Designers
Alessio Bernardini
Born in 1982, Alessio Bernardini studied wood and its finishes since his adolescence, spent in the Brianza region in Northern Italy. He entered workshops immediately after his studies and, at a very young age, he went to Paris to learn ancient decorative techniques such as parchment, galuchat and rye straw inlay. Back in Italy, at the age of just 28 he founded A&B Wood Finishes, which established itself in the supply of large woodwork, lacquers and multiple decorative finishes for all companies in the Brianza district and beyond. In 2019, pursuing the desire to marry high craftsmanship with essential and geometric design, Bernardini founded A&B living.
Luca Barengo
He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Design at IAAD in Turin in 2010 and opened his own studio in his hometown in 2018. He began his professional activity during his first years of university studies, and later started collaborating with designers such as Luca Nichetto, in Venice, and Lorenzo Palmeri, in Milan, and with institutions such as the City of Parma and the City of Turin. Over the years he has also been involved in exhibition and showroom design and has worked as a designer and product engineer at Minotti S.p.a. His collaborations with international brands and companies include A&B Living, Bentley Home, Fendi Casa, Giorgetti, Mason Editions and TreP+.
Francesco Citterio
He graduated in 2001 at the IED in Milan and immediately entered the world of design, embarking on a career that led him to become Senior Research & Development Project Manager at Luxury Living Group, dealing with furniture and design supplies for Fendi Casa, Dolce & Gabbana Casa, Bentley Home, Bugatti Home, Trussardi Casa, Baccarat Maison, Minotti S.p.a. and Promemoria.
Anthony Guerrée
Born in Normandy in 1987 and educated at the École Boulle, Anthony Guerrée is a French designer who lives and works in Paris. His career demonstrates a deep attachment to high-quality craftsmanship and to the history of French decorative arts. He collaborated with Studio Andrée Putman and, between 2015 and 2020, with Christophe Delcourt, before opening his own creative studio in 2020. Through the project-manifesto entitled ‘Les Assises du temps perdu’, a collection of chairs inspired by Marcel Proust’s characters, Guerrée reveals his way of conceiving design. A few months later, he received the ‘FRENCH DESIGN 100’ award at the Elysée Palace. Anthony Guerrée collaborates with French and international brands, including De La Espada, Linteloo, Philippe Hurel, Nosten, Kann Design and M Edition, for whom he designed the ‘Fragments’ collection exhibited at Maison La Roche – Fondation Le Courbusier; he recently took over the artistic direction of Habitat.
Philippe Nigro
He studied decorative arts and product design at the Ecole Boulle in Paris and began his career in Milan, collaborating with Michele De Lucchi and working as a freelance designer, working on projects on different scales, from large industrial productions of well-known brands to local craftsmanship, in order to experiment with all the possible forms of design. His clients include Ligne Roset, Cinna, De Padova, Baccarat, Moleskine, Driade, Mobilier National, Rado, Zanotta, Lexus, Diptyque, Gebruder Thonet Vienna, Venini, DCW, Hermès and Barovier & Toso. His professional activity extends to sceno- graphy and exhibition design, from the exhibition ‘Italian Design beyond the Crisis’ – 7th edition of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan – to the new Lexus stand concept for the world motor shows. In 2014, he was awarded Designer of the Year at Maison & Objet, and his designs Twin-Chairs, T.U. and Confluence are in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.
Marco Sorrentino
His cross-discipline learning path includes a degree in Interriors architecture and Design from the Università di Napoli, after which he worked as university tutor for the courses of Interior and Brand Design, which he is still currently teaching at N.A.B.A. Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.
He collaborated with international design studios, notably the Matteo Ragni Design Studio, where he specialised in Art and Creative Direction, as well as various companies of the furniture field.
Alberto Vismara
Alberto Vismara graduated in Architecture from the Milan Polytechnic and immediately started working with several architectural firms in Milan and Paris on the design of luxury residences, mega yachts, hotels, real estate and product design for Italian high-fashion brands. He has taught Luxury Interior Design in a private academy in Milan and has consolidated over time a close collaboration with the best Made in Italyartisans with whom he works on the development and realisation of unique or limited-edition products. Alberto Vismara pursues his concept of a design product not tied to fashions or influences but inspired by the search for forms as pure expressions of the materials used and as the result of a simple gesture of design.