Having spent the last three years inviting some of the region’s most promising design talents into his eponymous London gallery (names like Lewis Kemmenoe, EJR Barnes, Andu Masebo, Isobel Alonso, etc), interior designer and curator Max Radford‘s group exhibition lineups are now considered a veritable who’s who of the UK scene. But Radford also keeps an enthusiastic eye on the goings-on outside his home turf, of course, and today he’s sharing the ten most-promising non-UK designers who, like many on his own roster, are making process-driven furniture and lighting.

1. Nicolas Zanoni (Belgium, France)

“I first saw Nicolas Zanoni‘s Pyrofoam table at Uppercut’s booth at Collectible this year. Its aesthetic blew my mind, and when I found out more about his process of pressing and burnishing sheet polystyrene, I fell in love.”

2. Tim Teven (Netherlands)

“Tim Teven uses a high-pressure hydraulic press to deform steel tubes into unique shapes. I need to get something of his into a project soon.”

3. Flora Lechner (Netherlands)

“I came across Flora Lechner’s work though her collaborative work with Tim Teven. Her intricate process of constructing hundreds of individual components into expressive forms really drew me in, with her Turbine Chandelier particularly exemplifying this.”

4. Calen Knauf (Canada)

“I found Calen Knauf’s work on Instagram a few years ago and love it more as I see it develop. His recent Wowtables particularly spoke to me — they’re made from car-cleaning cloths soaked in resin.”

5. Yoon Shun (Belgium)

“I’ve followed Yoon Shun for ages. The visible tension in his Waves in Objects collection is particularly attractive to me. Each item is crafted from 3mm aluminum plates, which are meticulously rolled and polished by hand by the designer himself.”

6. Frank Penders (Netherlands)

“I love Frank Penders‘s ONE collection, where singular pieces of steel are seamlessly cut, folded, and bent into shapes that have a uniquely monumental feel.”

7. Arnaud Eubelen (Belgium)

“Arnaud Eubelen‘s reclamative approach to his practice caught my eye — the way he transforms construction materials into functional sculpture. In a world where people continue to make too many new, pristine design objects, his strongly figurative works stand out.”

8. Supaform (Italy)

“I first saw Supaform’s Midcentury Journey project at Alcova Milano this year. His deceptively simple cut and folded galvanised pieces have a perfect balance of simplicity and materiality for me.”

9. Studio Kuhlmann (Germany)

“Hannah Kuhlmann is a designer, but she’s also a welder who makes her own pieces. I particularly loved her Daisy Diamond lamps, with their peel-back steel ‘petals,’ when I saw them in the flesh earlier this year.”

10. Theophile Blandet (Netherlands)

“Back when I used to run my Instagram more as a mood board, you would have found Theophile Blandet’s 2019 TPC collection on it, which he made by melting and sculpting industrial plastics into chairs and tables. His AI cabinet and TPC Max table — with their plasma-cut fabrication but delicate detailing — are my favorites now.”