Pierluigi Spadolini (1922-2000), Emilio Guarnacci (1938) & Claudio Vagnoni (1945) Biography
Claudio Vagnoni is a product designer, interior designer, video director and visiting professor. He was born and lives in Rome, where he carries out his professional activities. Since the 1960s he has been one of the influential designers in the CIFA group (Permaflex, Italbed, Ondaflex, 1P and Aviointeriors), an important company in the Tuscan-Lazio sector. He has designed numerous models of padded furniture for 1P - Industria Chimica per l'Arredamento, offering balanced and aesthetically modern volumes, easily combinable with each other. Some important examples of his works are the Palòa, Pagrù, Duna and Gena group systems, suitable for the contract market. From 1975 to 1985 he was a professor of Design at the ISIA - Higher Institute for Artistic Industries in Rome and was part of the group responsible for educational design research which obtained the XI Compasso d'Oro ADI in 1979. Since 1982 Since 1990 he has also worked as a design expert for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, contributing to the creation and organization of design schools such as the Art and Design Center of Valletta in Malta and the Design Center of Montevideo in Uruguay. From 1996 to 2001 he was the owner and designer of the Zona Franca company, specialized in the production of outdoor furniture in Marsciano, Perugia.
Emilio Guarnacci was born on 8 September 1938 in Fiume, today known as Rijeka in Croatia. He graduated in 1963 under the supervision of Professor Raffaello Fagnoni. Immediately afterwards he qualified as a professional, participating in the national competition "Two organisms for the New Middle School" for the design of a middle school in Bologna, together with Paolo Felli and Pier Guido Fagnoni. During the 1960s and 1970s he participated in several design groups in national competitions. He obtained the second prize ex aequo at the National Competition for the Palazzo dello Sport in Florence in 1965-'66, the second prize ex aequo at the IN/ARCH Finsider National Competition in 1967 and the third prize at the National Competition for the Psychopedagogical Medical Institute in Rome in 1968, among others. In 1968-'69 he was part of the design team that was commissioned by the Municipality of Bologna for the design and supervision of the construction of the "Dante Alighieri" Middle School. He has acquired experience in the sector of plastic materials and expanded polyurethanes, obtaining international patents for a new system of flexible polyurethane frames. From 1995 to 2000 he was responsible for the design of three aesthetic lines for Farson's breweries in Malta, as well as the design of around twenty pubs in Italy.
Pierluigi Spadolini was born in Florence, where he attended the Faculty of Architecture and worked in Raffaello Fagnoni's studio. He graduated in 1952 and began his career as an architect, carrying out numerous projects in the public and private building sector. He has worked as an industrial design consultant for various companies, such as Magneti Marchi, ICS, Lesa, Grez, Autovox, OTE Biomedica, Arflex, Kartell and 1P. In 1954 he moved to Milan, where he was part of the Milan Triennale environment and collaborated with the magazine "Casabella" directed by Ernesto Natan Rogers. He was full professor of Architectural Composition and director of the Institute of Construction and that of Special Technologies. He also contributed to the creation of the chair of Artistic Design for Industry at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence.
