Nicola Bottegal, after fifteen years as advertiser and printer in exterior installations sector get closer to the interior design’s world, falling in love with it.
Today He is LondonArt’s Art Director and founder, always looking for new ideas and trends.
Marcel Wanders is a leading product and interior design studio located in the creative capital of Amsterdam, with over 1,900 + iconic product and interior design experiences all around the globe for private clients and premium brands such as Alessi, Baccarat, Bisazza, Christofle, Kosé Corporation/ Decorté, Flos, KLM, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, LH&E Group, Louis Vuitton, Miramar Group, Morgans Hotel Group, Puma among scores of others. Under Marcel Wanders’ creative leadership and creative direction, and with the support of Gabriele Chiave as creative director since 2014, Marcel Wanders employs 52 design and communication experts. In an environment where everyone perceives, breathes and lives creativity across a multitude of projects from in-flight tableware to cosmetics packaging to hospitality interiors. Marcel Wanders’ 30 years of design are celebrated in some of the most renowned art and design museums, including Centre Pompidou FR; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, US; Metropolitan Museum of Art, US; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US; Museum of Modern Art, US; Pinakotheke der Moderne, Munich, DE; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL; Oita Prefectural Art Museum, JP among others. Regarded by many as an anomaly in the design world, Marcel Wanders has made it his mission to “create an environment of love, live with passion and make our most exciting dreams come true.” This work excites, provokes, and polarises, but never fails to surprise for its ingenuity, daring and singular quest to uplift the human spirit, and entertain. Marcel Wanders’ chief concern is bringing the human touch back to design, ushering in what he calls design’s ‘new age; in which designer, craftsperson and user are reunited. In his process, Marcel Wanders defies design dogma, preferring instead to focus on holistic solutions rather than the technocratic. In this universe, the coldness of industrialism is replaced instead by the poetry, fantasy and romance of different ages, vividly brought to life in the contemporary moment.
Born in Cremona in 1960 Laviani attends the Istituto Professionale Internazionale per l’Artigianato Liutario e del Legno di Cremona, receiving his degree in 1978. He later attends the Faculty of Architecture, at the Politecnico di Milano where he graduates in 1986, while attending at the same time the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan from 1982 to 1984. In 1983 he starts working for Michele De Lucchi; he becomes a partner in 1986 and works there until 1991, when he decides to open his own studio in Milan. Laviani’s work mainly focuses on product design, interior design, art direction and graphic. Since 1991, he is the Art Director for Kartell; same role he has played for other companies such as Flos, De Padova, Foscarini, Moroso, Society (Limonta), Emmemobili. He has designed retail spaces and set-ups, offices and houses for private clients, as well as for furniture and fashion brands like Cassina, Dolce e Gabbana, Dada – Molteni & C., Barovier & Toso, Piper- Heidsieck, Missoni, Citroen, Hansgrohe, Martini e Rossi , Swarovsky, Veuve Cliquot, Hennessy, Marazzi Group, La Rinascente, Piombo, Ermenegildo Zegna, Renault, Haworth, Emilio Pucci, Zara, Habitat. His products are included in the collection of several brands: Kartell, Foscarini, Dada – Molteni, Emmemobili, Moroso, UnoPiù, Lema, Poltrona Frau, Fontana Arte, F.lli Boffi, Richard Ginori, Laufen, Citco, Ragno-Marazzi Group, Memphis, Driade, Panasonic, Pelikan. In 2008 an exhibition was dedicated to the lamps he designed for Kartell, being set up at Teatro Metropol in Milan. Bourgie and Take lamps for Kartell are part of the permanent Collection of IMA, Indianapolis Museum of Art (USA); also other products have been featured in museums and shows all over the world. In 2015, Laviani develops the new concept for Kartell Museum in Noviglio, updating the interior design he had conceived in 1999, when he received the award Premio Guggenheim Impresa & Cultura 2000, as the best museum of a company.
Cristina Celestino was born in Pordenone in 1980. In 2005 she graduated from Iuav in Venice with fullmarks in Architecture and started working with a number of architecture studios, before shifting her attention to Interior architecture and design. In 2009 she moved to Milan where she founded her own design brand under the name “Attico”, which produces lamps and furniture characterized by a deep research on materials and shapes. In 2012 she was selected to take part in the Salone Satellite and after this experience Attico products have been exhibited in several international galleries and showrooms. The product Atomizers, produced by Seletti, becomes part of the Permanent collection of Italian Design by Triennale Museum of Milan. Her work currently spans from limited editions for design galleries and museums, to special commissions for outstanding brands as: Alpi, Atipico, Botteganove, Durame, Fendi, Flexform, Fujifilm, Antonio Frattini, Ichendorf Milano, Mogg, Seletti, Tonelli Design e Torremato. She works as a creative director for exclusive brands and as an architect she is engaged in challenging interior and exhibition projects. She works and lives in Milan.
Carlo Colombo is considered one of the most important international Architect and designer. He started his career right away with designing for top level brands. From this moment he collects hundreds of collaborations with the most important brands of design made in Italy like Antonio Lupi, Artemide, Bentley Home, Bugatti Home, Flou, Flexform, Franke, Giorgetti, iGuzzini, Penta, Poliform, Trussardi Casa, Varenna, just to mention some. Beyond the design of products and furniture, Colombo also takes care of strategy and marketing for the companies, develops graphic projects and curates exhibitions, works as a consultant and Art Director. The work that initially was concentrated on design and interior, extends progressively also in the field of constructions in Italy and abroad.In n2004 the architect is awarded as designer of the year; in 2009 wins an international competition for the design of the two multifunctional towers in Abu Dhabi and from 2011 teaches design at the De Tao Masters Academy of Beijing in China. He receives a lot more awards all over the world, amongst them the Elle Decor International Design Award in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, the Good Design Award of the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and the Chicago Ath enaeumin in 2009, in 2012 e 2014 e 2016 he wins the Red Dot Design Award, the Interior Innovation Award e and the iF design award with Teuco. In 2017 in Switzerland he was awarded by the Italian Console with title of Knight of Order of Merit for Labour. Also in 2017, he won the International Design Award in Los Angeles with the sculpture armchair “784”, and he was also included in the volume “100 Italian excellences”. Today the studio deals with projects in large scale all over the world, from design to interior as well as architecture.
Giuseppe Restano is an artist, painter, illustrator and DJ from Apulia in Italy. In the 1990s, he set up his studio in Florence, working with major art galleries for two decades and emerging onto the contemporary scene of Italian painting. He is well-known for his vast number of personal and collective European exhibitions and the articles published about him in the main sector-based magazines, such as Flash art, Segno, Contemporary and Tema celeste. He currently lives and works in Milan where he has a home-studio in which he creates pictorial illustrations for some of the major fashion brands on the international scene.
Product designer and artist, Elena Salmistraro lives and works in Milan. Graduated from Polytechnic University of Milan in 2008, she founded her own studio together with architect Angelo Stoli in 2009, where she has been working on architectural and design projects ever since. She works as a product designer and artist/illustrator for various creative industry’s leading companies, including Alessi, Bosa, Seletti, De Castelli, B-Line, Bitossi Home, LuisaViaRoma, Yoox, NasonMoretti, Massimo Lunardon, Okinawa, Texturae, Stone Italiana, Effecte, MyHomeCollection, Durame. Besides, she collaborates with prestigious Art and Design Galleries, such as Dilmos, Rossana Orlandi, Camp Design Gallery and Secondome. Her creations are the result of an art – design mix; utmost care for details, painstaking search for shapes’ harmony and poetic style characterize her projects. One of her work’s priorities is the search for objects’ expressive language, which may fascinate people by evoking emotions. Her projects have been selected for some of the most important art exhibitions including: “The New Italian Design”, a traveling exhibition organized by the Triennale Design Museum of Milan, curated by Silvana Annicchiarico and Andrea Branzi, with stops in San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, Cape Town; the “The New Aesthetic Design” at 2013 Shanghai Biennale for Triennale Design Museum and at 2015 Gwangju Biennale, South Korea. In 2016, during the XXI edition of the International Exhibition of Triennale of Milan, she took part in W-Women in Italian Design, Triennale Design Museum’s ninth edition. In the same year, during the art event “Normali meraviglie La Mano “ curated by Alessandro Guerriero and Alessandra Zucchi, she painted a hand designed by the artist Mimmo Paladino, which was exhibited at the Triennale of Milan. In 2017 was appointed Ambassador of Italian Design in the world, on the World Day dedicated to italian design - “Italian Design Day” - an initiative promoted by the Triennale di Milano in collaboration with Ministero degli Affari Esteri and Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali. On the occasion of the “White in the City” event, promoted by Oikos and curated by Giulio Cappellini, she contributed with Alessi to the project/installation “L’esercito delle spazzole”. In 2017 won the “Best Emerging Designer Award” at Salone del Mobile- “Salone del Mobile Milano Award”. Elena Salmistraro’s works have been displayed at major Italian and international design industry fairs, including Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Cosmit-Milan), Step 09 (Milano), Maison&Objet-Paris, Homi, Stockholm furniture and light fair (Stockholm, Sweden).
Fabio Fantolino is a designer architect. He set up one office in 2001 in Turin and a second one in Milan in 2014. The projects range from architecture to interior design and from the residential to the services sector, venturing into product design in the last few years as designer or art director, embarking on a number of partnerships with major companies. The desire to design not only custom solutions for his own projects, but also objects that are able to potentially reach everyone, stems from the deep rooted and renowned culture of tailor-made design. All the projects have a strong identity, resulting from his creative sensitivity and vast culture and knowledge of international design. Over the years, the firm has balanced trend, design and technique, essential ingredients of architecture that are carefully measured out and mixed together to achieve exclusive and perfect results. None of Fabio’s projects is ever shouted, but always carefully calibrated between aesthetic appeal, customer requirements and his personal interpretation and design expertise. This is how an idea transitions from content to a unique work where every element, whether it be a material, light or furnishing, is carefully thought through and introduced as a secondary element or as the main feature, enhancing the thread running through the project, whilst respecting the individuality and specific aspects of the project goal, plus the balance and liveability of the space.
This avant-garde Italian young firm works in architecture, interior and product design. It’s the expression of the fortunate working relationship between the two founders, Giancarlo Bellavista and Matteo Piccini, who graduated respectively at the University Federico II of Naples and the Politecnico of Milan, and were mentored by Riccardo Dalisi and Pierluigi Cerri. Their work is based on a mix of rigor and eclecticism, and design is conceived as the result of several subjects, from art to literature, brought together.
Antonio Colomboni is an artistic director in the field of visual communication.
He is Milanese by adoption, but has constantly developed his style by also living in Holland, Spain, Africa and America. His passion for free-hand drawing led him to express himself through projects which deal with the contemporary world. He constantly draws on daily routine to shed light on the real dynamics of life and social development, reinterpreting it from a pop perspective. To date, his illustrations have been published in ADV, books, magazines and catalogues. In addition to these editorial contributions, he has championed the “Ritratti Modulari” project (Modular Portraits) for many years. He creates abstract portraits of people using graphic modules consisting of hand-crafted stamps as his starting point.
Laura Aquili & Ergian Alberg have worked at Zaha Hadid, OMA, UNStudio, ONL and Fuksas before starting the Aquilialberg Architects office. The first design project was with Moroso in 2007 and their first interiors were a new headquarter in Milan and a new exhibitions concept for the renowned auction house Christie’s. The studio completed in 2009 an ambitious housing project and an installation project at La Triennale di Milano. The first project in the fashion world was the sculptural backdrop for Neil Barrett show, AW-2010. From 2011 Aquilialberg Architects collaborate with fashion designer Philipp Plein, designing more then 50 stores and show-rooms worldwide, two villas in Cannes, an headquarter in Lugano, an installation at Jimmy’z in Monaco and a town house in New York. From 2018 they collaborate with the tannery Superior, a luxury leather producer for which they designed the Milan show-room, the Paris exhibition boot, and the production building with offices. Togheter with Illulian, they presented at Salone del Mobile 2019 a series of rugs made with a combination of leather and silk. Recently they are working on some private apartments, on a villas in Los Angeles and Lugano. Their clients in the product design field include, Moroso, Illulian, Fiam, Ernestomeda, Kundalini and Serralunga. In 2019 the editor Hachette selected Aquilialberg Architects for the monography “I Maestri dell’architettura”. Work of Aquilialberg Architects has been published and exhibited worldwide.
Architect and designer Maurizio Lai was born in Padua in 1965 and studied Architecture in Venice and Milan. He started his career as set designer for the national TV broadcasters, while working on retail and display concepts for major luxury brands, such as Longines, Montblanc and Gucci, among others. Soon after he would begin his collaboration with Ventaglio Travels Group and The Club Med, to develop international hospitality and tourism related projects. In 1998 he founded LAISTUDIO in Milan. Consisting of a team of architects, engineers and designers the Studio promotes synergies of expression, approaching the design process in a distinguished original way, which determine the production of rather impacting concepts for the retail, commercial and hospitality industry, as well as for private residential projects and developments. An original interpreter of contemporary aesthetics, Maurizio Lai’s work is defined by an instinctive approach, which certainly reflects in the originality of his lighting creations. His style has been described as one of the most interesting in the Italian contemporary scene. Along with the creativity, the years-long experience with the high-end design manufacturing process and a strong network of trusted construction partners enables the Studio to deliver detailed, bespoke and beautifully crafted projects worldwide. Maurizio Lai’s work has been recognized with prestigious acknowledgments through time, his work is featured in the most authoritative architecture and design publications.
Born in Livorno in 1882 from a Jewish family. In 1902 he enrolled in the “Free School of Nude” of Florence and a year later he moved to Venice where he attended the Institute of Fine Arts in Venice. In the 1906 he moved to Paris, the focal point of the Avant-Garde.
Jon brings in his work an ancient ideal of Art, but his subjects are subjected to a process of depersonalization. The “real” model loses detail and consistency, stripped of his identity, in favor of a synthetic entity far from the time.
Marzia and Leonardo, architect and designer, a couple even in life, founded Dainellistudio in 2007. The firm unites and combines the skills and characteristics both of them in interior and industrial design respectively. The studio is currently working in Pisa and Milan in interior design, art direction and collaborates with prestigious furniture design companies of Made in Italy and luxury living like Frag, Fratelli Boffi, Daytona Home, Arketipo, Fendi Casa and Aston Martin. The trait of Dainellistudio favors the use of craftsmanship, precious materials and clean lines, mixed with international esthetics and the reference of Italian industrial design masters. The ability to approach both the architectural and the product scale, peculiarity of Marzia and Leonardo different point of view, helps designing every aspect of the project of public and private spaces from custom furniture to the total look of an habitat.
Roberto Felicetti graduated in Architecture at the University “La Sapienza”of Rome. He started his professional activity focusing exclusively on Interior Architecture, Industrial Design and Artistic Direction. In 1987 he showcased his first upholstered furniture and furnishing complements named “Argomenti Dinamici” in partnership with Valdichienti Company at the “Salone del Mobile Milano”, obtaining several acknowledgements from the trade press. Awarded as new Emerging Designer (MODO/87 magazine) was later selected to participate to “Made in Italy” furniture exhibit at “Casabella International” in New York and to I.D.A. venture in Tokyo. He was then called to collaborate with Lamborghini Auto Company, in order to select the interior of the Lamborghini Diablo Roadster sports car. Art Director and Consultant of several national and international companies operating in the field of furniture and architecture, he has been collaborating with Gruppo Industriale Lube for 20 years, taking care of its exhibition spaces in Italy and all over the world. He has been able to question himself over the years, always searching for new creative ideas in order to constantly innovate and improve his professionalism, ranging from different kinds of commissions, always remaining true to his style. He designed villas interiors and luxurious private mansions, executive offices, showrooms, exhibitions, franchise stores, hotels, etc. His projects have often been published by some of the most important Italian and international trade magazines. He has recently planned the new headquarters of Nuova Simonelli Group Company and designed some of the collections of furniture for Vip Home and Enterijer Jankovic. He often travels for business all over the world, although he prefers designing and planning in the peaceful green valleys of Le Marche where he lives with his family.
Stefania Ruggiero, born in Legnano, is a designer and artist based in Milano. Graduated in Product Design at Politecnico di Milano, she starts her career as carpet designer and after she trained at Paola Navone studio and Marcel Wanders. Currently, she collaborates with companies in Italy and abroad. She has exhibited in group and solo shows including Nir Altman Gallery in Munich, Museum of Molsdorf Castel in Germany and Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan. In her projects, she blends art and design through a manual approach, mixing poetics and experimentation.
His artistic education began in her family: the father was a painter and a graphic and the mother a decorator; they transmitted her since her childhood the passion about drawing and knowledge of many artistic techniques. Very young she worked with his father and with Piero Fornasetti, for about a year: she did a series of drawings for him. Later, he attended for five years the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan without receiving a degree, because she chose to work as an illustrator in several advertising agencies. Over the years, she expanded her experiences as an author for Fabbri, Giunti and other publishing houses, manuals on artistic techniques. Recently she is designing of fabrics and wallpapers for foreign producers.
Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva, 39 years old, from Naples, after his degree in Architecture, at Federico II University of Naples, starts his own studio Giuliano Andrea Dell’Uva Architetti. He has delivered always new projects from Hong Kong to Milan, Capri and Salento (in the beautiful Puglia), all characterised by a ophisticated planning, caring both at details and traditional flavour of the places that host the residences. What makes his design distinctive is his capacity to inflect the taste f aesthetic memory with the more contemporary one that, with its creative verve, is perfectly adapted to his clients’ needs. Besides renovations of apartments and villas, he often deals with commercial projects as shops, boutique hotels and lounge bars an le coffee shops. In 2013 he delivered the former Cirio Buildingdevelopment to be used as laboratory for the manufacture of scenography for San Carlo Theatre of Naples. In addition to the profession of architect he brightly runs the furniture production, as artistic supervisor, for the historical Maison Livio de Simone, for which, during the Design Week of Milan in 2014, he has presented the collection of fa- brics inspired by the works of the Stylist. He is also founder and partner of Capri Suite, a tiny boutique hotel in the heart of Anacapri, on the Island of Capri. Since 2016 he is involved in the re-styling project of the historical pastry shop Giovanni Scaturchio, founded in 1906 in Naples. It includes the new opening of shops all over the country. Many of his projects have been published by the most important na- tional and international Interior design magazines, as: AD (Italy- China- Germany- Russia), Elle Decor (Italy- Spain- China- UK) Living (Italy-Argentina) DHD, Case&Stili, Cotè Sud, Maison Francaise -Home France , HOUSE &GARDEN South Africa, Interior (Usa) Interior Design (Usa), Living Argentina, Case da Abitare China.
Andrea Castrignano is an interior designer who has made tailor-made his professional philosophy. Tireless exporter of Anglo-Saxon culture absorbed during his career, from 1997 combines design “turnkey” and advice in the round. His project interior ranging from the private sector in retail.
Since 2011 is the star and creator of the program Exchange House, Cambio Vita!, the docu-reality show aired on La5 and now in its seventh edition. He is the author of three books about the world of interior design and he also created the first interior design blog: a multimedia window that describes, through images and videos, his design vision between yards in progress, making of, restructurings and products. He works with several interior design companies designing exclusive collections of which personally oversees the construction and put into production.
His refined ability to define the character of a home through color, and his personal minimal baroque style have turned on him the attention of the most prestigious trade publications, which have often told the sophisticated power and positive outlook and strong of his passion: work.
Andrea Marcaccini, artist, influencer, Instagrammer, and lifestyle blogger. Born in Messina on 11 September 1988, he moved at a tender age to Mercatino Conca in Romagna where he studied criminological sciences. With a past as a model, Andrea is one of the stars of that borderless world generated by the fashion system and social networks: his life and his dreams, part of them are tattooed on his body sculpted by karate and the gym. His eclectic personality encloses a universe that goes far beyond fashion, so much so that his charismatic figure has made him an icon of lifestyle. Andrea, citizen of the world, is a tireless creator who creates installations, paintings, designs t-shirts and shoes. His strong nature of entrepreneur led him to launch his clothing line marcaccinidotcom and to collaborate as a creative director with a new concept store that will range from art to fashion. Art is exactly his new path of life on which he is investing his energies; currently his artworks are available at the Lambretto Factory in Milan. His volcanic creativity led him in 2016 to create his own streetwear fashion brand. The materialization of a channel of expression designed to give shape to all the ideas, provocations, stories that Marcaccini creates by placing himself (and his skin) as the central tool of all his expressive power. He appears in the world of art with a collection that brings pop art in the 2000s. Marcaccini feels like giving life to a series of strong reflections. A collection that in its intentions collects ‘timeless chronological inspirations’. In his artworks he focuses on themes such as transgression and drugs along with music and God; up to art itself that plays with its own models.
Pietro Russo was born in Ostuni (Italy) in 1967. He studied painting, ceramics and scenography at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, where he also took courses in design and architecture. During this time, he took a very personal path in his artistic career, one that combined the imaginative and creative worlds of a scenographic setting with the exacting technical accuracy required by interior design. Within this path of research, first works came to life: hybrid bright objects that showcase the distinctive features of later productions.From 1997 to 2002 Pietro lived in Berlin, where he worked as a film set decorator and product designer, exhibiting in many galleries within the city. In 2002 he arrived in Milan, starting a long professional relationship with Lissoni Associati studio, where he worked both as interior and product designer. He also worked with Benetton, Kerakoll Design Gallery, Alessi, Cappellini, Kartell, Tecno Spa and Fritz Hansen, among others. In 2010 he founded his studio: a house-atelier in the heart of Milan, a lively and dynamic laboratory that perfectly matches his creative energy and his continuous and relentless reseach. With a carefully selected team of designers and architects and in close partnership with a network of esteemed Italian artisans, Pietro deals with interior and product design. Suggestions coming from the contemporary world and from his lifetime passions – music, cinema, nature and science fiction – became, through his hands, meticulously elaborated, timeless creations. His working philosophy is based on repurposing artisan creations and led to a relationship both concrete and spiritual with the selected materials – mainly wood, but also stone, marble, brass, bronze and glass –, with the purpose of giving new value to the magical and ritual side of creation. Pietro works in perfect synergy with a team of experts. He also works with his clients, who are for him an extraordinary incitement to accept new challenges. At the moment, Pietro is working on different projects together with Baxter, Gallotti & Radice, Editions Milano and Ichendorf Milano, among others.
Alfonso Femia was born in Taurianova, Reggio Calabria (Italy) on 1966, December the 7th. He is living in Genoa where he is leaving and coming back on a unique and continuous journey between Genoa, Milan and Paris. He graduated from the University of Genoa – School of Architecture in 1992 and has been registered at the Register of Architects of Genoa since 1994, the Register of Architects of Île-de-France since 1995 and the Architects of Switzerland since 2014. He has been a Professor of Architectural Design Didactics at Kent State University in Florence and at the Universities of Genoa and Ferrara – Schools of Architecture. Being the founder of 5+1 in 1995, he created 5+1AA in 2005 and 5+1AA sas Paris in 2007. He has won numerous international competitions and his work is published on international magazines. He is a visiting Professor in the main Italian and international universities. In 2015, he founded 500x100 and created 500x100Talk, a place of meetings and exchanges on the theme of the city where this latter becomes a dialogue tool, structured in two formats conducted by the journalist Giorgio Tartaro: the SetTalk in Milan and the CityTalk in the main European and Mediterranean cities. He develops a “research around matter” which leads him to collaborate for design projects with international compagnie. With AFdesign*, he develops themes related to ceramics, light, wood, glass, cardboard and biodynamic cement. The three-dimensional development of ceramics and its application to architecture led him to develop products that characterize the recent residential projects in Paris, Brescia, and the new BNL-BNP Paribas headquarters in Rome. With the artist Danilo Trogu and his magical poetics, Alfonso Femia develops “imaginary animals” in ceramics, which animate the Marseilles Docks, the Great Railways Workshops in Turin and the Asnières-sur-Seine housing in Paris. In 2017, he transforms the denomination of 5+1AA in AF517 or Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia and creates the “Entre Deux”, an in-depth format on the metamorphosis of the cities. He loves odd numbers, the South and a crew of women and men who, since 1995, have believed in this “journey” aimed to explore and experience the world through the architectural project and the meeting with the cities, all with a smile and a new fellow traveler “the whale and her star”. The journey inside the journey.
Studio Mamo in a team of architects and interior designers who works in the worldwide high-end market. Studio Mamo Has a strong background end experience in the fashion world, as it as been working for some of the most important international brands for the developing of unique and exclusive home collections (furniture pieces, lights, complements, home textile, art de la table and accessories). Studio Mamo has realized restaurants, residential, shops for some fashion brands with an original and sophisticated approach and aesthetic ideas. We always try to be modern and contemporary, not forgetting the classic.
Designs visions, grows words. Born in the midst of a summer storm immediately leaving her parents baffled; her father, a psychic and an inventor, when he first sees her, cries: “She looks like an asshole”. Her mother, Australian and grown up running barefoot through tobacco fields, is proud she still is one. As a child she fondly exercise the use of the words and spends hours making up stories and adventures, perched on a tree branch in her grandmother’s garden. At the age of nine, believing she had enough material, she begins to compose a collection of short stories with an old typewriter. Thanks to theater and opera, turning fifteen, she twigs she wants to become a scenographer. At present she is a freelancer scenographer, she designs and manufactures fittings for shop windows, exhibitions, events, interior design, advertising, photo shoots and any space which is hungry of ethereal presences. She draws on walls, on paper and on any possible surface where her black stroke can flow. From February till December 2012 she has been writing for Blogosfere, implementing her knowledge about the web. In January 2015, Logos edizioni decided to publish a monograph on her most significant papercraft works:“PAPER VISIONS”, for which Elena also provides the text.
Carlo Dal Bianco, architect and designer, opened his own studio in Vicenza in 1993.
The Renaissance city is a precise choice of style and life that becomes the starting point of a close personal and professional relationship with the architecture of Andrea Palladio. From the beginning deals with restoration of monuments and buildings of historic and religious buildings. His interest in ancient architecture, both for buildings and for the interior details, and the passion for collecting led him to create his own personal design language that offers in his works. From 2001 to date he is engaged in redevelopment and renovation of the headquarters and the Bisazza Foundation.
Thus began a fruitful collaboration once a corporate image creation, the design of a large part of the collections, decorated with mosaics and Cementiles, and the design of the fifteen showrooms scattered around the world’s major cities.
He won twice, in 2004 and 2006, the Elle Decoration International Awards.
Designing the renovation of his private home and professional studio in Vicenza, repeatedly appeared in magazines and Italian and foreign publications. From here begins a profitable design work for private residences and shops, both in Italy and abroad-that sits alongside collaborations with leading brands in the design sector, as well as a personal quest for decoration.
Called by his friend and designer Michael Sieger, since 2008 working with the prestigious manufactory Fürstenberg porcelain, for which he designed a service for haute cuisine.
Over the years he has collaborated and designed collections for several of the world of design brands, including: Rapsel, Xilo 1934 Rexa Desgin, Campgrounds.
From 2016 he works at the corporate image restyling of an important company Vicenza goldsmith. He has designed and worked as creative consultant for the new project-store Insula delle Rose in Milan, an important reality and a reference point for interior design and bathroom furniture.
Later, he attended for five years the Faculty otechniques.
Designer and Artist Malika Novi was born in Smolensk, Russia. She began her education from Fashion Design in Professional school of Fashion in Smolensk and in the Institute of Fashion Industry (IIM) in Moscow. After that she went on to study at the Smolensk State University and graduated in 2011. While she was there she studied painting, sculpture, Fine Arts and Interior Design and after moved to Milan. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera and graduated in 2015 with a degree in Product Design. Currently living and working in Milan.
Arianna, nom de plume “ARYK old paint”, was born in the small town of Bassano del Grappa, now lives near Milan.
Her fascination for painting and graphic design is as stronger as the Fifties one.
She studied Graphic Design, Photography, Industrial Design in Padova and Fashion Design in Milan.
Her career started with Graphic Design, then Web Design turning up to made her graphic and fashion designer for some well-known Italian ad foreign firms.
Since 2009 dedicate herself to Creative Graphic and hand-made decoration of helmets, old cars and motorcycles, leather jackets, vintage objects, pieces of furniture, fabrics, succeeding to impress on them a vintage coat that only the time can give.
She attended many expositions in Italy and foreign countries and have a great love for lettering.
Arianna works as graphic designer for popular safety helmets firms and clothing in the “Custom” and “Vintage” field.
One of her last projects sees her as a style judge in SkyUno TV program “Lord of the Bikes” in which ten mechanics have to custom and built unique and original motorcycles.
Laura Pozzi is stylist, a visual story decorator, actively working across different forms of advertising and media.
She has been working for design companies, art directors, magazines, hotels, specializing in interiors, still-life, food, lifestyle and events.
She enjoys the possibility to create a taylor- made style for all projects.
Based in Milan and Treviso, Venice, Italy she works in the world without time’s limits.
Andrea Marcante was a co-founder of the architecture firm UdA (1992-2014), where he worked on an ongoing basis since 2004 with Adelaide Testa on all the interior design projects. Starting in 2014 Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa created a new design studio, MARCANTE – TESTA (UdA architetti), oriented towards research on architecture and design, as well as corporate consulting in the sector of materials and decor. The atmospheres of Marcante-Testa set out to elegantly recombine multiple habitat values. To be serious and fun, authentic and refined, to have deep roots and to love the world: independent melodies that blend through rigorous rules of composition. If certain interiors are thrilling, it is because they are demonstrations of a possible choice between conflicting aspects of our character, of the legitimate aspiration to transform our disquieting contradictions into something beautiful. The studio’s projects have received important prizes and honors, stimuli for spatial research towards an architecture of counterpoint – of emotion and reason – in the spirit of a renewed sensibility of humankind. In 2016, with the project Liberamensa, the studio launched a path of collaboration with the public administration to introduce interior design in neglected places such as prisons.
Born in 1980 in Verona.
Graduated in Industrial Design at Politecnico in Milan.
After three years of collaboration with Ludovica and Roberto Palomba in Milan, in 2007 he setup his own studio in Verona where he collaborates with other professionals in architecture, communication and graphics.
His works have been showcased in many expositions in Rome, Milan, New York, Paris, São Paulo, Miami, London and Dubai.
Paolo also collaborates with Rolling Stone Magazine writing design articles for the online edition.
Paolo’s works have been featured by main international magazines and newspapers as New York Times, Herald Tribune, Abitare, Interni, Ottagono, Residence, Icon, Elle Decor and Rolling Stone.
Warm, smooth, functional, minimal yet sophisticated. These are the keywords that best depict Nicola’s vision of the world of interior design. Mostly, he gets his inspirations from the Milanese style as it is part of his roots, growth and identity. In fact, although Nicola loves geometric shapes, the very simple angles and linear compositions, he focuses on the richness of the materials in order to give a strong identity to his works. His favorite color palette ranges between the neutral colors (shades of brown, brass, grey, earth colors) however he has a clear passion to play with hues, adding a touch of highlight to emphasis his concept. His works are conspicuous in the world of design, in particular the interiors of many luxury hotels, his attention to the details and the story-telling behind each project is so unique that makes his works stand out from the crowd.
After studying art with a specialization in weaving, she moved to London where she specialized in fabric design. Upon her return to Venice, she worked with the master glassblowers of the island of Murano for some years. She has reinterpreted the ancient technique for dyeing and printing Venetian tapestries. Each of her white silk velvet, is hand dyed with pigments and precious ancient powders. The surface of the silk velvet becomes magical, tactile and alive, enriched by brilliant colors, gold and silver leaves, glass and Murrine from Murano island. The colors and glass details appear and disappear depending on the direction from which the tapestry is viewed. Her works have been exhibited in Venice, Milan, Florence, Vienna, Eindhoven, London, Singapore, New York, She created site specific, permanent installations for Palazzo Venart on Gran Canal in Venice and Venice Airport . She collaborated with Eataly for Milan Expo 2015 and for Milan and Turin shops, Catholic University in Milan, Four Seasons Hotel Florence, Christian Louboutin for Pitti Uomo. Week.The book, VelvetLagoonVelvet, became part of the permanent library of the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion Department al Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Born in 1978, he is an artist and calligrapher from Milan, Italy. Luca has always had a passion for lettering and calligraphy and has been sharing this passion through his teaching with ACI since 2008. He also holds workshops, courses and conferences globally. Through these forums he continues to spread his idea of calligraphy and lettering as a historical discipline which is in constant evolution and which survives due to it’s ability to respond to new techniques and the application of calligraphy in visual mediums. He has worked with advertising agencies, clothing brands and record companies while at the same time pursuing his own artistic and exhibition activities. In 2012 he published “Take Your Pleasure Seriously”, his first monograph for Lazy Dog Press publishing house of which he is a founding member.
Luca’s artistic talent and his love of music brought him to the stage as a performer. Luca has been a part of the hip hop scene in Italy since the late 90s. He is a serious collector of vinyls, especially Brazilians, soundtracks and sound design libraries. He works as a graphic designer with select labels for the re-release of soundtracks and Italian libraries.
Born in Como 1970, graduated as Architect in Milan in 1998, in the first years, his expirience increased by training in studies located in Rotterdam, Berlin and Milan. His skills includes product design, product design and industrial design.
Ventizeronove is a graphic studio based in Milan and founded by Sonia Mion and Nicola Iannibello (Professional Member Aiap), in 2009. It is mainly interested in corporate identity, publishing, packaging and illustration. It is based in a renovated mill, near Naviglio Grande, as a place of study and meeting. The illustration is an important element of their work, infact they realize, from 2011, the journal of illustration “Nurant”.
They worked for IED (of which I am also tutor of Special Projects), DAAB editions, 24oreCultura, Moleskine, Depuravita and many others. The main spirit is to be sourrounded by people with specific and different professions, resources that make a wark complete and in continuous research.
Marco Campedelli (1973) is a multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, calligraphist and illustrator. He lives and works in Verona. He works in his studio on packaging design, editorial illustration and communication. He also took part to expressive calligraphy artworks, personal and collective exhibitions in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and Argentina.
His art concept is mainly based on letters, stamps and marks compositions which take inspiration from different philosophical and artistic movements.
Sarah Evans found Oscar Francis studio in London in 2013.
Sarah is a qualified architect who worked in the industry for 15 years before diversifying into architecturally inspired prints and textiles. Her debut range, ‘Pattern Architecture’ combines her passion for architecture and fascination with the city and housing types that define our urban environment. Sarah takes typical examples of modernist architecture and re-imagines them into stunning prints and patterns.
The majority of the current collections focus on post war modernist architecture from the 50s to the 70s.
I was born in 1974 in Mantova, where I returned back to live after some years in Milan and Parma. I’ve always worked in web and graphic design area but in the last years I focused my attention on illustration’s one, concentrating in conceptual illustration in which the incentive is the Idea, before the technique and style.
I work for publishing houses and communication agencies.
Giuliano Cardella lives and works in Lumezzane (Italy). He holds a degree in applied arts from Castelmassa Art Institute in Rovigo.
He attended many personal and collective exhibitions and earned official recognitions. Many artworks are part of public and private collections in Italy, France, Holland, Japan, USA, Spain Germany, China, Australia and Brasil.
He collaborate with “Takeawaygallery” in Rome and “Memoli Arte Contemporanea” gallery in Milan. His works are also shown in many expositive areas in Milan and Rome.
Cardella’s artworks are also part of Royal Academy and Saatchi collections in London.
Both graduated in Industrial Design at I.S.I.A. in Rome, Silvana Angeletti and Daniele Ruzza, partners in life and work, decided to open in February 1994 in Rieti their design studio; from 1999 to 2015 they are members of ADI.
From 2012 to 2014 they thaught Industrial Design at Ascoli Piceno University and since 2010 they teach at IED in Rome.
As Angeletti Ruzza Design the took part, and get awarded, at many international design contests and collaborated with some of the most important Italian industries in areas like bathroom furniture, lighting, furniture accessories and table objects. They also realized interior design projects for many hotels.
Some of their creations belong to the permanent collection in the Chicago Athenaeum Museum.
His research is focused on materials and their limits that brings to the discovery of their potentiality. His projects have been exhibited at: National Maxxi Museum of the Arts of XXI century in Rome, Biennale d’Arte and Design of St. Etienne, London Design Festival and Biennale of Venice.
He has taught to the IUAV in Venice; he cooperates with IED in Madrid and he hosted workshop for Domaine de Boisbuchet (Vitra Design Museum). After a collaboration with Fabrica (Benetton Communication Research Center), he started a new one with Jaime Hayon which is still going on. His research in the handcraft world goes on with projects for customers such as: Cappellini, Mercedes Benz, Replay, Alcantara, Bosa Ceramiche, Miniforms.
Luigi Semeraro, born in Varese in 1978. Product, interior designer and street artist, with a degree in Design at the “Politecnico di Milano”. During the training, he enriches his academic and professional experiences in Italy and abroad, ranging from product to interior to graphic design. He begins his career working for different designers and design agencies (William Sawaya, Mario e Claudio Bellini, Lorenz-Kaz) and, after showing his first design collection at the “Salone Satelite, he set up his own studio. In the meantime, he gained academic experience at the Design university “Politecnico di Milano”, participating, as a teaching assistant, at different courses and workshops organized by leading design companies. Now he is working on interior projects, collaborating with different design brands (LONDONART, DOMITALIA, MINIFORMS, MIRABELLO, EMMEI, F2DESIGN, ANTONIO LUPI, UNIVERSO VEGANO) and as a street artist, he finds inspiration through the contamination between those different disciplines.
Raised in many cities’ underground spaces he always had the desire to express the discomfort which continuously oppressed him.
It was a generational discomfort and after many artistic steps between sculpture, music and painting, found a natural way out in tattoos’ world. Marking with bold strokes is the final aim. Rough tattoos lacking in frills representing the harshness of life, uncompromised black enhances the essence of our existence. Total negation of appearance and beauty with an end in itself.
Mirco Grotto was born in Vicenza in 1963. He enrolled in 1978 at the Liceo Artistico of Valdagno and subsequently he studied various studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Architecture studies in Venice, but in 1985 he found his way, attending the course of hyperrealist illustration in Salzburg and at that time he also met the illustrator Renato Casaro in Monaco where he has the opportunity to frequent his studio. His interest in cinematographic illustration continue to grow and he collaborates with the Museum of Treviso, experimenting on various techniques from airbrush to acrylic, but it is with pastels that he finds the right balance. He is works in various fields, and, alongside realizations of scenographic interest which are also destined for television, , he also collaborates with cinematic and theatrical productions
Born in Noventa Vicentina in July 1985, he attended the Technical Institute of Aeronautics in Vicenza. Multi-instrumentalist, with a punk nature, plays guitar, bass and saxophone. The eclectic and never predictable character makes him approach the world of illustrated art and design: in 2009 he obtains the diploma in Advertising Graphics with the highest marks. Subsequently he deepens his passion for fonts, printing press and screen printing at Marco Campedelli’s Studio in Sommacampagna, immediately immersed in the most practical area of work. In 2011 he crosses the road of Nicola Bottegal, founder of Londonart: the love for the figurative, the lettering, the illustration, the tattoo, his expertise in graphic advertising mixed with the world of home decor brings Zulato to print the first wallpaper and in 2012 the first catalogue of the newborn brand. Today, Riccardo Zulato takes care of the graphic design, the most peculiar projects, the press releases in newspapers and TV programmes, as well as the models for the brand’s new collections. The distinctly organized nature also leads him to interact with a team of external designer such as Laviani, Salmistraro, Castrignano, Gallizia, Colombo and others, up to the complete processing of the wallpapers and, last but not least,dealing with problem solving in the production phase.
Graduated at “Scuola internazionale di Design” in Venice, She lives and works in Schio, specializing in graphic design and business communication.
Graphic Designer born in Vicenza (Italy) in 1992. She attended the three-years course of Graphic Design at Istituto Design Palladio in Verona. Benedetta is deeply passionate about tipography, illustration, graphic design, logos, paper, colours, photography, painting and drawing. Every project is a new challenge.
Graduated at IED in Milan, with a thesis about Interior Design, she has always be in love also with Scenography, Lighting and Graphic Design.
The idea of being able to customize a space and make it an active part of our lives, has always been her main source of inspiration.
Born in 1992, after Arts High school, Alba Ferrari attended the comics, art and illustration school “Scuola internazionale di Comics”.
Since 2013 She’s an illustrator for London Art using many techniques that range from oil painting to vector illustration.
Born in 1994, graduated at the European Institute of Design in Milan with a thesis on Interior Design, he faces the graphic world; take into consideration his architecture studies to model various settings in the decorative field, from 2018 he works for LondonArt, combining his passions for art and architecture.
Born in Verona on 3rd May 1990, he takes inspiration from art in all its forms. Musician and lover of analogic photography, he is trained as a Graphic Designer in Verona where he ranges between web, brand design and typography, always maintaining an impact visual identity. From 2018 he works in the LondonArt team as a Graphic Designer, facing each project creatively and drawing inspiration from everything that surrounds him.
