Giulio Cappellini

Giulio Cappellini is the founder and art director of the eponymous Italian furniture company Cappellini[1] based in Milan.

In 2004 the Company became part of the Poltrona Frau Group.

[citation needed] In 2021, it was acquired by the American office furnisher Haworth Inc.[2] The company's collections are "known for tapping new trends and far-flung talents" and have included sofas, kitchen sinks, shelving and light fixtures "displayed in an industrial hangar far from the gold-plated shopping district along the Via Monte Napoleone.

"[3] Described as a "tutti-frutti affair, with minimalism offered up alongside pop fashion, computer tech and amoebic forms", Cappellini's collections have included works by Jasper Morrison,[4][5] Tom Dixon, Marc Newson, Marcel Wanders, Erwan & Ronan Bouroullec, Nendo, Michael Young,[6][7] Satyendra Pakhale, Inga Sempé, Alessandro Mendini,[8] Ora Ito,[citation needed] and Dror Benshetrit.

[9][3] In 2022 he was awarded the Compasso d'Oro Career Award by the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI) in Milan.