Fernando Campana Biography
Fernando Campana (born in São Paulo in 1961) was a Brazilian designer.
He trained as an architect and, together with his older brother Humberto, founded the Campana studio in 1984. The studio soon gained international recognition thanks to its innovative design of furniture and furnishing pieces, characterized by a language defined as "pioneering ". Their production is vast, ranging from industrial design to art design, often using recycled or natural materials such as bamboo, dolls, rubber and plastic.
Their production celebrates the chaos, the colors and the generosity of the forms of the Brazilian identity with dreamlike suggestions. Among their famous interventions are the Banquete chair of animals and soft toys - in various editions, from pandas, crocodiles, up to the last one signed with Kaws in 2019 - the Vermelha armchair, prototyped in the early Nineties starting from a metal structure then filled with material colours, or the Garraffa installation, created in 2009 at the Palace of Versailles at the end of a workshop for ENSA students with around 20 thousand plastic bottles, transformed into a luminous ring. We also remember the Sade armchair for Edra, the vase for Louis Vuitton Tropicalisti, or the popular installation of plant columns placed in a cloister of the University of Milan for the 2019 Fuori Salone.
Ne passed away at the age of 61 on November 16, 2022.
