mafi at the Fuori Salone in Milan

Luigi Ferrario

production mafi and COSTI DESIGN

Luigi Ferrario graduated in architecture from the Polytechnic School of Turin and achieved a master in architectural and environmental restoration at Rome University. At 25 he was director of the architecture department of the Centre d’Experimentation Artistique Marie Louise Jeanneret in Boissano and at 26 he opened his Laboratorio Architettura Contemporanea (Laboratory of Contemporary Architecture) in Rome: a professional studio and a gallery for modern and contemporary architecture exhibitions. In 1989 he moved his studio to Milan. He designed and built many works of architecture as well as monumental and urban restoration, interior architecture and design projects, that have been published in Italian and international books and magazines in Germany, England, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey and Spain. Some of these are still underway: a multi-storey building in Milan and one in Beirut, a small tower in New York, a few riads in Marrakech and an experimental house in aluminium. A few of his works and projects are exhibited in the Biennale in Venice, at the Festival of Architecture in Parma and, in 2003, in the Medaglia d’Oro all’Architettura Italiana exhibition at the Triennale of Milan, where he was awarded with a honour mention. The restoration project for Legnano Castle was chosen among the Italian works featured at the 2009 European Union Prize for Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

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mafi earns red dot design award

Design experts honour mafi fresco duna white in the red dot award: product design 2009

In one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions, the red dot design award, the mafi fresco duna white by mafi – walk on art has just received an honourable mention from the top-class expert jury. With 3,231 products submitted to the competition, the product clearly stands out from the masses, because the design experts awarded 194 honourable mentions to those products which distinguished themselves with particularly successful design details. The festive awards presentation with more than 1,000 guests will take place in the Essen Opera House, the Aalto-Theatre, on 29 June 2009.

„Mafi Fresco is the perfect floor for Wellness-Areas and all other Living Areas, where you usually walk barefoot,“ explains Heidrun Fillafer the idea oft he product.

„The perfect craftsmenship on the surface with different shapes are not only looking perfect in a way of either waves (mafi fresco duna), points (mafi fresco punto) or diamonds (mafi fresco rombo), they also stimulate tired soles of feet“, Fillafer mentioned with a smile.

“We are very proud to get honourable mentioned for our product. This shows the enormous potential of natural wood floors”, Heidrun Fillafer finishes.

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