Designers
Each one of our Italian brands collaborates with internationally celebrated designers. From Flexform’s illustrious history with Antonio Citterio and Joe Colombo, through to the successful pairings of Knoll with Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer or Cini Boeri, these globally recognised furniture designers are changing the way we live and experience exceptional design. It’s these partnerships between the world’s premier manufacturers and its greatest designers that create modern design classics: as Jean Maree Massaud and Marcel Wanders with Poliform, and Patricia Urquiola with Kettal have proven.
Marcel Wanders
Larger Than Life
Marcel Wanders is, without a doubt, one of the legendary larger-than-life designers of our time. He captivates his audience with magic, revolution, theft, philanthropy and most prominently some good, old fashioned, rib-tickling.
Jean Marie Massaud
synthesis, reduction and lightness
Denying trend and fashion, Jean Marie prefers questioning the existing, working out on progress and eventually proposing answers to contemporary stakes. It is this symbiosis between Man, his creations and his natural environment, that Jean Marie Massaud strives to reach, as a catalyst to innovation, as an economic model and as a life project.
Carlo Colombo
architecturally influenced
A sort of ambassador of Italian design to the world, he gives lectures and conferences in Israel, Greece, Portugal, Slovenia, Ukraine, Australia, Russia, Britain, Brazil and China. Colombo’s work as a designer, initially focused on product and interior design, has been progressively extended to the construction sector in Italy and abroad.
Antonio Citterio
multi-disciplinary
Antonio Citterio is an Italian architect, furniture designer and industrial designer who lives and works in Milan. He has won many prizes, among which the prestigious Compasso d’Oro in 1987 and 1995. His products are part of the MoMA permanent collection and the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris.