Awards & Grants
Rong Design Library residency 2024
Blickfang Future Forward Award 2023
ProHelvetia Production Grant 2022 for Céleste
IKEA Foundation grant 2022 for Research project “Arrosoir”
Rong Design Library Residency in Hangzhou, 2020 (done in 2024)
Creative Hub support program for Mymic, 2020-2021
ProHelvetia Grant 2019 for Brise Bise
IKEA Foundation grant 2019 for Cactus
Masterpiece Label 2018 for Céleste
IKEA Foundation grant 2017 for Céleste
Jury Price at ChallengeME 2016 for Arrimage
Artist Residency at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, 2016
Design contests jury member
Elite Design Award, 2020 - present
Raum und Wohnen “Möbel des Jahres” 2021 - present
Expert and Jury at Schule für Gestaltung Bern und Biel 2023 - present
Concours de design des Ami.e.s du mudac, 2024 - present
Additional info
Bachelor in Industrial design at ECAL, 2009-2012
Erasmus at Design Academy Eindhoven, 2011
Committee member of “Les ami.e.s du mudac”, 2019 - present
Fluently speaks: French, English, German & Spanish
Projects kindly supported by :
Pro Helvetia Switzerland
Pro Helvetia Shanghai
NOV Gallery
IKEA Foundation Grant
Creative Hub Switzerland
Production partners
IRPD AG, St. Gallen
Fondation Alfaset, Neuchatel & La Chaux de Fonds
Ferblanterie Vuille, Boudry
CMT Rickenbach, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Some past exhibitions & events
Exhibition RAMDAM for Médecins du Monde Suisse, Neuchâtel, 30.11-21.12.2023
Exhibition Réflexions at Design Days Geneva, Base design. 16-31.11.2023
Future Forward winner at Blickfang Zurich, 17-19.11.2023
Chocolatissimo, Neuchâtel, 4-11.11.2023
Exhibition at the Salone del Mobile Milano, Salone Satellite, Rho Fiera, with the Swiss business Hub, 18-23.04.2023
Curation of “Design for the greater good” in Testa e Croce exhibition, ADI Design Museum, Milan, 24.10.2022-05.02.2023
Design Biennale Zurich, 12.08-05.09.2021
YRDICIE, Shanghai, 16-22.11.2020
A Table, QG Art Center, La Chaux-de- Fonds, Switzerland, 30.10-13.12.2020
Spielact Festival, HIT, Rue des Amis 9, Genève, 6-9-.07.2019
Esquimaux, Palais Galerie, Rue des Saars 1, Neuchâtel, 1-28.06.2019
Salone del Mobile, Milano, spazio Rossana Orlandi/NOV Gallery, 8-14.04.2019
Designer's Saturday 2018, Langenthal, 2-4.11.2018
Swiss Design Market, Rennweg 11, Zürich, 05.09.2018
Speaker at the Swiss Design Association round table, Renens, 29.08.2018
Speaker at Business Ideas 2018, Auditorium USI, Lugano, 19.04.2018
Céleste at NOV Gallery in Carouge, Switzerland, 2.11- 09.12.2017
Rossana Orlandi Gallery in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, 1.5-1.09.2017
Jardins, jardin aux Tuileries, Paris, 1-4.06.2017
Salone del Mobile, Milano, spazio Rossana Orlandi/NOV Gallery, 4-9.04.2017
Designer's Saturday, Langenthal 05-06.11.2016
Beijing Design Week 23.09-07.10.2016
Fashion show at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin 27.06.2016
Blickfang Selected Basel 24-26.04.2015
Salone del Mobile Milano, 2011
ECAL/Alessi Tokyo, 2011