After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1998 Gitta Gschwendtner set up her studio in London working on a diverse range of projects ranging from product, interior and exhibition design to public art installations for arts, cultural and corporate clients. Gitta originally designed her Plant Cup for an installation about the domestic interior at the Geoffrey Museum in 2004. At the private view she asked Thorsten if he would like to produce the planter and the following year Thorsten launched the slip cast Plant Cup in Milan. Her other clients include British Council, Crafts Council, Design Museum, DuPont Corian, Geffrye Museum, Habitat, Innermost, Mathmos, Peugeot, Purves & Purves, Royal College of Art, Science Museum, Sony, Twentytwentyone, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wellcome Trust.