Art Deco Handmade Milled-Brass Candle Holder

DAY Studio is a multidisciplinary design and consultancy office founded by Doğanberk Demir and Yeşim Eröktem in 2015 following their masters degree at ECAL. The studio works on various fields from furniture and lighting to textile design, table-top accessories to industrial products and packaging design. DAY works with local and international companies including Habitat, Frette, Flormar, Gaia&Gino and Chivas next to their own brand AVLU, a collection focused on local manufacturing techniques, creating dialogue between design and İstanbul's rich crafts culture. Yeşim and Doğanberk fuses their cultural sensibility with a contemporary approach to create simple and functional objects. Their work has been exhibited at Wallpaper* Handmade, Salone del Mobile, Downtown Design Dubai, London Design Festival and Istanbul Design Week and featured at Wallpaper*, SightUnseen, Vogue, Architectural Digest and Elle Decoration magazines. The studio has received prestigious Kristal Elma and EDIDA awards and nominated for Wallpaper* The Officine Panerai Next Generation Designer of the Year.

GAIA&GINO was founded in 2004 in Istanbul, Turkey. The company is named after the founder Gaye Cevikel’s nickname and her dog Gino. The mission of Gaia&Gino was to to set a model of a leading Turkish company in the field of design and creativity. GAIA&GINO has quickly gained recognition as the first international Turkish brand in the design scene, collaborating with reputable designers and asking them to incorporate Turkish cultural elements into innovative objects. The collaborations with Karim Rashid, Arik Levy, Andrée Putman, Christian Ghion, Constantin Boym, Defne Koz, Jaime Hayon, Emir Uras, Sebastian Bergne, Harry Allen and David Adjaye brought out collections combining contemporary design with Turkish sensibility.