Franco Poli

Franco Poli

The designer Franco Poli was born in Padua in 1950. He studied art and architecture in Venice, where he met Isamu Noguchi and Buckmister Fuller. At the age of 23 his first industrial design was produced. In 1977 he worked with Bernini s.p.a., becoming artistic director from 1979 to 2009. In 1986, with Lenci and Talocci, he created the air-sea division of Poltrona Frau, designing the FORUM and I MADRIGALI collections. In the eighties he opened a studio in Venice and was called as visiting professor to the U.I.A [International University of Art] in Florence and the Milan Polytechnic. From 1989 to 1996 he held the DESIGN course at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In the nineties [more]

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In the nineties he collaborated in the foundation of numerous regional associations, a transnational Design school in Reggio Calabria and in national coordination of the C.N.A.D. Design Associations in Rome. In recent years he has held a number of meetings on Design in S. Paolo, Tokyo, Quito, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Moscow, New York, Kiev, London and Shanghai. His products are in the permanent collections of The Denver Art Museum, in the “Fonds National d’Art Contemporain” in Paris, in the “Magma Museum” in Roccamonfina, in the “Farnesina Design” and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

He has won the “Good Design Award” of the Chicago Athenaeum three times, in 2007 he won the “DesignX, Australian Award” and in 2008 was awarded an Honourable Mention at the XXI Compasso D’Oro. From 2007 to 2010 he furnished the reception areas at the Venice Biennali of Art and Architecture. He has exhibited at the Royal College of Art “Spectrum” exhibition, at “Masterworks, Italian Design 1960-1994″ at the museum of Denver, at the exhibition “Dolce Stilnovo, domestic landscape in contemporary Italy” at the Kaohsiung Museum in Taipei and at the “First Beijing International Design Triennial”. He currently lives and works in Verona.

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