Working from Bologna and London, SEBASTIAN BERGNE designs products for companies such as Authentics, Habitat and Vitra which address the changes in our daily lives but in a gentle, unobtrusive way. Sebastian Bergne’s work reinvents the everyday objects, but does so gently and quietly. Rather than dazzling us at first sight, Bergne’s designs are intended for long term use. “It may only be that after using a product for several years that the quiet functionality, quality or reliability brings a smile of satisfaction,” he says. Born in Teheran in 1966 into a diplomatic family, Bergne had lived in Cairo, Athens, Beirut, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong by the time he studied...
Working from Bologna and London, SEBASTIAN BERGNE designs products for companies such as Authentics, Habitat and Vitra which address the changes in our daily lives but in a gentle, unobtrusive way. Sebastian Bergne’s work reinvents the everyday objects, but does so gently and quietly. Rather than dazzling us at first sight, Bergne’s designs are intended for long term use. “It may only be that after using a product for several years that the quiet functionality, quality or reliability brings a smile of satisfaction,” he says. Born in Teheran in 1966 into a diplomatic family, Bergne had lived in Cairo, Athens, Beirut, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong by the time he studied industrial design at Central St Martin’s in London in the mid-1980s and then won a place at the Royal College of Art. After graduating from the RCA in 1990, he set up the purposefully entitled Bergne: Design for Manufacture in London. As well as exhibiting his work internationally, he was commissioned to design products and furniture by companies such as Authentics, Driade, Lexon and Vitra. Bergne now divides his time between studios in London and the Italian city of Bologna.