De Pas, D'urbino E Lomazzi Biography
Paolo Lomazzi in 1966, with Jonathan De Pas and Donato D'Urbino, founded the De Pas D'Urbino Lomazzi Studio, developing a design activity characterized by the use of signs, materials and industrial technologies: he designed and created a series of pneumatic structures for the XIV Triennale of Milan and for the Italian Pavilion at the Osaka World Expo. In 1967 they created the Blow inflatable armchair, produced by Zanotta. They design industrial and residential buildings and extend their intervention to the different areas of product design: equipment for the home, the office and sales and exhibition places, sanitary ware, lighting, electronics, collaborating with some of the most well-known Italian companies, including which Acerbis, Artemide, Alessi, BBB Bonacina, Bellato-Pallucco, Bonacina Pierantonio, Cassina-Marcatre, Driade, De Padova, Giannini, Lualdi, Lumina Italia, MDF Italia, Naos, Valli & Valli, Poltronova, Quattrocchio, Robots, Scavolini , Stilnovo, Tonelli, Zanotta, Zerodisegno and, abroad, Roset, Koizumi and Santa&Cole. They participate, with works and installations, in numerous sector exhibitions, including "Milano 70-70", the Triennali, the Eurodomus, the "Italy New Domestic Landscape" exhibition at the MOMA in 1972, the Bio of Ljubljana, numerous traveling exhibitions ADI including those on the Compasso d'Oro, the exhibition "Italian Re Evolution - Design in Italian Society in the Eighties". Among the numerous awards and recognitions obtained, we remember the Compasso d'Oro ADI - 1979 Milan, the Bio 7 - 1977 Ljubljana and the Bio 9 - 1981 Ljubljana, the Design Award Winner - 1998 Hannover, the Wallpaper Design Awards “Best Domestic Design” 2009. Works by De Pas D'Urbino Lomazzi are present in the design collections of the main museums: MOMA and Brooklyn Museum in New York, Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Jerusalem Museum, Staatliches Museum fur angewandte Kunst in Munich, Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin and Zurich, Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Museum of Italian Design at the Triennale in Milan, Museum of Design and Furnishings in Cantù.