Designers

Mario Bellini is internationally renowned as an architect a designer and a winner among others of 8 Compasso d’Oro and prestigious architecture awards including the Medaglia d’Oro conferred on him by the President of the Italian Republic. He has given talks in the greatest centers of culture around the world and was editor of Domus Magazine. His work can be found in the Collections of major Art Museums such as the MoMA in New York, which dedicated a personal exhibition to him and has 25 works of his in its Permanent Design Collection. He has had countless exhibitions in his name in Italy and abroad. From the 1980s onwards, he has designed projects such as the Portello Trade Fair quarter in Milan, the Exhibition Centre in Villa Erba on Lake Como, the Tokyo Design Center in Japan, Natuzzi America Headquarters in the USA, the Trade Fair in Essen in Germany, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt. In the design field he worked with Olivetti, B & B, Cassina, Vitra, Kartell, Flou, Heller, etc.
 For Meritalia he designed Stardust (2007), Via Lattea (2008), Piccola Via Lattea (2009), Stradivani (2009), No Design (2011) and the showroom, Via Durini, Milan.

Link: www.bellini.it

Carlo Contin was born in Contin Limbiate(MB)in 1967 and in 1998 opened his own studio and Interior Design, having worked for several year sas an entrepreneur in the furnishing. Since 1999, when he made his debut as a designer presenting his early work at the Salone Satellite, working with some of the most prestigious design firms in the Italian and international, as well as participating in numerous exhibitions in Italy and around the world. In 2010 the Triennalein Milan dedicates the show "Interventionin the Domestic Sphere" by Joseph Grima. Carlo Contin works with: Coop, Cappellini ,Guzzini, Fambuena, TheFablier, Legnoart, Meritalia, MoMA NewYork and Sphaus.

Link: www.carlocontin.it

Alessandro Mendini is an Italian architect, and was born in Milan. He has been editor-in-chief of the magazines Casabella, Modo and Domus. Monographs on his personal work and the projects he made in conjunction with the Alchimia group have been published in different languages. Alessandro Mendini makes design objects, furniture, interiors, paintings, installations and architecture. He produces work with international manufacturers, and is also a consultant for the image and art direction of companies in Europe as well as the Far East. He is an honorary member of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 1979 and 1981 he received the Compasso d’Oro for design. In France, he carries the title of “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres”. He has received recognition from the Architectural League in New York, and an honorary doctorate degree from the Milan Polytechnic and the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France. Mendini is an honorary professor on the Academic Council at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China. His projects are found in museums and private collections around the world. Alessandro Mendini’s theoretic and written work, along with his design work, finds its origin at the crossroads between art, design and architecture.

Fabio Novembre was born in Lecce in 1966. In 1984 he moved to Milan where he graduated in Architecture at Politecnico. In 1992 he lived in New York where he attended a Cinema course at the New York University. During his american stay he got to know Anna Molinari and he realized for her his first interior project: the shop “Anna Molinari Blumarine” in Hong Kong. In the same year he opened his studio in Milan. The collaborations with leading design companies intensify during the years, Cappellini, Driade, Meritalia, Flaminia and Casamania just for naming the main important ones; at the same time the showroom projects and boutique for the best international fashion brands going on as the Tardini shop in New york, the Blumarine store in London, Singapore and Tapei as well as the Meltin' pot and the Stuart Weitzman shops all around the world, from Rome to Beijing. In 2008 the Comune of Milan dedicates a solo exhibition in the Rotonda di Via Besana as prestigiuos location named “ Teach me the freedom of swallows”, while in 2009 the Triennale Design Museum of Milan invited him to create a personal exhibition named “Il Fiore di Novembre”. In 2010 the Comune of Milan charges him of an exhibition inside the Italian Pavillion on the occasion of the Shanghai Expo.

Link: www.novembre.it

Born in 1959, Christophe Pillet has been living and working in Paris since 1988. He graduated from Nice’s Arts Décoratifs College in 1985 and became “Master of Domus Academy” in 1986. In 1993, he started to develop his activity independently. He engages in many fields : product and furniture design, interior decoration, architecture, scenography and artistic direction. He creates furniture and objects for Cappellini, Daum, JC Decaux, Driade, Ecart International, L’Oréal, Lacoste, Moroso, Renault, Serralunga, Shiseido, Shu Uemura and Whirlpool.

www.christophepillet.com

Turkish designer Aziz Sariyer started his professional life in furniture design in 1971. He became a well-known name of international design due to his deep interest with industrial design, self-consistent and hard working personality.

He has designed pieces international companies such as Cappelini, Moroso, Zeritalia, Sica, Altreforme, B-line and for many Turkish companies such as Derin, Alparda, Hamam and Park.

Link: www.azizsariyer.com

Tobia Scarpa graduated in Architecture at Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice in 1969. 
Since then he has worked in design field as well as architecture and restoration in cooperatiuon with Afra Bianchin. They have both produced several significant works. Since 2000 he has taken an important role at the faculty of industrial design VlaDIS in Venice. Some of his works are exhibited in the most important museums of the world and in October 2004 Institute of Italian Culture in Chicago organized a travelling exhibition (Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco) dedicated to his works. In design field he accomplished projects for several and important companies, among which Meritalia, with which he cooperates since 25 years and for which he is a designer of reference. In 1964 with the designing of their first factory, Tobia Scarpa and Afra Bianchin became planners of all industrial architecture of Benetton group