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Born in Fiume (now Rijeka - CR) on 8 September 1938, Emilio Guarnacci graduated in 1963 with a thesis whose supervisor was Raffaello Fagnoni. The following year he was qualified to practice when he participated together with Paolo Felli and Pier Guido Fagnoni in the national competition "Two organisms for the New Middle School" for the design of a middle school in Bologna with transformable classrooms and laboratories [ 1st prize , project motto : “Two proposals for an experiment”].

During the 60s and 70s he participated in design groups in the following competitions: National Competition for the Palazzo dello Sport in Florence [ 2nd prize ex aequo , project motto: “Penelope's canvas”, 1965-'66]; IN/ARCH Finsider National Competition [ 2nd prize ex aequo , project motto: “Suspension bridge in curve”, 1967]; National Competition for the Psychopedagogical Medical Institute in Rome [ 3rd prize , project motto: “The proposal (six by six)”, 1968]; National Competition for the Industrial Technical Institute in Como [ Reimbursement of expenses , project motto: “New approach”, 1968]; National competition for the Scientific High School and Surveyors section of the ITC in Pisa [project motto: “Potemkin 8 (a proposal for two experiments)”, 1971]; National competition for the Enrico Fermi Industrial Technical Institute in Lucca [project motto: “United for an ITI (to Elisa Baciocchi)”, 1972].

Still in Bologna, in the period 1968-'69, Guarnacci was part of the project team that obtained the task of the Municipality of Bologna for the design and co-management of the works of the “Dante Alighieri” Middle School, composed of 18 classrooms and built in two subsequent lots.

As an industrial and product designer from 1964 to 1985 Guarnacci was employed by the 1P company of the Permaflex group where he worked primarily in the company's "Studies and research" sector, creating, among other things, working prototypes of a lightweight modular ring system furnished, easily assembled even on multiple floors, for single-family homes, to be used mainly for tourist villages and emergency response.

For 1P he designs numerous articles in the upholstered furniture sector. Read the full biography

Emilio Guarnacci Biography

Born in Fiume (now Rijeka - CR) on 8 September 1938, Emilio Guarnacci graduated in 1963 with a thesis whose supervisor was Raffaello Fagnoni. The following year he was qualified to practice when he participated together with Paolo Felli and Pier Guido Fagnoni in the national competition "Two organisms for the New Middle School" for the design of a middle school in Bologna with transformable classrooms and laboratories [ 1st prize , project motto : “Two proposals for an experiment”].

During the 60s and 70s he participated in design groups in the following competitions: National Competition for the Palazzo dello Sport in Florence [ 2nd prize ex aequo , project motto: “Penelope's canvas”, 1965-'66]; IN/ARCH Finsider National Competition [ 2nd prize ex aequo , project motto: “Suspension bridge in curve”, 1967]; National Competition for the Psychopedagogical Medical Institute in Rome [ 3rd prize , project motto: “The proposal (six by six)”, 1968]; National Competition for the Industrial Technical Institute in Como [ Reimbursement of expenses , project motto: “New approach”, 1968]; National competition for the Scientific High School and Surveyors section of the ITC in Pisa [project motto: “Potemkin 8 (a proposal for two experiments)”, 1971]; National competition for the Enrico Fermi Industrial Technical Institute in Lucca [project motto: “United for an ITI (to Elisa Baciocchi)”, 1972].

Still in Bologna, in the period 1968-'69, Guarnacci was part of the project team that obtained the task of the Municipality of Bologna for the design and co-management of the works of the “Dante Alighieri” Middle School, composed of 18 classrooms and built in two subsequent lots.

As an industrial and product designer from 1964 to 1985 Guarnacci was employed by the 1P company of the Permaflex group where he worked primarily in the company's "Studies and research" sector, creating, among other things, working prototypes of a lightweight modular ring system furnished, easily assembled even on multiple floors, for single-family homes, to be used mainly for tourist villages and emergency response.

For 1P he designs numerous articles in the upholstered furniture sector. In 1969, just two years after the first experimental approaches to padded furniture by Dahlia and Rezia , Guarnacci's contribution to the Florentine company included a fair range of proposals with well-balanced volumes from a plastic point of view, "modern" in language and easily modular - the Duna system - or in any case combinable - the Nuava and Boma groups - expressly aimed at the domestic market - Ècuba , Sinoca , Falena - or the more decidedly contract market - Isotra , F1 , F2 .

With the acquisition of experience in the sector of plastic materials and expanded polyurethanes in particular, he obtained patents at an international level (including five in the USA after specific examination) for a new system of frames in flexible polyurethane with integral skin.

He also designs in the aeronautical interior sector for the Aviointerior company of Latina, which has been part of the CIFA group since 1972 (Permaflex, Italbed, Ondaflex, 1P). At the end of the 70s he designed the first and second class seats for the "Medium Distance" carriages of the State Railways, introducing new materials and construction concepts into the sector.

In the decade 1985-'95 Guarnacci signed a temporary contract with the Indaco company of Verona, for which he carried out studies and designs, complete with engineering, in the transport sector. In this period, in addition to studies for "cruise trains", double-deck sleeping cars, "Sleeper" for Talgo (Spanish Railways) and "Euro tunnel" for Great Britain, among the projects carried out and/or coordinated by Guarnacci were recall the following main achievements: a) the 1st class motorized seats with variable height, the telephone booth and the tables with extractable shelves of the first version of the ETR 500 - FS; b) the tables with extendable flaps of the ETR 460 - FS called “Pendolino”, still present on other trains; c) the interiors of the experimental “Sleeperette” carriages - FS; d) some interiors of the “Press and Conference” carriage - FS; e) the seats for the Ankara Metro; f) the panoramic carriage for the Swiss Railways.

Between the 90s and 2000 Guarnacci was again part of the project team on the following competitive occasions: National Competition for a Headquarters of the Regional Association of Engineers and Architects of Puglia and Bari [ 1st prize , project motto: “La corte Japigia”, 1992]; National Architecture Award Trevi Flash Art Museum [project title: “Curved suspension bridge over the Strait of Messina”, 1998]; International competition of ideas for the design of Florence micrometro stations [ 2nd prize ex aequo , 2002].

From 1985 to 2000, together with the study of the corporate image - from furnishings to signs -, Guarnacci dealt with the design - complete with executive drawings, construction and decorative details and artistic co-direction of the implementation - relating to the renovation of the factories in Pomezia, Latina and Aprilia of the multinational Ethicon of the American group Johnson & Johnson.

From 1995 to 2000 he was responsible for the study of three aesthetic lines of "Mediterranean pubs" for the Farson's brewery in Malta, as well as the consequent design, complete with executives, of pubs, of which around twenty, made in Italy.

Still in the railway sector, during the three-year period 1998-2000, Guarnacci began a new collaboration with Saira Allumiunio of Villafranca di Verona, carrying out the design study of toilet blocks for carriages destined for the Chinese market, as well as modular sleeping cars and tables for English trains.

Again in 2001 he was the designer of the train furnishings present in the proposal of Ansaldo-Breda of Naples which won the tender for the Sangritane Railways.

From 2001 to 2003 he collaborated with the Del Bino studio (coordination by Guido Spadolini), relating to the feasibility studies of the urbanization of the Fondiaria area in the Sesto Fiorentino plain, creating preparatory drawings, sketches and perspectives.

From 2002 to 2003 he collaborated with Guido Spadolini's studio, creating studies, sketches and manual perspectives relating to both the commercial and residential development in Biella for Bottalino and the development of the Valcarenga farmhouse in Crema for the Bonetti company.

In 2003 he took care of the preliminary studies - creating sketches, perspectives and other manual drawings - regarding the insertion of a building used as a tertiary sector in the Fondiaria area of ​​the Castello plain.