Michaël Bihain

Biography

The kind of precise research that results in the obviousness of the lines obtained: a symbiosis of contemporary lifestyle and collective memory.

Michaël Bihain is one of Europe's most interesting and creative designers. He is also the designer who won't terminate. Instead, he seeks to hand over the creative process to the user. The objects are meant to work individually – or to create a new unity through repetition. Bihain hands over a "relay baton" – such as the much-prized, unforgettable, ladder-like bookshelf Libri for Swedese.

Belgian Michaël Bihain trained both as a butcher and carpenter, and then studied Interior Design at the St Luc Institute in Liège and Hull University. He then opened his studio, where he is currently working on the development of furniture design and accessories either from his Belgian office in Brussels or from his workshop in Louveigné. Michaël Bihain teaches at the St Luc Institute in Liège. He has been awarded several prizes and is represented, amongst other places, in the permanent collection of The Design Museum in Seoul.