Cappellini Design

Giulio Cappellini’s journey through the design universe began in the late seventies: a quest that took him to different continents to discover whatever was going on around the world and open up the borders of Italian production. A journey undertaken with the curiosity and tenacity of one who wanted to create the identity of a project with experimentation in design as its watchword. In this way a network of young talents, internationally based and often unknown, was created.

The aspects that appeal to Giulio Cappellini in Shiro Kuramata’s designs are their poetry, lightness and irony. His objects are extraordinarily innovative and curious, never banal. They are useful and above all, capable of setting us dreaming.

In 1988, with Morrison fresh out of the Royal College of Art, begins one of the most successful relationships in Cappellini’s story. An icon of design, the “Thinking Man’s Chair” is the first object that demonstrated the brand’s ability to foresee trends to the greater audience worldwide.

Initially designed for Droog Design, the “Knotted Chair” went well in production thanks to Giulio Cappellini’s sharp eye. It has become a contemporary classic, now in the permanent collections of museums around the world.

It all started in Paris in 1998 over a cigarette. At the Salon du Meuble, Giulio Cappellini eyed the first project by Ronan, the elder of the Bouroullec brothers, at that time not yet joined with his young brother in an artistic and business partnership.

Nendo always combines an ironic and playful idea, effectively expressed in its drawings, with careful research into materials, seeking to economize in their use and tracing them as light, evanescent lines.

The most intimate root of Antonio Facco’s work can be found in his curiosity and transversal interests. He feels the impelling urge to tell stories that always lead individuals to identify themselves in his creative works.