Carlo Rampazzi

Carlo Rampazzi, architect and designer was born in Ascona in 1949: although holder of a Swiss passport, he has always felt citizen of the world. Very early on, his interests started focusing on furniture and design and he received a diploma in architecture and interior decoration at the Universities of Lugano and Paris. A cosmopolitan by vocation, he refined his aesthetic taste by traveling and exploring different worlds and cultures: it is surely not by chance that his projects (private dwellings, boutiques, grand hotels, spas, yachts, commercial spaces) are disseminated at the four corners of the globe, in Europe, America, Asia, in the Middle and Far East. Ever since the 80ties, in collaboration with Colombo Stile (www.colombostile.it), he has created eight collections, revisiting classical style in a contemporary and maximalist key and producing a series of "new classic" furniture that have been displayed at important fairs and exhibitions -.444of the sector such as "Abitare il Tempo" in Verona, the "Salone del Mobile" in Milan and "Maison&Objet" in Paris. Today, Carlo Rampazzi designs and produces his own collection of furniture and objects for interior decoration together with decorator Sergio Villa: all of his objects denote a high level of craftsmanship and come in limited editions; they are a calibrated blend of sophisticated decorative techniques, vintage materials and often an alternative mix of fabrics, fur, majolicas, glass and leather that may be open to all sorts of personalization in line with customer preferences. Carlo Rampazzi has opened his own gallery in Paris "NOI - NUOVE OPERE INTERNAZIONALI" (www.noiparis.com), where there is a permanent exhibition of furniture and objects for interior decoration signed NOI Paris, as also his collection of interior decoration fabrics. Carlo Rampazzi wishes to dress houses and apartments as he dresses himself, that is, with a style that is in no way related to an age or a fashion. This is why his furniture and decorations are not linked to their destination of use: they are free, emotional and flighty, indispensable in their sometimes absolute and infinite lack of functionality.