Born in 1931, as an architect and a designer he mainly cares about neo-modern and contemporary design; in this area he designs furniture and environments. In the past, he directed magazines such as Casabella, Modo and Domus; many essays have been published in different languages about his work and his “Atelier Mendini”. For Alessi, Philips, Swarovski and Swatch he designed items now considered icons of the worldwide contemporary design overview.
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Created in 1978 for the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, Proust was immediately recognized as an icon of twentieth century design and one of the most renowned and essential reference points in the quest for form and aesthetic perfection. Cappellini inherited the piece in 1993 and today Proust Geometrica, reupholstered in a new cotton fabric by Alessandro Mendini and hand-finished according to tradition, preserves the forms of the original armchair while refreshing them and breathing new life into the image and value of the original design.
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Born in London in 1959, he graduated at the Royal College of Art and established his first design office in 1986. Immediately after this, he began his lasting and useful cooperation with Cappellini; nowadays, he works in London and in Paris for high level companies such as Alessi, Flos, Rowenta, Sony and Samsung. Each Morrison’s project has a minimal elegance which makes it strongly modern beeing a sort of archetype linked to past, favouring function on expression.
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Twenty years after designing the Thinking Man’s Chair, Jasper Morrison, English by birth but increasingly a man of the world, has still managed to astound the world of high design with Bac, the new chair in solid ash wood and plywood. The frame is available in bleached, wenge tinted or cherry red aniline tinted ash wood. The seat is available in diverse variations and has the same finishings as the frame with upholstery in leather or white, brown, grey or black linoleum with an ash wood back.
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French designer Patrick Norguet, close to fashion world through his collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Lanvin, Guerlain, Christian Dior, is involved in industrial and interior design, dedicating himself to create also exhibitions for Van Cleef and Renault. He belongs to that generation which is making known the “french touch” on the international stage; with his designs he perfectly interprets Cappellini’s theory of the union between fashion and design, projecting items of great presence for both sectors, working for innovation but keeping the greatest semplicity.
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Scratch is a small armchair with an external structure made of solid ash-wood slats, natural or aniline varnished in cherry red, China blue and chestnut brown. The rigidity of the structure is counter balanced by the softness of the seat and the lower backrest, produced in multi-density polyurethane foam. The lower backrest can be substituted by a Dacron padded throw cushion. All of the soft elements have removable covers and are available in the collection’s fabrics, leathers and extra leathers, also combining different fabrics and leathers together.
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Cappellini invites visitors to discover the new British style at the Internationale Möbelmesse in Cologne. The simple surrounding, with tones of beige and natural shades of wood...
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On October 22nd Cappellini inaugurated its new showroom in the Design District of Miami: a space of around 200 square metres devoted to contemporary...
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During the manifestation “Milano Design in the City” Cappellini presents the installation “Colour the shape of dreams” in its showroom in via S. Cecilia...
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The official launch of the Poltrona Frau Group showroom, London, represents a very exciting step for the world’s leading group in the high-end furniture sector...
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2008 international Elle Deco award for the best floor covering has been assigned to “Mondo”, the carpet designed by Lorenzo Adami for Magic Carpet collection…
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In balance between art and design, Dror Bershetrit from 2002 deals with product design, architecture and art direction mixing the technique learned at the Design Academy of Eindhoven and the taste for arts...
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Among the youngest Italian designers, Leonardo Talarico always designs mainly considering the aspect of engineering and real possibility of realization, both for a product, and for exhibitions and events...
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Cappellini took part in the setting of the renewed seat of the greatest exhibition area in the center of Rome, a suggestive cultural space where are also available a cinema, an auditorium, a coffee room, a restaurant and a specialized bookstore.
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National and international press interest for Cappellini has been always strong and attentive to its new proposals; only a few of the last publications...
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