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Raffaella Mangiarotti lives and works in Milan. She graduated cumlaude in Architecture with Tomàs Maldonado at the Milan Polytechnic in 1991. In 1994 she finished a doctorate in Environmental design. In 1999 she established the Deepdesign studio with Matteo Bazzicalupo, designing appliances and consumer electronics for the most important international companies. She holds more than 20 patents. She also works alone, especially in the furniture, accessory and creative direction sectors. Some of her products are exhibited in museums and are part of their permanent collections and have been awarded major international design awards. Her projects have been exhibited in both collective and personal exhibitions at international level.
Finnish designer Ilkka Suppanen (born 1968) studied architecture at the University of Technology in Helsinki and interior architecture and furniture design at the Helsinki University of Art and Design.The designer finished his design studies at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, in 1992, and in 1995 he founded the agency Studio Suppanen.In 1997 Ilkka Suppanen and his colleagues founded the Snowcrash design cooperative, one of Finland’s most prominent design groups at the time. In 1997, Suppanen and the Snowcrash team received the Young Designer of the Year Award in Germany. In 1998 Ilkka Suppanen was nominated for the Dedalus Prize for Young European Designers by Ettore Sottsass.I n 2000, Design Forum awarded Ilkka Suppanen and Harri Koskinen as YoungDesigners of the Year. Suppanen also received the Scandinavian Bruno Mathsson Award in 2006. Ilkka Suppanen’s works have been exhibited all over the world and the most important international showcases include theBiennale inVenice, the Milan International Furniture Fair and the New York MoMA.
