Quentin de Coster - Design Works

Originally from Belgium, Quentin de Coster (b.1990) began his career as a freelance industrial designer while pursuing a degree at the prestigious La Cambre. At age 21, the Dutch company Royal VKB put his first design into mass production, fueling his early interest in the business of ideas. Led by his fascination with fabrication and manufacturing processes, he immersed in the art of metal craftsmanship with Maison Vervloet during his final year of studies, with subsequent opportunities to work with legacy and heritage brands like Ligne Roset, Audo, Hermès, and Pierre Marcolini, designing across consumer product categories ranging from mass market to luxury. Parallel to these early industry collaborations, de Coster engaged with national institutions and media to organize public exhibitions, workshops, and lectures that helped promote and advance the field of industrial design in Belgium. Driven by aspirations to expand his professional horizons, de Coster relocated to the San Francisco Bay in the spring of 2017 to join the renowned design agency Fuseproject. Over the next four years, de Coster worked alongside world-class talent to design category-leading products for high-caliber clients such as Samsung, L’Oréal, Nestlé, Vodafone, Diageo, August, and Tiffany & Co. In 2021, he seized the opportunity to pivot in-house at the start-up Thuma, playing a key role in shaping and evolving the contemporary furniture brand from a single-product company to the fast-growing lifestyle brand it is today. Quentin de Coster currently serves as the Head of Industrial Design at Thuma and is responsible for conceiving mass-appealing, timely, and timeless products to scale the business for continual growth. He is regarded for his distinctly thoughtful approach to ecosystem design, which translates in leadership as a sharply focused vision for all-around product experience excellence – core to building brand excellence.