Thomas Nathan

German designer Thomas Nathan (*1987) completed his Master of Arts in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He previously studied audiovisual media in Stuttgart. He combines knowledge of various disciplines in his designs. His style of working is characterised by an insistence that each piece should be unique, with the designer quite literally taking this matter into his own hands. Nathan works with individual pieces of clay that he shapes by hand. For his partnership with Rosenthal, Nathan has applied this handcrafted element to industrial production. So, instead of modelling the product itself, he makes the plaster mould by hand.