Born in 1965 in Locarno to an Austrian mother and an Italian father, he has made mixing and movement characteristics of his work. As soon as he graduated in Graphic Design, from the School of Decorative Arts in Geneva, he went to Paris where he studied Industrial Design at ENSCI-Les Ateliers ; he then completed his training with an exchange to Kingston Polytechnic.
Cofounder of Radi Designers which he leaves in 2000, it is with the Japanese editor IDEE that he marks the turning point of his career : he installs his first office in 1998 in Japan and opens in 2003 a second agency in Paris. Since that time, he shares his time between Switzerland, France and Japan.
Claudio's work is articulated around 3 main axes : furniture, interior architecture and scenography.
His creations - simple and playfull - bring a glance on new ways of life, integrating his research on materials, technologies and their industrialization.
He wants to surprise, destabilize and open a new mode of perception and apprehension of our environment. Permanently searching, he was one of the first to rediscover Corian and used its formal and translucent properties in his Squeeze lamps, "Label du VIA" in 2000". The guiding principle of Claudio Colucci's spaces is resolutely based on round, smooth and colored shapes with a mixture of mischievousness and sensuality. It is perfectly illustrated in Delicabar in Le Bon Marché, the Moph Café, the Frederic Scailteur flagship store (maître chocolatier/pâtissier in Tokyo), the Maverteam shops (italian watches) and the new "World architectural concept" for Agnès B. shops.
Claudio Colucci enjoys fluid and dynamic lines that he folds and bent to his needs, as in the chain of restaurants Roll Madu in Osaka or in the French institute in Tokyo.
For 10 years, his scenographies - full of imaginary and imagination - have met a tremendous succes towards leading luxury brands. Thus, in the course of the years, he has come to animate, among other, hte windows of Hermès in Tokyo.
He is the author of a world where childhood and magic are never very far away and realises booths of international industrial groups such as : Pirelli, Renault, Caran d'Ache...
Recently in Paris, he realised the ice cream shop interior architecture, My Berry and the Lumen hotel, the Ice Lounge's creation, nomadic tasting space for the ice-cream-maker Mövenpick of Switzerland and VIB plate for Michelin starred Chef Alain Passard at the restaurant l'Arpège.
In 2009, Claudio Colucci presented in NOW ! Design à Vivre fair, the Mini Dada armchair, published by the French editor Ligne Roset and speaker/lamp Squeezophone 360° for Kenwood Design during the "Salone del Mobile" in Milan and designed the Novotel Marseille Vieux Port.
In 2010, he will introduce his new creations made for some editors such as Chevalier Edition, AB21, Nartmann and a seats collection for Neology.
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