e27
The Berlin-based design agency e27 was established by Tim Brauns, Hendrik Gackstatter and Fax Quintus to incorporate different areas of design, including web-, graphic-, corporate and product design into a consolidated design environment.
DESIGNER’s STORY
Rodolfo Dordoni
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 the Milanese architect and designer back in 1997 and collection after collection this cooperation continues to strengthen the identity of a brand whose distinguishing feature is continuity. The first collection developed jointly with Rodolfo Dordoni consisted of just a few pieces but was hugely successful among all the trade. Thus ensued a wider working partnership that culminated with Rodolfo Dordoni being appointed artistic director and coordinator of all the company’s collections.
The deepest roots of this long-lasting, successful collaboration in terms of the results it has given, lie in the deep harmony that binds Rodolfo Dordoni to the Minotti brothers and in their having the very same mindset. The cultural background, professional experience and sensitivity of Rodolfo Dordoni found fertile ground in a company that translated the designer’s insights into finished projects.
Minotti collections are born in a climate of shared ideas, surrounded by a myriad of cues and observations. These may come from different sources of inspiration and then converge into aesthetic motifs that interpret the Minotti style in a modern key and with a special focus on the details, finishings and materials that give the collections their uniqueness.
The collaboration with Rodolfo Dordoni also extends to projects for installations at the various Salone del Mobile in Milan and the Cologne trade fair, and spaces such as the Minotti New York showroom, completed in 2010, and the company’s showroom at its main premises in Meda.
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