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Artists & Designers
Meet the talent behind our good looks.
Nothing excites us like a great collaboration, and here we share the faces and stories behind many of Crate and Barrel's exclusive products this season. From illustrators and studio ceramicists to fine artists and industrial designers, they inspire us from all over the world.
Meet Designer Mariella Ienna.
SPECIAL FEATURE
After five years working as a lawyer in Sydney, Australia, Mariella Ienna turned to her creative side, leaving her practice to open a floral design studio. A few years later she made an even bigger leap when she left for Italy to immerse herself in interior and garden design. Today this noted designer focuses her talent on designing kilims and carpets, which she produces for an international clientele.
Ienna’s designs are a rich mixture of traditional and floral influences. Recognized for their “chiaroscuro aesthetic,” her designs provide dramatic contrast between light, color, form and texture.
“I am not afraid to mix styles and periods. Interpreting traditional motifs, I like to apply baroque and florid colorways to render my floor covers more adaptable to modern interiors.”
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More Featured Artists and Designers
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Genevieve Bennett composes unique three-dimensional surface patterns through print, appliqué, embroidery, embossing and engraving techniques influenced by Art Deco textiles to 18th-century silk tapestries.
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Teil Duncan
Designer
To artist Teil Duncan, the natural world is all about shape, color and composition, which she manipulates freely and imaginatively in innovative oil and acrylic paintings.
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Genevieve Bennett
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Mark Daniel
Armed with a natural curiosity for how things are made, Mark Daniel creates clean, simple forms brought to life in pure, natural materials.
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Designer
Ana Reza-Hadden connects the dots in ways that don’t seem obvious. Her imaginative eye looks far afield, creating designs for everything from flatscreens to chocolates to our exclusive lamps and pendants.
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Ana Reza-Hadden
Heather LaHaise
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Comics were an early influence on artist Heather LaHaise. Combining abstraction and realism, she builds up paint only to scrape some away creating evocation portraits of man’s best friend.
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Designer
Bill Eastburn
Bill Eastburn is drawn to beautiful forms and clean lines. His career designing furniture evolved from restoring old barn, laying the foundation for a practice based on beauty and utility.