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Fabio Novembre
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Ora-Ïto
UFO
He was born in Lecce in 1966. He moved to Milan
in 1984, where in 1992 he received a degree in ar-
chitecture. I n 1993 he lived in New York City where
he attended a movie -direction course at the New
York University. In 1994, he was commissioned to
design his first project: the “Anna Molinari Bluma-
rine” shop in London. In the same year he opened
his own studio in Milan. From 2000 until 2003 he
worked as Art Director at Bisazz a, contributing in
the international growth of the mosaic tile brand.
"plastic means “capable of being shaped” and
that’s exactly what is my feeling when I approach
a design in plastic. There’s an expressive freedom
that rarely happens with other materials..."
Born in 1977, this iconoclastic artist became glob-
ally famous at the end of the 90’s by hijacking in
3D the products of the most emblematic and inter-
national brands such as Vuitton, Apple, Nike, Bic...
Furthermore thanks to numerous publications in
the press, the fiction turned into reality. When cus-
tomers tried to purchase these imaginary prod-
ucts, the orders flooded Ora-Ïto’s web site. This
became the second digital work ever acquired by
the National Funds of Contemporary Art (FNAC).
During the years 2000, Ora-Ïto dedicated himself
to his own studio and the creation of real products,
by developing transversal projects of nearly all the
business sectors of design, architecture, commu-
nication, and so on.
His creations conceal the codes of a new lux-
ury, timeless and universal with the same minimal
working drawing: evident forms to be understood
in flash, fruit of his philosophy.
Eugeni Quitllet
Ibiza, Love, Bum-Bum, Africa, Brooklyn,
Wall Street, Mari-sol, Pedrera, Bloom, Manta
The Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet was born on
17th April 1972 in Ibiza. He graduated from ‘La
Llotja’ art school in Barcelona. Through his crea-
tive vocabulary he exceeds simple relationships
between function and style unveiling innovative
objects.
Between drawing, sculpture and contempo-
rary archaeology, Quitllet literally reveals silhouettes
hidden in the material, extremely visual skeletal
objects elegantly master fullness and emptiness
often with a touch of humour: the Masters chair
combines the 3 contours of legendary seats by
Eames, Saarineen and Jacobsen, the K Ray lamp
is an organic UFO, a network of veins hol – lowed
out of the material which results in an object sus-
pended in a frame, his signature method prevalent
naturally in several of the designer ’ s projects: the
Shine vases, the Light Air lamp, the 0’Clock lamp,
without forgetting the O Ring watch, a hole in time
in the true sense, best seller of the brand Fossil
modernising watchmaking codes.
Eugeni Quitllet is a design world freak capable
of devouring the whole of our environment in his
own way to serve it up to us transformed.
Archirivolto Design
Fiesta, Pezzettina, Spritz
Ross Lovegrove
Biophilia
Claudio Dondoli – Marco Pocci, Italy. Archirivol-
to was founded in 1983 by Claudio Dondoli and
Marco Pocci as an industrial planning, design and
architecture studio. While studying Architecture
in Florence, Claudio and Marco and some friends
put up an experimental theatre group. When they
decided to focus their joint efforts on design, con-
solidating their ties of friendship, their interest in
theatre strongly influenced the setup of their new
studio, drenched in creativity, sense of reality, re-
spect and attention for the public.
Ross Lovegrove is a designer and visionary who’s
work is considered to be at the very apex of stim-
ulating a profound change in the physicality of our
three dimensional world. Inspired by the logic and
beauty of nature his design possess a trinity be-
tween technology, materials science and intelligent
organic form, creating what many industrial lead-
ers see as the new aesthetic expression for the
21st Century. There is always embedded a deeply
human and resourceful approach in his designs,
which project an optimism, and innovative vitality
in everything he touches from cameras to cars to
trains, aviation and architecture.
Stefano Giovannoni
+ Elisa Gargan
Blow, Solid, Stone, Pillow
Stefano Giovannoni was born in La Spezia in 1954
and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in
Florence in 1978. He lives and works in Milan.
He taught and conducted research at the Fac-
ulty of Architecture in Florence from 1979 to 1991.
He has been a professor at Domus Academy in
Milan, at the Università del Progetto in Reggio Emilia
and professor of Industrial Design at the Università
di Architettura in Genoa.
