Elena Salmistraro

Italian product designer and artist Elena Salmistraro lives and works in Milan. After studying at the Brera art school she graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in fashion design in 2003 and industrial design in 2008, and in 2009 founded her studio with the architect Angelo Stoli. Her joyful work draws on illustration, street art, masks, animals and mythology.

Her Primates vases for Bosa, designed in 2017, the year she won the Salone del Mobile Milano Award as Best Emerging Designer, have become icons of Italian design, joined by the Most Illustrious figures and the Armadillo.