Eleonore Peruzzi Riva Biography
Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, born in 1936 in Basel, worked as an interior and product designer. Throughout his career as a consultant for various companies, he has always maintained a vision of design faithful to his belief that every new product or project can only be the result of a collaboration between different disciplines.
At the end of the 1950s, she moved to Milan to study at the architecture faculty of the polytechnic. In a short time, she identified herself with the community of young Milanese artists who had the aim of creating a new society, more open and free from academic formalisms. In his role as an interior designer, he saw his task as providing users with the tools to create their own living environment. This was also the case with one of his most famous objects, the DS-600 modular sofa, designed in 1972 for de Sede in collaboration with Ueli Berger, Heinz Ulrich and Klaus Vogt.
As a product designer, he worked for companies such as Cassina and Artemide, showing a particular interest in exploring materials and anything that could "push the discipline forward". In the 1980s and 1990s, he held the role of image and coordination consultant for numerous brands, including Abet Laminati, Fiorucci, ICF De Padova, Mira-X, Vistosi and Samit. Eleonore Peduzzi Riva currently resides between Riehen and Milan.
