Brad Ascalon’s eponymous award-winning studio was founded in 2006. The multidisciplinary designer and educator specializes in furniture for the contract, hospitality and residential markets, as well as lighting, packaging, and other consumer products. With a reductive approach to his craft, Ascalon believes in design that is uncomplicated, rational and manages to find the perfect balance of form, function and concept. Through this approach, coupled with a strong understanding of design’s role as a vital driver of business opportunities, Ascalon is widely regarded as one of the leading American design voices of his generation.

Working with clients ranging from global brands to start-ups, branding agencies and private clientele, Ascalon’s long list of collaborators stretches the globe, from the US to Asia, Denmark, Sweden, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and beyond. His work has been exhibited around the world, from the global design hubs of Milan, Paris, London, Cologne, Stockholm and New York, to Chicago, Los Angeles, Guangzhou and Moscow, where in 2013 he was singlehandedly invited to represent American design with an installation at Moscow Design Week. He has been featured in top publications including Interior Design, Wallpaper*, New York Times, Architectural Digest, Intramuros, Whitewall, Esquire, Surface, Dwell, Objekt, Interni, Ottagono, Elle Décor, Metropolis and many others, and has won numerous design awards over the span of his career.

In addition to his design practice, Ascalon teaches graduate level design courses at the renowned University of Pennsylvania, teaching both architecture and product design students a curriculum that bridges the University’s schools of Architecture, Engineering and Wharton School of Business.

Born outside of Philadelphia, PA, Ascalon was immersed in the world of art and design. His grandfather was a noted sculptor and industrial designer, and his father is renowned for his large-scale art installations that can be found in public and private spaces throughout North America. Ascalon attributes his passion for design to the two generations before him who instilled in him the value of craftsmanship, materiality and rigor.

Ascalon earned a Masters’ degree for Industrial Design from New York’s Pratt Institute in 2005, and that same year was recognized by Wallpaper magazine as one of the "Ten Most Wanted” emerging designers in the world.

Ascalon, his wife Amy and their dog Norman live and work on the North Fork of Long Island, NY. Well, Norman doesn’t work. He pretty much just lays around waiting to be fed and barking at the neighbors.