DESIGNERS

Mario Bellini is an architect and designer internationally renowned. He received the Golden Compass Award eight times and 25 of his works are in the permanent design collection of the New York MoMA, which dedicated to him a personal retrospective in 1987. He was editor of Domus magazine (1985-1991). He has designed countless art, design and architecture exhibitions, both in Italy and abroad: among the latest those at Palazzo Reale with Giotto’s masterpieces (2016) and – at the Milanese Museo del Novecento – the one dedicated to Margherita Sarfatti (2018-2019). In 2015 the Milan Triennale awarded him the Gold Medal for his career in architecture and in 2017 dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him. The same exhibition was organized in Moscow in March 2019.

Since the 1980’s Mario Bellini, dedicating himself almost entirely to architecture, has designed numerous kinds of buildings including the Portello Trade Fair district in Milan, the Villa Erba Exhibition and Convention Centre in Cernobbio (Como), the Tokyo Design Centre in Japan, the Natuzzi America Headquarters in the United States, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Deutsche Bank Headquarters in Frankfurt, the City History Museum of Bologna, the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre in Paris, the new Milan Convention Centre – the largest in Europe – and in Rome-Fiumicino the new international Airterminal T3 has been completed, while the new Headquarters Generali Group in Trieste has just been inaugurated.

Recent projects are the New Polytechnic School of Genoa (2006-2020), a vast hotel and residential development on Virgin Gorda Island in the British Virgin Island (2018-2020), and the new Headquarters of RAI in Milan “Italian radio and television broadcasting studios and offices” (2018-2020). He has various projects at the design stage, among which, the “Bin-County Project”, a new city for entertainment, sport and culture in the Harbin area in China (2018-2023) and a large Residential Cultural and Sports Complex “Oasis” in the Gulf Area.

Gabriele Buratti, architect and professor of Interior Design at the Faculty of Design of Politecnico di Milano, e Oscar Buratti, architect, form the architecture and design studio BURATTI ARCHITETTI. The studio is transversally involved in projects of different scales, from the architecture of buildings and urban areas to interiors of houses and commercial spaces, from the design of furniture and lighting to the exhibition and showroom design, in an intense and varied professional path, in which themes, places and typologies, brands and people, materials and workmanship, mingle together contaminating one another, with the aim of combining culture and professional specialization, experimentation and technique, original vision and product quality.

In the retail sector, they collaborate with prestigious brands like Pagani Automobili, La Perla, Automobili Lamborghini, Husqvarna Motorcycles, Oroblù, Acerbis Italia, Tre Marie, making boutiques, exhibition spaces and interiors in the most important cities in the world. In the field of furniture design they collaborate with important companies including B&B Italia, Flexform, Fontana Arte, Gallotti&Radice, Lema, Living Divani, Paola Lenti, Poltrona Frau, Porada, Porro, Ditre Italia, Gervasoni.

DRAW is a Studio founded by Luca Martorano and Mattia Albicini based in Tuscany and South Tyrol. But it is also a concept, a brand defined around their vision of design. Their values aim at production quality, functionality, expressiveness and a composed, measured elegance.

From the very beginning their functional vision of design aimed at balancing technique and style, tradition and innovation, equally led them to coordinate projects in a wide range of fields, searching in their own country and abroad for production excellence that combine construction skills, dedication to tradition, willingness to experiment, and quality in the communication of their values. They work constantly alongside the production, they like to observe how a material is transformed into an object, they care about how this is done and by whom it is done, trying to grasp the secrets and appreciating the imperfection of their manual work. They prefer authentic materials and pure volumes, paying extreme attention to details and leaving them the role of protagonists. Moved by a passion for Italian authors of the second half of the 20th century, in their work, they show citations of the classics of the past, and love the pieces that reveal traces of that memory.

DRAW is a container of projects and production experiences that are very different from each other. Despite the great differences, each work is united by the depth of research, the utmost care for the final result, the attention to the relationship between the people involved, and undoubtedly, from the first sketches to the final result, they are all fueled by a passion for drawing.

Architect, Interior and Product Designer, born in 1957 in Hong Kong, he graduated in Architecture and got a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning. In 1987 he opened his Urban and Architectural Planning Office with headquarter in Hong Kong and branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

The thirteen-time winner of the Andrew Martin International Award, the Design Oscar, is considered one of The 50 Most Influential Person of the Year 2015 by INTERNI and The 30 Most Influential Designers by FORBES China.

Up to now his Office has won more than 130 design and corporate awards in Asia Pacific Region and worldwide. With “DESIGN WITHOUT LIMITS” as motto, Steve set up three more brands for specialized design and diversified services in 2014 and 2015.

Migliore+Servetto, founded by Ico Migliore and Mara Servetto in 1997, is a Milan-based Italian design studio that has accomplished more than 800 projects across 21 countries and has won prestigious international awards, including three Compasso d’Oro. The studio creates branding projects and narrative spaces – public areas, museums, exhibitions, installations, projects for retail, hospitality and entertainment. These involve interior design, graphics, video, multimedia, alongside international research and teaching. Ico Migliore is a Professor at Politecnico di Milano and Chair Professor at Dongseo University in Busan (South Korea), while Mara Servetto has been Visiting Professor at Joshibi University in Tokyo since 2009.

Prominent companies and institutions like Max Mara, Tod’s, Giorgio Armani, Adidas, Fila, Lexus, Alcantara, Boffi, Samsung, Whirlpool, Bombardier, New York Times, and Wallpaper* have placed their trust in the firm. Migliore+Servetto have designed projects for some of the most important cultural destinations in Italy and Europe, such as the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the Miramare Museum in Trieste, the Chopin Museum in Warsaw and the ADI Design Museum in Milan. Migliore+Servetto designed the Blue Line Park in Busan, South Korea, winner of the City_Brand&Tourism Landscape Award 2021, and the Waterfront Door / Into the Ocean, in Busan, in partnership with 40 local artists. The studio curated the Interior, Exhibition, Multimedia & Graphic Design of the Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark’s Square in Venice, designing the spaces for the new headquarters of the Generali Group’s Social Foundation – The Human Safety Net.

A Bulgarian-born Austrian citizen, Nedkov has studied fashion in Vienna and then architecture in Graz, Austria. In 1998, he opened his studio in Graz specializing in architecture, design, and graphics, developing his personal approach based on sensibility and simplicity. In 2003 he moved his studio to Milan where he works as architect, designer and art director.

He has been awarded various international awards such as the “Polydecor Design Award” and has won the “DuPont Corian for a food & coffee bar” competition. One of his projects was inserted in the list of 100 cutting-edge retail design projects of 2014. He was awarded with the “Best Project 2015” award from Archilovers.

Ambrogio Matteo Nespoli and Alberto Novara were born in Seregno in 1969 and in 1970. They graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and opened their design Studio in the year 2000 with the aim to study and develope projects of architecture and design.

Among their major projects they have worked on residential sites, the restructuring of private buildings, planning of workspace, offices, commercial spaces, showrooms and products for furniture companies. nespoli e novara worked for companies like Zucchetti, Graff, Riva 1920, Friul Mosaic Yourbeer, Calzaturficio Romano Martegani 1891, Neutra, Rapsel, Vola, Nito, Quality-Bau,Toscoquattro.

The Studio is also active in corporate communication and implements corporate image projects and productions in the field of industrial design and architecture with Italian and foreign companies. Their creations have appeared several times on important national and international journals of architecture, design and decor as “Interni”, “Elle Decor” and “Wallpaper”.

Founded in 2018 by Oliver and Daniel Piva as a continuation of Studio Paolo Piva where they had the opportunity to collaborate and develop a precise professional path, alongside their father, an internationally renowned architect and designer.
The studio works on architecture, interiors and product design. The project approach is based in research combining experimentation and innovation to arrive at the synthesis between form and function.

Their well-honed habit of continuous comparison with different scales of the project leads them to collaborate with prestigious companies including: Poliform, Ambrosi, Vortice, Casals, Athic, Wittmann, Ycami, Pentalight, Marac and Former.
From November 2022 starts a collaboration with Neutra.

Oliver Piva was born in Padua in 1972. After graduating from the Liceo artistico he studied architecture and in 2001 he graduated under Prof. Heinz Tesar with a degree in architecture at the Venice University Architecture Institute, IUAV.
Daniel Piva was born in Padua in 1974. After graduating from the Liceo artistico he studied architecture at the Venice University Architecture Institute, IUAV, and subsequently graduated in 2001 under Prof. Borek Śípek with a degree in Industrial Design from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

Born in Bolzano in 1952, Matteo Thun studied at the Academy of Salzburg with Oskar Kokoschka and then graduated in architecture in Florence under Adolfo Natalini. He collaborated with Ettore Sottsass for a few years and participated in the founding of the Memphis group, a movement that made its unmistakable mark on the history of recent design.

In 1984, he opened his own studio in Milan and was the creative director at Swatch the following decade. Thun is a world famous architect and designer, especially attentive to the issue of sustainability, well being, and the relationship between people and nature. He has won the Italian Compasso d’Oro industrial design award three times and he is a member of the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects.