Emilio Nanni
Emilio Nanni was born in 1955 in Bazzano, a small town in Emilia Romagna near Bologna. He graduated from the School of Architecture in Florence in 1984, where he taught Furniture Design from 1990 to 1998. In 2000, he founded the Emilio Nanni ENd+a studio, initiating his intense professional activity between Bologna and Milan in architecture, design, graphic design and art direction.
Emilio Nanni has received numerous national and international prizes and awards, including the ADI Design Index 2000 for the Drake table by Tonelli; the ADI Design Index 2002 for the Drop armchair by Zanotta; the Red Dot Award 2016 for the Fratina chair by Billiani. He received the Red Dot Award 2017 for the Myra armchair produced by Et al. and the German Design Award 2018 for Special Mention. In 2019, he won the ADI Design Index 2018 for the Maestro table by Pianca, and in 2021 the German Design Award for Platea bergère.
Many of his works are present in important international public and private collections. He has participated in exhibitions, festivals and shows, including the solo exhibition entitled 'Strange Perspectives: Art and Design, an investigation into an exhausting relationship' held in 2017 at the Archiproducts Milan headquarters, where Nanni presented an eye-catching collection of graphic and pictorial works.
