Spanish artist  designer Jaime Hayon was born in Madrid 1974. He trained as an industrial designer in Madrid and Paris.

In 1997, he began working as a researcher in Fabrica, Benetton Group’s communication research center in Treviso, Italy.

In 2004, he began his individual career and has kept his hands full with eclectic projects. From toys, to furniture and interior design as well as artistic installations, his boldness has been transcending the borders of the often separated worlds of art and design, merging his own style with ease between the two.

Currently with a new base in Barcelona, Hayon has been awarded by Wallpaper as one of the 10 breakthrough creators worldwide as well as the 2006 Elle Deco International Award and the Icon Magazine Best Show award for the 2006 London design week.

Jaime‘s work has been featured in all major design publications and newspapers worldwide.

Artquitect

The celebration of the bathroom as a piece of furniture.
 
This bathroom fitting shouts to be admired.
 
Jaime explains “I didn’t want to approach AQ as a bathroom collection. Everything is so white, so clinical. And it’s a room hidden from everyone. Why not treat it as furniture? And make a piece that can be used in any room of the house? So I introduced more explosive colors and unusual shapes that were both modern and classic…”

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Matteo Thun was born in Bolzano, Italy, in 1952, studied at the Salzburg Academy under Oskar Kokoschka, took his degree in architecture in Florence in 1975

Moved to Milan in 1978, where he met and started working with Ettore Sottsass.

In 1981, he was a co-founder of the Memphis group, the design movement that so shaped events in the eighties.

Founded the Studio MatteoThun in Milan in 1984 and served as Creative Director with Swatch in 1990-93.

Matteo Thun has won the ADI Compasso d’Oro Award for design excellence three times and was short listed again for the Girly product line for Catalano in 2004.

His Side Hotel in Hamburg was chosen as Hotel of the Year in 2001, the Vigilius mountain resort won the Wallpaper Design Award in 2004 and the Radisson SAS Frankfurt was chosen as the best hotel opened in the year in the Worldwide Hospitality Awards in 2005.

He was inducted into the Interior Hall of Fame in New York in December 2004 and is a member of RIBA, the Royal Association of British Architects.

Hugo Boss Industries

The new Hugo Boss Industries building is landscaped in the greenery of Canton Ticino, accommodating three-hundred people under one single roof since 2006: a transparent volume of glass, steel and concrete, enveloped in a suspended structure covered in planks of larch wood woven together like a fabric or a basket: and if it were a basket, it would be a three-point shot.

www.matteothun.com

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