr. Hun not only contributes to the success of Re-Edge within Cambodian society, but also to the exposure of Cambodian architects internationally. With each design, he seeks a storyline to be told to himself, his team of aspiring architects, and his clients. In Hun’s definition, design constraint is merely an opportunity to explore an architectural intervention and is a means to achieve an unexpected discovery in shaping the built environment. ————————- Chansan Hun is a registered architect and a member of Board of Architects Cambodia (BAC) and Cambodian Society of Architects (CSA).

Louis Kahn (1901-1974) may not have as many built works as his contemporaries Le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe but the legacy he left stands just as tall and reaches just as far. Born in Estonia but raised in the United States, the modern master studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he himself later taught, under the guidance of architect Paul Cret, for whom he later worked. Kahn took a position teaching at Yale University, after turning down an offer from Harvard. Kahn's first major commission was the Yale Art Gallery in 1951, which began the first of a list of monumental buildings in concrete that paid special attention to how light changes within a building and creates experiences of architecture. The work was followed up with the famous Jonas Salk Institue for Biological Studies in San Diego, the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, and the National Assembly Building in Bangladesh. Kahn died in a men's bathroom in New York City's Pennsylvania Station of a heart attack in 1974 on a trip back from India.

Cory Summerhays has had successful leadership stints at restaurants in Utah, Idaho, and Colorado since his initial entry into the fast-paced world of professional meal prep. Summerhays, one of the newest members of Tucson's culinary industry, plans to build a name for himself by serving innovative, mouthwatering, and devastatingly delicious fusion cuisine to consumers and foodies in the region.

Since jumping into furniture, packaging, consumer products and environmental design in 2005, Brad Ascalon has quickly made a name for himself as a most-wanted designer. After founding Brad Ascalon Studio NYC and immediately acquiring his first client—cosmetics giant L'Oreal—Ascalon has proved to be one of today's top American designers.

Jinggoy Buensuceso was born in Samal, Bataan in the Philippines in March 1982. He graduated from the University of the Philippines in Diliman with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, major in Visual Communication in 2003. The young artist has proven himself very promising with his engagements with international design companies. He is currently based in Singapore with his wife Mutya and baby Mayumi.

Italian designer and architect Andrea Branzi (1939-) once described himself as someone who saw “architecture not as the art of building but as a much more articulated form of thought.” Given that Branzi’s ideas ranged from how cities could be endless to how sofas could be considered household pets, it’s no wonder this cofounder of both Archizoom and Domus Academy gained recognition as a radical.

Josh Neretin is a Brooklyn based designer and founder of buoyant NYC. Born and raised in New York, he attended SUNY Purchase, graduating with a BFA in sculpture. Soon after graduation he set up shop that specialized in fabrication and site work serving the high-end architectural development and interior design community. Through connections in this field he soon found himself fabricating works for internationally renowned artists, galleries and museums. This ongoing experience of developing, designing and engineering has significantly informed his personal aesthetic. In 2013, Josh returned to his roots in sculpture and design, forming buoyant NYC. The company designs and fabricates hand crafted LED light fixtures that aim at a simple sophistication and elegance, while expressing a sculptor’s heritage and a love of science, material, form, and industry.

Johnny Cohen, the founder of the largest tattoo brand Celebrity Ink™. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Johnny moved to Phuket for pursue his passion for adventure and to establish himself in the world of entrepreneurs.He opened his tattoo studio in Phuket which has now emerged as the most popular among the world. Apart from his success in this tattoo industry, he is a leader, mentor, property investor and developer.

Julius Shulman was an American photographer famous for his images depicted and celebrating modernism in post-World War II Southern California. Like his contemporary, Ezra Stoller, Shulman shot nearly exclusively with black-and-white film but unlike Stoller, who photographed the great public works of architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, and Louis Kahn, Shulman’s work focused on private residence, including those by Wright and Saarinen but also by architects such as Richard Neutra, Charles Eames, and Pierre Koenig, all of whom designed homes for Arts and Architecture’s Case Study House Program. Shulman himself lived in a modern home designed by Raphael Soriano—and once was almost crushed to death by a landslide that trapped him against his garage. Shulman’s life was captured in the award-winning documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, by Eric Bricker, and he continued to work until his death in 2009.

In the heart of Los Angeles, California, Jeremy Dunmore has established himself as a leading figure in the vibrant and constantly changing entertainment industry. His dedication to fostering innovation and supporting emerging talent has not gone unnoticed, earning him a well-deserved reputation and respect among his peers. He combines his commitment to client success with a deep love for the variety of recreational and intellectual activities California offers, creating a rich and comprehensive narrative of his life.

John Dockendorf came into the world in December 1959. He spent his first years growing up near Baltimore, Maryland, but eventually Dockendorf would find himself having a bigger impact elsewhere. Like many growing up in the Middle Atlantic states, education, was important and after a rigorous education at friend’s school, he packed his skis and headed for the university of Vermont. Dockendorf first started making an impression early during his first years in college. Spending the end of the 1970s burning through various classes in university, he graduated in 1981 with top grades from the University of Vermont. Seeking roles and pathways in recreation and park management, Dockendorf chased paths like many, and found himself assistant positions for various professors. This led to his pursuit of graduate studies in the same field, and by the next decade Dockendorf had achieved a Master of Management, Hospitality from Cornell University, and the School of Hotel Administration in 1992. Again, Dockendorf achieved top of his class, and he was also the John E.H. Sherry Scholarship as well as student body president at Cornell in his discipline’s school.

An accomplished businessman, this graphic designer considers himself extremely comfortable, but says “success” is a difficult word to define. In his family, success is defined by monetary value, but he grew up hearing “Do what makes you happy” from his parents—two ideas he felt to be conflicting. However, he believes that the way his parents raised him gave him the freedom to make mistakes and find good opportunities for expressing himself creatively. With his graphic design business thriving, he focuses his extra energies on his passions: being connected to nature and people and, perhaps most importantly, cooking and eating great food. His love of nature and concern for the planet is evident in a recent search for a new cast-iron pan to cook Japanese-style dishes. “I looked for a product that was both safer to use and something that’s recyclable or I can hand down to someone. I like the idea that I won’t be contributing to waste.” The Japanese culture influences more than his cooking; it informs his purchasing decisions as well. “As a society, the Japanese try to respect the importance and awareness of others—not just people but the environment.”