Design thinking

Come see us at Milan Design Week 2025

Asle Forsbak, Hydro Mar 11, 2025

[R100] The second chapter of Hydro’s milan series brings five new groundbreaking designs to life within a self-imposed limit of a 100 km radius – from locally sourced post-consumer scrap to finished design objects.

The designers

Sabine Marcelis

Sabine Marcelis is a Rotterdam-based artist and designer known for her material-focused approach to product, installation, and spatial design. Since graduating from the Design Academy of Eindhoven in 2011, she has collaborated with industry specialists, integrating material research into the manufacturing process to create striking visual effects. She has collaborated with brands such as Vitra, Audi, Céline, IKEA, Dior, Fendi, and Renault. In 2024, Marcelis was named Dezeen’s Designer of the Year and featured on Architectural Digest’s AD100 list.

Keiji Takeuchi

Keiji Takeuchi is a Japanese furniture and industrial designer with a truly global outlook. His work transcends any culture or language, characterised by its purity, materiality and the absence of superfluous elements. Receiving his education in product design in Auckland, New Zealand, Takeuchi set up his own studio in 2015 and has since collaborated with renowned design brands such as Boffi,Alessi, De Padova, Living Divani, Geiger / Hermanmiller, Ligne Roset, Karimoku and Fredericia. Takeuchi was recently awarded the Monocle Design Award 2024 for his dining chair design Villetta for De Padova. During the Milan Design Week 2024, he orchestrated the ‘Walking Sticks & canes’ exhibition at Triennale Milano, which was the first curation show both conceived and staged by Takeuchi. A global success, the show has toured Karimoku Commons Tokyo, Emeco House, Venice, California and resulted in the book ‘Walking Sticks‘ from Lars Müller Publishers with Marco Sammicheli.

Cecilie Manz

Cecilie Manz is a Danish furniture designer. Manz' portfolio spans furniture, lighting, ceramics, and other everyday objects, blending simplicity with functionality to achieve a timeless design expression. She studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design and set up her own studio in Copenhagen after graduating in 1997. Manz has designed for brands such as Fredericia, Fritz Hansen, Iittala, Kasthall, Maruni, 1616Arita and Muuto, as well as a longstanding collaboration with Bang & Olufsen. She is a recipient of the Finn Juhl Architectural Prize and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres 2019 (France) and Bruno Mathsson Prize 2009 (Sweden).

Daniel Rybakken

Daniel Rybakken grew up in Oslo, Norway and studied design at the Oslo School of Architecture and the School of Arts & Crafts in Gothenburg, Sweden. The work of Daniel Rybakken occupies the area between art and design, forming limited editions, art installations and prototypes for serial production. In 2008 he opened his own design studio in both Oslo and Gothenburg, collaborating with renowned brands such as Luceplan, Ligne Roset, Panasonic and Vitra. Rybakken was recently named Designer of the Year 2024 award by Bo Bedre and has previously been awarded ‘Best of the Best’ Red Dot Award as well as the Design Report Award for best designer at Salone Satellite in Milan.

Stefan Diez

Stefan Diez is a German industrial designer with a background in cabinetmaking. Diez considers circular design to be a key principle of his product design philosophy, putting forward products with a sustainable approach that combines multiplicity of use with superior durability. He graduated from State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart in 2002 and went on to set up his own Munich-based studio, DIEZ OFFICE, the following year. Diez’s studio developsurniture, lighting, architectural elements and accessories, collaborating with clients such as Herman Miller, Magis, Thonet, HAY and others. He is a repeated recipient of the Best of the Best’ Red Dot Award as well as the Wallpaper* Design Award, and serves as Head of the Industrial Design Department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

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