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Designers
Resident works with a select group of talent across multiple disciplines including industrial design, architecture, furniture design and sculpture. Each designer’s instinct for experimentation keeps the group fluid and adaptive to new technologies, while also cementing our reputation for innovation.
Daniel Schofield
Daniel Schofield is a Copenhagen-based designer whose practice spans furniture, lighting, and product design. With a foundation in both graphic design and carpentry, Daniel brings a unique sensibility to his work—combining visual clarity with an intimate understanding of material and form.
Originally from the UK, Daniel has collaborated with a number of leading international brands and was mentored early in his career by the late Sir Terence Conran. His work has been widely recognised, receiving honours including the Design Guild Mark, Northern Designer of the Year, the Elle Decoration British Design Award, and the Wood Awards.
Estudio Persona
Estudio Persona is the design studio of Emiliana Gonzalez and Jessie Young.
The Uruguayan designers have been working collaboratively together in Los Angeles since 2015. The studios work regularly features bold silhouettes, neutral tones, and raw materials free of embellishment.
The work of Estudio Persona celebrates the skilled community of manufacturers around Los Angeles as material or production "constraints" become opportunities and inform the design process.
Michael Young
Michael Young is an award-winning British designer, founder, and creative director of Michael Young Studio. Established in 1993, the studio set out to offer exclusive, quality design services across a broad spectrum of industries. In 2006, Michael opened a second studio in Hong Kong, positioning himself at the forefront of Asia’s design landscape.
Today, Michael Young Studio is recognised globally for its innovative approach and timeless output, with work housed in museums from London to Shanghai. In response to the shifts brought on by the pandemic, Michael launched Michael Young Home — a namesake brand dedicated to lighting, furniture, and homeware.
Tim Rundle
Tim Rundle is the Creative Director of Resident as well as running his own practice. With experience across furniture, lighting, consumer products, technology and transport, Tims work has grown to focus on the design of products and systems that exist at the intersection between architecture and its inhabitants. His approach is driven by a fascination for the relationship people build with the objects and spaces that surround them, and grounded by a deep, almost obsessive understanding of how products come to exist through the industrial manipulation of materials.
John Tree
John Tree is a London-based product designer whose work is built upon a broad knowledge of technology, markets, materials and processes.
John designs and develops products across multiple categories, from high-end, small-run items through to mainstream mass-produced commercial items.
His approach to design is characterised by flexibility – driven by a desire to balance context, function and production. With intense focus on reducing and refining, John's aim is to always design products with enhanced character and lifespan.
Léonard Kadid
Léonard Kadid is an architect and product designer based in Paris, France. From object to architecture, the work of his studio focuses on structural experimentation and formal simplification to explore the intrinsic characteristics of matter. After studying at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and the École d'Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires in Paris, Léonard Kadid has collaborated with renowned international offices such as Herzog & de Meuron and Caesar Zumthor in Basel, Switzerland.
Cheshire Architects
Cheshire Architects move organically from huge institutional and urban master-planning work to the digital fabrication of bespoke door handles and the hand-finishing of furniture. This is a practice formed around the depth of its ideologies, rather than the thinness of styles and project types. They operate across fields of luxury and poverty, newness and age, roughness and refinement, running parallel programs of research, writing, lecturing, publishing and university teaching. Cheshire was founded in New Zealand in 2004.
Jamie McLellan
Jamie is a product and furniture designer with more than 20 years experience working internationally across a wide range of industries.
After 6 years living in San Francisco and leading the design team at Allbirds, he recently returned home to Aotearoa New Zealand. Jamie still maintains a connection with Allbirds as Principle Creative Advisor.
His work has always aspired to understand and express beautifully the inner meaning of an object. Working with Allbirds infused Jamie with a deeper understanding of sustainability and shaped a belief in a new emerging kind of beauty; a beauty that is built from the molecules and fibres up.
Jamie is committed to designing products that the world needs and that deliver measurable and meaningful impact.
Philippe Malouin
British-Canadian Philippe Malouin holds a bachelor’s degree in Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven. He has also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris and University of Montreal.
He set up his studio in 2008 after working for English designer Tom Dixon. Philippe has also taught at the Royal College of Art in London between 2012-2015.
His diverse portfolio includes tables, rugs, chairs, lights, art objects and installations. Philippe’s client list includes: Vaarnii, De Sede, Iittala, Nike, Please Wait to be Seated, SCP, Marsotto Edizioni, Resident, OTHR, HEM, Ace Hotel, Matter-Made, Established & Sons, Roll & Hill, 1882 ltd., Kvadrat, Umbra Shift, IZÉ, Aesop.
Philippe is represented by Salon 94 Design gallery in New York City as well as The Breeder gallery in Athens. He has recently won the Wallpaper* Magazine ‘designer of the year’ award. He has also been named President of the Jury at Villa Noaille’s Design Parade in France.
Philippe Lives and works in London, where he operates his design studio.
Resident Studio
Resident Studio is the Resident brands own in-house product design team, led by Co-Founders Simon James and Scott Bridgens.
Based in Auckland, New Zealand, the multi talented team is committed to design research and exploration into a variety of materials and processes, with the aim of creating unique furniture and lighting pieces.
Scott Bridgens
Scott Bridgens is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Resident.
Based in Auckland New Zealand, Scott is an ambitious entrepreneur with a strong perspective on design and a keen sense for market opportunities.
With a Bachelor of Business Studies, Scott is formally trained in Supply Chain and Logistics Management and held significant formative positions with Montana Wines (2003 – 2007) and world-renowned British Design brand Tom Dixon (2007-2011).
Scott established Resident in 2011 with Simon James, with the intention of taking the best of New Zealand Design to the world.
Since then, Resident has become a distinctive global design house, producing over thirty collections of furniture and lighting, which have furnished hundreds of contemporary interiors projects.
Scott is the driving force behind Residents commercial output. He is passionate about people and creative outcomes and is a focal collaborator within the talented roster of designers in Residents portfolio.
Scott has been the lead designer for Resident Studio for the highly original Geometric, Circus and Ghost Light designs.
Simon James
Simon is the Co-Founder of Resident, and also designs original furniture for both residential and commercial spaces under the Simon James Design name.
Simon infuses character into clean, uncomplicated forms. Having founded his eponymous brand in 2001, Simon’s appreciation of craftsmanship continues to deepen, as he explores material tactility in new and exciting ways. His design approach is largely intuitive, with people and their experiences of a space a central focus for him.