Patricia UrquiolaThe Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola, a complete unknown in her own country, is warranted by experts to become one of the big names in architecture and interior design in the future.
She was born in Oviedo and studied at the Faculdad de Arquitectura de Madrid as well as graduating from the Milan Polytechnic in 1989, with a thesis supervised by Achille Castiglioni.
"Professionally I was born in Italy, from masters like Bruno Munari, the intellectual father of the Milanese school. At the same time I consider myself very Spanish: an Asturian of Basque descent".
After graduating in '80, she started working for Maddalena De Padova's "product development office", eventually being put in charge of it, and there she met Vico Magistretti, with whom she was later to work.
Magistretti and Castiglioni, two key figures in Milanese design, influenced her outlook and led her to cultivate her talents and abilities.
In 1998 she began working with Moroso: her upholstered furniture, elegant and comfortable, captured not only the attention of insiders but also the general public.
(main pic from MocoLoco)
