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Antonia Astori was born in Melzo
(Milan) in 1940.
She graduated in Industrial and
Visual Design at the Athenaeum
of Lausanne in 1966. Since 1968
she has worked as a designer
for the Italian company Driade,
creating some important system
and furniture designs and
helping to shape the corporate
image with her outfitting and
exhibitions. Her activity as a
designer goes alongside her
work as interior designer, with
projects for houses, offices,
showrooms and stores.
Antonia
Astori
Lorenza Bozzoli was born in
Milan, where she studied at the
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.
In 1985 she began working as
a fashion designer for Fiorucci,
Basile, Plein Sud, Sergio Rossi
and Camper among others. In
1996 she became passionately
involved in industrial design
for Antiquità, Viceversa, Alessi,
Dilmos, Dedon and Moooi. She
has participated in important
exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
She lives and works in Milan
where she has her own design
studio.
Lorenza
Bozzoli
Giulia and Guido Guarnieri are
fond of Milan and 1950s and
60s design. After graduating
from the Politecnico di Milano,
they became involved in various
professional projects regarding
design, video art and marketing,
both in Italy and in Europe.
Giulia is currently a brand
manager for an Italian fashion
company and Guido is an art
director for a design company.
Giulia and Guido
Guarnieri
Hisham Kulhanek was born in
Prague in 1958.
In 1970 he moved to Amsterdam
with his family. After studying
at the Delft University of
Technology, he decided to move
to Milan where he started a long
partnership with the Japanese
designer Makio Hasuike. Now
he runs a multidisciplinary studio
focused on product design. He
has been a teacher at the Istituto
Europeo di Design (IED) in Milan,
and has run some workshops
at the Domus Academy and at
the Politecnico di Milano for
the Master’s degree in Strategic
Design.
Hisham
Kulhanek
Gianluigi Landoni is an architect
and designer. He graduated
from the Politecnico di Milano.
After many experiences in
architecture and industrial design
studios, since 1994 he has
worked as a freelance alongside
numerous design companies.
He has participated in various
exhibitions and contests
for both public and private
works, receiving awards and
commendations.
He has been a teacher at the
Istituto Europeo del Design (IED)
in Milan.
Gianluigi
Landoni
Matteo Nunziati is considered
one of the most influential
international architects and
designers of his generation. He
received numerous important
awards for his works in product
design; his projects, exclusive
and enhanced by the skillful
selection of materials and
furnishings, usually chosen from
the production excellence of
Made in Italy design, have been
published in the major Italian and
international magazines. His solid
experience led Nunziati carry out
teaching activities at important
institutions such as Domus
Academy, the National Taipei
University of Technology, the IDI
Interior Design Institute of Milan
and the Tshinghua University
Shenzhen in China.
Matteo
Nunziati
Alessandro Pasinelli began by
studying fashion and textile
design in Milan. In 2004 he
opened his own multidisciplinary
Design Studio dealing with
design, interior, styling and art
direction. He collaborates with
many companies, editorial offices
and photographers. He collects
design pieces by great Italian
Maestri, loves green projects
and the contamination between
art, fashion and design, always
looking for new communicative
languages.
He lives and works in Milan,
collaborating with a multitasking
team able to offer varied creative
solutions.
Alessandro
Pasinelli
Contemporary designers
Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua
(Milan 1905 - Varese 1982)
was a law expert, an amateur
writer, and quietly became
a designer. His dachshund’s
name was Azucena like the
company Corradi had started
in 1947 with two other young
Milanese intellectuals, Luigi
Caccia Dominioni and Ignazio
Gardella. Corrado Corradi had
fun designing chintz with Luchino
Visconti and he liked ceramic. He
designed lamps made with glass
from Milan’s tramcars and many
other objects for the house, with
a precise idea of living in mind.
Corrado
Corradi Dell’Acqua
Ignazio Gardella (Milan, 1905
- Oleggio, 1999) was one of
the leading figures in Italian
20th century architecture
Even before the war he had
performed a series of jobs for
the upper classes of Piedmont
and Lombardy, clients whom he
was able to interpret in many
important projects in the period
of Reconstruction when he was
at the forefront in proposing
a new idea of architecture. In
1947, he founded Azucena with
Luigi Caccia Dominioni and
Corrado Corradi Dell’Acqua.
Until the 1990s, Gardella would
continue designing furniture and
accessories, as well as carrying
on his extraordinary activity as
architect.
Ignazio
Gardella
Already experimenting with
new materials such as plastic
felt and curved plywood before
becoming an architect, Eugenio
Gerli (Milan, 1923 – 2013)
opened his firm in 1949.
1957 marked the start of a long
and extraordinary partnership
with Osvaldo and Fulgenzio
Borsani and Techno, for whom he
designed the historic operating
system Graphic (1968) and other
icons such as the PS142 and
S142 seats. In the 1970s, he was
joined in the business by his
sons, Enrico and Guido, who now
also take care of the Archive.
Eugenio
Gerli
Alberto Rosselli (Palermo,
1921 – Milan, 1976) graduated
just after the end of the war
from the Architecture Faculty
of the Politecnico di Milano.
From the start of his career
and in parallel to his activity
as architect, he carried out
theoretical studies and worked
as a designer in different
fields, from product design to
furniture, to transport. In 1953,
as director, he brought out the
magazine “Stile Industria”. In
1956 he was Chairman of the
Italian Association of Industrial
Design (ADI). His intense work as
architect was carried out in the
Ponti-Fornaroli-Rosselli studio,
becoming a co-creator in its
projects in the 1950s.
Alberto
Rosselli
Modern designers
Founded by Daniele Daminelli.
“I like the idea of bringing
elements of the past into the
future.”
Interior designer by training
and founder of Studio2046,
Daniele Daminelli imagines and
designs contemporary items
that combine the strength of
industrial processes with the
refinement of traditional and
artisanal work. In his design
practice the attention is
especially placed on the details,
on the harmony of proportions,
on the relationship between
materials and on the calibration
of the colors.
Studio
2046
Gio Ponti is one of the most
important figures in 20th century
architecture and arts. From 1923
to 1930 he was artistic director
of Richard Ginori; in 1928 he
founded the magazine “Domus”,
which would be followed by
other great publishing feats such
as “Stile”. Dating from the late
1920s are the “typical homes”,
which combined the concept
of Italianness with an interest in
rationalist theories. Right from
the start, he took part in the
Triennale design expositions in
Milan. With Antonio Fornaroli
and Alberto Rosselli, in the
studio in Via Dezza which would
become his home, he conceived
an extraordinary series of
projects, expressing his “finite
form” theory in the fields of
furniture with the “organized
walls”, design and architecture.
Gio
Ponti
