20 December 2019
Piero Lissoni
For Piero Lissoni, architect, designer and artistic director, specialization in night design, deserves an intellectual, humanistic and unitary approach is what guarantees, after years at the Polytechnic of Milan which he graduated in architecture in 1985. Lissoni Associati Founded in 1987, since 1996 it has been a visual communication agency…
20 December 2019
Vincent Van Duysen
Architect, interior designer, designer, Vincent Van Duysen brings to his projects a minimalist and elegant dimension that distinguishes them. Born in 1962 in Lokeren, Belgium, he graduated in architecture from the Saint-Lucas Hogeschool School de Gand. He was later found in Italy in Milan where he collaborated with stylist Cinzia…
20 December 2019
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen Functionalist architect, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen in 1927, Arne Jacobsen is especially associated with a furniture design of international reputation. Originally from the Danish Modern from the 50’s initiated by the pioneer Kaare Klint, his work gives us a furious urge to…
20 December 2019
Paola Navone
The effervescent creative energy of Paola Navone does not like dogmatism nor the idea of sacralisation of design. Globe-trotter and antique hunter, scenographer with its ephemeral architectures, ubiquitous to a thousand projects, never satiated with discoveries, she appreciates on the contrary, the unexpected that stimulates the imagination and does not…
20 December 2019
Florence Knoll
In May 1917, Florence Knoll celebrated her 100th birthday and the namesake society she developed with her husband Hans since 1943, and beyond his death in 1955 did not take a wrinkle. Orphaned at 12, she joined the Cranbrook Academy of Art directed by Eliel Saarinen where she became a…
20 December 2019
Gerrit Rietveld
Rietveld, a Dutch cabinet maker turned architect, is the designer from the Stjil movement, which is often associated with the rigor of total abstraction. However, “the aesthetics of a purified vision” in the words of Piet Mondrian, accommodates the seductive visual impact of the primary colors found elsewhere in the…
20 December 2019
Poul Kjærholm
The Danish Poul Kjærholm, cabinetmaker passed by the School of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, is one of those designers from the cold including the iconic PK series inspired by Mies van der Rohe but with a little more sex appeal according to the one of his collectors, architect John…
20 December 2019
Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
The Castiglioni experiment with the process of new forms and techniques of industrial production and unpublished materials by creating furniture for Zanotta such as the Mezzadro stool designed from a tractor saddle or the iconic luminaries edited by Flos. They bring a resolutely contemporary lighting to the technical question of…