Working with China: new Design Horizons

Luca Nichetto

Designer

In 2006 Luca Nichetto founded a multidisciplinary design studio in Venice, Italy, which specialised in industrial design, product design and design consultancy. From the very beginning, this studio collaborated with a number of different brands and organisations, quickly expanding its influence far beyond Venice and Italy’s borders. Five years later, in 2011, Nichetto opened a second studio in Stockholm, Sweden. This practice was founded in response to an ever growing number of requests for collaboration from international companies, with the studio’s work also broadening out from its initial focus on designed objects. Nichetto Studio has since expanded into areas such as interior design and architecture. Today, Nichetto Studio works with a variety of brands and clients from all around the world, and its expertise is sought out across all design disciplines. A deep passion for, and knowledge of, industrial and craft manufacturing processes runs through every aspect of the studio’s work. Nichetto Studio’s projects abound in carefully selected cultural references and a keen attention to detail. The practice’s unique position within both Scandinavian and Italian design culture has given Nichetto Studio worldwide recognition. Appreciation of its work extends far beyond the confines of the design industry.

Richard Hutten

Designer

Richard Hutten was born in Zwollerkerspel, The Netherlands in 1967. He studied industrial design at The Design Academy Eindhoven from 1986-1991. In the year of his graduation, he set up his own design studio, first in Eindhoven, and from 1993 in Rotterdam. He works on a variety of projects, from industrial design to furniture design to interior design. His clients include: Moroso, Sawaya & Moroni, Covo, I+I, (Italy), Hidden, Unilever, DSM, TNTpost, KPNtelecom, Moooi, Harvink, Artifort (The Netherlands) E&Y, Idée, MUJI, Felissimo (Japan), Christofle, Karl lagerfeld (France), Pure-design, Object collection (Canada) Offi, Kikkerland, DKNY (USA), Details (Germany), S.M.A.K. (Iceland). His first interior design was the restaurant of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, in 1997. Later he made several more interiors, including for the following museums: Gemeente Museum The Hague, Filmmuseum Amsterdam, NAI architecture museum Rotterdam, Suntory Museum Osaka. Richard is one of the key members of Droog Design, in which he has been involved from it’s beginning in 1993. He is one of the international most successful and influential Dutch Designers. His work is part of the collection of over 40 museums including Vitra design Museum Weil am Rhein, Design Museum London, MoMA San Francisco, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Design museum Lisboa, Neue Sammlung, Munich . His work has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, including at the MoMA New York, Axis gallery Tokyo and the Alvar Aalto Museum Finland, Haus der kunst, Munich. His work has been featured in all the important design magazines and newspapers, such as Axis, Abitare, Interni, Wallpaper, Casa Brutes, Surface magazine, Frame Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post. In 2002, 010 publishers launched his monograph “Richard Hutten – Taking form, making form”. Recently the Belgium publisher Stichting Kunstboek has published a second monograph under the title ‘Works is use’. This book has been launched Juli 2006 with a solo exhibition in museum Grand-Hornu in Belgium. Brigitte Fitoussi has written this book from Paris, with an introduction by Aaron Betsky. He taught and lectured at many design institutes such as The Design Academy Eindhoven, ECAL Lausanne, University of Helsinki, University of Reykjavik, RCA London, University of Berlin, Ozone Tokyo. Current projects include objects and furniture forMoroso, Lensvelt office furniture, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Christophle Paris, Thonet, Offecct and The Archimedes. He won many awards, including Design plus, Frankfurt, 1996, and the Golden Monkey award, Tokyo 2001. He works and lives in Rotterdam and is the father of 3 boys, Abel, Boris and Wolf.

Alice Stori Liechtenstein

Design Curator