Luca Nichetto

Luca Nichetto was born in 1976 in Venice, where he studied at the Art Institute. Later, he graduated in Industrial Design at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice (IUAV). He began his professional career in 1999 by designing his first projects in Murano glass for Salviati. In the same year he began his collaboration with Foscarini, for whom he not only designed products, but also worked as a consultant on new materials research and product development (2001–2003). In 2006 he launched his own design firm, Nichetto&Partners, which specializes in industrial design and offers its services as a design consultancy and in 2011 he also opened another professional office in Stockholm, Sweden. Over the course of his career, Nichetto has been awarded a number of international prizes, including the Gran Design Award (2008), the Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture’s Good Design Award (2008), the IF Product Design Award (2008) and the Elle Decoration International Design Awards’ (EDIDA) as Designer of the Year award in the Young Designer Talent category.He currently is working with numerous companies both at national and global level, including Bosa, Casamania, Ceramiche Refin, Emmegi, Established & Sons, Fornasarig, Foscarini, Fratelli Guzzini, Gallotti & Radice, Globo, Italesse, King’s, Kristalia, Mabeo, Moroso, Offecct, Ogeborg, Salviati, Skitsch, Skultuna, Tacchini, Venini.