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Kartell
Color and imagination, but also an excellent technical mastery of the materials: with these weapons, Kartell has managed to make the most of a traditionally economical material such as plastic, creating products with a high design content perfect even for the  most luxurious homes. Founded in 1949 by the chemical engineer Giulio Castelli, Kartell started its production with small high-level design objects, developing over time on increasingly consistent sizes and shapes, thus arriving to offer colorful and functional furnishing accessories with affordable prices to everyone. Recognized the high potential of plastic materials and thanks to the fruitful collaboration with the architect Gino Colombini, in the following years Castelli was able to undertake a long series of experiments that led to the conquest of the first Compasso d'Oro in 1955. In those same years the lighting division was inaugurated with the first collection signed by the Castiglioni brothers.Read more

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Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck (1949-) is a real design star. Parisian by birth, with a histrionic and brilliant personality, he has managed to reach levels of popularity never even approached by any other designer before him. “The popular is elegant, the rare is vulgar”: this is one of his most famous motto, which best exemplifies his style, applied to projects of a very different scale. From small everyday objects produced in millions of copies (such as the Juicy Salif orange juicer for Alessi, perhaps his most famous product), to the gigantic luxury yachts destined for a few millionaires, all his creations are characterized by surprising shapes but at the same time functional, often tinged with irony. After his beginnings as an interior designer, specializing in particular in the construction of hotels, Starck reached the peak of his success between the 80s and 90s thanks to close collaborations with some Italian companies, such as Baleri, Driade, Flos, Fiam, Cassina and above all Kartell, with whom he found the perfect partner to realize his ideal of pop design.Read more