A modernist at heart, Terence Woodgate is known for his simple, thoughtful and understated designs. Woodgate works from his studio in the UK where he continues to seek ways to distil the essentials of design. In 2003 he was elected a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI). He has received prestigious 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 a Wallpaper* design award. Examples of his work are held in the permanent collections of the Museu de les Arts Decoratives, Barcelona and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. John Barnard is one of the most innovative racing car design engineers of his generation. Barnard’s first experience in the limelight came when his Chaparral 2K chassis won the prestigious 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 Formula One teams. His system of using paddles on the steering wheel and an automatic clutch has now migrated to road cars. Asked to re-join Ferrari in 1992 he designed and built Ferraris in the UK from 1993-1997. His Ferrari 641, one of the most beautiful Ferrari racing cars, is in the MoMA, New York 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 her built, theoretical and academic work. Her recognisable and remarkable style is characterized by fragmented geometry and bold fluid forms. Hadid’s outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the worlds most respected institutions. In 2010 and 2011, her designs were awarded the Stirling Prize, one of architecture’s highest accolades, by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’, the Republic of France honouring Hadid with the ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’, TIME Magazine included her in their list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ and in 2012, Zaha Hadid was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Her legacy continues through the many projects in construction and in the extraordinary talents of their team.

Celebrated for her creation of innovative structures and unique application of construction materials and courageous architectural schemes, Amanda Levete, founder and principal of architecture studio AL_A, has established a particularly impressive reputation as one of Britain’s leading creatives. A Stirling Prize Winning Architect recent commissions include the highly anticipated expansion of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and a 1.5 million luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bangkok. 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. Amanda is a trustee of leading social innovation centre the Young Foundation and has served as a trustee of influential arts organisation Artangel for over a decade. She is a regular radio and TV broadcaster, writes for a number of publications, including the New Statesman and Prospect, and lectures worldwide.

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 as a second skin covering interior floors and walls. Art work 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 further architectural commissions in New York, London and Seoul. 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. He is currently the creative director of the London based lighting manufacturer wrong.london. Sebastian Wrong received much critical acclaim for the Spun lamp, which he designed for Flos in 2003, winning the prestigious Red Dot Design Award. As a founding member and former Design Director Sebastian Wrong, who left in 2012, contributed significantly to the development of the Established & Sons’ collection.

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 and principal of architecture studio AL_A, has established a particularly impressive reputation as one of Britain’s leading creatives. A Stirling Prize Winning Architect recent commissions include the highly anticipated expansion of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and a 1.5 million luxury shopping mall and hotel in Bangkok. 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. Amanda is a trustee of leading social innovation centre the Young Foundation and has served as a trustee of influential arts organisation Artangel for over a decade. She is a regular radio and TV broadcaster, writes for a number of publications, including the New Statesman and Prospect, and lectures worldwide.

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 her built, theoretical and academic work. Her recognisable and remarkable style is characterized by fragmented geometry and bold fluid forms. Hadid’s outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the worlds most respected institutions. In 2010 and 2011, her designs were awarded the Stirling Prize, one of architecture’s highest accolades, by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an ‘Artist for Peace’, the Republic of France honouring Hadid with the ‘Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’, TIME Magazine included her in their list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ and in 2012, Zaha Hadid was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. Her legacy continues through the many projects in construction and in the extraordinary talents of their team.