Philia
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Ana Cecilia Tron Rubio is a Mexican designer and the founder of Abitante, a Mexico City–based studio dedicated to furniture, objects, and collectible design. Through a practice rooted in craftsmanship and material exploration, she develops pieces that balance sculptural presence with everyday functionality.

Drawing inspiration from Mexican artisanal traditions, natural forms, and contemporary living, Tron Rubio works closely with local craftspeople to create objects distinguished by organic silhouettes, tactile materiality, and a quiet sense of refinement. Through Abitante, she explores the relationship between heritage and contemporary design, creating works that evoke intimacy, atmosphere, and human connection.

Gabriela Campos is a Brazilian architect and designer based in Rio de Janeiro and the founder of Mais Alma, a design studio dedicated to creating furniture and objects with a contemporary yet inviting sensibility. Her work is characterized by clean lines, warm materials, and refined details, resulting in pieces that balance simplicity, comfort, and timeless elegance. Through Mais Alma, Campos develops a design language rooted in softness, authenticity, and a thoughtful connection between people and the spaces they inhabit.

Pernille Vest is a Danish Interior Stylist. She graduated from the Scandinavian Academy of Fashion Design and worked as an independent fashion designer for several years in Copenhagen and Paris. During that period, she became more and more interested in the styling aspects of fashion and started to style fashion photoshoots for magazines. Soon she began to style interior design, first for magazines and later also for companies. Pernille was part of the founding team for the magazine RUM and later for ARK JOURNAL, which is an internationally distributed magazine for design, architecture, and art. 

Today, Pernille works as an independent Interior Stylist combining her passion for furniture design and art. She curates exhibitions and showrooms, and style catalogs for both Danish and international furniture companies, such as Carl Hansen, Astep, Dagmar London, CC-Tapis, and Molteni. She has curated exhibitions at Salone del Mobile Milano, London Design Festival, Maison Object Paris, and 3 DAYS OF DESIGN in Copenhagen.

Mylène Niedzialkowski is a French designer whose practice explores the expressive potential of raw materials through a process of experimentation, reduction, and craftsmanship. Working between Paris and the southwest of France, she creates collectible furniture, lighting, and sculptural objects distinguished by minimal forms, subtle irregularities, and an enduring respect for material integrity. Each work emerges from a careful dialogue with its medium, allowing texture, colour, and inherent properties to guide the creative process rather than impose upon it.

Rooted in an ever-growing archive of found materials, production remnants, textiles, and everyday objects, Niedzialkowski’s practice balances intuitive making with refined precision. Her studio functions as both a material library and a cabinet of curiosities, where local resources and collected fragments become the starting point for new creations. Through this restrained yet poetic approach, she develops timeless works that blur the boundaries between functional design, sculpture, and contemporary craft.

Verónica Mar is a Spanish artist and designer whose work explores the relationship between nature, energy, and human emotion. Working across collectible furniture and sculptural objects, she creates refined forms that express balance, harmony, and simplicity, distilling the essence of the natural world through a minimalist visual language.

Trained in both fine arts and interior design, Mar approaches each creation as an object with its own presence and emotional resonance. Her work is distinguished by its sculptural purity, quiet elegance, and enduring connection to nature.

Franklin Azzi is a French architect and designer whose multidisciplinary practice, founded in 2006, works across architecture, interior architecture, design, and contemporary art. Through projects ranging from urban interventions and adaptive reuse to large-scale towers and cultural spaces, Azzi has developed an approach grounded in sustainability, flexibility, and the intelligent transformation of existing structures.

Known for an architecture that is minimalist in expression yet highly attentive to functionality and environmental quality, his work explores how spaces can evolve alongside contemporary ways of living and working. Rather than pursuing a fixed formal style, Franklin Azzi emphasizes context, materiality, and long-term adaptability as central elements of the design process.

His projects include the rehabilitation of the Alstom halls in Nantes, Beaupassage in Paris, Tour d’Argent, and the transformation of the Montparnasse Tower alongside Nouvelle AOM. Working with a multidisciplinary team, Azzi continues to develop architecture that balances innovation, sustainability, and human experience across all scales.