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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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Paolo Schianchi
One of the most interesting critical voices on the contemporary Italian design scene, Paolo Schianchi (1966) graduated with a degree in architecture in 1992 and began his career as a designer and art director after winning a scholarship to study and work on projects at the universities of Tübingen, Eisenstadt and Helsinki. As an expert in materials, he began working with a number of magazines published by Gruppo Editoriale Faenza and Gruppo Tile in 1997, and curated the ....
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Peter Zumthor
One of the key exponents of contemporary Swiss architecture and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2009, Peter Zumthor (1943) studied interior architecture at the Pratt Institute, New York and Schule für Gestaltung in Basel. His early career included working as a carpenter specializing in furniture (trained by his cabinetmaker father) as well as working as a building consultant for the protection of historic monuments in the Swiss canton of Grigioni (1968-1979). The ....