The style of 22 Italian designers

"If other countries have design theory, Italian has design philosophy, or design ideology." umberto eco.

Italian design is different from American design and Nordic design. In every design, Italian designers not only pay attention to follow the trend, pay attention to national characteristics, but also emphasize the development of individual talents. Their design is a synthesis of traditional crafts, modern thinking, personal talent, natural materials, modern crafts, new materials and so on.

Compared with designers from other countries, Italian designers are more inclined to manage modern design as an art and culture. Italian designers constantly bring forth the old and bring forth the new, and began to lead the new trend of world design in the 1960s. From radical design and anti-design in 1960s to post-modern design movement in 1980s, Italian designers have been at the forefront of world design, and their creativity in the design field dazzled designers from other countries.

Here are 22 Italian designers for you. I hope you can know more about Italian design style.

1 miriam Miri

Miriam Mirri's design works are full of creativity and ingenuity, and the colors used in her childlike appearance are particularly bold. Miriam Mirri, born in Bologna, Italy, 1964, graduated from the Department of Communication and Design of French Higher Anatomy School and professional university.

After graduation, I moved to London and worked as a designer in Nigel Coates' architectural firm. I also worked as a design assistant for Stefano Giovannoni for many years.

1993 came to live in Milan. In 2000, I started my own independent design work and cooperated with many brands. Some of his design works also appeared in the international design yearbook, and Miriam Mirri also designed courses at her alma mater, University.

Designer official website: ico studied architecture for four years, and then went to new york University to study film. From 2000 to 2003, he served as the artistic director of Bisazza, an important promoter behind Bisazza, a mosaic tile manufacturer. He boldly innovated the interior space design, pushed Bisazza to the international market and reshaped the company's international brand image.

Fabio Novembre described his works as modern and contemporary design styles. The design culture, which belongs to the contemporary time and space background, is fully reflected in its eye-catching and charming design, showing his innovative and topical self-style.

Designer official website: agistretti.it

10 Stefano Giovannoni

Alessi, who is well-known to the Chinese people, cooperated with the Palace Museum to launch the "Qing Palace Series" (a lovely small tableware doll in the Qing Dynasty), as well as a series of Bombo high chairs and dining tables and chairs that are common in the window of streets and lanes, which were launched by Magis. All this comes from the originality of Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni.

Stefano Giovannoni 1954 was born in Las Pecija, Italy. 1978 graduated from the Department of Architecture and taught at the local university in Florence. 1985 co-founded King Kong Studio with Guido Venturini ***, engaged in architecture, interior design, product design and furniture design. 1989 successfully designed the very popular cartoon character Girotondo series for Alessi.

Compared with geometric shapes and cool and rational colors, Stefano Giovannoni's design is humorous and colorful. However, his works are not just superficial and playful appearances, but under the interesting appearance decoration, he skillfully incorporates the functional essence with strong intuition. Many works have been recognized by international awards and have been permanently collected by internationally renowned museums.

Designer official website: www.stefanogiovannoni.it

Piero Liszony

Piero Liszony is a leading figure in contemporary Italian furniture design. His works often combine the old and the new, nature and humanities, technology and handwork, just like a tailor, sewing the predecessor and present of Italian design.

Piero Liszony's furniture is simple in lines, dignified in materials, shaded in gray, and occasionally flavored with orange. Piero Lissoni graduated from the architecture department of Milan Polytechnic University. He and his partner Nicoletta Canesi founded Lissoni Studio on 1986.

Studio official website: www.lissoniassociati.com

Paul Lomasi

1966 After graduating from Politecnico Milano, they began to design a trio in Milan. Jonathan de Paz, donato de urbino and Paul Lomasi jointly designed this studio, engaged in architecture, furniture, interior design and product design. Paolo Lomazzi recalled the early days of creation: "At that time, we were young and energetic, trying to liberate ourselves from the inherent traditions."

1967 The armchair "Blow" designed for Zanotta, as its name implies, became an instant hit. The use of PVC materials, rich and bright colors and affordable prices have quickly become popular indicators. The exaggerated baseball glove "Joe" in 1970s is a forward-looking design concept.

Since then, they have also participated in the design of other furniture brands, such as ALESSI, Poltronova and other famous brands. 1979 won the "Compasso d'Oro" contribution award. After the death of Jonathan de Paz (199 1), the design studio founded by the three men still practiced the original design intention of "creating beautiful, happy and useful objects".

Studio official website: www.durbinolomazzi.it

Mario Beligni

Mario Bei Lini is an Italian architect, furniture designer and industrial designer. Born in 1935, 1959, received a doctorate in architecture from Milan Polytechnic University. From 1955 to 1965, he is the number one Italian designer in the international market. He used his own mechanical design language to create, which became a trend of post-war design. He is responsible for designing telecommunication terminal equipment, electronic printers, typewriters, etc.

His design feature is to create products that combine architectural and anthropomorphic features. For example, he created a Divisummal computer with seamless, flexible and rubber buttons, which was well received by the market. Bei Lini's works are inspired by classic works, and evaluated from various considerations such as marketability, mass production possibility and profit rate. Therefore, his works do not tend to be rigid, trying to create a good Italian design with the same technical and cultural significance.

Designer official website: www.bellini.it

14 Kyle Malan

Marco Maran, 1963 was born in Siena, Italy. He studied art and architecture in Siena and Florence. From the very beginning, Marco Maran has successfully cooperated with many design companies, and won several design awards for the best young designers from 1994 to 1998, especially for furniture design for office meetings.

Marco Maran, who specializes in plastic single chairs, designed products with flexible multi-functional uses and jumping design spirit. Kyle was invited by Italian manufacturer Parri to be the artistic director of his company, and successfully created many well-known classic works!

Designer official website: www.marandesign.it

15 Lucidi Paviour

Paul Lucidi, born in 1974, and Luca Paviour, born in 1977, met while studying in a technical school in Milan.

Paolo worked briefly in Piero Liszony's studio, and then worked with Marc Saddler for many years. The clients of the case include American Standard Europe and Salvatore Ferragamo. During this period, he learned many new design concepts and knew how to improve the possibility of design and marketing.

They left Milan together in 2006 and returned to their hometown of Udine to open LucidiPevere Studio, whose works are all over Europe. The designed products include furniture, lamps, tableware, bathroom supplies, etc.

Designer official website:/

16 Luca ni Cetto

Luca Nichetto, designer, 1976 was born in Venice, Italy. He studied industrial design at the School of Architecture of the University of Venice, and started his design career by designing glass products for Salviati in 1999. Later, he worked as a research and development and design consultant for Italian lamp manufacturer Foscarini.

In 2006, he founded his own design company Nichetto &; Partner, engaged in industrial design and design consulting services. Luca Nichetto, who won many design awards, such as EDIDA Designer of the Year, IF, etc. , and also as a lecturer in the university.

Luca Ni Cetto has a unique style in the balance of form and function. The exquisite glass craft tradition in my hometown is deeply rooted in Luca Nichetto's design. Just like the production of local glass workshops, it lies in research and development, intuition and constant trial and error. The idea and process of research also occupy a very important proportion in Luca Ni Cetto's design. Through the research and application of materials and production technology, the unique design concept is completely and accurately, and the unique personality and cultural connotation of the product are deduced.

Designer's official website: www.lucanichetto.com.

17 harry bertoia

Italian artist and furniture designer harry bertoia designed a world-famous and patented diamond chair for Knohl at the age of 37 in 1952. This is an extremely beautiful example of furniture, with a strong and beautiful appearance, which was a great success when it was launched. Because of this chair, Bertoja wrote a footnote in the history of modern design, introducing industrial metal silk thread into the world of furniture design.

All Bertoja's works are characterized by highly exquisite craftsmanship. As an imaginative sculptor and creative designer, Bertoja's works successfully link the relationship between form and space.

Designer's official website: www.harrybertoia.org.

18 Enzo Mali

Enzo Mari, an Italian designer born in 1932, is one of the most respected designers today and an important conscience figure in the design field.

Enzo Mari, who graduated from Accademia di Belle Arte di Brera, has no professional training in design tradition. At the age of 24, he opened a studio in Milan to continue his research on psychology, various perceptual systems and design methods.

Enzo Mali's design comes from his curiosity about art and life, and everything is worth stopping and thinking about. Design is not for innovation, but for meeting the most fundamental needs.

Enzo Mari once said that each of his products needs more than one year to brew, and he will constantly re-evaluate and criticize the results of successful production with reflective eyes (he often doubts his best-selling products, but there are still many improvements). Enzo Mali's characteristic of seeking truth from facts, the design should proceed from the essence of the problem and insist on designing beautiful, practical and mass-produced products.

19 Cini Boeri

After graduating from Milan Polytechnic University, the talented Cini Boeri worked with the famous architect and designer Gio Ponti. Simple, bright, heavy and modern design style has won her many international design awards.

She is good at using psychology to find out people's ultimate needs and combining industrial design to make life easier and more satisfying. She likes to try different materials. The furniture and lighting she designed try to use different material combinations, such as irregular foam combinations, to present different sensory experiences. In addition to design, she also teaches in famous colleges around the world, including Southern California Institute of Architecture, Berkeley University, Sao Paulo Institute of Technology in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro Institute of Architecture. She is one of the important female designers in Italian design history.

20 Carlo Alessi

Carlo Alessi, born in Italy, studied industrial design. After graduation, he joined his father's iron art workshop Alessi and introduced many classic kitchen utensils, such as Otago kettle Ottagonale the best-selling tea and coffee combination Bombé. 1980, Carlo Alessi took charge of the management right of the company and began to invite famous designers from outside to design crosscutting tools, such as Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, richard sapper, and Achille Castiglioni.

The most famous ones are the hot water kettle with two whistles designed by Richard Sapp and the hot water kettle with a lovely blue bird on its mouth designed by Michael Graves. Carlo Alessi was in charge of Alessi until his death in 2009.

Alessi official website: www.alessi.com

2 1 Angelo Mangiarotti

Angelo Mangiarotti: "Happiness comes from the correct attitude towards things".

He was born in Italy and has an important influence on architecture. After studying architecture in Milan, Angelo Mangiarotti went to the United States for a two-year research visit and got to know Frank Lloyd Wright, walter gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Konrad Wachsmann, who had a profound influence on him.

After returning to Italy, he set up architectural offices in Milan and Tokyo, and completed many infrastructure projects of public institutions, commercial or private residential projects and sculptures. In addition, he is prolific in furniture and industrial design. He likes to try different materials, such as glass, plastic, metal, ceramics and crystal. His works are full of Italian romance and sensibility, such as carved glass vases and organic hand-blown glass lampshades.

Designer's official website: www.studiomangiarotti.com.

22 Andres Van Angke

Dutch-born Andries Van Onck majored in industrial design in Germany, and settled in Italy and set up a studio after graduation. His design works cover a wide range of fields, including communication equipment, electronic equipment, kitchen utensils, tableware, furniture, consumer goods, mechanical tools, street lamps, motorcycles and so on.

The things designed by Andries Van Onck emphasize functionality and practicality, such as stowable ladders and storage boxes with pulleys, many of which are collected by design museums in various countries. Andries Van Onck has also been devoted to academic research, publishing many books and running websites to discuss the theory and application of industrial design.

Designer's official website: www.andriesvanonck.com.

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