Profile of designer Grasselli

Paolo Grasselli borned in Reggio Emilia and he graduated to the ISIA, in Firenze. He is interesting in design and planning of insides. He worked for Alessi, Arcade, Cellular Italia, Knolls, Hoffmann Italia, Halto, Olivetti, Veers, Modoluce, Oliver.

Some his creations have been exposed in the Deutsches Architektur Museum of Frankfurt and Felissimo design house in New York. He had different publications on the principal magazines of design and architecture. From 1997 to 2004 he has been teacher of design at the university of the Project of Reggio Emilia.

Profile of designer Raba

Rainer Bachschmid was born at the lake Constance, between Germany and Switzerland. Among training as a cabinetmaker he studied Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal. After graduation in 1994 he collaborated with some designers like Babel Design and Moll Design.

Following Rainer Bachschmid moved to Switzerland. He worked within 10 years as the head of development and design for the furniture factory Reinhard AG Sachseln. In the year 2004 he founded Rabadesign of Switzerland.

Profile of designer Masturzo

He has graduated in industrial design at the University IUAV of Venice with the thesis Libra, from the Latin "Balance", which is a shelf that rotates according to the weight of the books.

During his studies he improved his training with a stage at Michele De Lucchi's studio in Milan, and in a Workshop with Valcucine and with the architect Marcello Ziliani.

In 2005 the project Valì reached the final phases of the International design competition "Welcome", exibited at "Host" in the new Area of Milan fair and published in the rewiew BOX.

He has consolidated his technical and design experience working with Gianpietro Gai, a designer from Treviso. He has collaborated with companies of furniture and of communication, and also in the ambit of modelling 3D and rendering.

In 2008 his projects Scuba DOo and Oplà reached the final phases of the competitions "Rotomolding and water" and "Alcantara travel contest 2008" respectively.

The prototype of vertical garden Fasù has been among the winners of "SUN.lab2009" competition, and exibited at the fair Sun°27, whereas in November 2009 the small table Poldo has received a special mention at "Young design awards" competition.

He has become Angelo Micheli's assistant in the course of Design lab at CLAdis, Industrial design University in Treviso, since 2009.

At the moment he is collaborating with some companies of the north-east area of Italy.

Profile oflo studio di designers Archirivolto

Claudio Dondoli and Marco Pocci are originally from Colle d’Elsa, near Siena, where the “Archirivolto” studio still has its head office today.

Dondoli and Pocci met in Firenze at the university faculty of architecture where they were part of the same team.

In 1983 they opened an industrial planning and architecture studio, which from 1989 has been working exclusively on industrial design.

For the “Archirivolto” studio a project starts from the direct relationship with the customer, a good product has to have an affordable price. The search for the most innovative materials and processes allows for the best results to be achieved in terms of a quality-price ratio; this is one of the main activities of the studio.

Profilo dei designers Menguzzato & Nascimben

STUDIOQUADRIFOGLIO of Associated Architects Gianni Menguzzato & Claudio Nascimben since its origin has been committed to the field of industrial design. It has collaborated with many businesses in various sectors of industrial production. In particular, they have been involved in the office furniture and their add-ons, office chairs and accessories, external finishings, lighting and upon contract.

Furthermore, the firm has cooperated with various companies in other sectors such as the design of motorcycle and bicycle helmets, biomedical machinery, ecological equipment, vending machines etc. Through these projects it has hence matured numerous and useful experiences in the research and development of materials and also in their technical differences and operative applications.

Profile of designer Giorgio Manzali

Originates from artistic studies , primarily painting and sculpture. Throughout the years he has coupled the two: painted sculptures and model panel paintings, where 'aged' has remained the constant central theme.

Since 1977 he has concentrated part of his attention towards interior design and architecture with a clear affirmation that a painting or a sculpture always arise from a project, just as from a project develops an architecture, such as, a chair, table, sofa, mirror or a lamp. The grouping of all of these may be sculpture and colour, that which the irrational at first may be brought forth to become rational: tridimensional elements which man has lived within or beside but in any case ever present.

Profile of designer Giorgio Manzali

Profile of designer Pinaffo