A graduate of Industrial Design at the University of South Australia, David Caon honed his design skills working in Milan with George Sowden – an English champion of the exuberant Memphis movement – and Jerszy Seymour, the post-punk industrial iconoclast. From there, he moved to Paris to work alongside compatriot Marc Newson, for clients including Dom Pérignon, Samsonite and QANTAS – for whom he elaborated the award-winning interiors of the flagship Airbus A380. Operating at this level of excellence instilled in David an elegance of process and an intuitive sense of complex client requirements. Today, the combination of big ideas, industrial logic and acute commercial awareness forms the core of CAON’s practice.

CAON is a small team of dedicated professionals. The combined skills enable it to respond with suppleness and efficiency to client requirements. Its constant quest to interrogate reason and challenge purpose permit the studio to push parameters in a way that expands concepts and optimizes results. Innovation is a maxim, excellence the benchmark. The combined goal is to surpass themselves with each new endeavour.

The CAON philosophy is simple: Precision analysis and bespoke response lead to unique outcomes appropriate to each individual case. Collectively, they believe that in the right hands design has the power to heighten the human experience and enhance the quality of life.