Matteo Thun

by Editorial Team | Dec 01, 2009 in Authors | Leave A Comment

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Born in Bolzano in 1952, Matteo Thun studied at the Salzburg Academy under the guidance of Oskasr Kokoschka. In 1978, after graduating from the State University of Florence in architecture, he moved to Milan, where he began working for Ettore Sottsass. In 1981, with the latter, Michele De Lucchi and Aldo Cibic, he founded the Memphis Group.

Since 1984 he has been running his own firm, winning a number of important awards, including the Golden Compass (three times), the Wallpaper Design Award in 2004, and many other accolades for the hotels designed by him and built in Hamburg, Frankfurt, and in the South Tyrol.

In 1990 he designed the illycaffè ceramic espresso coffee cup, which became the blank canvas for the illy art collection.

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