Designers
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Vico Magistretti
know more...Vico Magistretti started off attending courses at the Champ Universitaire Italien de Lausanne in Switzerland before switching to architecture at Milan Polytechnic, where he studied from 1940 until 1945.
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Toan Nguyen
know more...Toan Nguyen was born in Paris in 1969, and graduated with honours in Industrial Designat ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris, in 1995.Toan Nguyen was born in Paris in 1969, and graduated with honours in Industrial Design at ENSCI-Les Ateliers, Paris, in 1995.
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Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
know more...Ronan Bouroullec (born 1971) and Erwan Bouroullec (born 1976) have been working together for some ten years. Their collaboration is a permanent dialogue nourished by their differing personalities and shared perfectionism.
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Ron Arad
know more...The Israeli furniture designer Ron Arad studied at the Jerusalem Art Academy from 1971 until 1973 and continued his studies at the prestigious Architectural Association in London.
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Patrick Jouin
know more...After earning his BA in 1986, Patrick Jouin studied design at ENSCI of Paris, where he graduated in 1992. He began working for Thomson Multimedia, before joining the agency Philippe Starck a year later.
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Paolo Rizzatto
know more...Paolo Rizzatto was born in 1941 in Milan. He took his degree in Architecture in I965 at the Milan Polytechnic. *In his studio he works as a freelancer in the field of architecture, design and interior design and continues to develop his experience as interior lighting designer.
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Patricia Urquiola
know more...Patricia Urquiola was born in 1961 in Oviedo, Spain. She studied architecture in Madrid, later transferring to Italy where she earned her degree from the Milan Polytechnic in 1989.
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Oliver Löw
know more...Prior to 1985 Glen Oliver Löw (Leverkusen Germany, 1959) studies design in the Industrial Design faculty of Wuppertal University.?In 1986 he receives the “Master of Design” award from the Domus Academy.
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Olaf Von Bohr
know more...Born in Salzburg, Austria in 1927. After learning the woodwork process, production of furniture and architecture at school in Munich, moved to Milan in 1953 and worked at Gio Ponti’s office.
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Michele De Lucchi
know more...Michele De Lucchi started studying architecture at Padua University, switching to Florence University, where he took his diploma in 1975. For two years afterwards he taught architecture there as an academic assistant.
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Marcel Wanders
know more...Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem in 1988.?Marcel Wanders’ fame started with his iconic Knotted Chair, which he produced for Droog Design in 1996.
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Maarten Van Severen
know more...Maarten Van Severen, born 1956 in Antwerp, Belgium, studied architecture at the Sint-Lucas Art Academy in Ghent, Belgium. He designed his first furniture pieces in 1986 and in the following year established an independent workshop.
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Joe Colombo
know more...After experiences in various art’s fields, from informal painting to furnishings, since 1963 he devotes himself to the industrial design for a mass-production; many of those objects, assembled differently, look as true systems.
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Gino Colombini
know more...The Italian designer Gino Colombini became technical director of Kartell in 1953. Established by the chemical engineer Giulio Castelli in 1949, Kartell has always specialized in making articles of plastic.
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Ferruccio Laviani
know more...Ferruccio Laviani is part of a generation of young Italian designers who came to prominence in the early 1990’s when the Memphis movement made its mark on international design.
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Eugeni Quitllet
know more...Catalan designer from Ibiza, he started studying design at the Ibiza art school 1991. Diploma of design and interior design at “La Llotja” art school Barcelona 1996. Collaboration with many Architecture and design studios from Barcelona.
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Enzo Mari
know more...Enzo Mari studied literature and art at the Accademia di Brera in Milan from 1952 until 1956. Entirely self-taught, Enzo Mari began to submit designs to industry; in 1957 Enzo Mari designed his first object for Danese.
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Carlo Bartoli
know more...Carlo Bartoli lives and works in Monza. He was born in Milano, where he graduated in Architecture at the Politechnic University and started his professional career, concentrating initially on architecture and subsequently on interior design and industrial design, designing furnishings and consumer goods for mass production.
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Antonio Citterio
know more...Antonio Citterio was born in Meda in 1950. He graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic and opened his studio in 1972 where he started his architectural and interior design business. Between 1987 and 1996 he worked in association with Terry Dwan and, together, they created buildings in Europe and Japan.
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Anna Castelli Ferrieri
know more...Die Italienerin Anna Castelli Ferrieri is an Italian architect and industrial designer. She studied architecture at Milan Polytechnic with Franco Albini between 1938 and 1943. In 1943 she married a chemical engineer.
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Andries Van Onck
know more...He studied industrial design at the Royal Dutch Academy at The Hague from 1952 to 1954 and from 1954 to 1959, he studied industrial design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany.
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Alberto Meda
know more...Born in Tremezzina (Como) in 1945. Master in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico of Milan in 1969. From 1973 technical manager of Kartell, in charge of the development of projects of furniture and plastic laboratory equipments.
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Carlo Tamborini
know more...Born in Milan, Italy in 1958.After having studied at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 1993, he began to work freelance, designing packaging and display systems.
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Piero Lissoni
know more...Piero Lissoni started his career as a designer in the late 70s. After his Architecture degree at Milan Polytechnic, he started his collaboration with Boffi in 1985,
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Philippe Starck
know more...Starck’s career started to climb in earnest in 1982 when he designed the interior for the private apartments of the French President.