R. Lovegrove

Born in Wales in 1958, he began in the Eighties to work as a designer for Frog Design elaborating projects for Sony and Apple. After a time spent in France as a consultant for Knoll International, he came back to London and started working for Cappellini, Driade, Moroso, Olympus, Luceplan; some of the projects done for them are now part of the permanent collections of the Moma of New York and of the Design Museum of London. Lovegrove has the ability to seduce with appealing fluid shapes, persuasive technology, rich and beautiful colours and materials. He is inspired by natural world forms, but he also deeply cares of materials, not forgetting their eco-compatibility, in a skillful synthesis of form and function.

Renato Minetto

Renato Minetto was born in Milan in 1931. After finishing his studies and many travels to England and USA, he began to work. In 1954 he establishes the Minetto SpA company, specialised in the production of safety devices for the work place. At the end of 1972 the company merged with Gilardini SpA (now part of the FIAT Group).

Renato Minetto has always tried in his life to turn his own passions into work. His passion for travelling and discovering new landscapes took him to become a documentary producer for major European and American broadcasting televisions between 1972 and 1974, with expeditions to Asia, Africa and Latin America. His love for sailing took him into the editorial world at the end of 1974, when he becomes president of the Mursia Mare publishing house.

Ritva Puotila

Ritva Puotila was born in 1935 in Viipuri, in Karelia. She lived the first years of her life, before the Second World War, in the countryside. During the war her father passed away and her mother, who worked at the Railways company, rose her. Ritva's mother cultivated several artistic hobbies, which she transmitted to her daughters since they were little. Ritva has been dreaming to become an artist since she was a child. During the War she begins to play and create her own dresses. She studies at the Industrial Art Academy and begins to study theatre drawing. She gets her degree in Architecture in 1959 in Helsinki.

Rodolfo Dordoni

Born in Milan in 1954, he graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1979. Since then, he has designed for most of the leading names in the furniture and lighting sectors. For some of these, as head of design, he sets and co-ordinates the strategy of the product. He designs housing projects, villas, industrial buildings, shops, showrooms, offices, restaurants, hotels, as well as stands and fair lay-outs, in Italy and elsewhere. In 2005, alongside his industrial design activity, he founded together with Alessandro Acerbi and Luca Zaniboni the Dordoni Architects Studio, which is dedicated specifically to architectural planning and interior design.

S. Ban

Born in Tokyo in 1957, he established his office in his town in 1985 to work with a peculiar material: cardboard. Professor of Yokohama, Keio and of Columbia universities, he improved his knowledge as far as he can project and realize homes, churchs and public places with cardboard structures which can stand the test of water and overweight, places which transmit a strong sensation of being extremely comfortable and on a human scale.

S. Burks

Born in Chicago in 1969, since 1997, when he opens in New York the Readymade Projects Studio, Stephen Burks deals with creative design for commercial spaces, events, packaging, furniture and lighting. In 1999 he invented the first guide to side events during ICFF in New York. His projects, besides being protagonist in the most important furniture exhibitions, are nowadays present in the collections of Victoria & Albert Museum in London and of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Always careful to the “ecological” aspects of design, Burks is one of the few designers who promote, through no-profit association Aid to Artisans, local craftsmanship in developing Countries.

S. Kuramata

The Japanese designer, since 1965, when he founded the Kuramata Design Office in Tokyo, to 1991, when he died, Kuramata designed some of the most significant and lasting items ever produced. Besides his connection with the Japanese design world, Kuramata’s significance in western design is shown first with Memphis, than in 1987 with Cappellini which made him its best designer to introduce the brand on international stage. His work is represented in the permanent collections of Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, of New York Moma, of Metropolitan Museum and of the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama.

Simone Micheli

Simone Micheli is a Professor. He founded the architectural studio with his name in 1990 and the Design Company “Simone Micheli Architectural Hero” in 2003. His works concerning architecture, contract, interior design, exhibit design, design, graphic and communication are strictly linked to the sensorial glorification. He is the curator of some experimental events for some of the most qualified international fairs. He shows his projects in the most important world-wide architecture and design exhibitions. Several monographies and publications about his works are published in the most important international magazines and books. Among his excellent partners, Simone Micheli selected Gervasoni in the interior furnishing field for its high quality, its rising contents and its rigour.

T. Dixon

Born in Tunis in 1959, at four he moved to London; with no formal art or design education he began to explore the decorative and structural strength of recycled materials; no long time later what he created in his workshop turned out to be recognizable and ordered as custom made requests.In 1989 Cappellini first introduced his S-Chair, now in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern art in New York. His workshop “Space” became a design office in 1991 and, from 1994, a space to show creations of younger designers; in the same year, his interest moved to plastics, opening “Eurolounge”, then to extrusion technique.