Designers
Shot Ota is a designer from Japan who strives for an ideal balance between production and craftsmanship. With six years of experience creating and designing wooden furniture in his home country, he sought further education in design and moved to the Netherlands. In 2018, he graduated with a master’s degree from the Design Academy Eindhoven, Contextual Design Department and soon after opened his own studio in Eindhoven. Drawing upon his experience in furniture making in Japan, he is now able to create more collectable, unique designs without the constraints of efficiency.
London-based Tino Seubert revels in the juxtaposition of organic, industrial, and exploration of unconventional contexts. For Seubert, the organic is often a welcoming entry point into his work, drawn in by familiar traditional craft elements, only to be tantalised by the clash with sleek, precise industrial design. He thrives off energetic participation in the processes that go into making his pieces: whether it’s wood and stonework or metal machining, electronics or anodising aluminium by hand, Seubert is always obsessively engaged with the details of his creations.
Maria Tyakina is a furniture designer whose artistic practice centres around exploring physicality and reimagining the habitual ways of viewing everyday objects. Sculptural gestures characterise Maria’s work and emphasise form, materiality, and spatial relationships.
Maria aims to blend form and narrative with the inherent qualities of the materials and construction techniques used. By balancing research and the physical process of creation, Maria’s innovative approach to material expression enables her to create objects where abstraction and functionality meet and converse. Originally from Russia, Maria completed her Interior Architecture and Furniture Design studies at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, in the Netherlands, where she now lives and works.
Maria aims to blend form and narrative with the inherent qualities of the materials and construction techniques used. By balancing research and the physical process of creation, Maria’s innovative approach to material expression enables her to create objects where abstraction and functionality meet and converse. Originally from Russia, Maria completed her Interior Architecture and Furniture Design studies at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, in the Netherlands, where she now lives and works.
Fascinated by the tension that lies between natural materials and contemporary design and manufacture, Tom Fereday develops unique designs originating from an intrinsic inquiry into the role of objects today. Built on the principle of honest design, Fereday’s work celebrates the materials and manufacture behind furniture and objects, guiding considered and thoughtful design outcomes that explore the notion of quiet innovation.
Working across Europe and Australia, Fereday founded his solo practice in Sydney in 2012. Works have been presented and published internationally through collaborations with brands including Louis Vuitton, Alessi, Stellarworks and Herman Miller and exhibited through galleries including the Australia Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Powerhouse Museum, and the Australian Design Centre.
Working across Europe and Australia, Fereday founded his solo practice in Sydney in 2012. Works have been presented and published internationally through collaborations with brands including Louis Vuitton, Alessi, Stellarworks and Herman Miller and exhibited through galleries including the Australia Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Powerhouse Museum, and the Australian Design Centre.
Fred Ganim is a furniture maker who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. His practice is intuitive and process-driven; clean lines and carefully constructed joints emerge in a contemporary collision of traditional artisanal techniques and modern, forward-thinking ideas. Ganim’s work pushes at the perceived limitations of timber, his primary material; it is bent, folded and coaxed into unlikely, undulating curves.
Transposed from timber to stone, Ganim’s signature joint is thrust to the forefront of his creations. Marble flows fluidly through grooves, curves and cantilevers, exuding a tactility and sense of ceremony that resonates through a room.
Transposed from timber to stone, Ganim’s signature joint is thrust to the forefront of his creations. Marble flows fluidly through grooves, curves and cantilevers, exuding a tactility and sense of ceremony that resonates through a room.