DESIGNER’s STORY
DRAGA OBRADOVIC
In her works she always tries to get a union between painting and style, and she eventually finds it in “textile design”.
Over the years she refines her own painting technique directly on fabric; this technique allows her to create a collection with a unique design, where colour, pattern and material meet, giving life to a harmonic mixture between past and contemporaneity.
AUREL K. BASEDOW
Has chosen to enhance resin’s potentials through a strong pictorial expressiveness. By applying epoxy resins and pigments, the objects he cures undergo unexpected transformations, becoming unique pieces. Moreover, together with the furnishings covered with Draga’s fabrics, they create a charming and stylistically successful union. Living and developing together the common passion for contemporary art, their artistic affinity grows with them, leading them to a common course of research, in-depth analysis and discussion.
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Born in 1954, member of the Milanese tradition that generated designers such as Castiglioni, Zanuso, Magistretti and de Lucchi, graduated in architecture at the Politecnico of Milan in 1979. Since then, he has designed for most of the leading names in the furniture and lighting sectors. Minotti and Rodolfo Dordoni: the company started working with
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