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Philippe Starck: the 'enfant terrible' has grown up
A lot. He is now a giant of design who can take on anything. His surname is already a registered brand name, and his work includes the most exquisite hotels and restaurants in the world. We got to know this hyperactive teaser through simple, everyday objects: chairs, toothbrushes and orange-juice extractors. He surprised us with his methacrylate furniture and he has tried his hand at electrical appliances, lamps, vehicles… He continues to see objects through his childlike spontaneity.
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Alessandro Mendini: the Maestro of Modernity
A major among majors, Mendini is many things: an architect, designer, publisher, writer, painter, professor... He has worked for Cartier, Hermès, Philips, Swatch, Alessi, Byblos and Bisazza. Together with his brother Francesco, he designs architectural projects throughout the world at Atelier Mendini. His unmistakable baroque and destructured style is a landmark in contemporary design.
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Andrée Putman: the chic interior designer
A taste setter, much in the French style: elegant, sophisticated, feminine and absolutely glamorous. As well as multiple objects and furniture, there is her refined interior design work, which ranges from the most luxurious hotels in New York, Hong Kong and Paris to the shops of Anne Fontaine and Guerlain and the offices of French ministers and presidents: très chic.
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4.- Antonio Citterio: elegant Italian lightness
“There is an exaggeration with absurd objects,” says this Italian architect, who designs furniture with the same spatial concept as he would a home. Elegant and functional, his works are part of an undoubted atemporal modernity, in which there are no extravagances or abuse of forms. He likes comfortable and functional design, and if it is beautiful and discreet, so much the better.
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5.- Rod Arad: the sculptor of design
The Israeli architect and industrial designer Ron Arad reflects in his pieces a clear taste for sculptural, solid and emphatic volumes, such as his imposing architectural designs for museums, hotels and restaurants around the world. His avant-garde creations have an experimental and futuristic sense that makes them unique pieces and real works of art.
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6.- Marc Newson: no limits
Modern, cosmopolitan and multidisciplinary are just some of the qualities that define this Australian, who is a citizen of the world. He is an all-rounder, who has designed jewellery for Boucheron, kitchens for Smeg, luggage for Samsonite, crockery for Alessi, saucepans for Tefal and planes for the airline Qantas - and even Lance Armstrong's bicycle emerged from his intergalactic brain.
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7.- Karim Rashid: everyone loves Karim
From Kenzo to Citibank, through Swarovski, Veuve Clicquot, Samsung and Artemide: everyone has bowed to the flowing extravagance of this designer of diverse origins, resident in New York. Bubble gum colours, impossible geometries and linear sensuality are the keynotes of all his work, which already numbers 3,000 designs.
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8.- Fernando and Humberto Campana: eco-design power
The most important industrial designers in Brazil, pampered in Europe. The work of the Campana brothers is not only ground-breaking, ironic and sometimes jarring for traditional taste; it is among most sustainable and ecological on the market. They use recycled and castaway materials and very economical manufacturing processes. They don’t use a computer and they are in MOMA.
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9.- Konstantin Grcic: the magician of reduction
A German who is used to receiving design prizes, he is famous for his pragmatic and functional style, without being a minimalist. His clean and gently rounded designs do not make any concession to ornamentation. All his objects register their primary utility: cups, tables, bins... but above all, chairs, in which he is a real specialist.
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10.- Patricia Urquiola: the quiet Asturian
Highly valued in the elite design circles, the secret of this Basque-Asturian architect who lives in Milan is her capacity to create without a fuss, with a reflective outlook and an elegant line. She can reinvent any object that falls into her hands, interlace its components and give them back the organic form from which they were generated.
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