Morris was an English textile designer associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement who is recognised as one of the most significant cultural figures of Victorian Britain.

Founded in 1955, the William Morris Society is devoted to his legacy and, while many of the buildings associated with his life are open to visitors, much of his work can be found in art galleries and museums, and his designs are still in production.

Eileen Gray was an Anglo-Irish architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, she was associated with many notable European artists of her era, such as Le Corbusier.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. His career spanned five decades, and he designed buildings in Europe, Japan, India, and North and South America.

Brandt studied at the Bauhaus and later became head of metal workshop there. Her designs are recognised as some of the best from that era and among the few Bauhaus designs to be mass produced during the interwar period. She is also remembered as a painter and a pioneering photographer.

Jacobsen was a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs.

Charles Eames and his wife Ray were American designers who worked in and made major contributions to modern architecture and furniture. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film.

Sottsass was as an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century. His body of work included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting, home objects and office machine design, as well as many buildings and interiors. He was a founding member of the Memphis design group.

Colombo was an Italian industrial designer who produced innovative designs for furniture, lamps, glass, doorknobs, pipes, alarm clocks, and wristwatches. He created the professional camera Trisystem (1969), the air conditioner Candy (1970), dinnerware for Alitalia (1970; still in use), as well as an ergonomic printing table.

Grange’s career began as a drafting assistant with the architect Jack Howe in the 1950s. His independent career started rather accidentally with commissions for exhibition stands, but by the early 1970’s he was a founding-partner in Pentagram, an interdisciplinary design consultancy. Grange's career has spanned more than half a century, and many of his designs became, and are still, familiar items in the household or on the street.

Rogers is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture.

Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd’s Building and Millennium Dome both in London, the Senedd in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize.

Foster is an English architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture. He is one of Britain's most prolific architects of his generation. In 1999 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. In 2009 Foster was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award in the Arts category. In 1994 he received the AIA Gold Medal.

Starck is a French designer who has become widely known since the start of his career in the 1980’s for his interior, product, industrial and architectural design work.

His prolific output includes furniture, decoration, architecture, street furniture, industry, bathroom fittings, kitchens, floor and wall coverings, lighting, domestic appliances, office equipment such as staplers, utensils, tableware, clothing, accessories, toys, glassware, graphic design and publishing, even food and vehicles for land, sea, air and space.

Dixon is a self-taught British designer. He is currently the Creative Director of the brand 'Tom Dixon' specialising in Lighting, Furniture and Accessories. His work been acquired by museums across the globe including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art New York and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.