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Mario Bellini |
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The milanese architect Mario Bellini, owes his international fame both to early prolific work as a designer (awarded 8 Compasso d’Oro; in 1987 The Museum of Modern Art, New York dedicated a major personal exhibition to him) as well as to his many architectural projects to which devoted himself with increasing success from the 1980s onward, winning prestigious contracts and awards worldwide.
His most important design work includes office machines, chairs and upholstered seats, objects (designed for Olivetti, Cassina, B&B, Flou, Vitra, Rosenthal, Yamaha and others). Among his architectural accomplishments, there is the Portello quarter of the Milan Trade Fair, the Villa Erba Exhibition and Congress Centre on Lake Como, the Tokyo Design Centre in Japan (where Mario Bellini has designed three other significant architectural complexes), the Natuzzi Americas Headquarters in the United States and the new Trade Fair Centre in Essen, Germany.
His most recent achievements include three prestigious appointments, winning projects of international competitions: the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, inaugurated in 2003, the new Central Library and Theatre in Turin, work upon which will begin in 2008, and the Museum of Islamic Arts at the Louvre in Paris, currently at an advanced planning stage.
In this same year 2007, moreover, a large Scientific-Technological Park designed by Mario Bellini will start construction in Genoa.
Mario Bellini was editor of Domus magazine from 1986 to 1991, has held conferences and courses in the major international settings and won countless prizes and awards for his work as a designer and architect.
In 2004, the President of Italy awarded him the Gold Medal in recognition of his work in Italy and abroad.
In 2008, the Milan Triennale will dedicate a large-scale retrospective to Mario Bellini’s work.
www.bellini.it
mba@bellini.it
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