Florida-based artist Papou creates paintings shaped by personal memory, cultural heritage and the landscape of South Florida. Combining bold colour and fluid forms, her compositions often place the self alongside recurring symbols from Floridian wildlife, using them to explore identity, duality and the different versions of the self.

Architect and designer Pietro Franceschini creates collectible furniture and objects at the intersection of material craft and digital culture. Under the concept of The Fictional Object, his work moves between functionality and illusion, bringing together references from antiquity, industrial modernity, pop culture and imagined futures.

Artist Clara works with borosilicate glass to create sculptural forms shaped through an intuitive making process. In GLASBLUMEN, German for glass flowers, she combines floral elements into five distinct forms that capture the transitional state between bloom and decay. Petals, stems and leaves appear to soften, deform and give in to gravity, suspending a fleeting moment of material transformation in glass.

Eindhoven-based designer Rino Claessens creates objects shaped by material experimentation and a process-led approach. Working primarily with ceramics, he draws on the medium’s tactile qualities and long history while bringing it into a contemporary context, alongside explorations in cast bronze and carved wood.

Dutch designer Rutger de Regt creates furniture and objects through an intuitive, process-led approach to making. Working across ceramics, plastics and metal, he allows the properties of each material to guide the final form, resulting in pieces that retain visible traces of their making and balance control with irregularity.

With a background in engineering, designer Sheyang Li approaches making as a balance between structure and spontaneity. Traditional processes are reworked through trial and intuition, treating each material as a language of its own and allowing unexpected forms to emerge from the process.