Designer
Fabio Novembre
Fabio Novembre was born on 21 October 1966. He moved to Milan in 1984, took his degree in architecture there in 1992 and spent 1993 in New York, where he followed a filmmaking course at New York University. In 1994 he received his first…
Biography
Background
Fabio Novembre was born on 21 October 1966. He moved to Milan in 1984, took his degree in architecture there in 1992 and spent 1993 in New York, where he followed a filmmaking course at New York University. In 1994 he received his first commission, a Blumarine shop in London, and opened his own studio in Milan.
Signature Style
He works across architecture, interiors, installations and product design, and also curates exhibitions. He was art director of the mosaic brand Bisazza from 2000 to 2003.
Notable Works
His design list includes the Honlywood chair for B&B Italia in 1988, the ORG table and the S.O.S. armchair for Cappellini, the DIVINA sofa and Nemo chair for Driade, and, for Kartell, the OK stool of 2011 and the Eur stool, a cube whose surface carries shapes drawn from Italian rationalist architecture. He designed the interiors of Casa Milan, the A.C. Milan headquarters, in 2014.
Legacy
Milan's Rotonda di Via Besana museum showed an exhibition of his work in 2008, and the Triennale Design Museum invited him in 2009 to design and curate Il fiore di Novembre.