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Paolo Deganello

Paolo Deganello, a graduate in Architecture in Florence in 1966, began his activity as a designer with restoration projects for the Gothic halls above the church of Orsanmichele in Florence and urban planning, later devoting himself to Industrial design (for Poltronova, Cassina, Driade, Marcatrè, Venini, Zanotta, Vitra Edition, Stefanel, Italcementi,, Steel case, Greggio, etc.), at the Interior design (Shoner Whonen store in Zurich, Art Deco shop in Verona) and at Architecture (House on Lago, Can Rafosl Cellars currently under construction in Spain). 

In ’66 with Branzi, Corretti and Morozzi he founded the radical architectural firm Archiom Associati in Florence which ended his activity in ’72. Since then he works independently in Milan.

Lecturer at the Master of Design at the “Domus Academy” in Milan in the years ’91 and ’92, he taught product design at the ISIA in Rome and Florence, and from 2004 to 2011 he was a professor of Biodesign, in the Specialization in Product Design, of the ISIA of Florence. He held design seminars at the Architectural Association “in London (’71, ’72, ’74), at the” Domus Academy “in Milan (’90, ’94), at the Hochschule der Bildenden Kunste Saar in Saarbrucken, (AA: 99 / 00/01) at the Royal Art College of London (1997) at the IUAV of Venice in the Workshops of 2010 and 2011.

Since 2006 he has been appointed as “convidado teacher” of the interior architecture course, held by Maria Milano, at ESAD of Matosinhos (PT). He has participated in numerous exhibitions of Architecture (all the Triennials from the 14th to the 19th), of art (Documenta of Kassel n. 8 and 10) and of design, (“Les nouvelles tendences” at the Center Pompidou) In addition to CSAC, his works are part of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum and of the Design Museum in London, the Museum of Modern Art in Toyama (Jp), the Denver Museum in Denver (US), the “Vitra Design Museum” in Weil am Rhein (D), of the “Mude” of Lisbon, of the Triennale Milan Design Museum.