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Floornature is an international portal about architecture, design and design culture, investigating the contemporary with a special focus on sustainability. Its vocation, from the micro to the macro-scale of creativity, is to present new developments in architecture and design as they happen, with the specific intention of tracking emerging trends. The portal features special focus articles on materials for architecture and interviews with great masters of architecture and design.
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Michele De Lucchi
A designer, architect and writer, Michele De Lucchi (born in 1951) is one of the greatest representatives of Italian design of the last few decades. He is famous for having designed many important products, including the Tolomeo lamp, the world’s best-selling lamp, produced by the company Artemide in 1987, for which he won the Compasso d’Oro two years later. Born in Ferrara, he graduated in architecture in Florence and then became an assistant to the Design course ....
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Massimo Iosa Ghini
One of the best-known Italian contemporary architects and designers, Massimo Iosa Ghini (1959) is a graduate of Milan Polytechnic. From the mid-1980s, he participated in the avant-garde currents of Italian and European design, first establishing the Bolidist group and later as a member of the important Memphis group with Ettore Sottsass. It was in this initial important period that his collection of upholstered furniture created for Moroso (1987) won the Roscoe Award. ....
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Maurice Nio - NIO architecten
Dutch architect and artist Maurice Nio (1959) graduated in 1988 from the Faculty of Architecture in Delft. His graduation project, a villa for pop star Michael Jackson, is an example of his “hybrid approach” to the discipline: a mixture of mythology and pragmatism, and the simultaneous presence of cryptic aspects and clear design strategies. In the early 1990s, he founded the NOX Architects group, “an unconventional design agency, which used to ....