Monica Armani

Architect and designer Monica Armani was born in Trento and divides her time between Trento and Milan. She began her career working with her father, the rationalist architect Marcello Armani, who passed on to her a passion for design and planning, an attention to detail and an enthusiasm for exploring new ideas. In 1996, together with Luca Dallabetta, she created the successful product line progetto 1, whose simple, innovative design established Monica Armani as a name in contemporary design.

In her projects, formal aesthetics, innovation and engineering give life to a unique and recognisable style, with a continuous connection between industrial design, architecture and interior decoration. Inspired by the rigour of geometry and by Mies van der Rohe’s maxim “less is more”, she sees the refinement of a project and the balance of all its details as essential to creating spaces that are contemporary and at the same time timeless. For Poliform she designed the You storage units, a synthesis of simplicity and technology.