Pietro Ferruccio Laviani

Pietro Ferruccio Laviani Born in Cremona in 1960, he attended the Politecnico di Milano Architecture Faculty and graduated in 1986, after studying on the courses taught by Achille Castiglioni and Marco Zanuso. In 1991 he opened his own Studio in Milan. He works in the areas of product design, interior design, art direction and graphics. He has been Art Director at Kartell since 1991 and has held this position for various other companies including Flos, De Padova, Foscarini, Moroso, Society (Limonta) and Emmemobili. He designs retail spaces and installations, but also offices and residential accommodation, for private clients and brands including Cassina, Dolce & Gabbana, Dada, Foscarini, Missoni and others. His products are featured in the collections of leading design companies.

In 2008, an exhibition called “LAviani pLAstic Lamps”was organised in Milan of his lamp designs for Kartell; at the Milan Salone del Mobile 2018, the retrospective ‘Peep O Rama. The Furniture Show’ at the Metropol Dolce & Gabbana theatre, celebrated his longstanding partnership with Italian company Emmemobili. Some of his design pieces are in the permanent collection of design museums, while other products have been shown in museums and exhibitions around the world. They include the Good Vibrations cabinet designed for Fratelli Boffi, which was featured in the 2018 exhibition “Thrill of Deception” organised at the Kunsthalle in Munich, as well as appearing in 2019 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine museum in Paris, as part of the exhibition “Le mobilier d’architectes 1960-2020”. In 2020, Good Vibrations has been acquired by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, for its permanent collection. In 2023, MAD again chose the Gothik-A cupboard, designed for Fratelli Boffi in 2017, among the design pieces that dialogue with the haute couture clothes of the Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen, in the monographic exhibition dedicated to her.