John Koga, Ruben Toledo, John Wigmore & Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

John Koga is a Honolulu-based sculptor and painter whose work ranges from small paintings to large sculptures and environmental installations. His work is featured in both museum and private collections and exhibited globally. Koga earned an MFA in ceramics and sculpture from the University of Hawaii and studied sculpture in Pietrasanta, Italy. He’s known for his abstract modernist aesthetic that conveys a sense of serenity, balance, and space inspired by the artists Isamu Noguchi, Saturo Abe, and Tadashi Sato. Koga has received several awards from the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Through his artwork, Koga strives to share the beauty of natural elements, including stone, the ocean, and the sky. Known for his work in marble and plaster, he was a natural fit to sculpt new furniture and lighting designs in Plasterglass, created in the PUCCI mannequin factory in Manhattan. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 2007.

Ruben Toledo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1960 and moved to New York with his family as a child. He is a painter, sculptor, illustrator, reporter and fashion chronicler, and renowned for his surrealist wit. The continuous, sudden changes of fashion and the body language of style are two constant themes of his work, which is inspired by a Latin flavor, but which is also strictly connected with American pop culture. He is the author of the famous Style Dictionary, a collection of unforgettable images, which under the form of drawings and watercolors, meld fashion at its most ephemeral with style at its most abiding. His decades-long collaboration with Ralph began when Toledo first designed a mannequin for PUCCI. The partnership continues, most notably including hand-painted surreal and whimsical images in limited edition on RALPH PUCCI Furniture which was called “historic” by New York Magazine design editor Wendy Goodman. He joined RALPH PUCCI in 1988.

John Wigmore is a lighting designer and artist who cites natural materials, Minimalism, and the Light and Space movement of Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s as influences for his first light sculptures in 1993. He has continued to work with established architects and interior designers to build atmospheric light installations globally. His latest work is in ceramic, inspired by the clarity and restraint of Mexican Modernist Luis Barragan’s architecture, the sensitivity of Japanese tea bowls and Californian ceramic artists, which he captured in clay, Japanese paper shades and light. They are all hand-built, not slip-cast, rolled out individual slabs of clay that Wigmore pieces together almost architecturally. He lives and works in Los Angeles, where his lighting is made. He rejoined RALPH PUCCI in 2014.