March 8. is a day that belongs to women because of its history and is an occasion to draw attention to their rights and to fight for equal rights worldwide. We know that also the world of home design is often still male-dominated and would like to use this important day to put female designers in the spotlight. We present a selection of women-led labels that inspire with their outstanding designs and deserve a special spotlight - today and every other day of the year.
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& Tradition
Bringing something special into people's lives is the goal of & Tradition. The company, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializes in the distribution and production of reissued design classics.
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Ferm Living
Ferm Living is a Danish company that specializes in the development and production of furnishings with a graphic touch.
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Flos
Since 1962, the Italian manufacturer Flos has offered lamps on the highest technological level and in perfect industrial design style. Flos lamps are the epitome in the new language of lighting technology.
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Foscarini
Research and innovation, attention to quality during production and services offered, an international focus and maximum flexibility. These are the properties that characterise the company identity of Foscarini.
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HAY
Scandinavian design for everyday life - iconic furniture, lighting and home accessories from HAY. Discover bestsellers and new products to enchant your home.
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Humdakin
Humdakin, founded by the Danish Camilla Schram, focuses on the production of natural cleaning and care products. With Humdakin cloths, brushes and soaps, cleanliness and order return to every home.
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Kristina dam studio
The Kristina Dam Studio was designed in 2012 by the Danish graphic designer and architect of the same name. The Kristina Dam Studio collection is made exclusively within the EU and all designs are from Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Mette Ditmer
For more than 25 years Mette Ditmer has been designing iconic accessories for the bathroom and home textiles, especially for the bedroom. Home is also the place where you can let your personality shine and be yourself.
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Muuto
Muuto is a young Scandinavian company with the goal of reviving the golden era of Scandinavian design. They are working in collaboration with some of the best-known Nordic designers.
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nanimarquina
To date, nanimarquina represents unique, traditional carpet art. Carpets in classical and modern design made in fair manual labour.
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The Hansen Family
Hand made furniture from native wood in a new Scandinavian design style… The designer Gesa Hansen founded the label The Hansen Family which stands for unique objects connecting a tradition of craftsmanship with modern style.
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Amanda Borberg
Amanda Borberg is a Danish designer with a master's degree in textile design who lives and works in Copenhagen. Her style is characterised by the natural expression of timeless elements and her fascination for the interplay of colours
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Amandine Chhor & Aïssa Logerot
The design studio AC/AL was founded by Amandine Chhor and Aïssa Logerot in Paris in 2013. Both graduated from the ENSCI Les Ateliers and worked for various international manufacturers and companies for several years.
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Ana kraš
Ana Kraš is a Serbian-born designer who now lives and works in New York. As a designer, Ana Kraš has a diversified portfolio that covers many aspects of both design and photography.
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Andrea Anastasio
Fascinated by different cultures and with an interest for industrial design, Andrea Anastasio creates furniture, lamps and other furnishings for prestigious and internationally-recognised manufacturers.
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Anna Castelli Ferrieri
The Italian architect and industrial designer Anna Castelli Ferrieri studied architecture at Milan Polytechnic from 1938 until 1943. In 1943 she married Giulio Castelli, a chemical engineer.
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Anna von Schewen
Anna von Schweren is a Swedish designer and architect. Von Schweren was born in 1965 in Stockholm. She began her studies in her home town at the Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design.
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Anne Holm & Sigrid Smetana
Anne Holm and Sigrid Smetana studied both architecture and design at the School of Architecture in Aarhus. Together, they create simple and playful solutions for the daily life that shine through high quality hand work.
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Annika Rimala
Annika Maria Rimala is a Finnish textile designer, which became internationally famous with her Tasaraita pattern she made for the manufacturer Marimekko.
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Anu Penttinen
Anu Penttinen graduated at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. She focuses on glass material, which is why she leads a studio in Nuutajärvi Glass Village, where the most ancient glass houses of Finland are.
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Apartment 8
Carolin Sangha is a German designer with Indian roots. For Schönbuch she has designed many design items for the entrance area under the name Apartment 8, including coat hooks, hangers or shoe storage boxes.
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Armi Ratia
The trained textile designer Armi Ratia founded the world-leading fashion and textile company Marimekko in 1951. She counts to the first women that became entrepreneurs in that time.
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Barba Corsini
Barba Corsini was born in the year 1916 in the Spanish city Tarragona and he passed by in the year 2008 in Barcelona. Corsini's father was an architect; for the young Corsini it was natural to begin architecture studies in Barcelona in the year 1932.
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Benedetta Mori Ubaldini
Before Bendetta Mori Ubaldini moved to Milan in the year 2005, she lived and studied in London. Despite of her work with many materials, she is especially famous for her innovative and exceptional wire mesh objects.
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Carina Seth-Andersson
Seth-Andersson’s design products can be characterised by a bold, minimalist style and they never lose sight of the actual purpose and function.
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Carlotta de Bevilacqua
As a designer, entrepreneur and fully established university lecturer, Carlotta de Bevilacqua is one of the major players in the world of contemporary lighting design and lighting research.
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Carolin Pertsch
Carolin Pertsch studied “Integrated Design” at the University of Arts in Bremen (HfK). She develops simple, functional product solutions with personality inspired by different materials.
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Caroline Wetterling
Caroline Wetterling is an independent Swedish designer, which works in product, furniture and interior design.
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Cecilie Manz
Cecilie Manz was born in 1972 in the Danish Odsherred. After her studies at the Danish School of Design and the University of Art and Design in Helsinki did she openin 1998 her own Studio „Manz Lab“ in Copenhagen.
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Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm
As daughter of a Swedish mother and a Danish father, Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm nearly grew up with the Scandinavian design tradition.
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Clara von Zweigbergk
Besides teaching at the Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm, Clara von Zweigberg works at Corporate Deisgn projects, as Art Director, she designs envelopes and books and more and more she designs products in her studio.
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Constance Guisset
Constance Guisset wurde 1976 geboren. Die Designerin lebt und arbeitet in Paris. Ihren Master Abschluss machte sie bei ENSCI - Les Ateliers in Frankreich. Ihre Designs spielen mit Illusionen und Überraschungen.
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Danielle Siggerud
Danielle Siggerud is a Norwegian architect and designer who graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Denmark and has lived and worked in Copenhagen ever since. She is considered one of the great talents of Scandinavian design.
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Ditte Buus Nielsen
Ditte Buus Nielsen studied industrial design in Aalborg, Denmark, and works for renowned companies such as Skagerak, Bolia, bent Hansen. Wood and metals are often part of her designs, which are inspired by everyday life or design classics.
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Eileen Gray
Die Architektin und Designerin Eileen Gray gehört zu den Pionieren, die in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren das schufen, was wir heute modernes Design nennen. Ihr bekanntestes Werk, der Adjustable Table, ist in der ständigen Sammlung des MoMA ausgestellt.
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Emma Silvestris
Born in 1962 in Salerno / South Italy, Emma Silvestris works and lives in Bari today. After her Bachelor of Arts degree, she focused on the subjects foreign literature and arts history. Silvestris works as designer since 1990.
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Eva Schildt
Eva Schildt studied furniture and product design at the Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm. She graduated there in 2001. She started to work as independent designer in the same year.
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Florence Watine
Florence Watine is a French interior decorator who has her own studio with the name FLOW since 2000. From the very beginning her ideas went beyond the borders of interior design, which is why she also designs design objects.
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Front Design
Front is a design group of four: Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte von der Lancken, Anna Lindgren and Katja Sävström.
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Gesa Hansen
Gesa Hansen was born in Arnsberg in 1981. After her design studies at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, she worked in the Paris Atelier of Jean Nouvel among others.
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Greta Magnusson-Grossman
Greta Magnusson-Grossman, born on 1 January 1906 in Helsinki, was a furniture designer and an architect. Magnusson was a chambermaid apprentice at Kärnan's furniture processing in Helsingborg before she studied at the industrial design and art college.
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Grethe Meyer
The Danish Grethe Meyer is one of the most important representatives of Danish industrial design. She was designer and architect and was awarded many times for her works.
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Hanne Willmann
Hanne Willmann is a German industrial designer with an office in Berlin. Her main competences are in furniture, lamps and dishes design.
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Helena Lebá
Helena Lebá is a freelance product designer and she successfully creates her products in her Cologne atelier since 2001.
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Helena Rohner
Helena Rohner was born in 1968 in the Canary Islands. She was educated in London and in her early years she worked with renowned jewelry designer Jaqueline Rabun
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Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius, born in 1963 in Meern, Holland, studied design in Eindhoven. Hella Jongerius is responsible of a huge part of the constantly growing Vitra Home Collection together with Jasper Morrison and Erwan Bouroullec.
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Helle Damkjær
The search for the perfect shape and colour, which forever brings us joy and a higher quality of life, have brought graphic and industrial designer Helle Damkjær all over the world.
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Ilse Crawford
Ilse Crawford is Brand Consultant and the head behind Studioluise. Her design studio was already founded in 2001. Furthermore she was a foundation member of the “Elle Decoration” magazine in 1989 and vice president of DKNY from 1998 to 2000.
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Inga Sempé
Inga Sempé is a French designer. She was born in Paris where she still lives and works today. Inga Sempé specialized on the design of furniture, lamps, objects and fabrics today.
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Ionna Vautrin
Ionna Vautrin was born in the year 1979 in France. In the year 2002 she reached her University degree at the Ecole de Design Nantes-Atlantique. Afterwards she worked with George J. Sowden in Italy and Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec in France.
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Isabel ahm
Isabel Ahm is a furniture and product designer based in Copenhagen. Until 2007 she attended the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts at the School of Architecture and founded her own independent design studio in 2009.
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Jessika Källeskog
Behind Contour Studio is Jessika Källeskog, a Swedish designer and interior designer with a master's degree from the Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts.
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Jette Frölich
Jette Frölich was born in 1940 in Denmark and started designing with paper in 1966. She is most famous for her Christmas decorations, and nature-inspired motifs for Holmegaard and other manufacturers.
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Jette Scheib
Jette Scheib lives and works as independent designer in Berlin. She designs successful products in the kitchen and living accessories areas for manufacturers such as innermost, side by side, designimdorf, among others.
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Johanna Forsberg
Johanna Forsberg is a Swedish designer who specialises in working with ordinary steel mesh. With a strong sense for details, she transforms them into artistic objects, installations and lamps using her own hands.
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Johanna Grawunder
Johanna Grawunder is a designer and architect living in Milan, Italy and San Francisco, USA. Her works are exposed in many museums and permanent expositions.
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Kristina Isola
Anna-Kristina Isola is the daughter of the creator of the famous Unikko pattern, Maija Isola. She followed the footsteps of her mother as designer for Marimekko.
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Kristina Stark
Kristina Stark is a Swedish designer who always seeks the essence in her objects. She finds a big challenge in eliminating unnecessary details and thus creating products which are characterized by simplicity.
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Kristine Five Melvær
Kristine Five Melvær (born 1984) is an Oslo-based designer, who works with tableware, lighting, furniture, textiles and graphic design. She investigates the subject of object communication, bridging the disciplines of product design and graphic design.
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Laura Polinoro (LPWK)
Laura Polinoro was the leader of the Alessi Study Centre (“CSA”), working as metaproject-designer and Art Director. Alessi entered fields, unknown before, with her.
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Lena Bergström
Lena is one of Sweden’s best-known glass designers with a long career history at Orrefors Glassworks, and she is also specialised in textiles. Her works are represented in numerous design museums all around the world.
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Lorenza Bozzoli
The Italian designer Lorenza Bozzoli studied at the Academy of Arts of Brereka in Milan before she started working as fashion designer in 1985. She works as industrial designer with Alessi and Moooi since 1996.
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Louise Campbell
Scandinavian design is usually famous for its simple elegance. Louise Campbell’s work is also extremely elegant, but it isn’t really simple. “Playful” or “experimental” would rather describe it all.
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Louise Christ Frederiksen
The working method of Louise Christ also led to original objects in our assortment, the jewelry tree which has been awarded with the red dot design award in 2008.
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Maija Isola
Maija Isola was a Finnish designer, which was especially known for her most famous work, causing furores all over the world: The legendary Unikko pattern, which she designed in the 1960s for Marimekko.
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Maija Louekari
Maija Louekari is a Finnish designer, which was born in Oulu in 1982. She is especially famous for her patterns for the traditional manufacturer Marimekko.
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Maija Puoskari
The ideas of the designer and florist Maija Pouskari are inspired primarily by nature, resulting in simple and functional pieces of furniture and luminaires in Scandinavian design, whose sophisticated finishing is remarkable.
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Margaret Howell
Margaret Howell is a famous British fashion designer. After studying design at Goldsmith College in London in 1969, she started making jewelry and small accessories until she discovered her passion for fashion.
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Margrethe Odgaard
The designer Margrethe Odgaard was born in the year 1978. She concluded her apprenticeship as a colour and print designer at the Danish Design School and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her style unifies simple and graphical patterns with humor.
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Maria Berntsen
For Maria Berntsen design means to accept emotions, handle them and incorporate them into the forms.
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Maria Christina Hamel
Maria Christina Hamel is a globetrotter: She was born in New Delhi in 1958 and spent her childhood in Thailand and Austria. She moved to Milan in 1973, where she finished school at a German school and studied at the Politecnico di Milano.
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Marianne Brandt
Marianne Brandt was born in Chemnitz in 1893. She especially succeeded as metal designer, but also worked as a sculptor and painter.
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Marta Sansoni
1963 wurde Marta Sansoni in Florenz geboren. Nach Abschluss ihres Architekturstudiums an der Universität Florenz arbeitete sie dort von 1990 bis 1998 als Assistentin von Professor Remo Buti und gründete später ein eigenes Designstudio.
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Martha Schwindling
Designer Martha Schwindling was teached by Stefan Diez, among others. Schwindling’s designs convince with their graphical and colourful accents.
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Mette Schelde
The Danish Mette Scheldt studied at the school of architecture in Aarhus and already was awarded before the end of her studies for her designs. She is inspired by everyday life, nature and the world of geometry. She founded her studio in 2012.
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Michelle Ivankovic
She works in her atelier in Amsterdam, where she connects the unique combination of fine handicraft, design and pop culture.
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Miriam Mirri
The designer Miriam Mirri was born in the Italian Bologna in 1964. Today she lives and works in Milan.
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Nani Marquina
After her design studies, Nani Marquina founded the Spanisch textile company nanimarquina, which devotes itself to the multi-facetted carpet art. Handmade carpets under Fair&Care conditions.
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Nanna Ditzel
Nanna Ditzel (1923-2005) was a Danish representative of postmodernism who became known in the 90s by her rebellious designs. Ditzel was fascinated by new materials and innovative manufacturing processes.
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Nanni Holén
Nanni Holén studied at Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm. After graduation in 2004, she established herself as a freelance designer.
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Nina Jobs
Nina Jobs focuses on simplicity and a clear relation to nature. She also leads design expositions which the Swedish Government has shown in Asia and Europe.
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Patricia Urquiola
The Spanish Patricia Urquiola already worked together with namely designers such as Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti or Piero Lissoni after her graduation. She designs in her own office for renowned Italian companies since 2001.
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Pauline Deltour
Pauline Deltour was born in the French Landerneau in 1983. Pauline Deltour worked as designer for Konstantin Grcic in Munich from 2006 to 2009.
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Pauline Gilain
Pauline Gilain is a designer living and working in Paris. She successfully completed her design studies at the ENSCI-Les Ateliers, and then worked in Finland and for French luxury brands such as Cartier and Louis Vuitton for a while.
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R7B Copenhagen
R7B Copenhagen - behind the rare name is the design group surrounding Mette Bache and Barbara Bendix Becker. The two designers have worked successfully together in the areas of textile and ceramic for Kähler and other brands.
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Rikke Frost
Rikke Frost has a graduation in Industrial Design from the famous architecture school in Aarhus, which was already visited by many famous personalities. She founded her own studio in 2004, focussing on many working areas.
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Rikke Hagen
Rikke Hagen was born in 1970 and learned her skills as glass and ceramic designer at the Danish School of Design. She led an own glass studio in North Sealand, where she experimented with the most different methods of glass work.
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Sabine Meyer
The design brand side by side was founded in 2001 by Sabine Meyer and the Caritas Wendelstein Factories and free designers. Since then Sabine Meyer is responsable as project leader for the unusual brand side by side.
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Sakura Adachi
Sakura Adachi is a Japanese designer who lives and works in Milan. Her designs are a combination of traditional craftsmanship and modern lines. Many of her products are self explanatory, which makes them functional and suitable for everyday use.
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Sandra Lindner
Sandra Lindner is a German designer, which concentrates on the materials metal and textile. Her studio is in Hamburg.
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Sidse Werner
Sidse Werner was a cabinet-maker, a weaver, industrial designer and an architect. She worked with carpets, textiles, glass, lamps, furniture and artefact in general.
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Silje Nesdal
The Norwegian designer Silje Nesdal made her master’s degree in furniture design and interior design at Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway, after she completed her Bachelor's degree in textile design at the University of Oslo.
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Sinja svarrer damkjær
Danish designer Sinja Svarrer Damkjær studied industrial design at the University of Aalborg and graduated in 2007. Her final project was the design of a lamp inspired by spring flowers.
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Stephanie Jasny
Stephanie Jasny was born in Munich in 1982 and she studied at the University of Arts in Berlin. Since 2010 she designs and develops lamps and furniture in Berlin, products that are produced by famous manufacturers such as Ligne Roset.
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Stine Aas
Stine Aas is a product and furniture designer from Norway. She always ensures that her designs are simple yet have certain details that give each product its own character.
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Stine Engelbrechtsen
Stine Engelbrechtsen is a Danish designer who was born in 1972. She studied industrial design at the Danish Design School. Since August 2000 she has been employed by Softline as a designer and product manager.
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Susanne Grønlund
Design competence, based on solid experiences. And all of it rooted in clear, Scandinavian design traditions – that’s the design studio of Susanne Grønlund.
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Theresa Rand
Theresa Rand is a trained architect and furniture designer. The native German lives and works today mainly in Copenhagen.
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Tina Bremholm
Tina Bremholm founded the company tica copenhagen in 2008. She worked in marketing and distribution departments of different companies (such as iittala) before, but then the passionate shoes enthusiasts transformed her hobby into her profession.
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Tina Ratzer
Tina Ratzer is a Danish designer, who specialized on textiles. Geometric patterns and structures are most focussed by the Danish.
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Trine Andersen
Trine Andersen founded the Design Studio ferm Living in 2005 after she visited a fortune teller. ferm Living focused on the development and manufacture of furnishing with a graphical touch.
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Vera von Laufenberg
Vera von Laufenberg is a young German designer, which specialized on small but fine handicraft work.
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Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt
Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt graduated from The Danish Design School in 1994. Since then she has primarily worked with unique ceramic pieces. In the later years she has started to work more with function and wood as the main material.
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Victoria Wilmotte
The design objects by Victoria Wilmotte is characterized mainly by its proximity to everyday life, and by using interesting materials such as metal and marble. Discover the most beautiful designs in the shop.