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101 DESIGNERS @ Design-Conscious
Browse through these pages (see page numbers above) to find out more about our featured designers. You can click on the photos to see each designers portfolio of work.

The direct links below take you straight to see some of our more popular designers:

AALTO - Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto
Born in Kuortane, Finland ( 1898 - 1976 )
Thanks to his original style and unique talents, Alvar Aalto is one of the greatest names in modern architecture and design. during his career, he designed many buildings in different parts of the world: concert halls, libraries, hospitals, museums and private homes, including the Villa Mairea.
His furniture, lamps and accessories were often a starting point for the buildings he designed. His work is still produced today, Glass vases and bolws by Iittala, Furniture and Lighting by Artek.

AARNIO - Eero Aarnio
Aarnio was - and still is - one of the pioneers in using plastic in industrial design. Plastic material set the designers free to create every shape and use every colour they wanted. This gave birth to objects oscillating between function and fun - but always fascinating ones.

Born in Helsinki, Finland, Eero Aarnio Studied at the Institute of Industrial Arts, Helsinki, graduating in 1957. He established his own design office in 1962 and has worked as an interior and industrial designer though he's best known for his innovative space-age plastic chairs, such as the bubble (or globe) chair and the Pastille chair, for which he won a AID (American Industrial Design-Award) design award in 1968. Also in 1968 Aarnio designed the Bubble Chair, made from acrylic and chromed steel.

ADRIANO DESIGN

AISSLINGER - WERNER AISSLINGER

ALBORS - EDUARDO ALBORS

ALESSI - Ettore Alessi
Ettore Alessi, son of Alberto Alessi the founder of Alessi. Joined the family business in 1945. As head of the technical department, in 1955 he opened Alessi up to collaboration with external designers; working with architects Carlo Mazzeri, Luigi Massoni and Anselmo Vitale the result was several ranges aimed particularly at the catering trade, some of which are still big sellers today. Ettore is responsible for two particular 'gems' of the Alessi catalogue - his classic wire basket of 1951 and his citrus basket of 1952. They both are constructed to extremely high standards, considering their complexity and were the exciting fruit of Etttore's radical shift in new materials; brass and nickel silver made way for stainless steel, the new king of household products.

ALSOP - WILLIAM ALSOP

AMFITHEATROF - Francesca Amfitheatrof

ARAD - Ron Arad
Ron Arad born in Tel Aviv, Israel 1951, studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Art, 1971 to 1973. Later, he studied at the Architecture Association, London, graduating in 1979. In 1981, he founded his own architectural design office-showroom 'One Off Ltd' in Covent Garden, London.

Ron Arad is primarily known for his early metal furniture designs in the shape of sumptuous armchairs. He has designed the Bookworm bookshelf and FPE chair for Kartell, Tom Vac Chairs for Vitra, Glass furniture for Fiam, Upholstered Sofas for Moroso and more recently the Baby Boop dishes for Alessi .

Ron Arad : Bookworm Shelf | Lovely Rita Shelves | FPE Chairs | Chiringuito : New Alessi Cocktail Barware

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