Ferruccio
Laviani
Milan, Italy
Born in Cremona in 1960, he attended the Politecnico di Milano Architecture
Faculty and graduated in 1986, after studying on the courses taught by Achille
Castiglioni and Marco Zanuso. In 1991 he opened his own Studio in Milan.
He works in the areas of product design, interior design, art direction and graphics.
He has been Art Director at Kartell since 1991 and has held this position for
various other companies including Flos, De Padova, Foscarini, Moroso, Society
(Limonta) and Emmemobili.
He designs retail spaces and installations, but also offices and residential
accommodation, for private clients and brands including Cassina, Dolce &
Gabbana, Dada - Molteni & C., Barovier & Toso, Piper - Heidsieck, Missoni,
Citroen, Hansgrohe, Martini e Rossi, Swarovski, Veuve Cliquot, Moët Hennessy,
Cotto D’Este, La Rinascente, Piombo, Ermenegildo Zegna, Paula Cademartori,
Renault, Lea Ceramiche, Zuhair Murad, Haworth, Emilio Pucci, Zara, Habitat,
Pasticceria Cova and Samsung.
His products are featured in the collections of leading design companies.
In 2008, an exhibition called “LAviani pLAstic Lamps”was organised in
Milan of his lamp designs for Kartell; at the Milan Salone del Mobile 2018,
the retrospective ‘Peep O Rama. The Furniture Show’ at the Metropol Dolce &
Gabbana theatre, celebrated his longstanding partnership with Italian company
Emmemobili.
Some of his design pieces are in the permanent collection of design museums,
while other products have been shown in museums and exhibitions around the
world. They include the Good Vibrations cabinet designed for Fratelli Boffi,
which was featured in the 2018 exhibition “Thrill of Deception” organised at the
Kunsthalle in Munich, as well as appearing in 2019 at the Cité de l’Architecture et
du Patrimoine museum in Paris, as part of the exhibition “Le mobilier d’architectes
1960-2020”. In 2020, Good Vibrations has been acquired by the Musée des
Arts Décoratifs in Paris, for its permanent collection.
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