Industrial Facility

The Industrial Facility studio was created in 2002 by two designers and architects, Sam Hecht and Kim Colin. Industrial Facility is located in Clerkenkwell in the center of London, a place where opposites meet: trendy and dynamic executives, thinkers and artists in vogue. Sam Hecht and Kim Colin have a difference in their strength, two opposing visions of the world. From London, Sam received an industrial designer education. He is contemplative and attached to the simplicity and essence of things. Kim is a Californian. An architect by trade, she is expansive and has an architect's sensitivity: emotion, the breadth and depth, the landscape and the culture. They have relied on their different world views to design small-scale objects as well as large-scale architectural works. They work for Herman Miller and also design for Yamaha (Japan), Mattiazzi (Italy), Issey Miyake (Japan), Established & Sons (UK), Tectona Louis Vuitton (France) and Muji (Japan). From the beginning in 2008, Herman Miller had asked Kim and Sam to become their appointed Creative Advisors. A number of their designs appear in permanent collections of museums including the MoMA of New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Finland in Helsinki, MoMA San Francisco, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the National Museum of applied Art in Munich and the V & A Museum in London. Even if the studio team is modest in size, it is indeed eclectic in talent.