Satyendra Pakhale


Satyendra Pakhalé is an industrial designer, designer and architect. He realizes projects from industrial design, applied research to product design, development and manufacturing. He works in the fields of product design, including consumer electronics, transportation, home appliances, furniture, digital products & computers, and architecture & interior design. In 2008, he was selected as one of L’Uomo Vogue magazine’s 80 most influential creative people with vision worldwide in design and architecture. His works are in permanent collections of several museums worldwide.

Early life

Satyen Pakhalé was born and raised in central Maharashtra, India. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Design Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur. He then studied for a Master's degree in Design at the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and Product Design at the Art Center College of Design, Switzerland, Europe.

Design works

Pakhalé has been internationally active in the field of industrial design and architecture since 1993.
He worked initially at Philips Design—new business creation department on innovative products in the areas of digital communication and transportation. In 1998 he set up his own design practice in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
One of his solo industrial design exhibitions of his works took place in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and another at Otto Gallery Bologna, Italy, curated by Paola Antonelli, curator of Museum of Modern Art, New York and at Gallery Ammann, Cologne, Germany.
The design manager and marketing executive Alceo Serafini has described Pakhalé's work as follows:
In 2014, Pakhalé is selected as one of ten Must-See Artists-Designers at Miami Art Week 2014 for ‘Design at Fairchild – Satyendra Pakhale’ exhibition at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, USA.

Awards and recognition

Pakhalé has received the following awards and recognition:
Pakhalé work in the following permanent collections:
Pakhalé has been regularly invited to give lectures and workshops in USA, Europe and Asia at universities and conferences. He was visiting faculty at the department of Man and Activity from 1999–2006. From 2006 to 2010, he was the Head of the department of Master of Design for Humanity and Sustainable Living Program at Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Books

Paola Antonelli, curator of Museum of Modern Art New York has said, introducing Satyendra Pakhalé's design works: