Interior architect, designer and founder of the agency Rena Dumas Architecture Intérieure (RDAI), Rena Dumas (1937–2009) cultivated a subtle and rigorous architectural vocabulary. Believing that any project, whether a building or a simple coffee cup, should be conceived with equally high standards, Rena applied the same meticulous approach to every design, in terms of both the quality of the execution and the finesse of the design and its function.