Daphne Haefliger is a Swiss designer living in New York. She studied industrial design at the Art Center College of Design in Switzerland and in California. After graduating in 1997, she moved to New York and worked for several branding and house ware product design consultancies.

She discovered Feng Shui in 1999. She immediately felt a strong connection with this philosophy and started her professional training. In the spring of 2005 she graduated from the Feng Shui Masters Training ProgramTM. Using both her Feng Shui and design background, she created and launched, at the end of 2004, the Feng Shui Desk Set under her company name Red Asterisk.