A contemporary creator with classical foundations, New York-based Creative Director Jonathan Hansen has established his signature through collaborations with some of the leading names of fashion and furniture design. Building on his training in 18th- and 19th-century French, English and American furniture design, Hansen investigates the equilibrium between functionality and abstraction that comes with each interaction between human and object. Placing the human body at the core of his work, he conceives each piece as a biomorphic being endowed with a subtle human essence. Designing and fabricating objects for the past 20 years, he launched his product design firm Jonathan Hansen + Co. in 2010. Hansen has worked with leading global fashion designers and brands including Thom Browne, Lisa Perry, AERIN, Ralph Rucci, The Ritz Paris, The HAAS BROTHERS, L’OBJET, FOUNDRAE and LES Collection. In 2018, he debuted his independent design editions, SERIES I: Captum Biomorfe – the first of a continuous series of furniture design collections through which he addresses the ties between design, architecture, sculpture, and the human body. For this Series of work Jonathan has partnered with Antonio Rillosi, CEO and Founder of Extravega Milano SRL, to create a new company called Edition9 LLC. Antonio and his Milan based team are the fabrication and engineering brains behind Jonathan’s artistic vision. The series’ second iteration, titled SERIES II: Eximo Biomorfe, premiered at Design Miami 2022.