Giorgio Marianelli

Born in 1939 in Castiglioncello in the province of Livorno, he graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he moved to in 1968 to work at the industrial design department of Olivetti run by Ettore Sottsass. There he met Raul Barbieri, with whom he founded the Barbieri and Marianelli Architecture studio in Milan in 1974. In 1990, he opened his own independent architecture and industrial design studio, which in 1995 became Marianelli Design. He worked with some of the best known design companies, from Guzzini to Tronconi, Foppa Pedretti to Zucchetti Rubinetterie and many of his projects received important international awards. Giorgio Marianelli died in 1998.