Item Code: DANACS100A1G
Suppliers Code: DB0100A1G
Brand Name: Danese
Designer: Andrea Branzi
Designer’s Profile: Architect and designer, professor of industrial design at the politecnico di milano. Born and graduated in florence, he lives and works in milano. since 1967 he has been working in the fields of industrial and research design, architecture, urban planning, education and cultural promotion. he was among the founders of archizoom associati, and promoter of the italian radical architecture movement. He has collaborated with the leading design producers in Italy and abroad, such as alessi, artemide, cassina, poltronova, vitra, zanotta. He has taken part in many exhibitions at the triennale di milano and the biennale di venezia, and has held personal exhibitions in different international museums, including the museums of decorative arts of montreal and paris, at the scharpoord centrum of knokke and at the fondation pour l’architecture in brussels. he has written several books, among which are ‘the hot house’, ‘learning from milan’ and ‘domestic animals’ published by MIT press, usa; ‘nouvelles de la metropole froide’ in the cahiers of CCI (centre georges pompidou) in paris, and ‘introduzione al design italiano’ by baldini & castoldi, milano.
In 1996 he curated two exhibitions aiming to set the basis for the new museum of italian design at the triennale di milano, and he has edited the catalogue ‘il design italiano 1963-1990′. Author of many essays and books, he has collaborated with the magazines ‘interni’, ‘domus’, ‘casabella’, and he was the editor of MODO (1983-1987). In 1983 he was among the founders of the domus academy, the first international post-graduate school of design. in 1987 he was awarded the compasso d’oro, with special mention for his work as a designer and theorician.
