Daniele
Lago
Asiago 1972. He attended the Italian School of
Design in Padua. He joined the family’s company at a
very young age, where he started as a designer by
designing right from the start the guidelines of Lago’s
identity. After his arrival, the company focused its
know-how on a contemporary product by
using new communication channels with
an innovative style.
Today, Daniele Lago is the company’s
Art Director and CEO. The long period in close contact
with production issues, his ability
to define effective marketing strategies and
at the same time experiment with new communication
channels made Daniele Lago a designer who refined
his creative qualities on the field, by developing a
professional approach close to manufacturing
dynamics and with a focus on evolving markets.
He designed all the products currently in the
company’s catalogue. Research, innovation, change,
aesthetic rigour that does not leave room for
decoration for its own sake, functional design focusing
on an essential style for
the home: these are the keywords featured in Daniele
Lago’s work.
Since 1994 Paola Lenti has followed a coherent
and dynamic entrepreneurial strategy based on
research and experimentation which has led the
Company to establish itself as an international
reference in the world of design.
Turning the pages of a Paola Lenti catalogue is
like discovering balanced and essential new design
landscapes where opposites become complementary:
past and present, interior and exterior, tradition and
technology. In this approach one can find a serene
coexistence of seemingly diverse influences: where
metal and wood structures are designed to be durable;
where modern and comfortable interiors seating live
side by side with the newest solutions for exteriors;
where elegant hand-crocheted floral rugs are created
with high-tech yarns.
Each design attributes its originality to
the selection and creation of the material
and to the simplicity of its forms. The pieces are
created to be timeless in terms of quality, functionality,
colour and aesthetics.
Susanne
Kühn
Susanne Kühn, textile designer born
in Hamburg / Germany in 1962. After working three
years in the fashion industry, 1986 she starts to study
Textile Design in Hamburg at the University HAW
Hamburg - Department Design, Germany.
She continued her studies in printing and dyeing
by Christian Fischbacher, Switzerland.
In 1991 she graduated in Textile Design
at HAW Hamburg/ Department Design and she took
part at the International Design Contest where 1992
her fabric was shown in an Exhibition in Tokyo and
other parts of Japan. 1992-2000 Co-Founder PANAMA
/Werkstatt für Druckstoffe / Stilwerk Hamburg/
Germany.
From 2007-2016 lecturer in Textile Design,
printing and dyeing at HAW Hamburg / Department
Design.
2015 she set up her own Studio STUDIO
SUSANNE KÜHN in Hamburg/ Germany.
She lives and works in Hamburg to be with her
husband and their three children. To this day she still
works for and with various companies, architects,
designer and fotographers.
Massimo Iosa Ghini (Bologna, 1959) is an
architect, graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan.
Since 1985 participates at the forefront of Italian
design, with the group Bolidismo, which he founded,
and is part of the Memphis group with Ettore Sottsass.
His professional development is expressed in
product design, architectural and museum planning,
public transport, as well as in the design of retail
chains all over the world, developing projects for major
international groups such as Ferrari, Capital Group,
IBM Italia, CMC Group Miami, Seat Yellow Pages,
Alitalia and many others.
His works have received important honorable
mention including that of the Compasso D’Oro Award
ADI, and various awards including the Good Design
Award by the Chicago Athenaeum, the Red Dot Award
and the iF Product Design Award, Germany,
the Roscoe Award, USA, the IAI AWARD Green Design
Global Award and the IAI Awards, Shanghai, China.
An entire anthology to his 30-years professional
career, has been dedicated by the Triennale di Milano,
in 2013, and by the Bologna Modern Art Museum,
MAMbo in 2014.
On 2015, one of his retail concept, KIKO
MILANO, wins in the BEST RETAIL GLOBAL
EXPANSION category at MAPIC 2014. On April 25th
2015, Fondazione Marconi and Marconi Institute for
Creativity conferred the Marconi Award for Creativity
to Massimo Iosa Ghini in recognition of his creativity
skills.
In 2017 he was appointed as “Ambassador of
Italian Design” on occasion of the Italian Design Day,
promoted by Farnesina for the promotion of Italian
and Italian lifestyle.
Massimo
Iosa Ghini
GRAFFI — PAG 46
PUNTOPUNTO — PAG 142
SLIDE — PAG 88
PERIGAL — PAG 244
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