Interior designer, Founder @Studio 2046 – IT
Interior designer, Founder @Studio 2046 – IT
Domitilla Dardi was born in Rome in 1970. After graduating in Art History at La Sapienza, Università degli Studi di Roma, obtained a Doctorate in History of Architecture at the Università Federico II di Napoli. From 2003 to 2007 she taught History of Design and History of Contemporary Art at Facoltà di Architettura, Ascoli Piceno. She currently teaches History of Design at the IED (European Institute of Design) in Rome. She has been visiting professor in several institutions such as Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, MADE program in Siracusa and Abadir Academy in Catania.
She is curator of the design section at MAXXI, National Museum of Architecture in Rome.
In recent years she has worked as a company consultant, editor and independent curator always in the design and architecture fields.
In 2016 and 2017 she was curator of the design section “Objects” at Miart (Contemporary Art Fair in Milan) and in 2019 she became co-founder and curator of EDIT Napoli, international fair of independent design.
She is contributor of INTERNI Magazine and she writes for the principal design magazines.
She is the author of several publications, such as Achille Castiglioni (2001), Il Design di Alberto Meda. Una concreta leggerezza (2005), Design in 100 objects (2008), Universo Rietveld (2011), Eero Saarinen (2011), Anni Cinquanta (2013), History of Design Handbook (2019).
Will Meyer and Gray Davis founded Meyer Davis in 1999 following years of collaborative work together. Both designers hail from Tennessee, and began their careers in architecture and interior design in New York City – Gray with John Saladino, and Will with Charles Gwathmey. In the over 20 years since its founding, Meyer Davis has expanded to employ over 50 full time designers and project managers, with flagship studios in the heart of Soho in New York City and Downtown Los Angeles, as well as bureau offices in Miami, London, and across the United States. Meyer and Davis have together amassed an impressive list of luxury clients in the hospitality, real estate, and retail sectors. Both are actively and impressively hands on in their involvement on each project by Meyer Davis, from the largest scale new building developments to the smallest coffee shops. Meyer Davis has expanded its capabilities and breadth of expertise over the years to include product development, branding, and art curation, in addition to their high level technical and conceptual skills as interior designers. Well versed in working with clients and consultants from across the globe, Meyer and Davis have fostered a studio whose designers have their eye toward the future of luxury, and an equal understanding of commercial and residential design practices.
Key hospitality brand clients include Four Seasons, Auberge Resorts Collection, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, Mandarin Oriental, The Ritz Carlton, W Hotels, Loews Hotels, 1 Hotels and Dream Hotels. The studio’s latest projects include the Crown Hotel and Residences in Sydney and the W Hotel in Rome, along with Mauna Lani in Hawaii, Harrods Brasserie in London, and The River House Restaurant in Nashville. The studio will complete Dream Doha, the Grand Hyatt Kuwait, and a restaurant at the Ritz Carlton Mexico City in 2021.
Recent collaborations under their product company – William Gray – have been completed with Stellar Works, Claybrook, Watermark, Rich Brilliant Willing and Contardi. Prestigious awards include a James Beard Award for St. Cecilia restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia, numerous Interior Design Best of Year Awards (for products and interior design), numerous Boutique Design Gold Key Awards, and induction into the Hospitality Design Platinum Circle in 2018.
Designer, co-founder and owner @ Dante – Goods and Bads – LU
Creative director and curator
DEAR HUMAN
The work of Dear Human is an exploration into playfulness and discovery through unconventional material use, pattern and colour. Their interest in sustainability, material research and world folk traditions continuously inspire new directions of inquiry and ways of making. Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O’Connell work on their bespoke objects and commissioned works at their Montreal-based studio.
Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O’Connell
Dear Human is the visual arts and design collaborative formed by Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O’Connell in 2010.
Jasna Sokolovic studied architecture at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of Belgrade in former Yugoslavia before immigrating to Canada during the war. She completed her studies in fine arts at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Noel O’Connell is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison and holds an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He is a Fulbright scholar in art and architecture and spent six years studying and working in art restoration and ceramics in Thailand and China.
Dear Human’s work has been shown internationally in the design weeks of New York, Milan, Stockholm, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, as well as in numerous solo and group shows throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
They have been invited artists in residency in Mexico, Portugal, Canada and Denmark, where the couple met in 2008.
© Sylvie Li for photo credits.
Co-founders @ De La Villa
Federico Delrosso, architect and designer from Biella, operates at international level from 2001, when he estabilished his studio Federico Delrosso Architects in Milan, dedicated towards architecture, interior and product design.
Respecting the natural surroundings, urban context and the spirit of the spaces, intense like the energy and conscious imprint in the memory of spaces, Federico Delrosso conceives projects with a refined lightness characterized with a minimalist and naturalistic approach.
The homogeneity of materials, often left natural and raw, and the study of light, sensed as an emotional and tangible component of each project, represent the essential elements of his stylistic research and the very idea of architecture. The latter is in fact conceived as a “self-seeking soul in every detail of light and shade to reach the delicate balance that makes it independent of those who created it, lives it or will live it.”
In the field of design of furniture and lighting, many important collaborations were made with brands like Davide Groppi and HenryTimi. The wall lamp Mima (2007, for Davide Groppi) was nominated for the 21st Compasso d’Oro 2008 and joins as a permanent collection of ADI (Association for the industrial design).
In the year 2012, the project of restaurant design Notime in Montecarlo was among the finalists of the Best of Year Award, organized by the magazine Interior Design (USA). A similar acknowledgment was received in 2016 for the kitchen category for the project Trapezio Kitchen, along with numerous other product-related mentions.
Speker in Mexico, Dubai, Ecuador, China, Turkey, in 2014 he was also invited at the Biennal of Architecture in Moscow to give lecture on the topic ‘Light and Architecture’ and was nominated as a member of the Presidential Committee for the IIDA (International interior design association) of Chicago.
Various publications were made on National and International magazines such as Elle Decor, Interni, Interior Design; in 2013 his first monograph Pushing the Boundaries (Skira), which presented a selection of projects realized in twenty years of works, was published.
The passion for building together with the constant search for overcoming the theoretical and practical limits leads him to conceive the new Slim35mm material for Tabu and Marmocode, an innovative assembly of the scraps made from the marble processing, with which he designed for HenryTimi the collection of table accessories fd802.
Eclectic architect with a multidisciplinary approach, he participates in the Dining By Design event in New York with the installation of Dining Tank and realizes for DepurArt Lab Gallery the installation Purifying Walk, joining the permanent collection of the Acqua Franca Museum in Milan. In 2016, at the XXI International Exhibition of the Triennale of Milan, Design After Design, he presented the personal exhibition Residual Spaces. In the context of Biennale di Architettura 2018, within Time Space Existence, an exhibition by GAA Foundation hosted by European Cultural Centre, he presented the architecture installation Work in Progress.
Official selection at the Milano Design Film Festival 2018, Dreaming the Real is a film directed by Luca De Santis and curated by Davide Giannella, which narrates the one and a half year journey around the visions and imaginations developed by Federico Delrosso in a 20-year career, through the images from the work site of Teca House.
Chief curator @ Eames Institute – USA
Danilo Di Michele, born in Italy 01-19-65, resident in Miami Florida USA – became a U.S. citizen in 1994 in Los Angeles – thanks to the contracted collaboration with the company Calvin Klein, under the ownership of Mr. Barry K. Schwartz, while consulting for their global licensing partnerships. In 2015 he received the Chinese Green Card thanks to the collaboration with the Melvo Group of Hong Kong.
As the founder and president of DDM BRANDING Inc., and the BIANCO BIANCO LLc company, ample gratitude is owed to the 25 years of global experience which is continually gained as the years progress. Di Michele embraces the new generations – as the world is now in a digital era and has always learned to adapt and respected the new method of communication strategies.
Visionary, sought-after Executive-level CEO who leads companies through change and challenge to profitable growth with a career-long of promotion and stakeholder satisfaction.
A great passion for art in all its forms of visualization.
