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Antonio Citterio and Partners, designer and architect, Milan |
Antonio Citterio considers man’s habitation as a second skin. From cutlery to lamps, he has thus already designed about everything which can find its place in a home. His designs make use of the newest techniques and materials, yet remain timeless. As an architect and designer of international renown, Antonio Citterio works for companies such as Ansorg, Arclinea, Axor - Hansgrohe, Aubrilam, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Fusital, Guzzini, Iittala, Inda, Kartell, Maxalto, Sanitec Group - Pozzi Ginori, Simon Urmet, Technogym, Tre Più and Vitra. The trolley "Mobil" and the folding and extending table "Battista" (both designed for Kartell) are on permanent display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The cutlery series "Tools Citterio 2000" which he designed for littala is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago.
After graduating in architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1975 he first worked as an industrial designer. From 1981 onwards, he began to work as an architect and interior designer. In 1999 Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel founded “Antonio Citterio and Partners”, a multidisciplinary studio for architectural design, industrial design and graphics. The studio develops projects for residential complexes and trade centres, industrial sites, the restructuring of public buildings, the planning of workspace, offices, showrooms and hotels; it is also operational in the field of corporate communication and implements corporate image projects, fittings and graphics.
Over the past years, Antonio Citterio designed numerous flagship stores and developed concepts for companies such as Aspesi (Milan/2006), Peek & Cloppenburg (stores chain in Germany/2005 - 2006), De Beers (London, New York, Los Angeles/2002 - 2005), Valentino (Tokyo, Milan/2002 - 2005). He also designed the Bulgari Hotels and Resorts in Milan (2004), Bali (2006) and the new Ermenegildo Zegna Headquartes in Milan (2007). In 2005, he won the competition for a hotel project in Hamburg’s Hafencity, and in 2007, the competition for the remodelling of the Ferrante Aporti building in Milan. In 2007, his day nursery for GlaxoSmithKline in Verona was awarded the Mies van der Rohe Prize.
In 2006, Antonio Citterio was appointed as professor at the Accademia di Architettura dell’Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio and holds guest professorships at the Domus Academia in Milan and La Sapienza Università in Rome. In 1979 and in 1987 respectively, he was awarded the coveted "Compasso d’Oro" design prize and in 2007, he received the “Royal Designer for Industry” award from the “Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce” in London.
Valid as of: 27.5.2008