Barro de Gast, Milano

Barro de Gast was born in the Netherlands in 1966. He studied at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven, completing his degree with distinction in 1991. He works in interdisciplinary fields in the areas of industrial and packaging design and industrial prototyping. Since 2004 he has also held a teaching post at the Istituto Europeo di Design IED in Milan. The Dutchman has won several design prizes with his works: the Esaedro International Competition (Milan 1991), the Dutch Furniture Awards of 1992, and Interieur '92 (Kortrijk, Belgium).