FRANCESCO FUSILLO

Designer

He studied at several universities along three different paths: industrial design, Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and Fine Arts in Madrid, developing a cross-disciplinary outlook that unites design, body, space and artistic research. He has worked with several studios, including DA-A Associati, 5+1AA by Alfonso Femia and Gianluca Peluffo, and David Chipperfield, consolidating an approach attentive to detail, construction processes and the quality of space and materials. In 2015 he started his own practice, presenting a collection of objects at SaloneSatellite and producing unusual furnishing accessories and a wood-clad coffee maker, distributed in La Rinascente stores and still in production. He also works on residential spaces, down to bespoke furnishing. Alongside his design practice he pursues ongoing research in drawing, abstract models, ephemeral architecture and artist’s books, up to photography as a pure exercise. He has been teaching since 2015, starting at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, where he taught for ten years, and collaborating briefly with the Politecnico di Milano, recognising teaching as one of the most significant and exciting experiences of his career. Today he continues to design spaces and objects and teaches at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio.