Terence Woodgate is a designer of lighting and furniture. A modernist at heart, he is known for his simple, thoughtful and understated designs. Woodgate works from his studio in East Sussex where he continues to quietly seek new expressions in design. In 2003 he was elected a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI). He has received several international design industry awards including the German Red Dot ‘Best of the best’ award and the IF ecology award. In the UK he has won the Observer⁄Elle Decoration design award for furniture and recently a Wallpaper* magazine 2008 design award. Examples of his work are held in the permanent collections of the Museu d’Arts Decoratives, Barcelona and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. John Barnard is one of the most innovative racing car design engineers of his generation. He was first thrown in the limelight after he won the USAC series and Indianapolis 500. He pioneered and built the world’s first carbon fibre monocoque, winning three consecutive Formula One world championships for McLaren. Uniquely he has been technical director⁄chief designer at both Ferrari and McLaren. Headhunted by Ferrari he pioneered for them the first hydro electronic gearbox, a system that is now used by all F1 teams. His system of using paddles on the steering wheel and an automatic clutch has now migrated to road cars. Asked to rejoin Ferrari in 1992 he designed and built Ferraris in Guildford from 1993-1997. His Ferrari 641, one of the most beautiful Ferrari racing cars, is in the New York Museum of Modern Art permanent collection. His influence can be seen in every single car on the grid today.

Zaha Hadid was the first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work. Hadid’s remarkable style is characterized by fragmented geometry and bold fluid forms. Currently Zaha Hadid Architects is working on a multitude of projects worldwide including: the High-Speed Train Station in Naples; the CityLife masterplan and tower in Milan; the Grand Theatre in Rabat and the New National Stadium in Tokyo, as well as major master-planning projects in Beijing, Bilbao, Istanbul and Singapore. In 2011 Zaha Hadid was featured in Newsweek Magazine’s ‘150 Women Who Shake The World’. © Brigitte Lacombe.

Celebrated for her creation of innovative structures and unique application of construction materials and courageous architectural schemes, Amanda Levete, founder of architecture studio AL_A, has established a particularly impressive reputation as one of Britain’s leading creatives. Recent commissions include the highly anticipated expansion of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and a 1.5 million soft luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bankok. Levete trained at the Architectural Association and worked for Richard Rogers before joining Future Systems as a partner in 1989, where she realised ground-breaking buildings including the Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground and Selfriges department store in Birmingham. She is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art and a trustee of Artangel, the Young Foundation and the Arts Foundation. Levete is a regular TV and radio broadcaster and has written for a number of magazines.

Artist Richard Woods is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art. His well documented work crosses boundaries between art, architecture and design and is most often made up of exaggerated, garish representations of traditional British architectural and interior motifs, such as wooden flooring, chintz wallpapers, crazy paving or red bricks. These “logos of reality” are created using traditional woodblock techniques and then applied to walls as a second skin covering interior floors and walls. It was applied to a courtyard in the Henry Moore Project at the Venice Biennale 2004, to a residential building in upstate New York 2006, and a store interior for Comme des Garcons in Osaka in 2003. In these instances, Woods’ art expresses an extreme version of Englishness by taking over a space and saturating it with iconography. Woods has also recently produced work for the London Underground, Paul Smith, collaborated on architectural projects in Sicily and Tokyo and is currently working on a host of projects including a solo show in Athens, plus further architectural commissions in New York and London. Sebastian Wrong first studied sculpture before going on to establish his own successful manufacturing company. His career in the manufacturing sector has accumulated an impressive array of technical skills and he has worked with some of the most preeminent designers and companies of the era. His portfolio of work spans furniture, lighting, accessories and gallery projects. As a founding member and former Design Director Sebastian Wrong contributed significantly to the development of the Established & Sons’ collection. Wrong continues to exercise his abilities in the field of manufacturing at Established & Sons as well as flex his considerable creative skills as a product designer.

Committee is a partnership between Clare Page and Harry Richardson, who met whilst studying fine art. Since then they have studied and practiced the crafts of machine knitting and cabinet making respectively, and developed a derelict shop space into a studio and ad hoc gallery before beginning to work within the design industry.  Following their noses, rather than any defined career path, Committee has come to design products as varied as lighting, rugs, ornaments, furniture, textiles and wallpaper, whilst also maintaining a studio practice producing self-initiated and commissioned works, born of academic interest. Committee’s main aim is to embed a cerebral investigation into items that nevertheless remain simply dedicated to beauty, function and a sense of poetry of their own.

Maarten Baas graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2002 and has since gone from strength to strength with exhibitions at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Moss and ICFF in New York, Salone del Mobile in Milan and Art Basel in Miami, amongst others.

Celebrated for her creation of innovative structures and unique application of construction materials and courageous architectural schemes, Amanda Levete, founder of architecture studio AL_A, has established a particularly impressive reputation as one of Britain’s leading creatives. Recent commissions include the highly anticipated expansion of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and a 1.5 million soft luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bankok. Levete trained at the Architectural Association and worked for Richard Rogers before joining Future Systems as a partner in 1989, where she realised ground-breaking buildings including the Media Centre at Lords Cricket Ground and Selfriges department store in Birmingham. She is a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art and a trustee of Artangel, the Young Foundation and the Arts Foundation. Levete is a regular TV and radio broadcaster and has written for a number of magazines.

Committee is a partnership between Clare Page and Harry Richardson, who met whilst studying fine art. Since then they have studied and practiced the crafts of machine knitting and cabinet making respectively, and developed a derelict shop space into a studio and ad hoc gallery before beginning to work within the design industry.  Following their noses, rather than any defined career path, Committee has come to design products as varied as lighting, rugs, ornaments, furniture, textiles and wallpaper, whilst also maintaining a studio practice producing self-initiated and commissioned works, born of academic interest. Committee’s main aim is to embed a cerebral investigation into items that nevertheless remain simply dedicated to beauty, function and a sense of poetry of their own.

Zaha Hadid was the first woman to be awarded the distinguished Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004, and is internationally known for both her theoretical and academic work. Hadid’s remarkable style is characterized by fragmented geometry and bold fluid forms. Currently Zaha Hadid Architects is working on a multitude of projects worldwide including: the High-Speed Train Station in Naples; the CityLife masterplan and tower in Milan; the Grand Theatre in Rabat and the New National Stadium in Tokyo, as well as major master-planning projects in Beijing, Bilbao, Istanbul and Singapore. In 2011 Zaha Hadid was featured in Newsweek Magazine’s ‘150 Women Who Shake The World’. © Brigitte Lacombe.