Andrew Jones is a Canadian furniture designer working for international manufacturers of contract, outdoor, and residential furniture. With an MA in Furniture Design from the Royal College of Art in London and a degree in Architecture from the University of Toronto, Jones has worked for more than 25 years designing furniture and architectural interiors. This dual experience forms the foundation of his work: designing furniture fit for purpose and place.

Jones’s commitment to exploring the role of furniture as fundamental in creating environments has resulted in a series of architectural interiors - including residences, restaurants, university interiors - and furniture for outdoor public space. These projects afforded him unusual opportunities to create site-specific furniture and lighting designs and to study how scale, materials, and shape affect planning configurations and social arrangements and define the intrinsic character of a place. His designs for the public realm include the iconic and beloved pink umbrellas at Toronto’s award-winning Sugar Beach. In 2014 he was the winner of an international design competition for outdoor chairs at The Battery in Manhattan.

Jones’s design projects have been featured in international publications, including I.D., The New York Times, Azure, Metropolis, and Wallpaper, and have been exhibited in Canada, the United States of America (including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York), Britain, Japan, and Italy. His work is part of the permanent collections of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Design Exchange, in Toronto.

Truly elegant design solutions are created by finding a harmony between the contour lines of a product and the technical components that hold it together.

Bendtsen Design Associates is a multi-faceted Design Studio based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The studio is comprised of Niels Bendtsen, Giancarlo Stefani, and studio support staff; between them, there is a broad range of experience, expertise, and know-how that is translated into every product the studio develops.

The inspiration and inception for every product is anchored by technical knowledge and understanding of production and manufacturing that comes from more than a half century in the industry. This deep understanding informs the development process and creates elegant development solutions.

Both sons of cabinet makers, Niels Bendtsen and Giancarlo Stefani grew up in close proximity to furniture and realized early on that they wanted to spend their lives working in Design. From Denmark, and Italy, to Venezuela, and finally to Canada - both men have worked extensively in the field, and have found a synergy in each other’s work.