Artists & Designers

Born in Forney, Texas, and raised in Dallas, Spellman studied at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, and the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton, where she taught for nearly fifty years. Skilled in all aspects of printmaking (specifically etching, aquatint, mezzotint and lithography), she was drawn to working on paper, meditating closely on details which would come to mark her individual style.

Founded in 1993 by Gijs Baker and design historian Renny Ramakers, Droog, Dutch for “dry,” is a Dutch designer collective renowned for conceptual yet pragmatic design. Droog designers commonly utilize recycled materials in reference both to the ready-made movement established by Marcel Duchamp and consumerism.

Born in Copenhagen, Louise Campbell graduated from the London College of Furniture in 1992 and continued her studies at Denmark’s Institute of Industrial Design, where she graduated in 1995. Since establishing her Copenhagen studio in that year, Campbell’s clients have included Louis Poulsen, Zanotta, HAY, Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard, Stelton, Muuto, Interstop, and The Danish Ministry of Culture.

Swiss designer Otto Künzli was born in Zurich. He studied at the Hoch-schule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich in the Department of Jewelry from 1965 to 1970. Afterward, he moved to Munich, Germany, where he studied under Hermann Jünger at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste from 1972 to 1978.