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Designer
Massimo Mariani
Massimo Mariani is an architect and furniture designer working from London. Florence-born, he trained as an architect in Genoa with Giancarlo De Carlo, then worked at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop on the Lingotto factory in Turin and…
Biography
Background
Massimo Mariani is an architect and furniture designer working from London. Florence-born, he trained as an architect in Genoa with Giancarlo De Carlo, then worked at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop on the Lingotto factory in Turin and at Herman Hertzberger's Architectuurstudio in Amsterdam. He moved to London in 1998.
Signature Style
Mariani's work starts from pure geometrical shapes and explores how they compose within a given space, in modular bookshelves, wall systems and seating built from glass, steel, wood and upholstered foam.
Notable Works
The Notes, Plane and Upland pieces for Living Divani; the Vita wall system for MDF Italia; the Eleuthera lamps for Danese Milano; the hm101 and Mosaic seating systems for Hitch Mylius.
Legacy
In 2011 Vita earned him an Honorable Mention at the XXII ADI Compasso d'Oro, and his work has been shown in Milan, Rome, New York, Shanghai, Berlin, Paris and London.
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