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Paola Navone
“I have an excessive attraction towards cold colors, like those of water, air and all the hues that lack earthy qualities. I could never wear or decorate my home with earthy tones.”
Curious, light blue eyes, short silver hair, a little messy, like a little rascal. Paola Navone is just as you see her, spontaneous and immediate, in life as in her way of designing.
Eclectic by nature, she is an architect, designer, art director, interior decorator and curator of expositions and events. Between 1974 and 1978 she worked for Centrokappa, the creative division of Kartell. She has been editor at Domus and took part in the avant-garde Memphis and Alchimia movements. Companies spanning fields such as furniture, materials, textile collections, illumination, and interior design avail themselves of her consultancy. In 1987, she was nominated art director of Mondo, a division of Cappellini.
A cosmopolite and great traveler, she is passionate about artisanal techniques – including those from the Orient that she grew to know while living in South-East Asia for twenty years – and the most advanced industrial processes. "Craftsmanship and industry should work in synergy, until reaching a synthesis", says the woman who was one of the pioneers of the shabby-chic style.
In 1983, Paola won the prestigious Osaka International Design Award. She was named Designer of the Year in 2000 for the magazine Architektur&Wohen, and in 2011, she won the Elle Deco International Design Awards. In 2014, she was inducted into Interior Design Magazine’s prestigious Hall of Fame.
Lights Designed by Paola Navone
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