Creatives Archives - Iwan Maktabi

Afra and Sheikha Bin Daher

tedadmin — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:23:10 +0000

Emirati designers Sheikha & Afra Bin Dhaher both hold a BSc degree in Visual Communication from the American University of Sharjah. After graduation, Sheikha pursued her MA degree in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London and founded, Abjad Design, an interdisciplinary studio based in Dubai. Afra went on to continue her diverse art and design practice and had her first solo show, Hymns to a Sleeper in 2016.

The Bin Dhaher sisters have exhibited locally and internationally and continue to engage in the art and design scene. Their most recent collaboration was on the Safari-Barari collection for MENASA: Emirati Design Platform at Expo 2020 Dubai. Their varied practice blurs the boundaries between art and design. The spirit of the artists’ work is rooted in creating narratives taking audiences through meaningful realms of the human psyche and imagination. Subtle elements of play and visual poetry characterize their work.

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Alex Proba / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:35:44 +0000

Founded in 2013 by Alex Proba, Studio Proba is a New York based multidisciplinary design studio focusing on product, graphic, environmental, furniture design and artwork. Alex is a multidisciplinary designer and art director from Germany. She studied spatial and graphic design at the Akademie Mode und Design Hamburg Germany, and product and furniture design at Design Academy Eindhoven Netherlands. In 2011, she moved to New York, where she worked for a number of companies. Alex was an Art Director at Kickstarter and Design Director at Mother New York. She has been recognized by Print Magazine for its annual New Visual Artists Review, selecting 20 international designers under the age of 30. Her clients include Nike, Target, Google, AIGA, Oscar Health, Mother New York, General Assembly, Maison Gerard, Kickstarter among many others.

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Aseel AlYaqoub

tedadmin — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:16:30 +0000

Aseel AlYaqoub is a research-based and interdisciplinary artist who uses various visual languages to characterize her work. Her inquisitorial and academic approach travels across various fields such as history, architecture, and cultural sociology. Her work explores the contemporary history of Kuwait through its state apparatuses, specifically after imperial detachment. She holds an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York and a BA from Chelsea College of Art in London. She has participated in exhibitions worldwide, including the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, the 3rd Karachi Biennale, 24th Gabrovo Biennale, and Jameel Art Centre. Her work and essays are included in publications such as “Deserts Are Not Empty” edited by Samia Henni, “Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture Since the Mid-Twentieth Century” by Laura Hindelang and “Pfeil Magazine” by Montez Press.

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Bethan Laura Wood / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:14:07 +0000

Bethan Laura Wood obtained a MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art, under the tuition of Jurgen Bey and Martino Gamper. Since graduating in 2009, Bethan has built a multidisciplinary practice characterized by material investigation, artisan collaboration, and a passion for colour and detail. Bethan enjoys exploring the relationships we make with objects in our everyday lives, and questions how they can become cultural conduits. She is interested in critical approaches to achieving sustainability in a mass consumption, production-driven context.

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Charlotte Perriand / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:24:52 +0000

Charlotte Perriand full membership of that avant-garde cultural movement which, from the first decades of the twentieth century, brought about a profound change in aesthetic values and gave birth to a truly modern sensitivity towards everyday life. In this context, her specific contribution focuses on interior composition, conceived as creating a new way of living, still today at the heart of contemporary lifestyle. In the sphere of twentieth century furnishing history, the advent of modernity made possible the entrepreneurial audacity of this true reformer of interior design. At the beginning of her professional career she was acclaimed by critics for her Bar under the roof, exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1927 and constructed entirely in nickel-plated copper and anodized aluminium. In the same year, when she was just twenty-four years old, she began a decade-long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, at the famous design studios at 35, rue de Sèvres in Paris. Her presence in the Le Corbusier studio is visible in all the furnishings designed with him and with Pierre Jeanneret: and so Charlotte Perriand becomes a cornerstone in the reformation project promoted by the architect, adding a distinct dimension of humaneness to the often cold rationalism of Le Corbusier. In her creations she manages to animate the fundamental substance of daily life with new aesthetic values: in particular her talent and intuition in the discovery and use of new materials manifest themselves to their full extent. The ten-year long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and her Japanese experience, represent periods of intense creative effervescence in the life of the artist. During her long stay in the Far East (‘40-‘46), she reveals her artistic talent to the full, through a reinterpretation of the reality of life to echo both tradition and modernity. By way of example, worthy of mention are the furnishings produced using traditional bamboo processing techniques, capable of enhancing the new forms already experimented using steel-tubing. After her work as a professional, she concentrates on a series of original and balanced productions, commissioned by top-level authorities and leading companies of the calibre of Air France, and by a number of foreign organizations, authenticating the fame she had by now gained on the international scene. The distinguishing factor of Charlotte Perriand’s personality is a sincere loyalty to the principles of humane and innovative rationalism, preserved intact in her projects, on which she worked with such passion, also in readiness for their revival in the “Cassina I Maestri” collection. Charlotte Perriand au Japon, 1953, photo: Jacques Martin © Archives Charlotte Perriand ADAGP2022

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Chiara Andreatti / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:11:52 +0000

Born in Veneto not far from Venice, Chiara Andreatti moved to Milan where she graduated in Industrial Design at IED in 2003 and attended a master at Domus Academy. She collaborated with designers and studios such as Raffaella Mangiarotti, Renato Montagner and since 2006 she has worked with studio Lissoni Associati (MI) whilst working on parallel freelance projects and working with companies such as Atipico, Glas Italia, Non Sans Raison, cc-tapis, Covo, Reflex, Casamilano and Armani Jeans. Continously studying aesthetics, she often combines the artisan culture of her venetian roots with design and industrial needs believing that a handcrafted and poetic touch on everyday objects will enrich our lives.

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Claude Cartier / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:52:56 +0000

Founded in Lyon, Claude Cartier Decoration creates unique and refined interior spaces, mixing an incredible range of colors, textures and contemporary furniture.

Inspired by personal experiences, worldwide journeys and encounters, Claude Cartier Decoration’s projects stand out for their audacious and creative tone.

A luxurious and creative selection which has been mirroring Claude’s taste for design for over 40 years.

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Cristián Mohaded / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:52:25 +0000

Industrial designer and Artist born in the Argentine countryside (Catamarca, 1980). He has graduated from the National Univerity of Córdoba, He shares part of the time between Buenos Aires and Milan.

Nowadays, he is a prolific product, interior designer and art director, and known as benchmark in Argentina design. He is devoted to develop and design products for private clientes, national and international companies.

Throughout his career as a designer he has also won several design awards and special mentions, also he participated in numerous national and international fairs and exhibitions. His works were show in Gallery S. Bensimon (Paris), DeisgnMiami (Miami), Valerie Goodman Gallery, 21st Gallery (New York), Galería Praxis (Buenos Aires), among others.

His works were selected and incorporated into the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA) also into the Musée Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Also, they are already part of the Argentine design heritage of Fundación –I – D – A (Research in Argentine Design), being one of the young leaders in Latin American design.

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Cristina Celestino / cc-tapis

Ghida Maktabi — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 13:53:29 +0000

Cristina Celestino was born in Pordenone and studied architecture at the IUAV School of Architecture in Venice. After graduating in 2005 she worked with various design studios, focusing on interior architecture and design. In 2013 she established her studio in Milan. The activities of Cristina Celestino and her studio range from residential, hospitality, and commercial projects, to creative direction and product design. Her work is characterized by an innate freedom of observation that is both erudite and curious, with a playful approach. She cultivates a great capacity for scientific and aesthetic investigation, displaying an obsession with material and geometry. This allows her to move across history and traditions, altering the scale of objects and creating new conceptual and decorative canons. Cristina Celestino’s work has been featured in prominent publications, including being mentioned for multiple years in AD 100 Best Designers selection, Domus, Elle Decor, Wallpaper, AD, Ideat, and Vogue. She has won several Elle Decor International Design Awards in the wallcovering category; in 2016 she was conferred the special jury prize at Salone del Mobile and in 2022 by Maison & Objet the ‘ Best Designer of the Year’ award.

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David/Nicolas

tedadmin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:05:50 +0000

At the core of David/Nicolas’ practice is an essential duality. The creative spark between designers David Raffoul and Nicolas Moussallem is derived from a delicate balance: between imagination and stoic logic; unbounded creativity and practical research; a curiosity about the future and a deep respect for the past. The pair met while studying architecture at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and founded their studio in 2011. Over the past decade, they have gained global recognition working across interiors, furniture and product design, leading them to open a second office in Milan in 2021. The move marked a return to Italy after Raffoul and Moussallem earned master’s degrees at the Scuola Politecnica di Design in 2011, prior to Raffoul working at Fabrica, in Treviso, Italy between 2012 and 2013.

David/Nicolas’ work can be described as untethered to a single style or era and is instead an alloy of lived experience and personal research. Both hail from Beirut, Lebanon and the complexities and contradictions of the cosmopolitan city can still be found at the heart of their practice. However, they draw inspiration from concepts as vast as vernacular architecture, photography, electronic music and the canon of Italian design, which is legible in their unwavering fidelity to craftsmanship. The duo has brought this sophisticated sense of cross-cultural experimentation to interiors across Europe, America and the Middle East. Raffoul and Moussallem’s approach to each project remains free from preconceived notions or prescriptive narratives, and instead allows the location, its history, and an intuitive dialogue with the client to determine the final work. Theirs is a process that blends their own creative impulses with that of their collaborators, resulting in carefully considered spaces that thoughtfully reflect their inhabitants.

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