Federico Carandini - Italian Industrial and furniture designer

Federico Carandini is an Italian Industrial and furniture designer, former creative director of Cerruti Baleri. His furniture collections combine the splendour of the past with the prospect of the future, and they are designed for a contemporary home that favours functional, comfortable, and elegant pieces. To create these unique pieces, Epònimo collaborates exclusively with local artisans through a production process that is mainly handmade and always hand finished. The result is a series of refined and timeless objects of functional décor.

Background

Carandini is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the modern furniture industry. He is skilled in Strategy, Branding, Line Development, Design Management, Concept Development and Production Management. Strong arts and design professional with a BFA with university honours focused in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Biography

He worked as a designer in New York City from 1990 to 2003, including for his consulting agency, Fede Carandini Design, which included clients like Ralph Lauren Home. While living in the U.S., he taught industrial design at the Pratt Institute in New York and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Since moving to Milan in 2003, he had taught at the University of Milan and Bocconi University and worked as the art director for Baleri Italia from 2004 to 2013, when he founded contemporary furniture company Eponimo. Carandini teaches courses in industrial design at Syracuse Florence (spring only).

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Sources

Federico Carandini – LinkedIn. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://it.linkedin.com/in/federico-carandini-258a4b45.

Federico Carandini, designer | Archiproducts. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://www.archiproducts.com/en/designers/federico-carandini.

Home. Sofas and Armchairs – Shop at Artemest. (n.d.). Retrieved December 9, 2021, from https://artemest.com/artisans/ep-nimo.

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