DESIGNER’s STORY

Mariana Pellegrino Soto

Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, she attended and graduated from the Italian scientific high school Agostino Codazzi.

When she was 18 years old, she moved to Italy to pursue a degree in Product Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. During the three-year program, she participated in the Erasmus project, studying for one semester at the Institute’s Barcelona campus.

She participated and won a university competition for the design of a glass water bottle “Acqua Santa Maria” (for the Şayaçhi Group of Companies) and won the Best Packaging Award in the 2016 Global Bottled Water Awards.

During her final year in the program, her thesis project was completed in collaboration with Oluce which, once having chosen her project, developed it all the way to the product’s final creation. She currently works as a design developer for F&N Compositi.

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Tom Dixon

A new found passion for welding allowed Tom to teach himself to make tough metal structures – his hobby rapidly expanded into a knack for making furniture from found objects. The welded salvage furniture quickly found a clientele and as a result Dixon evolved seamlessly over the next few years from welder to craftsman to

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Emmanuel Gallina

To describe his work as a designer, Emmanuel likes to quote Constantin Brancusi “Simplicity is complexity resolved”. Elegance, clarity and simplicity are key to Emmanuel Gallina’s work. His creative ethic at authenticity and coherence is embodied in every one of his projects. To him, attention to detail is a constant priority in the contours, shapes

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Marcel Wanders

As a child, Marcel Wanders loved making gifts for people. Nowadays he designs for the world, making unique gifts that are meaningful to the people receiving them as well as to the designer himself. Marcel is on a mission which he had already thought of and planned during his time as a student: Here to

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Christophe Delcourt

Christophe Delcourt is a name that began to circulate among the French design crowd at the end of the 1990s. Delcourt’s style finds its full expression in exquisite balance between purity of design, sophistication of materials and impeccable execution.

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Paolo Piva

Born in Adria in 1950, he began to attend the Architectural Faculty at the Venice University in 1968 and occupied himself with the research in the visual area. In 1970 he co-operated to the realisation of the project concerning WIG 74 competition on behalf of Vienna and to the competition for the RESISTENZA MONUMENT in

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Boris Klimek

Boris Klimek graduated in studies of Product and Conceptual Design on Academy of Art, Architecture and Design in Prague. Currently he works in Prague, where he focus on product and interior design. In his work he tries to find a certain conceptual overlaps, games and stories.

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