Archidust Journal

When we talk about architecture and design, we open an endless ideas door that often reflects our own being. Today, we want to share with you a list of the 5 leading world designers, whose imaginative and intelligent work inspires us. Here, the top architects and designers.

1. Zaha Hadid
   Wild, revolutionary, captivating, she was the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture (2004), proceeded by the Contemporary Architecture Award Mies Van der Rohe (2003). She graduated as an architect at the Architectural Association in London, where her studio is located.

Of Iraqi origin, Zaha Hadid is a professional who enjoys an unquestionable prestige with countless awards in the last five years. Her creations and innovative contributions in furniture, sculptures, paintings and other decorative objects are closely linked to her architecture conception.

Hadid won the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award in 2013, a prize created in 1972 in honor of Madame Clicquot that promotes the women recognition with the spirit of entrepreneurship, courage, and determination to carry out their projects. Undoubtedly, she is one of the top interior designers in the world.

2. Philippe Starck
Perhaps the best known by all, this world prestige media designer is preceded by his fame. His unparalleled career in the furniture field design and interior design has made him a benchmark.

Starck studied at the Nissim de Camondo School in Paris and in 1968 founded his first company, which produced inflatable objects. Since then he has not stopped receiving awards and praise for his daring designs and decorations.

Philippe Starck, appointed artistic director of different projects, faces the transcending standards of luxury and elegance challenges. For this, one of his inspirations is the XXI century audacity and is one of the most recognizer modern architecture designers.

3. Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini is an honorary member of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, has twice received the prestigious Compasso d’Oro of design (1979 and 1981) and many other important awards. Mendini is also an honorary professor at the Academic Council of the Fine Arts Academy of Guangzhou in China and is also an art consultant for various companies in Europe and the East. It is a classic of modernity that enjoys recognition and respect.

Graduated from the public University of the Polytechnic of Milan, he is a privileged-minded architect who works with his brother Francesco under the Atelier Mendini brand a commercial architecture design, with which they design hotels around the world. Together, carry out architectural works all over the world creating furniture, interiors, paintings, colorful ceramics and watch designs.

4. Kelly Wearstler
Famous for her distinctive designs and creations that generate sophisticated and vibrant atmospheres, this woman is a pioneer celebrity of interior design.

This multifaceted Californian designer has given a 180-degree turn to American design, adding fresh essence and high doses of color to each of the projects she undertakes. Her works cover a wide range of projects such as the residential and commercial interiors designs, furniture collections, fabrics and wall coverings, decorative home accessories, jewelry, and artworks.

Wearstler completed a degree in design and, subsequently, started her own architectural design firm where she owns a risky style that is unmistakable, due to the use of vibrant tones, and the mix of masculine and feminine, as well as traditional and contemporary.

5. Jean-Louis Deniot
   He is recognized by Architectural Digest and Elle Decor as one of the best interior designers in the world.

Timeless classicism. These two words summarize the French architect personal style and interior designer who focuses his love for XVIII century design. Celebrated around the world for his unique works, Deniot plays in a repertoires multiplicity, without “sticking” to the styling purity, leaving his academic training translated into an informal and bold vocabulary.

Using materials and textures with subtle color palettes, dull tones, and impeccable lighting, Deniot moves at the crossroads between classical language and contemporary aesthetics, generating serene, elegant and dramatic interiors. He deserves to belong to our famous interior designers list.

Thanks to them, life can be more beautiful and simpler. Some are better known than others but we may have admired their creations more than once. Their names and surnames give rise to avant-garde trademarks, their ideas move our world, that’s why they are part of our top architects and designers.