Born in Merano in 1971, Martino Gamper, after an apprenticeship as a carpenter, studied sculpture and product design at the University of Applied Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, In 1996 he moved to Milan to work as a freelancer for important international design firms. In 1998 he moved to London to attend a master’s degree at the Royal College of Arts, which he graduated in 2000, and thus began his creative production, developing and producing a wide variety of objects, from limited editions to semi-industrial productions and site-specific installations.