Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem (now ArtEZ Institute of the Arts) in 1988. He became world-renowned for his iconic Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog Design in 1996. His work is now ubiquitous as he designs for leading contemporary labels and is both founder and art director of Moooi.

Since graduating from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem in 1991 and the Royal College of Art in London in 1995, Ineke Hans’s work has evolved in many ways, acquiring the identity most clearly of a designer, with the impulses of a sculptor and the industrial experience needed to define products with a commercial life.
 

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate, Dirk van der Kooij makes chairs using the recycled plastic of old refrigerators. He’s renowned for his range of plastic chairs called “Endless”. Available in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours, they look as though they were created from an endless string of plastic.

Stefano Giovannoni has excelled as both an industrial and interior designer. At times graciously utilitarian, his plastic designs often exhibit an impish playfulness. His pop-coloured tableware for Alessi is a prize example. Fruit Mama, his deliriously quirky reinterpretation of the fruit bowl, also suggests his avant garde leanings.