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Jean-François Crochet
Sketches for a pocket size autobiography.
I just finished two show rooms in Moscow and I’m working on two villas.
I love void and light, but also: a pot on the stove, the wine Bourgogne, kids, women, I’m in love with Taben.
I was born in 1949, a good year! I managed to attend the fine and decorative arts school in Paris for few years.
I have no memory, but i worry about yours...this is why I thought about rust some years ago.
I love fashion, obviously, but I’m “too architectonic” ( Balmain).
I came across people who put me to work.
I designed several fashion boutiques in the 60’s “la Gaminerie-Paris”, it was still day time.
At night I also designed several night clubs: “Le Tiffany”,”La nuit des Rois”, “Le club Alexandre” in Montreal.
I needed to eat well after all....and so i also designed several restaurants and bars: “Le cafe Francais”, in Paris Bastille.
Then in 1985 I laid on the beach right next to Sergio Terzani, three tumbles later I was working in his workshop.
I believed I designed lamps, I believed I had memory, I got lost in the past to come back to the light with “Antinea...Bara Baara....Mademoiselle....Tresor...”
...to be continued...
Prospero Rasulo, artist and designer, has been involved since 1980 in different activities from set design to painting, sculpting and styling of both public and private spaces.
It was in 1980’ that he started a collaboration with Alessandro Mendini and “StudioAlchimia” on the projects “redesign” and “oggetto banale”.
In 1982 he started to maturate his idea of design, working at the same time as a designer and as a promoter of cultural events, among which he curated, between 1986 and 1988, “sexy design”,” l’immagine imprudente” , and “abitare con arte” .
In 1987 he founded “oxido” a gallery space for art, design and architecture. “oxido” became aslo the brand name for a collection of furniture and objects such as “piatto fax” and “trash furniture” in 1994 and “eco mimetico” in 1998.
As an industrial designer Rasulo now collaborates with several companies such as Foscarini,B.R.F.WMF,Poltronova, Zanotta, Rosenthal, Fabbian,Antonio Lupi, Gessi, Terzani,Fiam,Glas , Slide.
Giulio Iacchetti has been working as an industrial designer since 1992. Along with his design activity he also teaches in many universities in Italy and abroad. He has been awarded many international prices.
In 2001 with Matteo Ragni, Iacchetti won the price “Compasso d’oro” for the disposable multi purpose utensil “ Moscardino”, which is today part of the permanent design collection at the MOMA in New York.
For the Italian supermarket chain “Coop” he created the concept0” Design at Coop” and he’s now in charge of the “Coop Eureka” project.
Among his clients are: Bialetti, Casamania, Caimi Brevetti, Desalto, De Vecchi, Ferrero, F.lli Guzzini, Mandarina Duck, Meritalia, Sambonet, Terzani, Pandora design, Thonet Vienna.
Bruno Rainaldi
He lives and work in Milan. He’s been working in design and furniture for over twenty years. He started with Maddalena de Padova in the distribution department and later became partner with Enrico Baleri for “Baleri&Associati” , a communication and commercial strategies firm which operates in the contemporary design field.
He then founded and became art director of the design firm “rari” and started to collaborate with different companies including Alivar , for which he created the “brillant furniture” collection, Blum, MDF,Mussi and Sintesi.
In 1994 he participated to the re-launch of Dilmos and created for them “ Dilmos Edizioni” a collection of design pieces with strong artistic influences.
In 2002 he founded “Moco extra ordinary furniture” and designed “ptolomeo” , a totemic vertical bookshelf that won the price
“compasso d’oro” in 2004. During the same year he opened, with Marta Giardini, “Entratalibera”, a contemporary art and design space in the center of Milan.
In 2004 he began to collaborate with Massimo and Flavia Ciatti, for whom he designed “facebook-genuine mirror”, a unique collection of mirrors. He soon became partner of “Ciatti a tavola” and presented, a year later, a new storage system for kitchen and living room.
In 2005 he started to collaborate with Terzani.
In 2006 he worked on a new design concept for head boards for beds and became art director of “deside” ( gruppo sintesi). During the same year he designed “mode’ “, a collection of containers for Baleri Italia and ‘Max8”, a pulley operated storage system for “Ciatti a tavola”. During the same time he started working with Marta Giardini on “4feet” , a carpet line for “Mussy Italy” and designed “Ptolomeo and his family“ for CCR , a series of rotating bookshelves , as an evolution of he “Ptolomeo” concept.
In 2007 he presented “Affittacamere” , a four room design installation at “entratalibera’, in cooperation with Maurizio Galante, CCR, Mussi Italy, Terzani and BBB Emmebonaccina.
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