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Mario Bellini
Mario Bellini was born in 1935 and
graduated in 1959 at the Politecnico di
Milano. He lives and works in Milan. His
activities range from architecture and
urban design to furniture and industrial
design. His fame as a designer dates from
1963.
He is internationally renowned as an
architect and designer, and is winner
among others of 8 Compasso d’Oro and
prestigious architecture awards including
the Medaglia d’Oro conferred on him by
the President of the Italian Republic. In
2011 he received the “Ambrogino d’oro”
conferred on the most prestigious citizens
of the Municipality of Milan.
He has given talks in the greatest centres
of culture in the world and was editor of
Domus. His work can be found in the
Collections of major Art Museums. MoMA
in New York, which dedicated a personal
exhibition to him, has 25 works of his in its
Permanent Design Collection. He has had
countless exhibitions in his name in Italy
and abroad.
From the 1980s on wards, he has designed
projects such as the Portello Trade Fair
quarter in Milan; the Exhibition Centre
in Villa Erba on Lake Como; the Tokyo
Design Center in Japan; Natuzzi America
Headquarters in the USA; the Trade Fair
in Essen in Germany; the National Gallery
of Victoria in Melbourne; the Headquarter
of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt; the new
Verona Forum complex; the museum
of the History of Bologna; the new
Department of Islamic Art in the Louvre in
Paris (second contemporary architecture
project after the ‘pyramid’ by Pei); the
new Milan Convention Center at the Milan
Trade Fair, the largest in Europe.
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