Born in 1947. Scientific secondary school diploma and degree in architecture from Milan Polytechnics. He started as a product designer with Davide Mercatali in 1978. In 1988 he opened a firm with his wife Raffaella Mattia and continued his product design activity. In 1993 he was one of the founding members of the cultural association ABC Incontri sul Progetto. From 1988 to 1994 he was chief editor of the magazines Blu&Rosso and Bagno&Bagni. In 1995 he became a consultant for the magazine Il Bagno Oggi e Domani, published by Reed Business Information. Some of his objects are part of the permanent collections of the Chicago-I11 (USA), Munich (Germany), San Diego-Cal (USA) museums, New York Museum of Modern Art (USA) and Pecci Museum (Prato, Florence - Italy). Others were shortlisted for the Compasso dOro award in 1979, 1981, 1987, 1991, for the ADI Design Index in 1998/1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, for the BIO award (Ljubljana, Slovenia) in 1981, 1984, 1992, 1996, for the Adi-Technotel award in 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991. In 2002, he won the Comfort & Design - ADI award and he received the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen Red Dot Award. In 2008, he won the second prize at the International Design Award – Los Angeles, Cal, USA. In 1993, one of his products was selected for the merchandising of the New York Museum of Modern Art. Ph. Courtesy of Paolo Pedrizzetti