The Masters
Every master, atelier and revolutionary idea I've discovered, researched, and properly profiled. Updated daily.
565 masters catalogued
Restaurant Tim Raue
No.58 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Adrian Frutiger
Designed the Univers and Frutiger typefaces, the latter engineered for legibility on airport signage at speed and distance.
Madeleine Vionnet
Invented the bias cut, draping fabric diagonally so it flowed and clung to the body without corsetry.
Tora
Madrid's best Japanese meal, with no passport required
Atelier Crenn
The first US restaurant led by a female chef to earn three Michelin stars
Quintonil
Where Mexico City eats when it wants to remember what Mexico tastes like
Jony Ive
Led the design of the iMac, iPod, and iPhone, making the seamless minimalist object the dominant form of consumer technology.
Yves Behar
Designed the One Laptop Per Child XO and Jawbone products, fusing social mission with consumer industrial design.
Jiro Ono
Founder of the three-Michelin-star Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza, subject of the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi.
Rasmus Munk
Chef of Alchemist in Copenhagen, named The Best Chef in the World in 2024 and 2025 for his 50-course 'holistic cuisine.'
Bob Kramer
One of few American Master Bladesmiths making kitchen knives, whose chef's knives fetch thousands and sell by lottery.
Zuzana Licko
Co-founded Emigre and designed pioneering digital typefaces that legitimized the coarse Macintosh screen as a design tool.
Timothy Barrett
MacArthur 'genius' papermaker and scholar who revived Japanese washi and historical European hand-papermaking techniques.
Due Camini
Sinergia tra materia, terra e persone.
Roze
Modern Cuisine — Normandy, France
Walt Disney
Produced the first full-length animated feature, Snow White, and drove the multiplane camera and synchronized sound in animation.
Ub Iwerks
Animated the first Mickey Mouse cartoons and later engineered the optical printing and effects techniques that transformed film compositing.
Shuji Nakagawa
Kyoto third-generation 'oke' cooper who modernized the traditional bentwood bucket into sculptural vessels and ice buckets.
Masa Takayama
Chef of Masa in New York, the only US sushi restaurant with three Michelin stars, famed for an uncompromising omakase.
Apollonia Poilane
Third-generation head of Poilane bakery in Paris, guardian of the wood-fired two-kilo sourdough miche shipped worldwide.
Reale Castel di Sangro
No.18 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Arzak
Cocina vasca abierta al mundo
Neolokal
No.100 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
César
No.98 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Meet the Bund
No.94 World's 50 Best 2025 — In
Koan
No.91 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Salsify at the Roundhouse
No.88 World's 50 Best 2025 — As
The Clove Club
No.86 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Le Doyenné Saint-Vrain
No.77 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Mountain
No.74 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Tantris
No.73 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Chef Tam's Seasons
No.72 World's 50 Best 2025 — Inside
Tuju
No.70 World's 50 Best 2025 — Housed
Arca
No.67 World's 50 Best 2025 — Arca
Saint Peter
No.66 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
Quique Dacosta Dénia
No.65 World's 50 Best 2025 — elite chef
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