THEY SHAPED THE EXCELLENCE OF MADE IN ITALY

We are lucky! It is a privilege to interact daily with Designers, Architects, Creatives, Art Directors and Visionary Entrepreneurs. Each with an idea for which we are called to develop, through a project, something unique that will then become an object. An object that will tell the story of a creative mind, a company, a brand.

We are lucky! Throughout our history we have been privileged to collaborate with great characters who have shaped the history of modern and contemporary design, the shape that is known and admired in the world as the excellence of Made in Italy.

We want to pay homage to some of these protagonists with our tribute.

Born in Cerano (Novara), in 1932, Enzo Mari attended the Brera Academy in Milan and, since 1956, has dedicated himself to industrial design, revolutionizing the concept of design through useful objects for the so-called "common people": projects that are far from trends, designed to withstand time, with great substantial quality.

Mari applied his personal studies on the themes of perception and the social aspect of design to his production, to his function in everyday life and to the role of the designer in the industrial process. According to Mari, the designer should not have limited himself to the creation of beautiful objects and pleasant shapes: the functional aspect was essential, as was the efficiency of the design choices in the field of materials and processes, there can be no poetry without method .

When he passed away on October 19, 2020 The New York Times wrote: "Enzo Mari, Industrial Designer Who Kept Things Simple".

Among his most iconic objects: The Timor Calendar for Herman Miller, Mariolina chair for Magis, Tonietta chair for Zanotta, and the Legato table for Driade thanks to which he won his fourth prestigious Compasso D'Oro.

Quintessence of Studio Rari, Bruno Rainaldi (9 June 1952 - 24 February 2011) collaborated as art director with Alivar, Blum, MDF, Mussi Italy, Sintesi. In 2002 he founded MOCO Extra Ordinary Furniture, a collection that includes the Ptolomeo vertical bookcase, with which he won the Compasso d'Oro ADI in 2004.

In the same year he opened Entratalibera with Marta Giardini, a space for design and contemporary art in the center of Milan.

Among the latest projects, lamps for Terzani Luce, the bed headboards from the DeSide collection (Gr. Sintesi) Modè, containers for Baleri Italia Max8, a pulley system of containers for Ciatti a Tavola, an entity of which he was a partner.

Luca Scacchetti (Milan, April 5, 1952 - Milan, July 3, 2015). In 1975 he graduated from the faculty of architecture of the Milan Polytechnic.

He has taught architectural composition since 1976 , and architectural design at the Department of Architecture of the European Institute of Design in Milan since 1987. He also taught elements of architecture and urban planning at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and at the Milan Polytechnic, faculty of design. In relation to design, he collaborated with numerous and important Italian and European companies in the field of furniture, lighting and complements. "Luca Scacchetti is an architect who lives his own time, looking at past history with great curiosity because the future "is already here”.

For Luca the present is the space and time that they have allowed us to live in" (Aldo Colonnetti). In the field of design, the works carried out for Tecno and Poltrona Frau stand out: in particular for Poltrona Frau he designed the "Hydra" armchair, also known for being used for some time in several television studios.

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