Yiannis Ghikas
Yiannis Ghikas was born in Athens Greece. With his background encompassing Computer Science alongside Design, he employs functionality as the ultimate purpose of his designs while exploring their potential emotive responses. He sees design as a process of satisfying needs either tangible or intangible. His Monarchy stool has received the red dot design award (2009) and the German design award (2016). His Soda tables for the Italian brand Miniforms, entirely made of mouth-blown Murano glass, got instantly the attention of the design world and won the arch products design award, the Azure magazine award, and are shortlisted for the Dezeen design award 2021 so far.
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