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Almost Icons Catalogue 2022

infiniti is a “teenager” brand, born in 2008, which offers furnishing designed to work, relax and socialize. Creativity, technological innovation, design-thinking: these are the key concepts for understanding the philosophy of infiniti, which proposes furnishing accessories – chairs, stools, tables, sofas – created for the needs of contemporary life. From the first steps, infiniti believed that design should be a value to be shared in good company, a concept extended to the urban, public and professional community with a recognizable, practical and elegant touch. infiniti always believed...

Seating Solutions BrogliatoTraverso Claus Breinholt Favaretto&Partners Thomas Pedersen Andreas Ostwald mC.dsg Quaglio Simonelli Marc Sadler Marcello Ziliani Oleg Pugache

Claus Breinholt Pure Loop Mini 2014 Pure Loop Binuance 2014 Pure Loop Mono 2017 Both graduated at I.U.A.V. of Venice, after several experiences ranging from the art of glass in Murano to the traditional ceramics in Japan, they founded BrogliatoTraverso design studio in 2012. The research of a “quiet elegance” is the link through their products, allowing to apply innovative characters in a natural way without aesthetic forcing. This vision and the constant passion for research and innovation have allowed BrogliatoTraverso to win some of the most prestigious international awards, such as Red...

Thomas Pedersen Flink Table 2019 Curiosity, tenacity and passion for research have characterized our work for more than 40 years at our Design Studio of industrial design and interior architecture founded in 1973 in Padua by Paolo Favaretto. Back in the 1980s, the Studio was one of the first in Italy to engage in business relationships abroad, collaborating with prestigious companies in North America, Europe and Asia. In 2009, with the entry of the young Francesco Favaretto, the activities of the Studio have extended even further and now cover various areas of design, from industrial design...

Andreas Ostwald Record Contract 2018 Andreas Ostwald was born in Germany in 1964. After an apprenticeship as a ceramic modeller and having studied Industrial Design in Kiel, in 1996 he started up his own business, giving life to Ostwalddesign studio. From 1996 to 2006 he taught design at the “Muthesius Hochschule” of Kiel, and since 2005 he is professor at the HFK University of Bremen. In his of product and interior design research, Ostwald is always looking for complete uniqueness, leading to the creation of exclusive products and spaces. Core of his philosophy is the ambition for...

Quaglio Simonelli Marc Sadler Quaglio Simonelli is the creation of two dynamic talents Andrea Quaglio and Manuela Simonelli , both graduates of the Università del Progetto, in Reggio Emilia. Their studio is based in Paris. After their debut and and their two years collaboration with Philippe Starck, they founded their own design studio dedicated to provide design services to several sectors of the marketplace, beliving that diversity is a source of creative richness. They design technology products, create furniture and decorative objects, conceive the visual identity and product design for...

Marcello Ziliani Oleg Pugachev Marcello Ziliani was born in Brescia in 1963 under the sign of Pisces. In 1988 he graduated in architecture at Politecnico di Milano with Achille Castiglioni as a speaker. After three years abroad, he returned to Italy and devoted himself mainly to developing projects for the design of furniture, complement, lighting, bathroom, office, objects and early childhood, working in addition to exhibitions, theatrical choreography, art direction, design coordination, graphics and communication. He doesn’t like the absolutism and the indestructible certainties, he...

Fabrizio Batoni Philippe Tabet Fabrizio Batoni: sensitive, curious, careful, always ready to undertake new challenges. Its personal and professional life mirrors its way to be. “Always on”, that is his motto, to be always turned on, always tuned in for succeeding in understanding and to identifing ideas and needs of who is around. It graduates in architecture in the Florence University, and after various experiences in the world of design and architecture, in 1997 he opens his study in Colle di Val d’Elsa, city of the crystal and native country of Arnolfo Di Cambio, among the splendid...

Klaus Nolting Robin Rizzini Born in Switzerland in 1964, Klaus Nolting studied industrial design at Kiel University in Germany. Having obtained his degree in 1992, he began working for various architecture and design firms until, in 2006, he founded ON3D, a firm that specialises in planning and designing products for modern living, developing new concepts and design products with clean, soft lines. Since 2009 he has lectured on Theory of Design, Product Technology and Concept at Germany’s Mainz University. Since 2010 he has also been a member of the Architectural Association of Hamburg....

Dorigo Design Fiorenzo Dorigo was born in the province of Treviso in 1953. Since 1975, while attending art studies, he has collaborated with companies in the furniture sector, taking care of their design and image. Since 1977 he has been attending the Signomega studio and joins Bruno Maria Fracarossi in the “total design” experience of the “Seabuggy” projects (selected for the Compasso d’Oro in 1979) and “Quartz” (kitchen covered in tempered glass: 1982). Enrolled in ADI, IDD (Italian Institute for Design and Disability) and freelance since 1987, he gained significant experience in the...

Radice Orlandini One is Milanese, born in ’79, the other is Tuscan, born in ’72. Both graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, the first in industrial design, the second in architecture; they met in LUCCIORLANDINI studio after various work experiences and in 2008 they began to work on different projects. Andrea is curious, he loves sport and culture, he is always looking for new and interesting stimuli. stimulated by the pulsating metropolitan heartbeat, which gives rise to his unbridled passion for the visual arts. Both defend true design, the one that creates emotions, the one that makes...