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Sergio Asti |
Much of his work has been published in magazines and books both in Italy and abroad. He has run courses on the teachings relative to industrial design held at the "Istituto Superiore d'Arte" of Venice and at Shizuoka in Japan. Collaborating with important companies who work in he sector of furnishings, lighting, car manufacturers, and in household and electrical domestic products. He has been invited many times to exhibit his own work world wide. |
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Cini Boeri |
Degree at the Milan Polytechnics in 1951, after a long co-operation with Marco Zanuso, she started her own professional activity in 1963, dealing with civil and interior architecture as well as industrial design. She designed single houses, flats, offices, shops in Italy and abroad, paying attention to the study of the space function and to the psicological relationship between man and the environment. As for industrial design, she designed furnishing accessories and object in crystal. Some of her masterpieces are exhibited in museums and international exhibitions. She held a series of conferences at many different Universitis and spent many years in teaching architectural design. She took part in many international competitions, her last award is "Apostolo del design 2003" Prize - Gold Medal. She published many reports on specialised magazies, a book Le dimensioni umane dell'abitazione (Milano, Franco Angeli, 1980) and a series of publications.
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Joe Colombo |
His career was prematurely interrupted by his death. He left numerous testimonies of his originality and intuition even today vital as their realization with new technologies and with a profound sensability in establishing a relationship between man and his living space. Colombo has received a worthy quantity of prizes and his works have been exhibited in various shows. In recent past the professional figure of Colombo was remembered through important retrospectives.
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Edoardo Dal Seno |
On finishing his studies relative to his own profession at the school of Castello Sforzesco in Milan. He followed through with a long series of works in glass, crystal and ceramics. He dedicated many years to interior design and artistic craftsmanship.
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Michele De Lucchi |
Graduated in architecture in Florence. During the period of radical and experimental architecture he was a prominent figure in movements like Cavart, Alchymia and Memphis. De Lucchi designed products for Artemide, Dada Cucine, Kartell, Matsushita, Mauser, Poltrona Frau and Olivetti, for whom he has been Director of Design since 1992. He has developed experimental projects for Compaq Computers, Philips, Siemens and Vitra. Many of his service interiors are in use at Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Enel, Poste Italiane, Telecom Italia, Mandarina Duck, Banca Popolare di Lodi and at other Italian and foreign banks. His professional work has always gone side-by-side with a personal exploration of architecture, design, technology and crafts. Selections of his products are exhibited in the most important design Musuems in Europe, United States and Japan. In 2003 the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris acquired a considerable number of his works, which will be exhibited in two rooms in the permanent museum at the Beaubourg. |
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Konstantin Grcic |
Designer as formation, Konstantin Grcic has founded in 1991 in Munich his own studio: “Konstantin Gric Industrial Design”. He has designed furniture, products and lighting for some of Europe´s leading design companies. Many of his products, which are a synthesis of formal rigor and insight, have received prestigious prizes and are part of the collections of the most important Museums in the world, like the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He likes to define his minimalism as “function” in human terms, combining maximum formal strictness with consideble mental acuity. In October 2000 Konstantin Grcic is nominated "Guest of Honour" at the Interieur Biennal in Kortrijk in Belgium, presenting an extensive show of his work. |
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Laura Griziotti |
Degree in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnics. She starter her professional activity in 1967 as a designer and then partner of the architecture practice Cini Boeri. She took part in many architecture and industrial design projects, growing as a consistent designer in the field of private and public buildings. At present she works in her own practice as designer for private house, shops, bar and restaurants, hotels refurbishing as well as exhibition and industrial designer, a sector where she started working with many leading international companies. She took part in many conferences, in Tokyo and in Osaka, to the exhibition "16 Donne Designer Italiane" at the Trade Centre Takashimaya in Japan (1987).
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Toshiyuki Kita |
Toshiyuki Kita is an active, internationally respected environment, interior and product designer. He is also involved with traditional Japanese craft design. His works are part of the collections of the most important Museums in the world, out of which the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has taken part in the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Centre Georges Pompidu in Paris in 1987.
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Claire Le Sage |
Graduated at the "Superior School of Industrial creativity" in Paris.
She has followed through projects for glasses and bottles and also packaging and accessories for cosmetic products.
Showing her own creations in various exhibitions throughout France.
At the end of 1998, she was nominated art director for the famous "Cristallerie St. Louis" |
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Marcello Mantengoli |
Graduated in Architecture from Florence with a degree in Industrial Design with which he produced the line of the Calici da degustazione for the wines of the region, Montalcino. |
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Enzo Mari |
At the end of the fifties a true philologist of language and of visual art chose to occupy himself also in design; being aware of the necessity to intervine on a culture of masses towards a global quality project.
Examples of his work and design make up part of many museums collections.
His work is documented in numerous publications. At the moment he is in the phase of concluding his theoretical text on project as a form of knowledge which has already been acclaimed as his most important work. |
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Alberto Meda |
Master in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico of Milan in 1969. From 1973 technical manager of Kartell, responsible for the control of projects of furniture and plastic laboratory equipments. In 1979 he starts as freelance industrial designer for various companies: Alfa Romeo Auto, Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali, Alias, Alessi, Cinelli, Colombo design, Gaggia, Ideal Standard, Italtel Telematica, Luceplan, Legrand, Mandarina Duck, Omron Japan, Philips, Vitra, etc. Many exhibitions, some of which: "Mutant materials in contemporary design" at MOMA- NewYork 1995, at Center for Modern Art- Prague 1997, A personal at Salon du Meuble -Paris 1999, and his last one "Italia e Giappone design come stile di vita" - Yokohama, Kobe 2001
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Alberto Nason |
After finishing his studies he took three years experience in a graphic design studio Option One, In London. He then attended The Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan obtaining a diploma in 1996 in industrial design. He took 1 year work experience in Germany in the design studio of “ Eckart & Barski” , near Frankfurt. He’s specialized in the creative and technical areas of design. This knowledge has been the fruit of the collaboration with the studio of architect Michele De Lucchi in the role of designer since 1997, contributing to the development and the planning of design objects. In 2002 he took part in the exibition " Joined by a wire " organized in Milan in the oratory of the Basilica of S. Ambrogio, exhibiting objects made from several materials with the common theme of the use of wire thread. He collaborates with the following companies: Effetre, Miniforms, Murano Due, Domodinamica, Produzione Privata.
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Marinella Vaglio |
Marinella Vaglio obtained her diploma in Industrial Design at I.S.I.A. in Florence. Realizing her own projects a series of jeweled crystal for the exhibition "Author of Craftmanship" in Siena 1993.
From 1995 to 1997 she was the designer for Calp at Colle Val d'Elsa projecting sand blasting decorations, cuts for crystal ware and gift items. Presently working alone realizing glasses and decorations.
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| Jacopo Piccione |
Jacopo Piccione graduated in Florence university. An expert in software for glassware design and renderings. He has received a title of professional qualification from the tuscan region in Info graphics for the elaboration of synthetic images in silicon graphics. |
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Karim Rashid |
He received a Bachelor of Industrial Design in 1982 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He pursued graduate design studies in Naples, Italy, with Ettore Sottsass and others, then moved to Milan for one year at the Rodolfo Bonetto Studio. He worked for seven years with KAN Industrial Designers, whit them he also co-founded and designed the Babel Fashion Collection and North. He opened his own practice in New York City in 1993. He has worked for numerous clients globally such as Prada, Yahoo!, Davidoff, Zero Disegno, Magis, Issey Miyake, Totem, Pure Design, Zeritalia, Fasem, Guzzini, Estee Lauder, Giorgio Armani, Sony, Zanotta, Citibank, YSL, and others. He has over 70 objects in permanent collections and his design work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among others. His work has been published in International Design magazines. |
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Andrea Ruggiero |
Andrea Ruggiero, originally trained as an industrial designer (at Parsons School of Design, and briefly at Domus Academy,) he now works as a generalist, bridging various disciplines -- in addition to product design he is actively involved in the design and development of visual identity systems, furniture, packaging, and commercial interiors. His work appears regularly in leading design and lifestyle publications and has been selected for the Good Design Award, the International Furniture Design Fair award in Japan, and twice for ID Magazine's prestigious Annual Design Review. He has been teaching product design at Parsons School of Design since 1996 and is a frequent contributor to the Color Association of the United States. |
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Duccio Santini |
Graduated in Architecture at the University of Florence. Predelection of planning of works on a small and medium scale with a particular interest in the definition of detail.
Working in the dressing of exhibitions stands, commercial spaces and their realization in industrial design and graphics.
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Ettore Sottsass |
After having graduated at Turin Polytechnical University, he transferred to Milan and there began in 1958 a collaboration with Olivetti which continued for over 20 years. During the years of confrontation, Sottsass became one of the central figures of cultural avant-garde. The outcoming finality of his experience occured in 1981 with the birth of Memphis Group in which Sottsass was it's ideologist and founder. His furniture is exhibited in all parts of the world. From his most recent projects we can gather the names of Apple computers, Siemens, Philips, Ansaldo, Erg gasoline, Alessi and Malpensa 2000. In 1994 the George Pompidu Centre staged a retrospecive on his sphere of actvities.
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Ettore Tarsitani |
Specializes in architectual process design and industrial design, a field which includes ceramics, glass, wood and silver.
His design methods express the search for an equilibrium between the mutable and the static. |
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Roger Tallon |
Parisian origin, having had a training half way between engineering and visual art. His professional curriculum rolled with a continuity without stopping to an ordinary classification. His determinant conceptual approach gave rise for his collaboration for numerous projects with avant-garde artists. For him design is the "beginning of an adventure" without however denying the methodical approach of functional design. Thirty years if study have brought the realization of numerous works in the various fields of disparity from scientific equipment to methods of transportation like planes, metropolitans and the TGV, trains for the French railways. Everything apart in his opinion the intelligence level of a project has little importance in fact it is the "quality of the proposition which gives value to a project".
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Oscar Tusquets |
Architect as formation, painter for inclination and designer for vocation, Tusquets is the prototype of the integral artist. His works are part of the collections of the most important Museums in the world. Tusquets has received numerous prizes and recognition both for architecture and design objects: the Gold Medal for recognition from “Bellas Artes de Espana” and the honor of Chevalier of “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” of France. In 1994 he has published his first book as essayist; recently he wrote a second book, both of them have been printed in various editions.
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Marco Zanuso |
His activity in the field of architecture became influenced by the experience he matured in the sector of design based on the theme of modulation and pre-fabrication. There are many personalities who entwine a rapport of lively professionality with Zanuso: Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Leonardo Sinisgagli, Gillo Dorfles, Vittorio Gregotti and Richard Sapper. Marco Zanuso has received numerous recognition and appointments, signing an activity of more than fifty years of work.
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