Carolien Janssens is a Swiss designer whose work creates connections between function and meaning, craft and industry, responsibility and aesthetic expression. With a background in mathematics, she likes to develop product families based on formulas and underlying patterns, then break away from them to make room for moments of surprise.

She thinks with her hands, feels drawn to the unusual and believes in the value of objects that have been carefully made.

+41 76 321 96 99

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Exhibitions

2121, Tokyo, 2027 [upcoming]

Milan Design Week, 2027 [upcoming]

Designblok, Prague, 2026

Designpreis ALTEFABRIK, Rapperswil-Jona, 2026

Lake Como Design Festival, 2026

Bestform, Bern, 2025

imm Cologne, 2022

Space Grotesk Basel, 2019

Design Festival Bern, supported by IKEA Foundation, 2019

Toni Müller Wohnkultur AG Muttenz, 2018

Designers‘ Saturday Langenthal, 2018

Awards

Designblok, Diploma Selection Finalist, 2026

Designpreis ALTEFABRIK Nominee, Gebert Foundation, 2026

Pure Talents Award Nominee, imm Cologne, 2022

Bern Design Festival Award, 2019

Swiss Cultural Challenge Nominee, 2019

Furniture of the Year Award, 2018

Young Talent Award, 2018

Basel Innovation Award, 2018

Swiss Design Association Bachelor Award Nominee, 2018

Siemens Home Appliances Design Award Nominee, 2017

No Drama is a series of meticulously handblown glass vases defined by their unusually wide bases. They convey a sense of calm and stability. No tipping over. No drama.

This first series was made for an auction at the annual Christmas market at ECAL.

↓ NO DRAMA_Price List.pdf

No Drama is a series of meticulously handblown glass vases defined by their unusually wide bases. They convey a sense of calm and stability. No tipping over. No drama.

This series was produced for the BESTFORM exhibition, and funded by the Berner Design Stiftung . It consists of five different shapes with even larger feet.

↓ NO DRAMA_Price List.pdf

No Drama is a series of meticulously handblown glass vases defined by their unusually wide bases. They convey a sense of calm and stability. No tipping over. No drama.

Each vase is made by encasing transparent or coloured glass in clear molten glass. The resulting transparent outer layer becomes a permeable boundary, reflecting its surroundings and visually connecting object and space. The wide bases reinforce this idea, spreading across the surface as if merging with it.

The series shown at Lake Como Design Festival explores this relationship through varying degrees of transparency, colour and density. In No Drama, the border is not a line of separation, but a reflective membrane where object and space seem to merge.

↓ NO DRAMA_Price List.pdf