Johanna Grawunder

Designer/artist Johanna Grawunder works on a wide range of projects, from large-scale public lighting to colour installations, architectural interventions and interiors, limited edition furniture and lighting collections for Carpenters Workshop Gallery in the US and Europe. He has collaborated with many leading architects and designers, creating custom lighting installations in their projects, and has also designed products for top companies including Flos, Boffi and GlasItalia. Graduated in Architecture at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, she studied and worked with Gianni Pettena and Cristiano Toraldo of France of the Superstudio of Florence (1984-1985) then moved to Milan to collaborate with Sottsass Associati (1985-2001), becoming a partner in 1989. In Sottsass Associati she worked mainly on architecture and interiors, co-designing with Ettore Sottsass many of the studio’s most prestigious projects. In 2001 he opened his own design studio in San Francisco and Milan.