Platt & Young, London

Robin Platt was born in South Africa in 1962. He studied furniture design at the London College of Furniture and won the New Designers Award in 1989. Cairn Young, born in 1963, hails from California. He studied at Kingston University, also in London. Together they have headed their own studio in the British capital since 1991. The two designers have a natural affinity to organic shapes, capricious curves and lighthearted lines that flow into each project in their own unique ways.