As a former interior design and architecture student at Pratt Institute, Royal College of Art in London and Manchester College of Art and Design, Joseph D’Urso used his significant schooling at his practice, D’Urso Design, which focuses on the design of private residences and showrooms. D’Urso then worked for Knoll, developing his collection of high rolling tables, low tables and low, horizontal sofa seating in 1980. Once a designer for Esprit, D’Urso straddles different mediums but maintains his minimalist principles and continues to create three-dimensional spaces on a human scale.