presents
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Nina Kuhn
Head of Marketing
Nina Kuhn is in love with Dennis Rodman. (Well, actually just a portrait of him.) The head of marketing at Galeries Lafayette understands the delicate intertwining between design, marketing and consumerism. Inspiration, however, is not far behind, functioning as fuel for the daily tasks of developing the branding for one of the largest departments stores ...
Stockholm Design Week 2012
Nordic Perfection
People associate many wonderful qualities such as simple, clean lines, attention to detail, the perfect combination of functionality and design, and timeless elegance with Scandinavian design. Many get excited about objects labeled “Scandinavian Design”, which is why Stockholm Design Week filled me with very great expectations. I started off with a visit to the Stockholm ...
Tomek Sadurski
Illustrator & Graphic Designer
There’s a mirrored cubic coffee table at Tomek Sadurski’s studio. The graphic designer and artist who has vandalised Anja Rubik fashion portraits (in collaboration with the model) and driven across Europe in prototype cars for design experiments, moved out from his native Poland—if only physically—to establish himself in Berlin, where he currently lives and works. ...
Nora von Nordenskjöld
Designer
Nora von Nordenskjöld has a pet bunny rabbit. Von Nordenskjöld spends her days inviting people into different worlds. As one of the go-to designers for special projects in Berlin, Nora imagines atmospheres and experiences to help brands, products and locations tell their stories to their audiences. Her work for Pret A Diner, the famed pop-up ...
Hugo Capablanca
DJ & Producer
Hugo Capablanca is infatuated with a new weekender tote. If the lives of the Berlin cool-kids had a soundtrack, Hugo Capablanca would probably be the one mixing it. The Spanish DJ has been a headliner for the city’s scene for years, opening the way for the non-techno movement at the peak of the Mitte era. ...
imm cologne 2012
No pictures please!
The imm in cologne is an undeniably diverse exhibition. All interests and price levels are catered for and sofas the price of a car are just as easily found as cheap Asian copies. In reality most exhibits will prove fairly dull for real design enthusiasts, but in the midst of all the plywood, true seekers ...
Hello World
Welcome to MONOQI
That is our guiding principle. To be your key to unique design. It is all around us every day, whether it be the mug we drink our coffee from, the chair we sit on, the shirt we dress in, the bag that carries our stuff, the frame that holds our favorite picture. Design is everywhere. ...
Felix Petersen
Entrepreneur
A tall, dark-haired guy in a plaid shirt and glasses opens the door for us on Berlin’s Schiffbauerdamm. He gives us a warm welcome and heads straight for the kitchen of his charming pre-war office to fix coffee for the whole team. You might take Felix Petersen for a humanities grad student, a graphic designer, ...
Esther Perbandt
Fashion Designer
Elegant, tough, open to experimentation: the fashion designer Esther Perbandt is a true Berliner and for years she has helped shape the reputation of her city as a fashion metropolis on the rise. Her work is intellectual without losing its ties to everyday life, and represents a new form of femininity especially admired in art ...
Yoon Lee
Artist
Yoon Lee is obsessed with an art installation. As part of her interior design/intervention process, Lee creates unique pieces that interact with space and provide additional layers of intellectuality to each room she gets her hands on. Her current piece-de-resistance: A chandelier-like multi-layer structure hanging six metres above the floor at Katz Orange—the latest addition ...
