10 Young Designers from Collectible 2020 to Start Following

01/10 - Services Généraux - Founded by an art director and an architect, multidisciplinary Parisian studio Services Généraux undertakes a wide range of projects, from installations for fashion brands to architectural renderings and product design. For Collectible, the studio has created two new designs as part of the Theoreme Editions project, which showcases the work of emerging French creatives. The handcrafted Contenu vases feature basic elements cast into a solid block of resin. (Divulgação)

02/10 - Müsing-Sellés - A collaboration between Spanish architect Álvaro Gómez-Sellés and Canadian architect Marisa Müsing, this New York studio explores the relationship between form and function, creating ambiguous pieces of furniture that look like digital renderings. At Collectible, the studio showed a double-sided seat that uses rounded stone to create the illusion of a soft, glass-backed shape. (Divulgação)

03/10 - Carlo Lorenzetti - Based in the Netherlands and originally from Chicago, USA, Carlo Lorenzetti breathes new life into ceramics, creating textural furniture that encourages unusual user interactions. His bedside tables shown at Collectible by Everyday Gallery were designed for a couple, each responding to specific desires, such as a space to store a phone, a sconce for a candle and a surface for a glass of water. (Divulgação)

04/10 - Elissa Lacoste - A former student of the Design Academy Eindhoven and the École Supérieure d'Art ed Design de Saint-Étienne, Elissa Lacoste combines natural and artificial forms and a wide range of materials to create a "grotesque aesthetic." At Collectible, she showed a table and chair set made of steel, wood, polyurethane, plaster, acrylic resin, copper, silicone and talc, as part of Antwerp's Everyday Gallery exhibition. (Divulgação)

05/10 - Studio Biskt - Founded by ceramicist Charlotte Gigan and designer Martin Duchêne, Brussels-based Studio Biskt specialises in ceramic research, pushing the boundaries of the material’s functionality and exploring the potential of combining industrial processes and craftsmanship. For Collectible, the duo showcased Balik, a seat that combines a metal base and an extruded clay seat that can be glazed in different colours. (Divulgação)

06/10 - Arthur Hoffner - Paris-based Arthur Hoffner brings together sculpture, design and craftsmanship to explore how ancient objects can be recreated and re-imagined using contemporary techniques. For Collectible, he has presented a series of fountains, which at first glance look like a pile of found objects, but are actually made from Sèvres porcelain, marble and brass. (Divulgação)

07/10 - Rodrigo Pinto - After working with Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, Rodrigo Pinto returned to his native Chile to found his eponymous studio in Santiago in 2017. Pinto’s work combines natural and man-made materials to explore the relationship between usability, symbolism and form. The Tierras Hipnóticas on display at Barcelona’s Side Gallery at Collectible reinforces the designer’s dreams of a post-apocalyptic world, bringing together raw concrete and textured metal to suggest objects that have survived the destruction of life as we know it. (Divulgação)

08/10 - Dahlia Subasi - Dahlia Subasi discovered a love for mushroom mycelium while studying architecture at Central Saint Martins in London. Since graduating in 2018, she has been exploring ways to use the material to develop her own designs, incorporating hemp and straw to add integrity to the forms. Half-Italian, half-Turkish, Subasi divides her practice between Brussels, London and Istanbul. (Divulgação)

09/10 - Pauline Esparon - French designer Pauline Esparon hails from Normandy, which produces large quantities of linen for French clothing. After realising that much of the raw material was being shipped overseas to be processed into an industry standard product, producing significant amounts of waste, Esparon investigated alternative ways of processing linen. The result is a range of unexpected textiles with properties similar to felt and silk, and collaborations that have seen her apply the material to a variety of forms, including seating. (Divulgação)

10/10 - Hitencho – Sang-hyeon Cho founded Hitencho in Seoul, Korea in 2017 after graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven. At Collectible, as part of the Fracas Gallery exhibition, Hitencho’s Pop Chair is a perfect example of Cho’s approach to materials, exploring ancient production methods to create new techniques and unexpected structures and shapes. Inspired by foam insulation used in construction, pink polyurethane foam is used to fill the gaps between pieces of pigmented plasterboard, bonding them together and creating an unpredictable shape. The pattern on the surface of the plasterboard is created using cymatics – a scientific technique that translates sound vibrations into a liquid form. (Divulgação)