He lives in Milan, where he was born in 1940. He graduated in 1965 from the Politecnico, discovered the fascination of design in the Milanese climate of the 1960s and the utopia of a design that felt capable of changing the world with Ideas. The most significant trace of these fantastic years is the Fiocco armchair now in the permanent collection of MOMA. In his now too long militancy he is invited, between Milan and Barcelona, between Florence and Toronto to numerous exhibitions and conferences. A significant moment, among many, was his contribution to the exhibition "is design" at the Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan dedicated to the innovative and strategic aspects of the advanced tips of the discipline.

Believing he had something to teach he lived a brief, but stimulating, teaching experience as head of the Department of Industrial Design at the European Institute of Design. Faced with the profound transformations that were sweeping the professional scenario, he participated in the early 1970s in the founding of G 14 Progettazione (a professional structure, born on the benches of the Polytechnic, focused precisely on the development of an organic system of integrated projects characterized by strong innovative content) of which he has directed the Industrial Design Center since 1974.

He thus discovered the new links that were being created in the relationship between Project and Enterprise, Product and Consensus, and Production and Communication, and gradually broadened his disciplinary objectives from "control of the project" to "control of the factors of the process" of which the project is the central moment. His insatiable curiosity leads him, after the founding (1984) of GP&CO, to measure himself with product strategies, corporate image coordination, art direction, communication, and trend analysis, to discover, in a return to his origins, that within these apparently heterogeneous experiences, his real interest is not the professional sophistication of the specializations, but the synergies and stimuli that they can develop towards what, in the final analysis, is always his only challenge (and pleasure): the "Project." In this direction is a renewed interest in interior design issues, which has seen him as the protagonist, around the world, of large and innovative hotel projects

Satyendra Pakhale - Multifaceted award-winning industrial designer Satyendra Pakhalé established his practice in 1998 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is active internationally in the field of Industrial Design, Transportation and Architectural Design. He was born in 1967 in India and trained as a designer at the renowned IIT - Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and later at Art Centre College of Design Europe, in Switzerland. After his first working experience at Frog Design, he was part of the pioneering ‘new business creation’ team, conceiving some of the first product ideas for new technologies in the area of digital communication and transportation design at Philips Design in the mid 90's. Through a series of award-winning design projects for leading clients and industries, the practice has developed a worldwide reputation for designing diverse innovative typologies, pushing the limits of technology and materials. Renowned companies such as Alcantara, Cappellini, Franke, Hästens, Magis, Poltrona Frau, Fiam, Novartis and TOD’s rank among his clients. Pakhalé has lectured throughout the world on platforms such as CeBIT Germany, Casa Brasil and Future Design Days Sweden. The Eindhoven Design Academy in the Netherlands invited him to devise and head the Master Programme in Design for Humanity and Sustainable Living from 2006 to 2010. Pakhalé’s ongoing curiosity in materials, technology and its cultural plural expression has lead to limited edition pieces for ammann // gallery, Cologne, Germany. His works are in permanent collections at prestigious museums throughout the world, among which the Victoria and Albert Museum London, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Centre Pompidou, Paris

Novamobili studio is the Novamobili department concerned with product research and design. A place where the focus is on devising new furniture solutions in line with contemporary living requirements. Here, the team brings creative flair and specialized expertise to the table to develop ideas and give designs tangible form. From concept to prototype, through those first rough sketches on the drawing board, Novamobili studio handles each stage of the process all the way through to the final configuration of products to be added to the collection

Spalvieri & Del Ciotto - Both born in 1982, Simone Spalvieri and Valentina Del Ciotto met in 2003. Graduates in Industrial and Interior Design respectively from Milan Polytechnic, they immediately became a couple both in life and work. Spalvieri & Del Ciotto design studio is a meeting place that brings together ideas, research and experimentation. Their work, characterised by formal and functional purity, is based on the idea that every design product must be a value to pass onto the future generations, containing and celebrating a piece of our history and our culture. They seek, through design, to humanise new materials and new technologies with the goal of helping us to understand and use the most innovative objects more easily. They collaborate with some of the most interesting Italian and international design companies: Poltrona Frau, Magis, Established&Sons, Lexon, Fratelli Guzzini, Arena Waterinstinct, Mamoli and Colombo Design. In 2013 they were the winners of the “Top Young Italian Industrial Designers Prize” and were rewarded by Massimo Vignelli with the Slow Design Exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. They have won international prizes like the Red Dot Award, the China Good Design and the German Design Award

Draga & Aurel - Drawing on a shared artistic background and a professional journey spanning the realms of fashion, music, and craftsmanship, Draga Obradovic and Aurel K. Basedow are the founders of the multidisciplinary studio and atelier bearing their names, active in Como since 2007. Art and design in Draga & Aurel follow two parallel and complementary paths, in a continuous dialogue that strengthens and sometimes overturns their meanings. Considered pioneers of upcycling in the design sector, Draga & Aurel are now among the most appreciated names in the collectible field, and their handmade pieces are exhibited and distributed by some of the most prestigious international galleries. Design production is complemented by Aurel K. Basedow's artistic production: powerful, evocative, and poetic works. The same artistic approach to materials is applied in the design of furniture pieces designed for some of the most important and visionary Made in Italy design companies. Draga & Aurel love fashion, vintage taste, and embracing lines. Passions that are fully expressed in their first project for Poltrona Frau, Parka, a modular seating system that pays homage to a great 1990s Streetwear classic, which the grunge culture in America and the paninaro culture in Italy turned into the symbol of a generation. Like the iconic coat, Parka is a sofa as bold as it is welcoming, as understated as it is refined, extremely versatile: a passe-partout that adapts to every look and environments with strong personalities. Draga & Aurel are among the most influential names in design according to Architectural Digest and have been selected for the third consecutive year in the AD100 review. Their projects have been included in the ADI Design Index and have received the prestigious wallpaper*design award

Lella and Massimo Vignelli - Lella Vignelli was born in Udine and graduated in architecture in Venice. Massimo Vignelli was born in Milan in 1931 and studied architecture in Milan and Venice. Their work includes graphic design, corporate image work for industry, signs and industrial design; they design furniture, interiors and exhibition installations. Originally based in Milan and since 1965 in New York, the studio works with some of the most important american and European companies and institutions

GamFratesi - Stine Gam, Danish architect with a master in furniture design. Enrico Fratesi Italian architect graduated with a master in industrial design. Gam and Fratesi gained experience as architects in architecture studio in Japan and Scandinavia before establishing their own design studio. The studio is based in Copenhagen. GamFratesi’s design takes its creative drive from a fusion of tradition and renewal and in an experimental approach to their chosen materials and techniques. With their dual traditional background, Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi draw on the classic Danish furniture and craft tradition as well as the classic Italian intellectual and conceptual approach. Understanding a tradition and addressing it actively in the workshop makes it possible to expand on it. From this cross-cultural substrate they create furniture that respectfully reflects tradition while also featuring unique embedded stories, symbols and associations, often expressed in a minimalist idiom. GamFratesi have received significant awards including Finn Juhl Prize 2015, Elle Decoration International design award (EDIDA) as International Young Designer of the Year 2013, Wallpaper* Design Award as Best interior 2017, Best Designer 2015 by BoBedre, Best Designer 2009 by RUM, Invited as Guest of Honor at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2014. With their products GamFratesi received final selection Compasso D’Oro, IF Award, German Design Awards and Good Design Awards

Neri & Hu - Mr. Neri received his Master of Architecture at Harvard University and his Bachelor of Architecture at UC Berkeley. Ms. Hu received her Master of Architecture and Urban Planning at Princeton University and her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture at UC Berkeley. Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu are the Founding Partners of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, an inter-disciplinary international architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China, with an additional office in London, UK. Neri&Hu works internationally providing architecture, interior, master planning, graphic, and product design services. Currently working on projects in many countries, Neri&Hu is composed of multi-cultural staff who speak over 30 different languages. The diversity of the team reinforces a core vision for the practice: to respond to a global worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines for a new paradigm in architecture. Neri&Hu are named Maison & Objet Asia Designers of The Year 2015 and Wallpaper* Designer of The Year 2014. In 2013, they were inducted into the U.S. Interior Design Hall of Fame. Their practice was the 2011 INSIDE Festival Overall Winner, won AR Awards for Emerging Architecture in 2010 by Architectural Review and one of the Design Vanguards in 2009 by Architectural Record. Other than architectural professionals, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu have been actively involved in teaching and research. They have been invited to speak, exhibit and judge for many prestigious events and programs all over the world. Lyndon Neri and Rossana are also founders of Design Republic, a retail concept store based in Shanghai that offers a unique collection of products created by the world's best design talents, Besides award-winning architecture and interiors, Neri&Hu have designed products for brands including including Classicon, Fritz Hansen, Gandia Blasco, JIA, LEMA, MOOOI, Nanimarquina, Parachilna, Poltrona Frau S.p.A., Porro, Stellar Works, Wallpaper* Handmade, Meritalia, BD Barcelona Design, neri&hu, among many others. In 2015, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu were appointed Creative Directors of Stellar Works

Roberto Lazzeroni was born in Pisa. He studied art and architecture in Florence, taking an increasing personal interest in the phenomena of conceptual art and radical design during his years of training.He débuted professionally in the early 1980s with a series of important 'Interior Architecture' works that were immediately noticed and published by both Italian and international magazines. Roberto Lazzeroni has enjoyed an extremely dynamic professional journey that today sees him involved in various projects, and able to boast prestigious collaborations, art direction and interior and contract design in various parts of the world.Awards include: Tecniques Discretes (Paris, 1991), Conran Foundation Museum, (London, 1992), Elegant Techniques, (Chicago, 1992), La Fabbrica Estetica, (Paris, 1993), Dall'Albergo alla Nave, (Genoa, 1993), Costruire il mobile, (Milan 1999)