Riccardo Blumer and Matteo Borghi

Riccardo Blumer was born in Bergamo in 1959 and graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in 1982. From 1983 to 1988 he worked with Mario Botta in Lugano on projects, exhibitions and publications, and in 1988 he opened his own studio in Morosolo, Varese. Since then he has worked as an architect and designer with leading companies in the sector and on important interiors, including La Scala in Milan. He was awarded the Design Preis Schweiz (1997), the Compasso d’Oro (1998), the Catas prize (1999) and the Observeur du Design (2000); his LaLeggera chair is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Triennale in Milan. From 2002 to 2004 he was a professor at the Academy of Architecture of the University of Italian Switzerland.

Matteo Borghi was born in Varese in 1976 and graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in 2004, having worked from the start in his family’s company producing jewellery, silverware and sacred art. After collaborating with several architectural studios in 2003 and 2004, he joined Riccardo Blumer’s studio in January 2005, where he is co-author of its design projects.