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FOREWORD 8

SHOPS 10

RESTAURANTS 70

SPAS 116

OFFICES 138

RESIDENCES 182

EXHIBITS 212

DESIGNER’S INDEX 254

Contents

Foreword

Stylish Design in Italy features the best of fashion, style, as well as the designers of Italian interior designs. The unique aspects of the Italian interior design are somewhat difficult to define. Beautiful interior designs have many similarities wherever they are located. Usually, the designer's attention is focused on making a statement which embraces a philo-sophical approach to life and art while at the same time meeting the existential and practical needs of the occupants. Italian interior design has all of these elements, and there-fore one can find places which have a distinctly "Scandina-vian" appearance, with some places that look like British cottages, and others that seem directly out of a French baroque palace. Of course these are extreme examples to illustrate a wide range of possible decorating solutions, for which it is not possible to use an exclusively Italian design

label. A Lot has changed in Italian society in the last 20 to 30 years, and these changes are nowhere better reflected than in the evolution that has occurred in interior decorat-ing in this country. Italian Interiors now tend to be splendidly decorated, reflecting the individuality and taste of their own-ers. However, there are also some aspects of interior design that are quite unique to the Italian look. These include bold design and original colour schemes, attention to detail, emphasis on quality, and a penchant for creative and unique solutions. In fact, if one particular aspect can be identified as characteristic of Italian home decoration it is the need to express the individuality of the decorator and home owner. "Good taste" in interior design is no longer a stereotyped stylistic form. Without any preconceived ideas,

tasteful interior design in Italy is now recognized as the abil-ity to furnish a place in a simplified manner with functional furniture using some unique and beautiful art pieces. And in Italy with the continued strong traditions of specialised trades and master craftsmen, it is possible to have things built to specification, coloured to suit one's tastes or moods, constructed as desired, tiled as needed or sculpted as imagined. The quest for uniqueness can therefore be met because of the possibility of adopting solutions that are tailor-made, thanks to the skill of the many artisans that take pride in their professions. Another particular aspect of Italian style in interior design is the use of certain traditional materials which themselves are the outcome of centuries of experimenting and use. These include fabrics used for home furnishings.

A number of Italian regions are highly specialised and at the forefront in both the production of fabrics and in the develop-ment of manufacturing technology. These include the areas around Prato, Como and Biella. They produce exceptionally beautiful fabrics, suited to a wide range of decorating needs from upholstery to wall covering and curtain materials. The splendid colours and designs of these fabrics are matched by their high quality, the product of technological innovation and leadership in the textile industry world-wide.

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Fendi FlagshipLocation : Rome, ItalyDesigner : Peter Marino Architect

The Fendi flagship store in Rome represents the re-launch of a luxury brand. Peter Marino was asked to design a store concept which emphasises the brand’s Roman identity both in a local sense as well as in an extended and universal sense of Rome as caput mundi. The store has multiple entrances allowing pedestrians access to the various passages and rooms of the store which occupies two floors of the Palazzo Boncompagni Ludovisi (an early 20th century neo-classical residence with ground floor shops).

The store can be identified in the material used, such as travertine and the volcanic cobble stones called sampietrini. Travertine was represented in tactile and visual terms as horizontal striations. And, the encrusted rust often found on the surface of Rome’s travertine fountains also present another Roman essence. Variations of this theme can be seen in irregular ribbing of surfaces encrusted in rust, in basalt, and amber glass.

Yellow travertine is used as a flat wall surface, as well as a curvilinear valence floating above the merchandise racks. In the fur salons rust encrusted striations serve as walls below the travertine curves, while handbags float on thassos shelves and in niches cut into the yellow travertine. Here white striated curves float above the goods. Shoes rest on travertine planes floating below curved travertine curtains.

The dark gray metallic restoration of the neoclassical stair becomes a counterpoint to the chromatic richness of the store interiors. Lighting is specific to each space in the interior and exterior.

Fendi’s identity is expressed through non-standard architecture in which walls become indeterminate shells moving through the spaces they create. The brand is no longer fixed; instead here it becomes dynamic and inventive.

Zilly MyconosLocation : Myconos, GreeceDesigner : Pagani+Dimauro Architetti, Arch. Giovanni Pagani, Arch. Maurizio Di Mauro

The shop in Myconos moves away from the typical concept of Zilly shops because of its particular location and structure. Here the cosmopolitan and international style of Zilly is contaminated by some typical elements of Cyclades Isles. The shop has not just been designed to exhibit and sell merchandise, but focused on pleasing and appealing customers. The aim of the project was to restore and maintain the original architectural features of the space such as the windows, the

wooden ceilings in view and the stone arch. The colour white recalls the typical villages of Cyclades as the gold reminds one of the fashion world and the swinging night life of Myconos. The changing rooms made of gold-metal plates and the rails that are actual branches of trees, creating a link with the hand-made craft of the isle.

City Moda is a shopping centre devoted to fashion, where the most prestigious designer labels compete to show their best outlook. The two outlets are placed in strategic areas in the South of Italy of Bari and Lecce. They are both included in two most interesting commercial realities. In the project work, the metropolitan references and the urban paths tend to delineate the ideal fashion city: streets and squares as reference points, conversation and meeting places lkie dj desk, the play centre, the relax area, the restaurant area with its “meeting point” bar.

City ModaLocation : Lecce, ItalyDesigner : Arch. Francesco ManciniAssistants : Arch. Barbara De Liso, Arch. Beniamino CirilliPhotographer: Gernone

The project consists of a balanced turn between memory and innovation, and body and feeling. All elements of a collective memory concur to create an interactive atmosphere. The white, the steel, the wood, the crystal, the light, the water, the plasma screens and the giant posters alternate in a balanced mixture, where the past and the present mingle into a pleasant, muffled, peaceful atmosphere, which is likely to arouse meditation on a better world.

The new Gai Mattiolo outlet is situated in one of the most fashionable city streets. It covers a surface of 100 square metres. The whole place is characterised by the lack of colour; therefore, the colour tones are thin and the materials merge to produce a clean and clear image, acting as an ideal background which hosts the colourful and creative Gai Mattiolo dresses. Fine lake enamels and prestigiuos marbles coming from the quarry of Carrara, match the shiny and sanitised steels perfectly. A folowing of full and empty spaces, of staggering surfaces, straight lines running after curved lines enclose the spaces,

Gai MattioloLocation : Bari, Italy Designer : Arch. Francesco ManciniAssistants : Barbara De Liso, Beniamino CirilliPhotographer: Lo Porto

bringing out an exclusive product. A great table dominates the room. It is a round, steel and crystal table, with a big, white ceramic, cone-shaped pot for large flower bunches intended as a tribute for women and beauty. It is also the space centre, around which everything comes and from which everything leaves. The mastery of the artistry in Gai Mattiolo can be appreciated in a space, which never towers over the product, though it has a strong identity.

In Twentyfifth Store, the master-concept is the youth. Just like the words on bag, Life is game!Yes, here is the game of colour! Colourful glass wall and lightening make the space more shining and lively. Here is the window-shop, the large window makes the border almost invisible. The motorbike is the label of youth, also the exhibition of the

Twentyfifth StoreLocation : Cremona, Italy Designer : Arkpabi | Giorgio Palù & Michele Bianchi, architects

products shelves with vivid colour, kept in straight line which along the wall with its brightness and flexibility, has successfully created the true image of the store which is also enhanced by the bright colour of the ceiling where lighting fixtures have been installed and by the dark concrete pavement. Therefore the customer is free to choose among different spatial routes.

A pavement in resin, decorated with precious participations of nature inspiration as embroideries, performed by Yoon Hee Ahn, focuses even the footpath which highlights with iron plate, and this is the starting point to discover the world of Tad. Four levels of pure entertainment join together to form the surprise and diversity of colours, materials, mood and lighting systems.

The sales zone is developed in a 1,000-square-meter area, subdivided into four parts. The legacies between them, from a lift and the wood-steps, starting with the bar on ground floor, went across to some several floors. The verticalita one ulteriorly emphasised the space volume, thanks to the lounge at the top floor, which can be conceived through great windows that concurr a splendid view to the city. The choice of the materials, the colours and the furniture intentionally imprinted with simplicity in order to create a neutral atmosphere. The idea was to receive the live-colours and to provoke us with the characteristics of the chosen products, right to the point of sale.

Tad StoreLocation : Milan, ItalyDesigner : Arch.Giampero Peia, Arch.Marta Nasazzi / Peia Associati srl

Pinko Florence has become the prototype of a new way to interpret the shop space: a place not designed to exhibit merchandise anymore, but designed to take care of customers. Merchandise are displayed no more along the walls but in the centre of the shop in an almost casual manner, without creating a predefined route within the shop and always displaying the product from different angles. The perimeter walls, free from products, are characterised by mingling different materials, such as rough plaster and diamond-

Pinko FlorenceLocation : Florence, ItalyDesigner : PAGANI+DIMAURO architetti Arch. Giovanni Pagani, Arch. Maurizio Di Mauro

cut enamelled bricks or neo-classical style friezes and the red light of the neon lamps of “pop art” style. The entrance and the cash area have been transformed into a reading and talking area with modern design armchairs but coated with classical fabrics. The technology devices and packing desk have been hidden in a specific area.

In recent years the office of BURATTI+BATTISTON ARCHITECTS has been responsible for the corporate identity of the La Perla and La Perla Uomo boutiques, renewing and opening new locations in the most important cities world-wide: New York, Parigi, Hong Kong and Milan are the most recent and significant theatres of this operation. The shop is composed of two independent spaces that have been uniformed in the project: The first is larger and open with three shop windows overlooking the street, whilst the second, more reserved and protected, is characterised by a large skylight. The operation of transforming the presence of the two central pillars in the first room into a key element and fulcrum of the project focused on the apparently opposed concepts of hiding/erasing and highlighting/extending.

Boutique La Perla UomoLocation : Milan, ItalyDesigner : BURATTI+BATTISTON ARCHITECTS Gabriele Buratti, Oscar Buratti, Ivano BattistonPhotographer: Andrea Martiradonna

The second room, more reserved and without natural light or outside views, is transformed by the construction of a large artificial skylight made entirely of mirror glass; a huge "hole" in the ceiling containing two Taraxacum lights by Achille Castiglioni for Flos, which are multiplied infinitely by the magical effect of the mirror box. The materials are ordered in varying shades of black; black African flame-finished granite for the floor, black-stained brushed wengé for the furniture, black mirrors and grey tinted glass: a select palette of finishes arranged in a composition highly attentive to geometry, rhythm, graphics and space.

The project of “Vodafone Tech Store” expresses the will to create a space which is original and absolutely unlike any of the serial designs which characterize the traditional shops. This space is not solely intended as a place of rest, but also as a dynamic and stimulating environment, which offers emotions, stimulus, and vitality. The desire to create - in a tranquil city such as Cremona - a place which satisfies the functions of a shop and also gives it the chance “to come alive” contextually as a modern space led us to explore new expressive forms tied to particular functions. The entrace is through a large display window and it leads to the store-space. This space is enclosed in a ceiling that joins with

Tech Store, CremonaLocation : Cremona, ItalyDesigner : Arkpabi | Giorgio Palù & Michele Bianchi, architects

the floor designing a soft curve. The floor covering is in vanished colored resin, it’s painted beginning with a black color (near the entrace) to a white color in the bottom of the store, an optical game which creates reverberated effects. The ceiling – illuminated from behind - contain six monitors which transmit images of exhibits and artistic works. The section, a light wave in polished steel-mirrow interrupted for the insertion of lights,that progressively load themselves away from the zone of the display window. In the more darkness part of the store, the floor in resin is white and reflects.

Both interiors commissioned by Club Med to the architect Maurizio Lai (first the Turin agency and then the Milan branch) score top marks in all areas. Giant and brightly coloured walls are decorated in serigraphic pictures, with a fade out effect, which act as a backdrop for customers’ dreams – the deep blue of the sea bed turns to the intense red of a tropical sunset. Colourful display cabinets and

Club Med MilanoLocation : Milan, ItalyDesigner : Maurizio Lai Photographer: Andrea Martiradonna

luminous glass columns take on a futuristic feel, a metaphor for ancient ruins waiting to be discovered. Like the store itself, the furnishings have also been designed in unlikely shapes, and the atmosphere is unique, relaxing and dreamlike at the same time.

The Zilly shops reflect a cosmopolitan woman’s life and they can be interpreted as boxes which hold the experiences and the “objects” of all life, so that the shops have been designed as “home” spaces, divided according to various functions and changeable feelings. The materials used in the shops, properly chosen after a careful research on purpose to create a particular atmosphere,

Zilly Athens KifisiaLocation : Kifisia, GreeceDesigner : PAGANI+DIMAURO architetti Arch. Giovanni Pagani, Arch. Maurizio Di Mauro

refer to a classic home space but interpreted in a new and modern way: wood for its warmth, the stone tiles and the English wallpaper used in an informal and ironic way. Also the furniture of all shops are masterpieces of the best industrial design in the world.

The Tindaci shop occupies 300sqm of open space and is located in the historical centre of Padova, Italy. The peculiarity of this store is that in addition to the commercial space it has a gallery for exhibitions of contemporary art. The entrance to the store has a two-fold function – it houses a large black retail counter and a maxi screen above it which shows images of the current exhibition.

Spazio TindaciLocation : Padua, ItalyDesigner : Roberto Tognon ArchitectPhotographer: Alessandro Bellon

To unify the different areas, the walls and ceiling are black while the floor is dark grey. The choice of total black has the effect of dematerialising the space and thus highlighting the luminous cubes where the merchandise is displayed. The walls and the ceilings are done in washable black paint, the pavement in dark grey concrete, the cubes in crystal with fibre optic lightening and the furniture is in anthracite grey M.D.F.

This is the fast-stepping world, where peoples here are searching for the peace of mind. The Zilly Kolonaki is such kinds of classic store, characterised by refined designs and special decorations. The window shop, completely transparent, is a border between the insides and the outsides, which announces to the customer what he can find inside but at the same time cancels, almost completely, the distinction between indoor and outdoor. The whole store becomes window-shop and catches the attention of the customer through the chromatic contrast among

Zilly KolonakiLocation : Kolonaki, GreeceDesigner : PAGANI+DIMAURO architetti Arch. Giovanni Pagani, Arch. Maurizio Di Mauro

peaceful decorations and flowery clothes. White tables, Italian traditonal chairs and British style wallpapers combine different fashion elements to this space. The pink table which is suspended in the coner is the one worth the attention the most.Flowers and books make the place more attactive to the ladies. Some vintage elements, like the chandelier, provide a style ambiguity that is often pursued in the studio’s projects, never identifiable with a period or architectural style, but always unique.

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Above the alcoves hang unique ceiling lights which are also the necessary actors in this happy place. The bottle cabinet behind the bar is made out of coloured glass and light (daylight during the day and artificial light during the night) comes through that, creating a mystical ambiance. Furthermore spots are used for proper extra lighting. Red, brown and dark pink make the fairytale of Arabian Nights come to life.

Clan Cafe is a wonderful place for sharing happiness and sorrow. The refined design makes this limited space more charming. The ceiling is arched with bricks. Parquet flooring is used at the back. The ceiling has been kept simple, in brick dome and above the alcoves, unique crystal ceiling lights decorate on it. Glassed display cupboard with several exquisite bags and ornamental articles make it the boutique of fashion brand. The curvature of the layout and the design’s play on voluptuousness will appeal to one’s sensuality, and its minimalist execution along with the city’s energy transformed into a tangible space will charm the pickiest of cafe-goers. Here you can Start your night with an uplifting dinner menu,which is a warm and homey replenishing late night menu.

Clan Café Location : Milan, ItalyDesigner : L.A.I. Studio

It was designed, in three stages, by architect Francesco Mancini. The first room was “the ice-cream shop”, where the oriental aplomb is largely due to a wall paper that re-proposes Turkish settings, all worked out with masterly skill by Ennio Tullo of the graphic studio Studio X Design. It is an amusement, allowed to ironise about the “false antique” which is all the rage. The second room offers a modern interior of stone, textile fabrics, mirrors and polished steel, where the designer wanted to emphasise the metropolitan chaos and to memorise the recent tragedies. As if by magic, you pass through a completely red zone, the wall is wholly wadded and covered with a red, shiny and dull sky. Walls are bubbles and scales, so you cannot perceive what

Barcollo RestaurantLocation : Bari, ItalyDesigner : Arch. Francesco Mancini Photographer : Lo Porto

is what, but you are sure to feel a sensation of pleasure, nearly a return to the amniotic fluid. It is like a re-birth. In fact you pass into a total white zone, with walls and sofas stuffed with white leather. Fittings have been executed by Bartolo Fracchiolla(joiner) and Vito Loiudice(upholsterer) on design by the architect Francesco Mancini. All graphic elaborations, which have played a determining part, are created by Ennio Tullo of the Studio X Design.

The long mirror’s wall with the Sammontana macrologo on it, in the living area, reflects all the pillars covered as well with sparkling wallpapers where there is situated a wooden seating place with bar stools. This is a trendy bar connected with visual and cultural references to the small new metropolis, a new point of sale incredibly bright, active and explosive, inside in which many marks are strategically mixed to take the customer in a purposely, significant, refined and exciting jurney: in the real “Sammontana world”. Everything in this place has been designed by the Architect Simone Micheli, from the bright lights to every single furniture element.

At first sight we can see the big ice cream refrigerator with a curved blade which exalts the king of Sammontana’s products and introduces the customer at the perception of the long bar The bar is made of ebony makassar and underlines with a red lighting. The big mirrors in abstract geometrical shapes and sandy Sammontana macrologos cover the two long entrance walls and create harmonious reflections, including the shop windows with their shining colours which are sourrounded by frame with rounded angle made of ebony makassar and a few monitor/tv reproducing images and videos about the company’s history. The long bar take you to a living area characterised by colourade and effervescent wallpapers applied on the walls and on the ceiling, Inside you can see a lot of heterogeneous and charming furniture with intriguing colours.

Sammontana BarLocation : Empoli, ItalyDesigner : Simone Micheli Architectural Hero Photographer : Mario Corsini for ASA 64

Placed at the ground floor of a rural redecorated building it makes cohabit in the same space a restaurant and a lounge area situated in the middle of the watering hall. To the raw walls and the strict building architecture are counterposed the modern details inspired to the 60’s and 70’s. White is the main colour studded by tones of loud orange, the lamps ,both the floor and the wall, are realized on design as well

Room77Location : Correggio, ItalyDesigner : Andrea Langhi Design

as the mirrors that belong to the collection of objects designed by the studio. Plexiglass screens reproduce black and white images, separate and personalize the space.

tavern, where is possible drink and to eat fastly or to taste food and wine slowley in a dedicated area. In this project materials, lighting and atmosphere are inspired to the coulors and trasparecy of the wine.

In Treviso, a small old city near Venice, famous for Benetton headquarters, textiles factories and for the good wine, an historical building has been transformed in a new restaurant formula called Drinking. On the ground floor of this building is situated the wine bar, on the “mezzanino” the speedy restaurant, and on the first floor the slow restaurant, open from the evening to the night. The concept translate in modern signs the italian tradition of the

DrinkingLocation : Treviso, ItalyDesigner : Archiroom

It was necessary to create a relaxing space where the client had all the time and the right atmosphere to concentrate on the creations of Marco Parizzi’s cuisine. Contrarily to usual, the entrance of the restaurant hides the main view and allows to see only a part of it, suggesting a particular atmosphere without advertising it. The aim of the intervention is putting in evidence the essence of the materials, the sensations they can give, colors, lights: this choice allows a dialogue with the existing structure and the created space, which is characterized by minimal light and seat variations, all aiming to increasing client feeling. The existing central corridor was re-thought as a distributive filter: at the entrance a space is dedicated to welcoming

Parizzi RestaurantLocation : Parma, ItalyDesigner : Andrea Meirana Architetto. Assistants : Stefania Ottonello.

customers waiting to be seated and a reception desk. The sink becomes a fountain made of Matraia stone and the sound of the water becomes integral part of the materials used in this architecture. The golden-leaf wall was created in situ and spreads its reflections on the three round tables nearby and passes through the white glass that gives access to the kitchens. The project’s effort focuses on the research of minimalism in all its parts: the result has a strong emotional impact and the client’s memory is stimulated by elements, effects, spaces (both natural and emotional) that are present only in the subconscious.

The ’60’s and ’70’s inspire the setting of this disco restaurant.Curved lines typical of the “space age”, the fluorescent colours of the neon lights, the optical designs of the walls and of the cushions’coverings inspired by Verner Panton, the column’s covered in a mirror mosaic is like the famous rotating globes of Studio 54. Everywhere are red skay little sofas on different levels (that echo the typical settings of the ’70’s disco) around a circular counter. The ceiling of the watering hole is fuchsia coloured. The floor is made of black resin. The rest of the watering hole is white so

Ugly Scandiano Disco RestaurantLocation : Reggio Emilia, ItalyDesigner : Andrea Langhi Design

that the fluorescent colours of the LED lighting floods the setting and gives every corner a different colour and ambience .A red curtain, usually collected along a wall, can be used to divide the hall and reduce its size on more private evenings.The need for a dual function that allows for dinner before and dancing later in the same space, has resulted in tables fitted with a piston that, during dinner time, has a normal table’s height and, after dinner, lower itself to the height of a parlour table. A simple place, colourful and funny.

“P Food & Wine”, a place that celebrates Piedmontese excellence, is a restaurant-wine-bar created by Architect Simone Micheli commissioned by the Region of Piedmont for the Olympic Winter Games of Turin in 2006. It is a temporary installation; an ephemeral, but true architecture, which will find its strength and expression in few material and formal elements through a suggestive and breathtaking cascade of colour, images, sound and light. The homogeneity of form and furnishing and the integrated lighting choreography confer unity on the entire space, which is divided into two distinct floors. It is a synaesthetic, volumetric, visual and content-oriented reflection that intends to identify a new path towards the celebration of the relationship between man, constructed space and food, between theoretical

“P” Food & WineLocation : Turin, ItalyDesigner : Simone Micheli Architectural Hero Photographer : Maurizio Marcato, S.M.A.H.

layers and compositive truth, between matter, light, colour, sound, scent and taste; A multiplicity of chromatic gigantesque and adjustable lamps, deliberately gigantesque, constellate the ceiling while guaranteeing the exaltation of colors, material surfaces, simple forms and details. A neon light, finely shaped and curved runs along the curtains, while the alternating fuchsia led lights along the base of the wall in strips illuminate the aluminum pavement.Large poufs covered in black tissue with integrated aluminum support trays separate the tables of VIP guests from the proper restauration room. It is a new spatial fragment capable of bringing a renewed type of experience linked to the world of beauty, truth and emotion to the visitor.

Create a mix of contrasting sensations. Some are reassurable like the ones of a home parlour made by delicate sofas of white leather or of soft red creased velvet. With lively walls by wood and mirrors inspired to the 60’s bookcases full of objects and memories. Others perplexing like a long counter, made of very thin slices of glass lay one upon the other one, made ethereal by a interiour illumination by led that change colour and give a different perception of it.

Or like the chandeliers inspired to the baroque candle holders but interpreted in different way because made with plexiglass.At the lower ground the toilets are furnished like an hotel’s hall with curtains and wooden boiserie under a vault completely painted white.

Deseo RestaurantLocation : Milan, ItalyDesigner : Andrea langhi Design

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In the yang area dedicated to the relationship and to the conversation, located in the South, seven candles are placed, to evoke the fire which represents a gathering element. In the south-west area, the nutriment area is located.The walls are painted with tea leaf essence, in order to have a warm and natural colour. The floor in larch wood, dominated by the Sun, is shining with a vital energy. The use of natural materials for the spa, accompanied by a magical use of light, gives these spaces a sophisticated elegance.

In a holiday house, the goal of the project is to create a place where the relaxation and moditation can be easy and natural. The project has proposed the realization of a SPA, where the family of the owner can shelter from the chaotic everyday life. The project is articulated in different areas. In the water area, at North, it is created an intimate alcove, with a hydromassage, veiled by natural linen curtains. Seven black bowls contain bathing oil necessary to stimulate the seven chakra. In the meditation area, there are futon on linen fabric and a big painting (painted by Mirandolina Di Pietrantonio),which through the representation of the circle aims to give prominence to the centrality of the individual.

Romano SpaLocation : Rome, ItalyDesigner : Mirandolina Di Pietrantonio ArchitectsPhotograhper : Paolo Mercogliano

The water follows the costumer in all the different areas of the Notos Spa with little brass waterfall in small watercourse and of different size of swimming pools in Biara stone and Bisazza mosaic. We dedicated the first floor completely to the body-care and massages zone. In this part of the Spa black brasilian stone, Biara stone and Palissandro Wood are always the principals materials thought to give again the same sensations of the wellness zone. We have studied a place in which the costumer can spend time for himself in a contemporary way.

Notos Spa is the most important beauty centre in the South of Italy. Notos is located inside Altafiumara Hotel, the only one luxury hotel in Calabria at the Mediterranean Sea. Notos consists of two different floors. The first one, the ground floor, about 1000 square meters, is the wellness space. This place is characterized by a warm and private space. We have designed the space on purpose to create a warm atmosphere for the costumers with natural materials like the Palissandro wood, the Beola stone and a very suggestive lightening project. This particular attention for the lightening project comes from our pivotal idea that a good project is nothing without a correct light use.

Notos SpaLocation : Reggio Calabria, ItalyDesigner : Pagani+Dimauro Architetti, Arch. Giovanni Pagani, Arch. Maurizio Di Mauro Assistants : Fulvio Tosi, Clarissa Agazzi, Doot, Elena Reggiani

Developed in two different floors, Wave Spa is an urban wellness space in which the costumer can take care of himself every day. The project begins from an oriental inspiration and has, as central point, a helicoidal stair which serves as the most important element the of the entrance and the only distributive element. On the ground floor the small welcoming space conduces the costumer into a particular area composed of a big swimming pool and a Japanese garden. On the first floor the wellness area is divided into two spaces: massage rooms and wet area in which they have designed a big Hammam in Travertino marble and Bisazza mosaic.

Wave Urban SpaLocation : Villafranca, ItalyDesigner : Pagani+Dimauro Architetti, Arch. Giovanni Pagani, Arch. Maurizio Di Mauro Photographer : Dario Lasagni

The soul of the project is the alternation between two earth colours: beige and brown sometimes used with stucco paint and sometimes used with natural materials like wood and stone. The only exception is represented to the wet area, especially the central of hammam, in which green Bisazza mosaic is the only colour used.

The swimming - pool is also a spectacular zone designed here. the floor in black stone and the wall in white plasterboard and resin that cover the masonries creating a fluid fragment of sky thanks to the little blu recessed led. The pool, with a support surface aimed to server cocktails on the border, is covered by a glazing brown and silver mosaic. Inside the swimming pool changeable lighting and water effects are played by a computerizing consolle.

One of the most prestigious hotel in Budapest, the historical New York Palace, in ownership of Boscolo Hotels, hosts on its basement the resounding spa, designed by Architect Simone Micheli. It is a three-dimensional manifest of the possible and wanted union between architecture, sensoriality and wellness, of the synergy and commixture between furniture which tend to conceptual, but absolutely functional, plastic and fluid shapes, and the host’s private experience which run through this space, a wonderful dream which tend to unreal. The walls have been fluidly coated with plastic and dynamic surfaces built in plaster and finished with glossy white resin. Blue - lighted. spotlights are set in this harmonious and curvilinear interior and compose the whole illuminating system.

Spa BudapestLocation : Budapest, HungaryDesigner : Simone Micheli Architectural HeroPhotographer : S.M.A.H.

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The project consists of a conversion of a double height vaulted space into an open office area. After some structural restorations, the existing space allowed for a suspended mezzanine to be inserted, which provides for the open office area. More private meeting rooms find place underneath the mezzanine and are enclosed in glass.

Pool Office Location : Rome, Italy Designer : Morq* Assistants : Architect Daniele DurantePhotographer : Aliocha Merker

The materiality of the old space suggested that all new materials be highly polished: the floor is made of reconstituted stone and it is suspended to allow for cabling; the underside of the mezzanine is aluminum polished while all glazed panels are bottle green. As a result, the space is one of transparencies and reflections.

The project of reorganization of the ASPM office previews the complete restructure of the existing building. The main entrance is confirmed in the same position but reorganized through a new automatic flowing sensor door that introduces a new hall to the ground level; on the entrance zone it points out the access to the new elevator, characterized by a double door that concurs the entry-exit also towards the existing stair; the hall, redesigned in the partitions and the accesses, welcomes the costumers with a new reception counter. The first and the second level are completely transformed and adapted to the requirements of functionalities expressed from Aspm; it is confirmed the vertical connection with stair, and such connection is facilitated with the equipment of an elevator. At the first level there are, through the realization of partitions with an high acoustic performances, the offices, with floating pavement and inspectable ceilings, to guarantee extreme flexibility in the time.

ASPM HeadquarterLocation : Cremona, ItalyDesigner : Arkpabi Giorgio Palù & Michele Bianchi, ArchitectsPhotographer : Alessandro Taino

The service corridor, beyond carrying out the function of distribution, is conceived as an archives space and equipped with one light footbridge placed to the half of the height; such footbridge allows to catch up with extreme facility - the double width shelvings and reduces the unpleasant effect of the corridor determined by a tight and high space.

Crea International has designed the new and surprising retail format for the Mediobanca group, CheBanca! customer service.The design of the new branches emphasizes the consultancy, self transaction and self education activities, bringing the consumer at the centre of the process.The Natural Tech concept designed by Crea International is inspired by “the rules of simplicity” by John Maeda.The leading design idea is that the surrouding things have to get back to essential. The overall atmosphere of CheBanca! recalls the warmth and light of the sun, while the layout of CheBanca! reminds the logical organization of the solar system with the client ideally at the centre of it.

CheBancaLocation : Milano, ItalyDesigner : Crea InternationalPhotographer : Beppe Raso

The Natural Tech of CheBanca! means ethic and transparency of a world that does not deceive and the apparently “technology free” environment brings human contact upfront.The yellow colour that permeates the environment reminds of the sunshine light, the aniline treated wood suggests a straight forward approach, the metacrylic material printed with the honeycomb texture casts a friendly atmosphere.

The project regards the ground floor of a twelve-floor building the Ferri S.P.A offices. Locate the ground floor surface measures about 1000 square meters. It is characterized by a central body with stairs, lifts and hoist elevators; the surface is a rectangle with two windowless walls and two glass walls. The ground floor is designed for the reception, the waiting room, the coffee bar, the kitchen and other facilities. The starting idea was to interrupt the rectangular monotony, inserting some dynamic graphic shows. The entrance consists of a revolving door made in aluminum, intersected by a crosswise wall, which signs the inner reception hall, while it becomes outside added architectural element to the outside. As the plan shows, there are two curved walls; the first identifying an area which takes

Ferri S.P.A OfficesLocation : Casamassima, ItlayDesigner : Arch. Francesco Mancini Photographer : Rudy Bonina

directly to the hoist elevator and does not communicate with other spaces; the second being the access room between the waiting area and the coffee bar. The inner walls are characterized by only one colour: white, and by some orange brushes. As regards the flooring, a white shiny resin was chosen, and apart from the entry and reception hall, the Carrara marble was selected. The overall white color evokes a dreamlike, rarefied atmosphere, which is enhanced by the unique noise of water pouring, produced by two fountains, one in the waiting room and the other in the coffee bar.

surprise just like what the modern lines want to create. A resin floor with nuances mother of pearl, which remembers an ocean bottom looked from a plane, creates an emphasis for the play of lights reflections and of the glass volumes.

Inside the Al Fardan towers in Doha, a big showroom of 1500 sqm has been built to show the project of the “Pearl of the gulf”— an island with new residential complex and tourist of high-level. The goal was to create an atmosphere free, elegant and modern eviroment, or design showroom. The glass, the red wood of the furniture and of the dividing walls make the ambience ardent and similar to the effect of

UDC OfficesLocation : Doha, QatarDesigner : Arch.giampero Peia, Arch.marta Nasazzi / Peia Associati Srl

The office occupies a totally restored ex-carpentry workshop, which is part of an overall project to convert an entire block in Busto Garolfo (Mi), a building constructed in the early '50s. Along the entire central axis, corresponding with the apex of the vault, a mezzanine was built in bare reinforced concrete. On the lower floor, in the entrance area, there are an atrium and waiting area and reception, a small meeting room and the facilities. A flight of steps leads to the operational centre of the studio, a double height space with workspace. On the upper floor there is a café, additional workspace and a large meeting room and a library. The new staircase that connects the two floors of the studio is contained in a box lined in large part with mirrors, where the steps are thin slabs of plain steel cantilevered from the walls and that reflect themselves in a continuous play of doubles.

B+BA OfficeLocation : ItalyDesigner : BURATTI+BATTISTON ARCHITECTS Gabriele Buratti, Oscar Buratti, Ivano Battiston Photographer: Andrea Martiradonna

In the midst of the overall rigour of the studio, where white is the dominant colour that characterises the walls, ceilings and furnishings. Part of the furnishings - the shelving and the tables, become the structure of the space and its articulating elements, all of which are white and absolutely minimal in their design, whilst others - the chairs and lights, form a sort of eclectic catalogue of objects by 20th century masters, contemporary pieces, never-produced prototypes and rare original pieces that make up an ever-evolving personal collection of good design.

The new headquarters of Dolce & Gabbana in Milan houses the showrooms for the fashion collections, the offices, a restaurant and a number of spaces for events, with a total surface of 10,000 square metres. A downtown office building of the sixties has been completely restored and adapted to the new programme by using natural materials, such as stone, wood and glass with a principle of simplicity and linearity. Two bodies, both six floors high, lie parallel to the street. They are separated by a pool at the ground floor and have two floors below. A new glazed bridge connects the showrooms of the first floor, overlooking the pool below on one side and enclosing a lava-rock garden on the other. The facades, which are entirely made of glass, feature a series of projecting teak-wood boxes.

Dolce & Gabbana HeadquartersLocation : Milan, ItalyDesigner : +ARCH Fresa Fuenmayor Garbellini Tricario

The interior finishing panels and the furnishing elements are made of dark-stained wengè wood. Large elliptical surfaces of opal glass, fitted between the beams of the concrete structure filter artificial light for the ground floor, while in the showrooms of the upper floors the lamps are luminous parallelepipeds, still made of opal glass, which form an articulated pattern of light under the ceilings. Next to the building’s wide windows the thick walls that divide the space in the showrooms are covered with reflecting black-painted glass.

RESIDENCES

The matric square and its multiples together composed the variation of plan-geometries, thanks to the flowing walls. The unique detail of inner wall and fixed-inner walls are the two walls of the bath (hydraulic and mechanical systems). It also contains a ripetibile domestic habitat to provide the city with immediate transformation from the open space to all separae rooms in order to follow the dynamics of life (single-couple-family) without any renounce to the character of an open space. The reinterpretation of Japanese domestic space and the double skin towards outside with various degrees of shielding. The monochromatic-white and the enclosed space between two opposite stripes in teak: the external terrace is separated

House LoftLocation : Milan, ItalyDesigner : Arch.Giampero Peia, Arch.Marta Nasazzi / Peia Associatti srl

from the platform, which clarifies the difference of levels from the embedded stainless steel-bathtub. The inner walls and divider walls do not meet the external window-walls in order to keep the visual continuation of the openings, and to take advantage of the maximum perceptive relationship with the exterior and obtain visual aces possibility with maximum dimensions. The terrace meant to be in teak and plants (bamboo, lemons, camelia), to bring the summer feeling inside. The various chromatic presences between the wood and the white are variation(changes) of all colourful lights behind the sheet glass and the system of the projection (home theatre).

A highly interesting composition, it is formed of two square pavilions with high hip roofs and a lower parapet along the two boundary sides. The largest and most open zone is dedicated to the living room with its entrance, TV area, conversation area and dining area, Which is characterised by a highly articulated and complex volumetric composition of solids and voids, double heights and vistas that result from the insertion of the new mezzanine floor. The application of a roof to the parapet of the patio and the location of windows at its midpoint has allowed the increase of the depth of this facade and afforded the protection of a portico to the spaces that overlook it. The stone steps adjacent to the wellness area are conceived as a platform for sunbathing and as seating for summer parties, whilst the four olive trees are arranged so as to offer shade for the kitchen. The upper floor is the kingdom of the two children: each posseses of a private

Loft BALocation : Busto Arsizio, ItalyDesigner : BURATTI+BATTISTON ARCHITECTS Gabriele Buratti, Oscar Buratti, Ivano BattistonPhotographer : Andrea Martiradonna

island with bedroom, bathroom and walk-in wardrobe. White is the dominant colour, while each room has a signature that distinguishes it from the others; an element, a material, a colour or an effect: the ebony wood of the rotating elements at the entrance; the red glass of the staircase screen; the multicoloured skylight of the TV area and the walls painted with coloured stripes in the dining area - a homage to Paul Smith, the client's favourite stylist. More still; the high, glossy green laquered panels for the door of the kitchen; the black slate strips that line the walls of the guest bathroom; the paduka wood and red tiles of the master bathroom; the green and yellow colours of the childrens' bathrooms; the red backround for the fountain in the wellness area.

The poles, which pierce the horizontal planes always in an asymmetrical and concentrated way, support the system of the intermediate floors. Sometimes the pole goes on with its run to the top: because it’s necessary for the structure, to hold on other elements (ex. the bed) or because it’s important for the perception, to contrast the straight emptiness rising above. The more emotionally-charged a space is, the more one has to tone down materials and colors: concrete, cement, glass, stainless steel, and iron (only if you paint it white). The architecture makes some furniture as unmovable, permanently anchored to the house. The table and the bed are skewered on poles.

TrafittaLocation : Bergamo, ItalyDesigner : Attilio StocchiPhotographer : Alessandro Bellon

The clients wanted an indoor pool, but when the hole had been dug they changed their minds because of the risk of damp, and thus a new object was needed, something bigger than the hole itself. The solution was a metal pike over ten meters long. The part bigger than the hole lies invisible under the floor and emerges further on. lt's the bowels of the house.

“Casa Rizzi” is a little apartment on the first floor, in an ancient building erected in late 18th century, in the centre of Bari. The apartment looks small, cramped and with little light, nevertheless it is really charming. The most important concern during the project work, was to make the inner space as bright as possible, harmonizing the furniture with the architecture, featured by low tunnel vaults.

Casa RizziLocation : Bari, ItalyDesigner : Arch. Francesco ManciniPhotographer : Lo Porto

Thanks to a play of curved lines harmonizing with straight lines, and a balanced play of bright and dark, of glass and steel, the apartment has acquired a new figure, brighter, sunnier and more narmonic. Now a cramped space has been turned into a pleasant space, where to live and to welcome.

Loft A is located in a typical banister house in the centre of Milan. It is the result of the unification of three different units. Actually the loft was subdivided into two small flats, one on the ground floor and the other one on the first floor, linked by a long passage to a recently built block, a wide art gallery. The rooms on the ground floor weave in and out of each other like characters in a story. In the kitchen it is possible to understand the arrangement of the living area, whose spaces rotate around the interior garden, which is the pivot of the whole apartment. The living room is an open space where the dining, area home theatre, fireplace and conversation area are in sequence. The route is completed by a small swimming pool, on which the mezzanine-study faces (related to a relaxation area, a sauna, a shower and a bathroom) scenographically projected like part of the living, just separated by huge fixed glasses from

Loft ALocation : Milan, Italy Designer : Carlo Donati StudioAssisant : Laura ConsiglioPhotographer : Matteo Piazza

the rest of the space. The architectural choices were supported by innovative materials and avant-garde technical solutions. Corian was used for the furniture, while the woods are refined and unusual Brasilian essences, the floors are all made of resins. The technical solutions involved the use of carbon fibres with structural functions, the heating system was realized with ground radiant panels of the last productive generation. They have the double functions of heating during wintertime, and of refreshing and de-humidifying during summertime. The innovative lighting plant is completely “domotic” and guarantees maximum flexibility in lighting and the automation of the entire home – equipment via remote control, personal computer or mobile phone.

EXHIBITS

Starting with the idea of representing the work made by Catalano to define the largest family of sanitary ever ( the “C program” ), the concept for this stand was showing all range of products inside a monumental structure composed by a repetition of a hollow prismatic element which creates many different spaces, covered on the inside with prints created photo graphics. A platform covered with black polished plastic material is the base which supports all these elements positioned in a way to constantly giving the public a complete vision of all the products of the families composing the “C program”.

Stand "Cersaie 04"Location : Bologna, ItalyDesigner : RUN/dom_BARILARIARCHITETTI and STUDIOMARTINO.5 srl Photographer : Studio Ciapetti

The stand is the last step of a communication project made for Catalano which associates to each one of the 5 systems (C1, C2, C3, Cx, C) an illustration made by Antonio Cau. The colours and the macro graphic of each box are connected to these illustrations and at the same time respect the colours which identify every system. Perpendicularly positioned to the main 5 elements, there is another big box which was obliged by the necessity of creating a private exhibition area where “the new ideas” of Catalano could be possibly exhibited.

The criteria for the pairings (“couples”) of the art and design is aesthetic. It is nerther a didactic selection in the classical sense of the word, nor chronological. In this way, the exhibition is an aesthetic and sensorial experience that allows the visitor to have a maximum understanding of Italian art and design as a way of life. The selection of the pieces, by Achille Bonito Oliva and his team, is a “sampling” of Italian art and design and gives a very broad aesthetic as well as historical overview.

The project is designed as a series of spaces, defined by tall walls, which are present through the entirety of the museum. In a passage-like flow of movement, the visitor is taken through the exhibition as one would walk through Italian city, not necessarily in straight or even logical pathways and always discovering something new around the corner. In each of the spaces created by these tall walls, art and design are presented, creating an aesthetic dialogue between the 2 disciplines- disciplines so important to contemporary Italian culture and commerce.

Italy Made in Art: NowLocation : Shanghai, China Designer : JOHANNA GRAWUNDER STUDIOPhotographer : Mao Dou

The occasion of the Fair "Abitare il Tempo", which took place in Verona the Architectural Studio Simone Micheli presented the experimental thematic exhibition “Luxury Flight”. The project was characterized by a simulation of a three-dimensional section of an aircraft and a lounge belonging to the world of luxury and dream. They were the perfect stage for this exceptional experimental exhibition. The charming volumes that defined the involving and formal features of this project were characterised by futuristic and extraordinary signs, by functional anticanonical solutions, by the basic purpose of celebrating the beauty, the materials, the unity. These three-dimensional spaces were also characterised by the

Luxury FlightLocation : Verona, Italy Designer : Simone Micheli Architectural HeroPhotographer : Maurizio Marcato

accurate aim of becominig an “active performance” able to create and stimulate the world of present "making" and beyond the present, in a three-dimensional manifesto that cried: “We do need great works, truth, creative explosions, not emulation, not mimesis, not banality”. The visitors were catapulted into spatial futuristic capsules completely realised by prototypes designed by the Architect for this event.

with a calibrated use of illumination. The modularity of the ceiling supported by the expositors was thought to include in itself the lighting system as well. The same concept (with a different layout) was implicated for the CERSAIE stand in the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom, designed during the same year of ISH in Bologna, Italy.

Minimizing the number of constructive elements of the “ISH” stand and above all the desire to create a modular “light” structure easy to mount in site. The main structure is composed by a system of 6 expositors with the same matrix: a steel frame with the possibility of sustaining an MDF cradle as a support for the sanitary or for various elements to support them. Each detail was studied in a way to give the structure lightness and transparency as much as possible. The colours of the stand are conceived as an emphasis of the white colour of the ceramics of Catalano’s products along

STAND “ISH 05”Location : Frankfurt, Germany Designer : RUN/dom_BARILARIARCHITETTI and STUDIOMARTINO.5 srl

Without going into what came before and after wards, around the turn of the millennium, exhibition design culture was enriched with specific aesthetic theories, characteristic methodological essays and appropriate design poetics. This particular design area developed with remarkable intensity (justifiably so) that can be explained by the way everyone threw themselves into tackling what today seems to be the problems in of the exhibition design. Just as story-telling you only use the imperfect, “sensations, glances, and dreams that only happened once, and they were”. But modern technical artifices remind me of how the exhibition looked in quite a cool way.

The Exhibition SIENA & ROMADesigner : Andrea Milani, Sara Anselmi, Annunziata De Comite, Francesco Terzuoli, Simone Stanghellini

I realise that tackling the common theme universally known as the pedestal Milani has come up with a set of different designs and construction ideas, and a set of exhibit designs devoided of neo-plastic contamination. Of course Andrea Milani’s exhibit design became a rewarding allegory of the exhibition in which the items from Siena & Roma, emblematic of their styles, were identified, isolated and indeed broken down into nine sections. These masterpieces came together to form a holistic whole in which the total was greater than the sum of its parts.

The project is been created to display the main Andy Warhol’s operas (pictures, sculptures, sofa, dressing...).A big white sofa is in the central room with a projection on the ceiling. On the sofa it’s possible to see a video on Warhol’ s life. The use of transparent Plexiglas is made for not to disturb the different colours of the exhibition.

Andy Warhol ShowLocation : Milan, Italy Designer : Arch.Giampero Peia, Arch.Marta Nasazzi / Peia Associati srl

The designers have also created a tunnel to hear the voice of the artist that explains his work. The graphic also is studied in conformance with the artist.

ANDREA LANGHI ARCHITECTBorn in 1966, graduated at "Politecnico" in Milan in 1992. Since 1995 he does interior design as a job for watering holes and commercial spaces.Bars, Restaurants, Discos, Discopubs, Pubs, Cafes, Shops, Cinemas, Summer Gardens but also interior of private houses and design of objects and lamps. Are now more than 150 the watering holes realized in Italy and abroad. In 2006 at " Salone del Mobile di Milano 2006" he has presented some design objects under the trademark "Contemporanea_mente", among them the collection of chandeliers "Plexy Barocque" that interpret the classic chandelier proposing it made by laser cut plexiglas.

ANDREA MEIRANA ARCHITETTOThe “Andrea Meirana Architetto” office was founded in 1990, since then with the architect Andrea Meirana collaborated Arch. Maria Pina Usai, Michele Capanna, Luca Parodi, Michele Olcese, Ilaria Cargiolli. Since its beginning, its professional activity has always been balanced with academic research and university lecturing. At the faculty of architecture in Genoa it has initiated and lead design, scenography and masters courses. Principal projects over the last six years combine restaurant, bar, hotel, shop and public-space design with contemporary living and have being published extensively in books and reviews both nationally and internationally. Projects bring together the most advanced architectural research with functional exigency and the technology of the sector. Emphasis on research is clear in the extreme controlled use of materials their natural qualities and their relation to context.

ANDREA MILANIAndrea Milani graduated in I.U.A.V( Istituto Universitario di Architettura Venezia) in Venice.1996-1997 Degree in Architecture with a thesis in planning: Kuznetsky Most ( three projects for re-evaluating the centre of Moscow). Win the following competitions, Competition RIABITA 2000: first prize; Competition: “Il Principe e l’Architetto”, 2002; Competition for planning of a multi-level parking lot for cars and coaches and infrastructures in the surrounding area “Ex- Sita”, Strada di Pescaia, Siena, January, 2004. Competition for planning and the enlargement of the psychiatric hospital in S. GalloCanton, Switzerland, May 2004, “jenseits der wolken” ; Competition RIABITA 2005: first prize. Studio Milani are composed by arch. Annunziata De Comite,arch. Sara Anselmi,arch. Francesco Terzuoli, dott. Irene Monciatti,,Simone Stanghellini,arch. Alexia Gioffredi,arch. Alessandro Cois

ARCHIROOMArchiroom born in the 2003 from the collaboration of three architects and designer Dario Scodeller, Gabriele Tumiati and Giorgia Voltan. The activity is focused to develop design for store concept, social space and exhibitions. Their acquired experience allows them to project all aspects which contribute to the development of a commercial formula, interior design, exhibit and furniture design. Archiroom elaborate projects of interior and architecture for the great Italian retailer (Coin Group and Benetton Group). In 2004 Archiroom elaborate the concept and the project fore the exhibition “Greek Myths” in Palazzo Reale, Milan. From 2004 to 2006 Archiroom develop the new concepts of social spaces, restaurants, wine stores: Drinking, Istinto. and Millevini.

ARKPABI GIORGIO PALÙ & MICHELE BIANCHIGiorgio Palù, architect,and Michele Bianchi, architect, founded ARKPABI with offices in cremona and Milan in 1994. The studio faces the project topics with an approach based on the architectonic search, on the material-technical experimentation and the technological innovation, carrying out the own activity in multidisciplinary way, from the restructure to the new building, projecting and realizing detached houses, residential complexes, structures for offices and trade, banks, stores, buildings publics and for the hospital.

ATTILIO STOCCHIAttilio Stocchi was born in Venice in 1965; he graduated at the Politecnico of Milano in 1991 with Vittoriano Viganò. His professional activity follows from the beginning two main lines. The experimental one that realizes urban experiences: Codussi Square, Lenna (bergamo); Maj Square, Schilpario (Bergamo); Libertà Square, Spirano (Bergamo); Harmonic Box, Lumezzane (Brescia); Castello Square, Castel Rozzone (Bergamo). The other one is a research that works on spaces as a result of an animal metamorphosyso.

BURATTI + BATTISTON ARCHITECTSIn 1991,Gabriele Buratti,Oscar Buratti and Ivano Battiston set up the office BURATTI + BATTISTON ARCHITECTS. The office carries out private, commercial and industrial buildings, and interventions of restructuring of building complexes. In 2001 they design the flagship store of Le Tre Marie Cafè in Milano for whom they are developing a new concept for their product presentation. In 2003 they design the new headquarter of "Unione Industriali della Provincia di Bergamo".For Acerbis Italia (racing equipments) they are in charge of designing the fair exhibition in Milan, Paris and München and they developed the corporate identity for shops and corners A.SHOP.

CARLO DONATI STUDIOCarlo Donati, born in Zibello (Parma) in 1965, graduated in Architecture at Politecnico of Milan in 1992.He have worked for studio B.B.P.R. Belgiojoso from 1986 to 1989, and worked for studio Gregotti Associati International. Founder member in Milan with A. Donati and M. Avanzini of Farnese progettazione e contractor in 1996. He established his own Studio in 1999 , Milan, designing offices, shops and prestigious houses. The studio is currently working on residences and resorts projects in Milan and Praia a Mare in Italian south coast and on the new Segrate – Milan master plan.The minimalist approach to the architectural project is the trait d'union of all realizations, constantly enriched by graphic and chromatic suggestion evoked by the environment. The study of space and light involves the project of the structural and technical systems.

FRANCESCO MANCINIAfter a classical education, Francesco Mancini graduated in architecture at the University of Florence. In 1978 he already started his activity of research and exchange in the field of design and applied arts, in spite of the climate of uncertainty which characterized the South of Italy. His will to experiment and to research drove him to open the "Studio Park" and then the "Studio Speciale", where he carries on his activity in the search of a profitable exchange with different geographical and cultural backgrounds. Always with the intention to compare different culture he not only participated in numerous exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. However the ultimate purpose of his research is to let the firms (especially those in the South of Italy) understand the great importance of design in a communication process aiming to achieve an increasing number of users. Since 1983 he has been engaged in the field of private and public building carrying out a number of residential buildings and mansions plans. His architectural and design plans are inserted in various publications.

JOHANNA GRAWUNDER STUDIOJohanna Grawunder is an architect and designer based in Italy and San Francisco. In Milan since 1985, she worked for and later became a partner of, Ettore Sottsass. At Sottsass Associati she collaborated exclusively on architecture, interior architecture and exhibition design. In 2001 she opened her own full-time studio in Milan and San Francisco, collaborating on products for European and US companies, working with a few exclusive art and design galleries in Europe, New York and California, and doing selected architectural, exhibition, and interior architecture projects. she works with the raw presence of objects in her very architecturally scaled designs as well as in actual architecture and interiors, often transposing industrially magnificent elements into unusual and surprising situations.

MAURIZIO LAI, ARCHITECT Maurizio Lai was born in Padova on 07.06.1965; he studies at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice and then at the Politecnico of Milan, where he graduates in 1993. In 1998 architect Maurizio Lai founded L.A.I. studio, Laboratorio Architettura Interni. This new organization is made up of Architects, Engineers, Draftsmen, Designer and Planners. Such reformat and operating staff, structure have proved to be the best to offer the clients a flexible, effective and cost-efficient support. L.A.I. realizes turn key projects from the original concept through engineering, architectural design, interior decoration and procurement, up to the on-site constructions. Cost management and control are primary factors: all the projects have been realized in strict compliance with as the assigned budget.

MIRANDOLINA DI PIETRANTONIO ARCHITECTSMirandolina di Pietrantonio was born in Rome, graduated in 1990 at University of Architecture in Rome. After the degree she spent several years in London where she has practiced in several architectural projects.On her return to Italy, in 1999 she established her own practice now known as Mirandolina di Pietrantonio Architects. Work encompasses domestic and commercial interiors. The project team works under Mirandolina di pietrantonio direction and constant creative input.

MORQ Founded in 2001 by Matteo Monteduro, Emiliano Roia and Andrea Quagliola, MORQ* is a small scale architectural practice committed to experimentation in contemporary architecture through professional practice as well as through university research and teaching. The office is operating in Rome (Italy) and in Perth (Australia). MORQ*’s works range from small/medium residential projects to large scale design competitions.

PAGANI+DIMAUROThe partnership between the architects Giovanni Pagani and Maurizio Di Mauro started off during the university at the Polytechnic of Milan and it consolidated in May 1995 with the realizations of some private houses. The studio’s works, because of architects’ bent, range from more traditional architectural projects to interior and industrial design in collaboration with Antidiva, Maletti group and Starpool. In the last years had been created concepts for fashion and sportswear companies, show-room companies, private houses, public places such as offices (among the others the Parma new cityhall), restaurants, clubs, fitness centres and spa.It is necessary to transfer the peculiarity of the project beginning from a module which is the space surrounding the person.

PEIA ASSOCIATI SRLGiampiero Peia was born in 1961 in Lodi (Italy) and obtained a degree in architecture in the architectural faculty of Milan. Between 1987 and 1994 he was a close collaborator and partner of the Ignazio Gardella studio. In 1995 he creates the Peia Associati Studio in Milan, designing innovative solutions, from architecture to industrial design. The design activity is fuelled by a spirit of constant transversal research in the different fields of design inherited during the experience with Gardella. In 1998, 1999 and 2000 he is nominated by the Casabella magazine as one of the 40 Italian “under 50” architects. He wins numerous architecture contests and creates many outstanding architectural projects. In May 2006 Giampiero e Marta Peia open the new office of the Peia Associati Srl in via Cadolini 30 in Milan.

ROBERTO TOGNORoberto Tognon Born In Padova In 1951. Obtained His Degree At The Department Of Architecture In Venice. Opened His Studio In Padova In 1986 Where He Still Lives And Works.

SIMONE MICHELIProfessor at the University, in 1990 he founded the architectural studio with his name and in 2003 he founded the Design Company "Simone Micheli Architectural Hero”. His works of architecture, contract, interior design, exhibit design, graphic and communication are strictly linked to the world of the sensorial glorification. He takes care of experimental events for some of the most qualificated international fairs. He shows his projects in the most important world-wide exhibitions about architecture and design. Several monographies and publications about his works are published in the most important international magazines and books.

RUN/dom_ BARILARIARCHITETTCurrently the Studio is managed by Arch. Fabio Barilari -1967- (Architecture Degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with final grade 110/110 cum laude and publication of thesis consisting in a project titled: “The University of Marine Sciences in the Harbour of Ancona”) and Arch. Alessio Barilari -1970– (Architecture Degree at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, with final grade 110/110. A thesis titled “A Pedestrian Bridge in Rome” and A Master in “Digital Representation and Communication for architecture”).While collaborating with some of the most important Studios in Rome (M. Fuksas, M. Nicoletti, L. Sacchi, 3C+T, AMDL (M. De Lucchi), Studiomartino.5, C. Terzi), they conduct their own activity obtaining in both fields various acknowledgements from National and International competitions.