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Marco

Last Name

Guazzini

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marco-guazzini

City

Milan

Biography

Design as a rational, conscious, and profound act. The elegant gesture of the designer Marco Guazzini goes at the same pace with an innovative, meticulous, careful to contemporary life topics, research, yet rich of inspirations that come from other ages.

After having spent a few years in New York, Guazzini chose to open his atelier in Milan, where he studied Industrial Design. Here, he started a path that led him to work for companies such as Officinanove, Ex.t, Pimar, Atipico, and Living Divani, and, at the same time, to collaborate with international design galleries such as Galleria Luisa Delle Piane and Leclettico (Milan), Gallery S. Bensimon (Paris), Mint design gallery, and Saatchi Gallery (London).

Guazzini has worked as professor at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (Milan).

Marco Guazzini is especially well known for the conceiving and realization of Marwoolus® material that, since 2016, has been part of the Vitra Design Museum permanent collection. An homage to his places of origin, blending Prato wool and Pietrasanta marble in order to obtain an innovative element and symbol of expressive freedom which characterizes the whole work of the Italian designer.

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