Marnick Smessaert

Marnick Smessaert

BELGIUM Marnick Smessaert knows how to stand out from the crowd on the European lighting scene. He created DARK as recently as 2001, but by following his heart and his gut feeling he has already placed his company on the global market. DARK is currently available...
Marcus Fairs

Marcus Fairs

UK A furniture design graduate, Marcus began his journalism career writing for publications including Blueprint, The Guardian, The Independent on Sunday and Conde Nast Traveller. He launched ICON, the international architecture and design magazine, in 2003, and edited...
Jan Ejhed

Jan Ejhed

SWEDEN Jan Ejhed, architect SAR/SIR/SA, is professor of lighting and head of the Lighting Laboratory at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Campus Haninge, Stockholm. He is also a researcher, lighting designer and light fitting designer. His light fittings can be...
Magnus Wästberg

Magnus Wästberg

SWEDEN Wästberg is a lighting manufacturer founded in Sweden by Magnus Wästberg. Although Wästberg is a new company, Magnus has a significant experience from growing up and working in the lighting business. Wästberg will develop, manufacture and market a new type of...
James Irvine

James Irvine

UK / ITALY James Irvine was born in London in 1958. Graduated in 1984 at the Royal College of Art, London. The same year he moved to Milan Italy. From 1984 to 1992 he was a design consultant for Olivetti design studio Milan designing industrial products under the...
Vesa Honkonen

Vesa Honkonen

FINLAND Vesa Honkonen works in his own offices in ­Helsinki and Stockholm in the field of architecture, lighting design, interior design and design. From 1993 until 1998 he worked with Steven Holl in New York and Helsinki as Kiasma’s project architect. The...