Hitting the big time: How this Singaporean came to design for luxury furniture brands B&B Italia and Herman Miller
Besides being B&B Italia’s youngest designer, Gabriel Tan will soon be designing for more top names, joining other luminaries in furniture design’s hall of fame
GABRIEL Tan startles you by saying he never felt he could be good at anything.
At least, that was the case until he met a French professor at the National University of Singapore, who nurtured his interest in furniture design. In fact, the design-loving Tan thought he wouldn’t even make the cut for the university’s then-new industrial design programme, as he couldn’t finish the entry test.
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