WSergio Asti was an Italian designer and architect, primarily known for his industrial designs for firms such as Zanotta, Gabbianelli, Salviati, FontanaArte, Artemide, and Knoll.
WClaudio Bellini is an Italian-born architect and designer based in Milan, where he runs an architecture and design practice, CLAUDIO BELLINI. An international speaker with many years of university teaching experience, Bellini also works as the creative director for a number of leading global brands.
WHarry Bertoia, was an Italian-born American artist, sound art sculptor, and modern furniture designer.
WCarlo Bugatti was an Italian decorator, designer and manufacturer of Art Nouveau furniture, models of jewelry, and musical instruments.
WLuigi Caccia Dominioni was an Italian architect and furniture designer.
WDuilio Cambellotti was an Italian applied artist, illustrator, painter, sculptor and designer who played a role in the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, and whose influence was social and political as well as aesthetic and artistic. He is recognized for his versatility across a spectrum of visual and design disciplines, and for his fidelity to agrarian themes.
WAchille Castiglioni was an Italian designer of furniture, lighting, radiograms and other objects.
WPier Giacomo Castiglioni was an Italian architect and designer.
WCTRLZAK is a hybrid studio bordering between art, design and architecture integrating diverse disciplines and cultures. The name [kənˈtrəul/zæk] derives from the initials of its founders and the computer key combination CTRL+Z, used in standard alphanumeric keyboards to take you a step back.
WEugenio Gerli was an Italian architect and designer. In an intense working life spanning more than six decades, Eugenio Gerli explored many different areas of his profession. He built villas, apartment blocks, office blocks, factories, banks and stores, and also restored historic buildings. He often completed his works with custom-made interiors and furniture.This diverse range of projects inspired his industrial design and today many have become icons, like the S83 chair, the PS 142 armchair Clamis, the Jamaica cabinet and the Graphis System.
WEnzo Mari was an Italian modernist artist and furniture designer who is known to have influenced many generations of industrial designers.
WThe Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, was an Italian design and architecture group founded by Ettore Sottsass. It was active from 1980 to 1987. The group designed postmodern furniture, lighting, fabrics, carpets, ceramics, glass and metal objects.
WAlessandro Mendini was an Italian designer and architect. He played an important part in the development of Italian, Postmodern, and Radical design. He also worked, aside from his artistic career, for Casabella, Modo and Domus magazines.
WGaetano Pesce is an Italian architect and a design pioneer of the 20th century. Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and Florence. During his 50-year career, Pesce has worked as an architect, urban planner, and industrial designer. His outlook is considered broad and humanistic, and his work is characterized by an inventive use of color and materials, asserting connections between the individual and society, through art, architecture, and design to reappraise mid-twentieth century modern life.
WGiovanni "Gio" Ponti was an Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, teacher, writer and publisher.
WMassimo Scolari, is an Italian architect, painter and designer.
WEttore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century. His body of work included furniture, jewelry, glass, lighting, home objects and office machine design, as well as many buildings and interiors. His style was defined by bright color choices, statement pieces and decoration. Ettore Sottsass was an iconic figure in design history.