A celebration by former SaloneSatellite designers

Sebastian Herkner (born 1981) studied Product Design at HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. During his studies he began to focus on designing objects and furniture, honing his keen sense for materials, colors and textures. For a short while he then worked for Stella McCartney in London.

Nao Tamura is a designer in the most modern terms. Her talents cross-over cultures, languages, disciplines, concepts and styles with consistency of smart thinking always at the heart of her work. She is truly global in her insights and execution. As a product of Tokyo and New York City creative communities, her solutions are equally at ease in the world of 2D and 3D, with an uncanny ability to find that emotional connection with the industry status-quo often insists upon. Her unique solutions are more than simply design and possess a rare balance of innovation and beauty.

Rodolfo Agrella is Designer and Architect based in New York, born and raised in Caracas, he is the heart of a team in charge of manifesting narratives into award-winning physical and digital products, interiors, graphics, exhibitions, and immersive spaces.

Zhang Lei is using contemporary design language to redefine traditional materials and handicrafts. Co-founded the non-profit organization róng design library and  PINWU Studio with Christoph John and Jovana Zhang, led systematic study of the material system of traditional Chinese handicrafts, and promoted contemporary design applying traditional materials.  15 years ago , they met in Milan SaloneSatellite Exhibition. And then came to Hangzhou China in 2010 to make in-depth research of Chinese traditional handicrafts and to translate them through designs in their own ways.

Architect, born in 1977, he founded Francesco Librizzi Studio, an architecture and design atelier, in 2005.

He has created installations for the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Milan Triennale, “Foto/Industria” Biennial of Photography of Industry and Work in Bologna and the Marche Regional Museum of Palazzo Ducale in Urbino.

Rybakken started Studio Daniel Rybakken in 2008 in Sweden and has since then become one of Scandinavias most highly awarded and internationally acclaimed designers. He has worked with leading furniture companies such as Luceplan (Italy), Artek (Finland), Vitra (Switzerland), Karimoku (Japan) and HAY (Danmark), and on industrial design with companies like Panasonic (Japan), Givenchy (LVMH, France) and has Art Director for Interior and Exterior Illumination Concepts for Volvo and Polestar (Sweden).

Katrina works across The Times and The Sunday Times as interiors editor, and has written a design column for the paper for over a decade. Her first editing job was at a magazine about stolen art, and she subsequently wrote about collecting for the Evening Standard and the Financial Tmes's How to Spend It magazine. Her focus is now on all types of design for the home, from the luxury market to high street collections.

Multi-faceted designer Satyendra Pakhalé, trained in India and in Switzerland, has been working globally from his studio in Amsterdam since 1998. He has cultivated a design practice that focuses on the ‘culture of creation’, with the sensorial qualities that have so often been lost due to the excesses of industrialization and consumerism. His design work is an act of unity going beyond any binary such as high- and low-tech, industrial production and traditional crafts, functionality and poetic significance.