Jane Worthington with Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini and Stefano Marzano, working at Mendini’s studio in Milan - 1990s
Jane Worthington is a British artist and designer who’s work explores the intersection of object, memory, and meaning.
Rooted in a rare lineage, having begun her career alongside Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini and Stefano Marzano, her practice emerges from the intellectual tradition of design while extending beyond its conventional outcomes. Rather than pursuing output, she works with restraint, questioning how form, material, and fabrication can carry cultural and emotional weight.
Her design practice is concerned with functional objects shaped by precision, material intelligence, and process. These works are made for living, conceived for spaces that value longevity, clarity, and material restraint over novelty. Function is treated as a discipline: a condition through which form can endure.
Her sculptural work extends this design intelligence beyond use. Drawing on the same industrial processes and material knowledge, these works redirect precision towards authorship. The sculptures operate as architectural and psychological forms, objects that hold space rather than serve it.
Alongside her sculptural practice, she collaborates selectively with craft-based and design-conscious partners for whom material intelligence, longevity, and cultural weight take precedence over scale.
News
Jane Worthington has been shortlisted for the Dubai Urban Elements Design Challenge, an international competition organised by Buildner in collaboration with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority. The competition received submissions from architects and designers across 91 countries, placing it among the largest global design initiatives of 2025.
Jane Worthington advocates for considered and transparent design practices. She works to ensure the use of pasture-raised, traceable leather, where each hide can be followed back to its origin through SPOOR-certified tanneries. While this level of traceability remains uncommon within the industry, she chooses to work in this way deliberately, acknowledging the lives and materials behind the objects we create, and insisting that what is made should come from dignity, rather than indifference.
Ethics
Alongside her studio practice, Jane Worthington has played a central role in the development of a newly accredited design programme in the Netherlands. This work builds on her long-standing engagement in design education as a tutor, examiner, and curriculum contributor across leading academies.
Her teaching at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and the Academy of Architecture in Maastricht reflects the same concerns that guide her studio work: an emphasis on intention, responsibility, and the conditions under which objects are made. Design, in this context, is not merely about what is produced, but about how and why it is brought into the world, and the values embedded in those decisions.
Pedagogical Practice
BA (Hons) in Industrial Design
De Montfort University, Leicester, England
Cumbria Collage of Art & Design - National Diploma
Education
Good Industrial Design Award — SBC333 Series, Philips Design (Netherlands)
Möbel des Jahres Award — ds152, de Sede (Switzerland)
Woon Meesters Design Award — For Innovation & Creativity (Belgium)
IMM Innovation Award Nomination — Leolux, Vol de Rêve (Germany)
IMM Innovation Award Nomination — Leolux, Vol de Rêve (Germany)
NEC Best of the Best Nomination — Leolux, Vol de Rêve (England)
Dubai Urban Elements Nomination — Dubai RTA (UAE)
Awards & Recognitions
Museums & Exhibitions
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
MAK ( Museum fur Angewandte kunst ) Vienna
DAZ ( Deutsches Architektur Zentrum ) Berlin
Evolution Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Milan Design Week, Fiera Rho, Milan
IMM Cologne, Cologne
Masion & Objet, Paris