Designers
Caroline Blackburn is an award-winning Los Angeles sculptural ceramic artist. Her vessels explore a deeply held interest in abstract painting, architecture, and nature. Trained as a painter, her sculptural ceramic work focuses on bringing freshness and immediacy to each piece through color, form, and surface texture. While investigating an interest in form, the work produces a continual shift between surface, texture, color and object.
Christopher Merchant is a designer and maker based in Brooklyn, New York, where he produces an experimental, material-focused collection of furniture, lighting, and objects. After training as a woodworker he has expanded his practice to include a broad range of materials, drawing upon the fundamentals of material, form, and detail and driven by free curiosity.
David Weeks Studio is a Brooklyn-based design studio, founded in 1996. A multi-disciplinary designer renowned for his iconic sculptural lighting, founder David Weeks’ minimalist visual language articulates an ongoing, and open-ended, dialogue between material and form. His genre-defining work is the result of a distinctly hands-on, sculptural process of formal reduction which marries an artist’s sensibility with technical precision.
David Weeks lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Georgianna Stout, and their two children. He also makes toys.
Jesse Shaw is a Brooklyn-based ceramicist and founder of Episode, a design studio focused on material exploration and process-driven making. Working primarily in clay, Shaw approaches ceramics as both an ancient language and an open field for contemporary interpretation. Drawing from traditional vessel archetypes while embracing vivid glazes and intuitive variation, the work balances restraint with spontaneity, honoring history without being bound by it. This philosophy reflects a commitment to process over prescription: forms evolve through making, guided by curiosity and a willingness to be surprised.
Evam is a collaborative project between Caroline Kable and Aditya Jaimini. Pulling from Caroline's background in production and product development in New York City as well as Aditya's long history of working with local artisans in Udaipur, India, the pair compliment one another’s unique skill sets. Through a long term friendship and some unforeseen enigmatic life events, Evam was born. Seeking to share their story and adventures of running a furniture company in India, this project promises to be a thrilling journey.
Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are Formafantasma, an Italian design duo based in Amsterdam. Since graduating from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2009, they have forged a distinctive practice characterized by careful attention to process and sustainability, and a critical consideration of materials and their historical value. They work as much with leather, wood, and charcoal as with ideas and concepts, ever mindful of the political and cultural forces informing their decisions. Formafantasma’s work has been presented and collected by museums internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Chicago Art Institute; and the Stedelijk in Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. Trimarchi and Farresin also direct workshops and teach at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Jackrabbit Studio is the design practice of Hudson Valley based artist and designer Brett Miller. With feel and intuition as guiding principles, Miller’s work embodies an almost animistic attraction that aims to connect to the viewer on a soul level.
James Killinger was born and raised in the American Midwest. Before moving to his current home in Brooklyn, James earned separate bachelor’s degrees in art and psychology at Iowa State University. With a desire to reconcile his aesthetic expression and curiosity for human behavior, James obtained a masters degree for industrial design at Pratt Institute. His background in studio craft and time studying furniture design in Denmark continue to inform his playful, yet honest, approach to ideas and materials.
Jamie Gray is a designer, curator, and the founder of New York design gallery Matter. Based in New York since 1998 and born in Los Angeles, California, his work is influenced by both the warm modernism of the west coast and the elegance of the east.
Gray graduated from Pratt Institute in 2001 with a degree in sculpture. His studio practice looks to both form and function as integral and equal parts of a larger narrative in design. He lives in Upstate NY with his wife and three children.
Jason Miller is a Brooklyn-based designer and the founder of Roll & Hill. Born in New York and raised in Darien, Connecticut, Jason’s suburban upbringing heavily influenced his early, more conceptual pieces — duct-taped chairs and cracked vases, among them — and continues to inform the elegant, historically rich work that has become his signature. Jason received an MFA in painting and spent time in both the art and advertising worlds, but soon realized he preferred making things to documenting them. His designs — like a mirror whose photographic surface recalls a painted landscape — still often reflect those early preoccupations, but each is a functional object, with a kind of beauty and wit. Today, Jason runs both Jason Miller Studio and Roll & Hill from his headquarters in Downtown Manhattan.
While president and executive creative director of J.Crew Group, Jenna Lyons was widely recognized as the creative force behind the American retail chain’s phenomenal rise from floundering catalogue chain to one of the most coveted fashion brands in the US. Jenna is now Co-Founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer beauty brand, LoveSeen, as well as title role and Executive Producer of STYLISH with Jenna Lyons on HBO Max. Jenna currently resides in New York City with her son Beckett.
Jessica Helgerson grew up with one foot in Southern California and the other in France. With a French mother and an American father, summers in France, school years in Santa Barbara, she developed a love for both countries, both cultures, and both have had a profound impact on her design work. She briefly worked in an architecture firm after school, but very early in her career felt that there wasn’t an office doing quite the kind of work she wanted to do, and so in 2000 she opened her eponymous design studio.
Now, twenty years later, the firm has grown into something that is much more than Jessica, though she remains at the heart of its design direction. Jessica is also a restless dreamer and schemer, and loves imagining new creative avenues for her studio to explore. Some of those have included Front of House - an installation gallery in the front of the JHID office, XUXO - a collaborative importing crafts from indigenous communities in Mexico, The 1% Project - an effort aimed at supporting non-profits working to end homelessness, and most recently the opening of a Paris branch of JHID which is finally allowing her to bring those two halves of herself together in her design work.
Jessica LOVES to design things, and her favorite project is always the one she’s working on at the moment.
John Hogan is a Seattle-based artist and designer working predominantly in glass. His work, which spans the functional and sculptural, seeks to interrupt and augment radiant energy through the refraction of light. Taking influence from traditional Eastern European casting and cutting, projects focus on reductive design.
Karl Zahn's work with materials developed out of his time spent playing in forests and wood shops in rural Vermont. After earning a degree in product design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003, he pursued his material exploration on the west coast as a metal fabricator for an interior architecture company with a design collection of their own. It was there that he first started working with lighting.
After moving to Brooklyn in 2007, Karl began pursuing his own product designs and building a career in the NY art and design community. In 2019, after a decade at the eponymous lighting company Lindsey Adelman Studio, he left his position as design director to focus on his own lighting projects, and on continuing collaborations with companies like Roll & Hill. Currently his work can be found in homes around the world, and at the design gallery The Future Perfect and their locations in New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Lara Bohinc MBE studied Industrial Design at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts, followed by MA in Metalwork and Jewelry at Royal College of Art London. After graduation, she won British Fashion Council’s New Generation Award and launched her own studio. She was design consultant for many luxury brands, amongst them Montblanc, Gucci and most notably Cartier, a position she held for over a decade. A mark of her work is versatility. A passionate believer in the universality of good design, she always looks to bridge the divide across different mediums of furniture, objects jewelry and textiles. Bohinc’s ability to create work with iconic beauty is rooted in her familiarity with materials and manufacturing approaches. While retaining a deep respect for the traditional principles of her craft, she has also drawn on her knowledge of industrial techniques, fusing modernity of style with function, to achieve a contemporary elegance. The same principles apply in all of her designs – use of the finest materials, and an obsession with deconstruction and reconfiguration of pure geometric form. Overall, Bohinc’s signature style is a mix of contradictions: bold yet light, graphic yet fluid, angular yet feminine.
Founded in 2020, Memòri is a studio whereby distinct disciplines of craft connect, intersect and transmit through questioning and continuing artisanal practices and customs. It is an ode to remarkable traditions and craftsmanship that has its roots in a distinctive area of the Mediterranean basin. It aims to revive and rekindle the collective memory.
Memòri is deeply involved in Morocco with the women artisans with whom the studio has been working since 2017 through the Non-profit Association Memòri Lab. Its aim is to commit in favor of the transmission of artisanal gestures and savoir-faire through cultural, social, and sustainable actions.
Nash Martinez is an Oregon-based designer with a diverse and immersive background in the world of design. Starting as a 20th-century design dealer, Nash's passion for lighting quickly evolved into creating original lighting designs. His designs reflect a meticulous attention to detail, applying familiar forms with timeless materials in a modern direction.
Nash founded contemporary lighting studio, Current Collection in 2017. He currently lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife and partner Kora, their daughter Izzy and their loyal pup, Leo.
Founded by Ruben Caldwell, Jou-Yie Chou, and Leigh Salem, the team is a collection of architects, interior designers, carpenters, art directors, and creatives working across disciplines. Their work is a composite of many voices both within and outside of the studio – Post Company believes that this collective expression is greater than that of the individual and that great design should be universally applicable and broadly accessible. As such, Post Company is always pushing to expand the reach of design beyond concepts of luxury and exclusivity.
Founder of Coral & Tusk, Stephanie Housley is known for creating intricately embroidered textile works derived from her highly detailed hand drawings. Based in Wyoming, her work is inspired by the incredible animals she lives amongst. Great Grey Owl and Roseate Spoonbill are two large-scale embroidered textile pieces she created specifically for Roll & Hill. Each work features a scene embroidered on linen, with individually embroidered feathers that are hand cut and hand sewn onto the surface.
While Hallgeir Homstvedt and Jonah Takagi have been friends for years, their first collaboration as designers came only recently as part of an exhibition curated by the influential design blog Sight Unseen and sponsored by the Embassy of Norway. Half & Half for Roll & Hill is the first co-designed product that they have licensed.
Hallgeir Homstvedt holds a BA of Industrial Design from Newcastle University in Australia. After completing his degree in 2006, Hallgeir went on to work for the much celebrated design studio Norway Says before opening his own design studio in 2009. Hallgeir has exhibited his work in London, Tokyo, Oslo, New York & Milan. Among his clients are renowned Norwegian and international furniture manufacturers like Lexon, Muuto, L.K.Hjelle and Established & Sons.
Jonah Takagi received a BFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. After several years of life on the road as a touring musician, Jonah launched his studio in 2010. He has exhibited work throughout Europe and America and counts among his clients such esteemed brands as Roll and Hill, Matter, La Chance and Hem.