At 50, Schiavello is not only a hero of Australian design and manufacturing, it is an exemplar practice with its sights well and truly set on the future.
With a prolific output of 30 to 40 new prototypes ready for manufacture each and every year, Nick Rennie is a busy man at the vanguard of Australian product designers.
"My career in design was somewhat an accident," reveals Tom Fereday, in this insightful Q&A – the first conversation in a series highlighting the talented shortlist in Zenith's Emerging Designer category at IDEA 2016.
From Tokyo to London and now Hong Kong via Berlin, De Roeck has spent the last 10 years creating bespoke tours of interior design and architecture for design professionals.Speaking to inside, the design specialist extraordinaire shares the top five objects he has encountered on his travels.