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Matteo Thun & Partners
Architect and designer Matteo Thun was born in Bolzano (1952). He studied at the Academy of Salzburg before earning his degree in architecture in Florence
in 1975. He was a co-founder of the Memphis group, the design movement that shaped events in the 1980s, and a partner of Sottsass Associati from 1980 to 1984.
From 1983 to 2000, he taught design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and from 1990 to 1993, he served as creative director at Swatch. In 1984, he founded the studio Matteo Thun & Partners in Milan.
www.matteothun.com
Matteo Thun Photograph by ©Francesca Lotti, plan by Matteo Thun & Partners, all other photographs by Jens Weber
“OUR DESIGN IS BASED ON THE PHILOSOPHY ZERO DESIGN AND A HOLISTIC APPROACH: BUILDINGS NEED INTERIORS, INTERIORS NEED PRODUCTS, PRODUCTS NEED DESIGNERS, MANUFACTURERS, AND USERS. A DESIGN REVEALING LESS WEIGHT AND MORE LIGHT; PURE FORM AND FUNCTION.”


































































































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