Future Icons
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Panorammma's design work is a combination of fictional worlds
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Mexico City-based design studio Panorammma is the practice of 29-year old Maika Palazuelos
By Francesca Perry Published
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Olivia Bossy's sculptural furniture is inspired by everyday moments
Wallpaper* Future Icons: based in Sydney Olivia Bossy turns visuals and ideas into sculptural furniture
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Rio Kobayashi turns traditional furniture making on its head
Wallpaper* Future Icons: how Austrian-Japanese designer Rio Kobayashi reinvents traditional furniture through diverse influences and collaborations
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Rino Claessens’ modular furniture experiments with ceramic design
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Rino Claessens turns his love for ceramics into experimental large-scale modules and compositions
By Jasper Spires Published
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Inside Seongil Choi's experiments with materials and form
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Seoul-based Seongil Choi works across a variety of materials, with experimental approaches at the heart of his work
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Parti Studio swing between architecture and design through research and experimentation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: London-based architecture practice Parti made its lighting design debut this year
By Sujata Burman Published
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Giles Nartey translates African rituals into bold design objects
Future Icons: Giles Nartey's boundary-pushing work combines teaching, research and design
By Shawn Adams Published
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Matan Fadida's work merges comfort and formal experimentation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: based in London, Matan Fadida's work can be described as industrial minimalism achieved with honest materials, and includes objects, furniture and wearables
By Francesca Perry Published
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Christian+Jade's work starts from material investigation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: based in Copenhagen, Jade Chan and Christian Hammer Juhl work with a variety of materials, changing their perception through new concepts and contexts
By Jeni Porter Published
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Lily Clark channels the sublime beauty of water in sculptural fountains
Wallpaper* Future Icons: LA-based Lily Clark is influenced by physics, Light & Space artists, and the California landscape
By Diana Budds Published
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Future Icons: Alexis & Ginger's furniture starts from found pictures
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Brooklyn-based Alexis & Ginger are inspired by pictures found in the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection to create their elegant and surreal furniture and lighting
By Diana Budds Published
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Six Dots Design’s Joseph Ellwood creates furniture to represent his generation
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Joseph Ellwood of Six Dots Design on his love of making, forms that reflect fluid identities, and his work for Rimowa
By TF Chan Published
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Wilkinson & Rivera reinvent traditional wooden furniture from their London workshop
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Wilkinson & Rivera’s Grant Wilkinson and Teresa Rivera are reinventing furniture classics in wood
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Andu Masebo’s stripped-back designs are informed by materials and manufacturing
Wallpaper* Future Icons: designer-to-watch Andu Masebo talks about being inspired by London and the practicalities of making
By Oyin Akande Published
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Lighting design studio Trueing combines the utilitarian and the decorative
Wallpaper* Future Icons: Aiden Bowman and Josh Metersky of Trueing combine backgrounds in art history and engineering to create exquisite lighting designs
By Pei-Ru Keh Published
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Kusheda Mensah’s modular furniture compositions promote social interactions
Among Wallpaper’s Future Icons, designer Kusheda Mensah of Modular by Mensah talks about social spaces and finding inspiration in her heritage
By Shawn Adams Published
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Raphael Kadid’s designs experiment with light and structure
Among Wallpaper’s ‘Future Icons’, Basel-based Raphael Kadid is an architect by training but is setting the design world alight
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Tom Chung’s designs are inspired by the great outdoors
Designer Tom Chung – tipped as a Future Icon by Wallpaper* –talks about being inspired by his Canadian childhood and the meaning of friends in the industry
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Cara \ Davide, the Milanese design duo inventing a new design language
In our Future Icons series, we explore ten next-generation designers who have made us sit up and take notice: here, we speak to Cara \ Davide about their design process and their cross-cultural inspirations
By Maria Cristina Didero Published
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Nifemi Marcus-Bello is the Nigerian designer shaping Africa’s designscape
Among Wallpaper’s ‘Future Icons’, Lagos-based designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello speaks of creating a local manufacturing network and documenting design production in Africa
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Published