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Autori: biografia sintetica e opere | Authors: brief biography and main works

Giorgia Zanellato & Daniele Bortotto

Giorgia Zanellato (Venice, 1987) and Daniele Bortotto (Pordenone, 1988),

designers, both studied Industrial Design at the IUAV in Venice and went on to take

a Master’s Degree in Product Design at the ECAL in Lausanne (Switzerland). Giorgia

Zanellato then joined the team at Fabrica - Benetton Research Centre (Treviso),

while Daniele Bortotto started to work for the Swiss designer Adrien Rovero. After

thus completing their training, the two designers came together on their first joint

collection, the Acqua Alta series, dedicated to the city of Venice and presented at

the Milan Salone Satellite in 2013. The following year they designed the Serenissima

collection for Moroso, an industrial design project in which Venice’s colours and

structural features become the inspiration for furniture, fabrics and ornaments. After

the success of these ventures, in 2015 they founded the Zanellato Bortotto firm, which

works for big Italian and international names - Cappellini, Nilufar, Moroso, Rubelli,

Tod’s, Alcantara - and has also had projects selected for galleries and museums -

including the MAXXI in Rome and the Triennale Design Museum and Museo Poldi

Pezzoli in Milan - as well as exhibiting at various international events - Salone del

Mobile, Design Miami Basel, Maison&Object, Venice Biennale, London Design Festival.

Their approach, always supported by careful cross-referencing with the location

and time, ensures functionality without forgetting poetry of form, decoration and

style, through a design process which establishes a dialogue, during production,

between the worlds of craftsmanship and industry, creating both mass-market goods

and limited editions and one-off pieces.

Exquisite Jungle

per | for Novamobili

2016

Dorsoduro

per | for Rubelli

2013

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