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Belgium
Alain Gilles (1970–) is a renowned Belgian designer. Design was not his first calling: his university studies initially focused on Political Science, a discipline in which he graduated in Brussels. He then pursued a career in the financial sector for several years before deciding to change his life and move to France, where he earned a second degree at the Institut Supérieur de Design in Valenciennes—this time following his passion for Industrial Design. In 2007, after several years of collaboration with fellow Belgian designer Xavier Lust, he founded his own studio and began a series of successful partnerships with several major international design brands. The most significant and productive of these have been with the Belgian office furniture brand BuzziSpace and the Italian company Bonaldo, both of which quickly made him one of their leading designers. Winning the title of Designer of the Year in 2012 at the Interieur Kortrijk Fair opened the door to many new collaborations, including with brands such as Ligne Roset, Varaschin, Miniforms, XL Boom, Saba Italia, Vincent Sheppard, La Chance, and many others.
Italy
Fabio Fantolino was graduated from Polytechnic University in Turin and founded his architecture studio in the same city in 2001. The studio works in a vast range projects from architecture to interior design, from custom-made furniture to light design, meticulously meeting its clients’ needs. According to Fabio Fantolino, an architectural project is the seamless mix of creativity, good culture of design, a deep knowledge of materials; both their expressive and applicative qualities, resulting the final project a perfectly balanced environment in terms of materials, volumes and light. Over the years Studio Fabio Fantolino matured a deep knowledge of materials, finishing techniques and manufacturing technologies both industrial and artisanal. This know-how is reflected in the projects making each unique and original as they are thought and custom-designed for their surrounding spaces. Fine-tuned between the aesthetics and the client’s needs, the studio’s projects reflect Fabio Fantolino’s interpretative and creative ability.
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Miniforms is a bizarre kind of.
She always wears colourful outfits with strange shapes that stand out her soft and clean face. You can regularly see her talking with a lot of young talented designers. Sometimes you can see her in a coffee shop dressed as a bourgeois and chatting with the Irony and with the Avant Garde. Sometimes with the Environmentalist sharing love for the environment and wood.
In the ’70, when they listened David Bowie music in disco, she was named differently. She was known as Industria Veneta Tavolinetti, Inveta for friends. In the ’80, when the new wave music was cool, she was looking at Europe. She started to travel, but she was still discrete.
But now you can easily find her in Melbourne skyscrapers, in Madrid restaurant, in London design studio, talking fluently with a lively and fresh tone. As time goes by she looks always younger.
Things that are very Miniforms:
Expressivity:
Pouring sugar into wine is an insult to fine cooking. But if you whip eggs, sugar and wine together you make zabaglione. You have to be careful about what you mix together. We try our utmost to please as many tastes as possible as we experiment with creativity, culture and good design.
Elegance:
You can tell a lot about a person by peeping into their wardrobe. To understand something about us, however, you just have to look at our furniture. We're eclectic, but selective. We don't like to overdo things and prefer simplicity to frivolity. Our style is not strained because, to be authentic, elegance must be a natural extension of oneself.
Wow:
We know it's hard to amaze you. How can we, if you've already seen everything? Well, once in a while we succeed.
Wood:
Humans are 65% water, Miniforms is 70% wood. The other 30% is composed of fabrics, ceramics and metals. We like to think we're like Geppetto, we give life to wood. Because nowadays it's too easy to remain immobile.
Made in Italy:
We champion the uniqueness of craftsmanship. Every day, with commitment and passion, our people product unique objects in which the rigour of design meets the distinctive mark of human work. We use machines to help us, of course; large-scale, hi-tech machinery to keep up with the modern manufacturing process.
Lightness:
Italo Calvino once wrote: “Take a light approach to life. Lightness does not mean being superficial, but gliding above things from on high, not having burdens on your heart”. We couldn't agree more.
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