Дизайнер и архитектор Рафаэль де Карденас назван дизайнером года по версии выставки maison&objet Americas. Сын кубинца и полячки, он унаследовал любовь к ярким цветовым сочетаниям и строгой геометрии форм.

Rafael de Cardenas (Rafael de Cárdenas) Lives and works in New York. A graduate of The Rhode Island School of Design and the University of California at Los Angeles worked for three years with Calvin Klein. In 2005, he opened his architecture bureau Architecture at Large in New York. Its interiors have been published in leading glossy publications.

Started with Calvin Klein. At one time he was the curator (he even brought the New York Minute exhibition for the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art to Moscow). He mastered the architecture and industrial design, graduating from the University of California at Los Angeles. Designed by Greg Lynn, worked on a memorial at the World Trade Center site. His clients include Baccarat, Cartier, Kartell, Nike and others.

De Cardenas is a true postmodern hero. He loves having a passion for 1980, the period of his childhood - the time of hip-hop and street art. Admirer of the Madonna and "Hunger" with David Bowie. According to him, architecture for him is rather a manner of “thinking in architectural categories.” Raphael’s dream is to include architecture in the consciousness of modern man, in the context of his life, where fashion, art, design and music intertwine. The main thing is not the buildings, but the “architecture of the mood”. Its interiors are often real shows of color and geometry. Favorite materials - wood, glass, metal, stone. He has a special attitude to the stones of Cardenas: he takes only the brightest and most saturated - malachite, marble - and generously uses it on large spaces.

Baccarat Boutique in Manhattan. Nike Showroom and Fitness Studio in Soho, New York. Office interior in the building of the former Black Ocean Fire Department, Manhattan, New York. The interior of the restaurant Asia de Cuba in New York. Interiors boutique Delfina Delettrez, London. Shuffle HULK, 2011, Rafael de Cardenas, Johnson Trading Gallery. Fragment of the interior of the club club space OHWOW. New York. Консоль, Johnson Trading Gallery.