DESIGNER’s STORY
The studio OPERA WORK IN PROGRESS was born in 1990. Mario Dell’Orto, Emanuela Garbin, Enrico Cattaneo, created a studio to join their different experiences, matured in the same professional environment. The common denominator is a common affinity, with a common goal: answer to the sector problems in a complete and specialized way. The activity of the studio ranger from the identification of development strategies to the study of communication, to industrial design, to the project or restoring of shops and exhibitions. Fro the companies, the advice can also include specific needs or the art-direction as a general matter, to individuate an organizational route which permit a better use of the brand on the market.
In the design field the Studio has projected and projects many important models.. Armchairs, sofas, beds, containers and complement signed by OPERA WORK IN PROGRESS are produced by prestigious companies. Many models have been awarded in occasion of exhibitions and prizes in Italy and abroad. Fro the shops and the exhibitions the studio takes care of projecting and restoring, identifying the strategy of the intervention, defining the image and the communication. Then it organizes activities to promote the shop itself. The studio develops also a synergic activity to better face the important requirements of the market.
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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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