Designers

Diego Chilò (1957) started working in construction and industrial design in 1984 and collaborated with Arch. Fiorenzo Valbonesi and Arch. Tobia Scarpa. Since 2006, he has been a member of the scientific committee for the magazine, Acciaio Arte Architettura and in the same year, he was recommended by the Dedalo Minosse International Prize panel for Architecture. In 2007, the Lapis project received the Innovation and Design Award at LivinLuce EnerMotive in Milan, and in 2013, Acqualuce received the Good Lighting Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. In 2012, he was involved in the research for ‘Smart design 4 Smart city’. He has exhibited his works at Galleria Galica (MI), Musei Civici di Venezia, Triennale di Milano and Palazzo Firmian (TN). In collaboration with Moret, the Magic and Follies collection was born.

Matteo Cibic (1983) is an Italian designer and creative director. He is known for creating objects with hybrid functions and anthropomorphic, joyful forms. He works indiscriminately with industrial processes and small-scale craftsmen, for luxury brands, collectors, and hi-tech companies. His best-known projects are the Domsai terrariums, the 10A clothing range, the VasoNaso research on objects and the Tim Towers in Rome. His works are exhibited in museums, institutions, and galleries all over the world. Matteo is an international award-winning designer, and his work is published internationally. He received the international Young Talent of the Year 2017 award from Elle Decor. Matteo Cibic’s encounter with Moret resulted in the Intrigue collection, featuring works such as “A Sigar in Siena” and “Smiling at Ponte Vecchio.”

Creative director of companies and industries, Maurizio Molini (1961) is leading Studio Molini—architecture, art and design firm that operates globally, where every project entails a point of interaction which creates an experience—an encounter between art and industry designed to rouse the senses and engage the mind at various levels of comprehension. Molini—whose explorations of art and culture via frequent travels throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas—build upon his aesthetic foundation of Italian design.  He has witnessed the transformation of urban environments in South Africa; contemplated the aesthetic of emptiness in Japan; and observed multiculturalism throughout Brazil, Turkey and the United States, where he operates continuously. Graduated in Architecture from the IUAV in Venice, Maurizio Molini promotes corporate culture and the value of the Made in Italy through conferences on behalf of government institutions.

Mario Botta (1943) è uno degli architetti più influenti e innovativi al mondo. Laureatosi in Architettura a Venezia nel 1969 come allievo di Carlo Scarpa e Giuseppe Mazzariol, nel 1970 ha avviato il suo studio personale a Lugano. Ha insegnato presso prestigiose istituzioni internazionali. Ha contribuito al rinnovamento della Scala di Milano e della Fondazione Querini Stampalia a Venezia. Nel 2006 è stato nominato Grand’Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana dal Presidente Carlo Azeglio Ciampi e ha progettato il centro benessere Bergoase Spa ad Arosa in Svizzera. Mario Botta è parte del progetto Art and Sign nato dalla collaborazione tra Moret e Cleto Munari e per il quale ha firmato Anatolia.

Sandro Chia (1946) is a Florentine painter and sculptor. At the age of 30, together with other young artists, he became one of the main members of the Italian Transavanguardia. He has lived in Rome for ten years and in New York for more than twenty, and has participated in exhibitions in Italy and abroad, where his works are part of the most prestigious collections: the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the MoMA in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, the Museum of Art in Kochi (Japan), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Israel), the Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Germany), the Marx Collection in Berlin and many others. Sandro Chia is part of the Art and Sign project created by Moret and Cleto Munari and for which he signed Looking Out.

Dario Fo (1926-2016) was an author of satire, plays, a theatre director, actor, composer, and painter. In his work, he referred to the ancient commedia dell’arte, a theatre style that was very popular in the past. With his wife Franca Rame, he ran his own theatre company for decades, where he also worked as an actor. In 1997, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, with the following justification from the Committee: “Following in the tradition of medieval jesters, he mocks power by restoring dignity to the oppressed’. Dario Fo was part of the Art and Sign project, establishing following the collaboration between Moret and Cleto Munari and for which he signed Johan Padan I.

He is known for creating objects with hybrid functions and anthropomorphic, joyful forms. He works indiscriminately with industrial processes and small-scale craftsmen, for luxury brands, collectors, and hi-tech companies. His best-known projects are the Domsai terrariums, the 10A clothing range, the VasoNaso research on objects and the Tim Towers in Rome. His works are exhibited in museums, institutions, and galleries all over the world. Matteo is an international award-winning designer, and his work is published internationally. He received the international Young Talent of the Year 2017 award from Elle Decor.

Mimmo Paladino (1948) is a painter, sculptor, and engraver, as well as one of the most distinguished members of the Transavanguardia. His most recent works include a group of sculptures exhibited en plein air (in the open air) at Orta San Giulio and a blue horse, which is over four metres high, at the amphitheatre within the Vittoriale degli Italiani in Gardone Riviera. His interests include the relationship between visual art and sound, which produced, in collaboration with Brian Eno, the installation I Dormienti for the Roundhouse in London in 1999. Among the museums exhibiting his works, is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Mimmo Paladino is part of the Art and Sign project established following the collaboration between Moret and Cleto Munari and for which he designed Floating Presences.