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Katrin Olina
Magical, sublime and inspired by nature. Katrin Olina has developed a personal, rich visual language that serves as a vivid interface between reality and the subconscious. Consisting of lush landscapes inhabited by real and fictional creatures and characters, some from her own life.
Born in Iceland, Katrin Olina studied Industrial Design in Paris before working at the European design studios of Philippe Starck in Paris and Ross Lovegrove in London. Since then, she has worked predominantly as a graphic artist and illustrator in the realms of industrial design, fashion, interiors, print, and animation.
One of her major projects is Cristal Bar in Hong Kong, where her dream-like drawings cover every interior surface. Another is the elegant coat hanger Tree, which has become a symbol for modern Swedese, created in collaboration with the British designer Michael Young.
Michael Young
Planes and trains are his offices, travelling a working method. British-born and Hong Kong-based Michael Young is an international star designer, driven by a passionate interest for technological evolution and mass industry. As well as a constant questioning of human typologies and habits ...
Born in 1966 in Sunderland, northern England, Michael Young studied Furniture and Product Design at Kingston University, London. In the mid-90s Terence Conran chose Michael as his favourite designer. Simultaneously that time’s so-influential magazine Wallpaper hailed his work, but Young fled from the cocktail-party circuit to Iceland, where the landscape helped him to focus.
Later he moved to Brussels and then Taipei. And finally to Hong Kong – where his company Michael Young Ltd is bold enough to claim that it designs icons rather than items. Like the exceptional easy chair Avalon for Swedese, a one-piece injection chair, created as an expressive nod to Verner Panton.