Satyendra Pakhalé, born 1967 in India, is an international designer based in Amsterdam. After completing his Bachelor of Engineering and Masters of Design in India and Advanced Product Design in Switzerland, he worked as Senior Designer at Philips Design, creating innovative products, services and scenarios for new business creations, in the areas of digital communication and transportation. In 1998, he set up his own design practice in Amsterdam. Since then, he has been working on his own projects and on projects for diverse industries in many different countries. Renowned companies rank among his clients, including Alessi, Italy; Bosa, Italy; Cappellini, Italy; Colombo Design, Italy; Offecct, Sweden; Magis, Italy; Moroso, Italy; RSVP, Italy; SCA, Sweden; Tubes, Italy; France; Lille3000, France; Material ConneXion, USA.
Pakhalé works in a wide range of disciplines, bringing fresh perspectives and a diversity of innovative cultural connections to his designs. His design emanates from cultural dialogue, synthesizing new applications of material and technologies with great ingenuity. Pakhalé conveys a message that could be defined as universal through his designs and ranks him among the most influential designers at work today. His works are in several public collections, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
After setting up his design practice in Amsterdam the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was the first to do a solo exhibition in 2002. Subsequently in 2003 the Otto Gallery in Bologna, Italy did a solo exhibition on his works. The Otto Gallery exhibition was curated by Paola Antonelli, the curator of the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the exhibition was appropriately called “Satyendra Pakhalé – Design by Heart.” A book on his oeuvre, “From Projects to Products,” was published by Modo, Milan, during this time period, further establishing him as an autonomous designer. The Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands, invited him to head the Master Programme in Design for Humanity and Sustainable Living from 2006-2010. He is represented by Gallery // gabrielle ammann, Cologne, Germany. In 2008/2009 she created Pakhalé’s solo exhibition in Germany, entitled “OriginS.”
Pakhalé considers the design profession an expression of true human optimism and is motivated by social, technological, ecological, industrial and – above all else – cultural parameters, all combined with a purely creative vision. Currently, his prime interest is in the design of mass-producible, technically-challenging personal products and systems. Besides he is engaged with his studio projects to explore ways of making things which may lead to edition pieces.