DESIGNER’s STORY
Valerio Sommella, Industrial Designer, has collaborated with brands like Apple, Alessi, Honda and Panasonic. After several years spent studying in prestigious institutions in both Milan and Amsterdam, in 2009 he started working on projects that range from lighting and furnishings to consumer electronics and accessories.
Anonima Luci, founded by Alberto Saggia and Stefania Kalogeropoulos, is a lighting design studio based in Milan. It specializes in projects related to luxury retail, hospitality, residential and the world of art exhibitions. In parallel, the studio also develops lighting fixtures, custom-made solutions and light art installations.
Different skills become one concept.
The collaboration between Sommella and Anonima Luci gives rise to cutting edge projects that reflect different aesthetic skills and styles. Objects of an elegant expressive strength in which the deep knowledge of lighting technology are united with the purity and stylish simplicity of the lines.
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Ferréol Babin dedicates half of his time collaborating with various furniture and lighting editors where he can incorporate his singular vision and approach of design. The other half is spent on making unique pieces, with an obvious brutalist yet delicate approach.
The passion for objects meant as industrial products is the glue of the professional partnership between Alfredo Chiaramonte and Marco Marin, promoting partners of the homonymous Designstudio.
Under label NO-MADE Cleo Maxime and Linde Freya, who met at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2008, collaborate on creating objects that combine their interest in materials and cultural dialogue. Working ‘apart together’ they aim to combine their forces and views on aesthetics to create tactile, elegant and sturdy objects.
Earned his degree in Industrial Design in 1986 in Barcelona, he moves to New York to joint the Vignellis Studio. After four years, he was engaged at Ralph Lauren focusing his work in both furniture and interior design. Return to Barcelona in 1998 and began to collaborate with Grupo Inditex (Zara Group) as a creative
Alex Josephson cofounded PARTISANS in 2012 after studying architecture at the University of Waterloo, the University of Rome, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). PARTISANS is comprised of architects, designers, thinkers, and cultural enthusiasts whose work across all scales is devoted to a cause: high-performance design that strives to make the improbable possible.
Harry Thaler is a product designer whose work reinterprets fundamental design typologies by combining high-quality and traditional craftsmanship with clever and innovative forms.
