Spanish-born, Milan-based architect and designer Patricia Urquiola is one of the most influential minds in contemporary design. Her eponymous practice, Studio Urquiola, embodies a modern style featuring feminine accents and unexpected elements. Her distinctive work combines research and innovation with human connection, creating refined yet expressive designs. With an experimental approach, she explores new forms, textures, and materials to push the limits, stimulating curiosity and emotion in design enthusiasts worldwide. What Patricia Urquiola creates, others want to touch and own.
Designer
Patricia Urquiola
Brand
Moroso
Moroso, a family-owned company founded over 60 years ago in Udine, Italy, remains rooted in its hometown. The company's art director, Patrizia Moroso, stands out as one of the leading identities in the design world, responsible for uncovering some of the brightest talent for innovative new projects that draw on different fields of creativity. Some of the brand's collaborators include renowned designers such as Patricia Urquiola, Ron Arad, and Doshi Levien. Moroso's collections embody style and luxury, seamlessly merging the worlds of art and design.
Stories
13.03.2024Reliving the 2024 VL50 Awards
The VL50 – an annual list of Australia’s most exciting creative design talent – was celebrated at the inaugural awards ceremony in February, proudly presented by Mobilia.
Interviews
20.12.2022Fiona Lynch, Founder at Fiona Lynch Office
Fiona Lynch founded her eponymous interior design studio in 2013 with a strong command of colour and texture, which continues to define each of her projects today. This artistic instinct guides Fiona Lynch Office's aesthetic, hinging on natural materials and sculptural elements, the raw and refined, and tactical and inventive uses of space. Based in Melbourne, the studio’s projects span hospitality, retail, residential and commercial spaces to artistic and experiential installations. One of their recent projects, Kiln at Ace Hotel in Sydney, has been embraced as a must-visit haunt on the top floor of an 18-storey former warehouse building. Here, Fiona shares designers that inspire her, a 100-year-old home that is an ode to California, and what’s on the horizon in her project pipeline.
Recipes
04.01.2022Michael Anastassiades's Gigantes Plaski Sto Fourno
Cypriot-born, London-based designer Michael Anastassiades is known for transcending the distinctions between different fields of creativity. With a background as a civil engineer before studying industrial design at the Royal College of Art, Michael’s practice is informed by a poetic yet rigorous interpretation of technology, material and functions. His career spans more than 20 years and encompasses lighting, furniture and objects. Positioned between fine art and design, Michael’s work is featured in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and many more. He has also held a number of solo exhibitions around the world........READ MORE
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PlaylistKonstantin Grcic
Designer Konstantin Grcic is known for his logical thought process, honesty of materials and respect for production methods.