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Huu-Toan Antoine Nguyen (born 1969) is a French industrial designer. He runs his own design office in Milan since 2008.

Biography
Huu-Toan Antoine Nguyen is a French industrial designer living in Milan who was born in Paris in 1969. He graduated from the ENSCI (Paris) in 1995. After various experiences in Paris and Barcelona, notably with Alberto Lievore, he moved to Milan pursuing his career with Antonio Citterio, where he became head of design and design partner, co-signing over ten years more than forty products for international brands like Axor-Hansgrohe, B&B Italia, Flos, Iittala, Kartell, Technogym and Vitra, amongst others, before founding his own design office in 2008.

Toan Nguyen's design office is focused on design in all its aspects, from product development to art direction, in partnership with leading international companies based in Europe, North America and Asia such as Dedon, Laufen, Fendi Casa, Coalesse, Studio TK, Vibia, Viccarbe, Walter Knoll, Lema, Busnelli amongst others.

Design vision
Toan Nguyen is a compulsive “dessineur” as he himself said in his early childhood, a designer who stays true to his first passions proceeding to refine them with experience. “I like the direct and sometimes rudimentary aspect of objects that are open to immediate interpretation, not requiring any explanation or conceptual pretexts. I focus on reduction to achieve an object free from anything superfluous. Not like a dogma or an aesthetic line, but like a principle of economy, or even of ecology on every front: in the productive process; the matter and materials; the specific functionality, but also in the gestures and the expression”. His creative line can be summarized in a phrase, harnessed through chance encounters that he refers to on a daily basis “Anything that has no use to me weighs me down”.

Design Products

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Key Dates

 * 1969 Birth in Paris
 * 1989 Starts at the ENSCI-Les Ateliers (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Indus- trielle) in Paris
 * 1991 Experience with Alberto Lievore in Barcelona
 * 1995 Graduates from the ENSCI
 * 1998 Starts working with Antonio Citterio
 * 2000 Design Manager then Design Partner of Antonio Citterio with whom he cosigned more than forty products together with companies such as Axor-Hansgrohe, B&B Italia, Flos, Iittala, Kartell, Technogym and Vitra.
 * 2008 Founds his own design office in Milan and initiates immediately successful partnerships with several leading brands in contemporary design such as Walter Knoll, Dedon, Viccarbe, Laufen, Lema, Fendi Casa, Coalesse, Vibia, Studio TK

Awards and international recognition

 * 2010 Bellows collection for Walter Knoll wins the Red Dot Award
 * 2012 Red Dot Award for the Antero urinal for Laufen
 * 2013 Lagunitas range with Coalesse gains the Best of NeoCon Award
 * 2014 Fendi Casa Cocoon sofa winner of the Best Furniture of the Year Award by Elle Decoration Russia
 * 2015 INO for Laufen in SaphirKeramik wins the ISH Design Plus Award
 * 2015 Infinito Lounge and Masalla for Studio TK win the Good Design Award
 * 2016 Algorithm, designed for Vibia, wins the Archiproducts Design Awards first prize
 * 2017 Dual Lounge seating collection for Studio TK wins Interior Design’s HiP Awards

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Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:People from Paris Category:French industrial designers