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Giulio Cappellini is the founder and art director of the eponymous Italian furniture company Cappellini[1] based in Milan. In 2004 the Company became part of the Poltrona Frau Group.[citation needed] In 2021, it was acquired by the American office furnisher Haworth Inc.[2]
The company's collections are "known for tapping new trends and far-flung talents" and have included sofas, kitchen sinks, shelving and light fixtures "displayed in an industrial hangar far from the gold-plated shopping district along the Via Monte Napoleone."[3] Described as a "tutti-frutti affair, with minimalism offered up alongside pop fashion, computer tech and amoebic forms", Cappellini's collections have included works by Jasper Morrison, Tom Dixon, Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders, Erwan & Ronan Bouroullec, Nendo, Michael Young,[4][5] Satyendra Pakhale, Inga Sempé, Alessandro Mendini,[6] Ora Ito,[citation needed] and Dror Benshetrit.[7][3]
In 2022 he was awarded the Compasso d'Oro Career Award by the ADI Design Museum in Milan.[8][9]