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Founded in 1966, B&B Italia is an Italian company that is a leader in the international design furniture sector, both domestic and collective. Its headquarters are located north of Milan and boasts a prestigious building designed in 1972 by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Its furniture, sofas, armchairs and even outdoor products have contributed to writing the history of Italian design, spreading the “Made in Italy” on international markets. It is precisely from the alchemy between creativity, innovation and industrial capacity that modern furnishing elements emerge, highly distinctive and characterised by great quality and “timeless” elegance.

Antonio Citterio was born in Meda in 1950. After graduating from the Milan Polytechnic in the faculty of architecture, he opened his first design studio in 1972. During his career he won important awards such as the Compasso d'Oro and some of his works take part in the permanent design exhibition of the MoMA in New York and the Pompidou Center in Paris. In 2000 he founded with Patricia Viel “Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel”, an architectural and interior design company active internationally.

Paolo Nava, born in Seregno in 1943, graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan and completed his education in England. In 1972 he founded the Citterio-Nava studio with Antonio Citterio, designing iconic products of Italian design. Since 1982 he has worked independently, designing furniture for international brands, with an approach that combines aesthetics and industrial needs. His projects transform the use of spaces, creating new relationships between materials and technologies. With a career spanning over 40 years, he has received numerous international design awards.