Designers

All items carry the story of its owner and of their designers as well. Yet it is still hard to get a clear profile of many of these great authors. Follow us in our search for the bios of architects and designers who shaped some of last century’s icons as well as less well known characters of the design world.

Meet the designers

Le Corbusier

Nendo Design

Tito Agnoli

Franco Albini

Gae Aulenti

Ernesto Basile

Studio BBPR

Mario Bellini

Osvaldo Borsani

Marcel Breuer

Paolo Buffa

Luigi Caccia Dominioni

Fratelli Castiglioni

Pietro Chiesa

Joe Colombo

Gabriella Crespi

Marcello Cuneo

Vittorio Dassi

Carlo De Carli

Charles & Ray Eames

Piero Fornasetti

Norman Foster

Gianfranco Frattini

Pia Guidetti Crippa

Max Ingrand

Jac Jacobsen

Carl Jacob Jucker

Vladimir Kagan

Angelo Lelli

Vico Magistretti

Angelo Mangiarotti

Enzo Mari

Ingo Maurer

Sergio Mazza

Paul McCobb

Alessandro Mendini

Giovanni Michelucci

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Carlo Mollino

Bruno Munari

Cleto Munari

Carlo Nason

George Nelson

Verner Panton

Ico Parisi

Gaetano Pesce

Giancarlo Piretti

Gio Ponti

Carlo Ratti

Gerrit Rietveld

Gastone Rinaldi

Willy Rizzo

Eero Saarinen

Claudio Salocchi

Richard Sapper

Gino Sarfatti

Carlo Scarpa

Tobia Scarpa

Gaetano Sciolari

Alvaro Siza

Ettore Sottsass

Philippe Starck

Giotto Stoppino

Kazuide Takahama

Oscar Torlasco

Aldo Tura

Paul Tuttle

Guglielmo Ulrich

Paolo Venini

Massimo & Lella Vignelli

Nanda Vigo

Hans J. Wegner

Marco Zanuso

Toni Zuccheri