FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
Architect USA Hani Rashid received his MA (Architecture) from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1985. By 1989 he was already working as a teacher at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, where he was also a leading researcher in architecture linked to...
FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
Designer France France’s hottest designer Inga Sempé (b. 1968), who designs lamps and furniture, achieved a complete breakthrough at last year’s Milan Furniture Fair, where her wilful Brosse shelf was shown. The shelf, which has ‘curtains’ made...
FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
Managing director and design manager Finland Despite strongly worded warnings against buying Marimekko, Kirsti Paakkanen decided to take over the tottering company in 1991. What she has since achieved is almost beyond compare. Marimekko, which was founded in 1951 by...
FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
Industrail designer Italy Massimo Morozzi was born in Florence, but he lives and works in Milan. As a young man, in the 60s and 70s, he was a prime mover in the Italian anti-design movement and one of the prominent figures in the Archizoom Group. He was subsequently...
FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
Author, DJ, journalist, lecturer UK They say that “Clothes make the man.” The question is whether fashionable brands like Henry Lloyd, Hugo Boss, Stone Island, Evisu, Lacoste, Burberry and Y3 will endorse that saying. For these are some of the favourite...
FDD 2004 Stockholm: FEAR
UK Designersblock Designersblock was founded in 1998 in London by Piers Roberts and Rory Dodd, with the idea of presenting new, interesting designers from all over the world. Designers who enjoy themselves – not by refining design for Snob Street, but by being...