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Antonio Citterio |
Antonio Citterio (b. 1950), Italy.
Antonio Citterio was born in Meda in 1950, lives and works in Milan. He graduated in architecture at the Politecnico of Milan and from 1972 he has worked for many leading manufacturers.
He has also been engaged in architectural works dealing with construction projects and interiors both in Italy and abroad. He holds lectures and conferences all over the world and his work has been extensively exhibited and published.
Among recent architectural projects: the construction of the building where the headquarters of the Edel Company are located, along the Elba river, the headquarters of the CR&S Centre completed with showroom and offices for B&B Italia in Novedrate, the corporate image project for De Beers (London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles), Bulgari Hotel in Milan, the first of a chain of luxury hotels known as “Bulgari Hotels and Resorts”, the restructuring of the historical Town Hall of Clusone, facing Piazza dell’Orologio, the project for the headquarters of the drug company GlaxoSmithKline in Verona, the project for a law firm in Sondrio, Italy and, added to this, two projects for private house, one in Basel, Switzerland, the other in Sardinia, Italy.
In September 2006 the Bulgari Resort in Bali has been inaugurated as well as the Aspesi showroom in the Milanese fashion district Via Montenapoleone.
One of the most rewarding design acknowledgements he obtained was the Compasso d’Oro in 1987 and 1995. The products “Mobil” and “Battista” designed for Kartell are exhibited in the design permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “Mobil”, “Battista”, “Dolly”, “Gastone” and “Oxo” are exhibited in the permanent collection of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. The cutlery collection ‘Tools Citterio 2000’, designed for Iittala, is part of the permanent collection of design at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Chicago together with the “Axor Citterio” taps designed for Hansgrohe. From 2006, Antonio Citterio is professor at the Accademia di Architettura dell’Università della Svizzera Italiana.
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