Patrizia Moroso & Davide Michelizza Moroso spa, Italy Moroso was established in 1952, the brainchild of Agostino Moroso. From seventy years the company has been producing sofas, armchairs and furnishing accessories, by focusing on an extraordinary creativity in the designing stage and on an artisanal approach to product manufacturing. In the Eighties, with Roberto and Patrizia Moroso, the second generation of the family, starts an in depth programme of research in the field of distinctive design. Today Moroso is positioned among the haute couture of international design, as a leading company in upholstered-furniture manufacturing. About Patrizia Moroso Patrizia Moroso, Art Director of Moroso S.p.a., a family company specializing in the production of sofas, armchairs, and furniture accessories, became operationally involved in management in the mid-1980s. In just a few years, she transformed the company into a leading brand in international design. Possessing a strong and innovative creative spirit, Patrizia has an insatiable curiosity for all forms of art, which keeps her ahead of her time. Since 1988, she began working with Ron Arad, who created his first upholstery collection for her. The collaboration with Patricia Urquiola, a star in international architecture and design today, started in 1999. In 2004, she began working with Tord Boontje, now the educational director at the Royal College in London. In 2007, Tokujin Yoshioka joined the collaboration and was later named Designer of the Year at Miami Basel. Starting in 2003, she began realizing her idea of collaborating with contemporary art.
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Salih Teskeredžić Gazzda, Bosnia and Herzegovina Salih Teskeredžić is a designer, a professor at the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts and the co-founder of brand Gazzda. His impressive design production places him alongside some of the greatest world-renown designers. He is well known for his recognisable style which is a combination of retro-ethnographic local particularities and contemporary design forms which are frequently upgraded by means of certain details that sometimes play a functional role and sometimes they only act as an aesthetic accentuation. The products thus give an impression of being light and natural, primarily due to his ability to follow the natural growth of wood which is one of the essential materials used in his design. A combination of the old and new as well as his masterly accomplished fundamental form and function thus allow his products to be well accepted and widely used in modern interiors. By way of their softness, clean lines and contrast his designs fill the interiors with a touch of cosiness. As already mentioned, his clean forms follow the form of natural wood growth and tree branching, inviting the users to instinctively touch them. His attitude to design is well illustrated in his masterly work and commitment to details. His daring play of combining essential handicraft elements with machine-made items does not only represent certain progress in design, but it also fills the products with designer’s emotions as well as his soul and personality. Salih Teskeredžić has undoubtedly put Bosnia
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Adam Wehsely Swiczinsky AWS Designteam, Austria Since the early days of the technical industrial design studio, AWS Designteam focuses on solutions and tools around and for the human body. They work in fields like healthcare, sports equipment, musical instrument and electronic goods sectors for more than 20 years. The credo of the Austrian studio is to make things better for the users and to be on eye-level with all the stake holders of the research and developmet process for new products, and to take every input from marketing, engineering down to the assembly line seriosely. The cooperation between AWS Designteam and Ottobock is a long and manifolg relation. AWS started designing othoses for the german parnet comany, in the mid 2000s. Stoping over in supporting subsidiaries in Sweden, USA and the UK, the design agency ended up working with the vienniese Ottobock branch for mecatronic prostheses. Clients: Blue Locar, watersport security devices Elan, skis & snowboards Fischer, alpine & nordic ski equipement Head, skis, snowboards & rackets Julius Meinl, tea & coffee Lomographic Society, photo equipment Odin, tableware & interior ÖBB, Austrian railways Ottobock, healthcare Rehband, sports protection Siemens Home, home appliances Tyrolia, ski bindings Wiener Einkaufsstraßen, retail consortium Awards: • 6x Red Dot Design Award: 2009, 3x 2011, 2013 & 2022 (Ottobock, HEAD, Tyrolia) • 5x IF Design Award: 2009, 2013, 2015, 1016, 2018, (Ottobock) • 3x Austrian National Design Award nominations: 2007, 2017, 2019 (MADA Guitars, Ottobock) • 3x German Design Award: 2010, 2014,
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Felix Perasso: Hotel La Briosa Felix Perasso, Italy Felix Perasso studied Architecture in Innsbruck (Austria) and Lund (Sweden). His master thesis investigated strategies for the activation of abandoned infrastructures and applied the research on a vision for the city center of Genova (Italy). He worked for OMA in Rotterdam and Snøhetta in Innsbruck and Oslo, and is currently teaching as a lecturer at the University of Innsbruck - Studio 2. In 2019 he founded Atelier Perasso, a think tank that operates in Architecture and Urban Design and that uses a conceptual approach to design the impact of a building before its form. His works were exhibited upon others at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, the EXPO Real in Munich and the Prague Experimental Architecture Biennale and were honored with awards such as the Klimahouse Wood Architecture Prize in the category experimental architecture.