MARTINELLI VENEZIA is a design studio based in Milan and Palermo, founded in 2015 by the architects Carolina Martinelli and Vittorio Venezia. The studio deals with furniture design, exhibition design, architecture and interior design, exploring issues concerning the relationship between tradition and local culture, the material properties and the technical possibilities of manufacturing processes. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums such as Musée du Louvre in Paris, MAXXI Rome and Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

 

PREMI/AWARDS
 

- 2004 1 ° Premio "Concorso Bombay Sapphire"

 

- 2006 1 ° Premio "Lucky Strike Junior Award"

 

- 2007 Premio "Prime Cup", Triennale di Milano

 

- 2008  1 ° Premio "Grand Prix Emile Hermes"

- 2012  2 ° Premio "Promosedia"

- 2013  1 ° Premio “Cristalplant”

- 2013 Residenza d’artista “Les Promesses de l’art”, Institut culturel italien de Paris

 

- 2015 1 ° Premio “Design Report Award”

 

- 2016 1 ° Premio “Design Competition Creatività”

 

- 2019 Menzione d’onore “Il rame e la casa”

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

- PRIME CUP 01, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy, 19.06.2008-29.06.2008

 

- Prix Émile Hermès, Louvre, Paris, 2008

 

- ŁÓDŹ DESIGN FESTIVAL 2010, CRUMPLE ZONE, curated by Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Łódź, Poland, 14.10.2010-30.10.2010

 

- Dream Factories: people, ideas and paradoxes of italian design, curated by Alberto Alessi, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy, 05.04.2011- 26.02.2012

 

- SHAPE YOUR LIFE! Progetto Alcantara®, curated by Giulio Cappellini and Domitilla Dardi, MAXXI, Roma, 31.10.2012-18.11.2012

 

- S/coordinato, Institut culturel italien de Paris, 25.06.2013-25.07.2013

 

- Car.Pe.Pia.Ve, S/coordinato, Associazione Flavio Beninati, Palermo, Italy,  20.10.2013-27.10.2013

 

- DESIGN NEL PALLONE, curated by Francesca Molteni and Giulio Iacchetti, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 05.11.2013 - 07.11.2013

 

- ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE, curated by Gianni Pedone and Manfredi Beninati, Associazione Flavio Beninati, Palermo, Italy,   11.10.2014-19.10.2014

 

- OFFICINE CALDERAI, Salone Satellite, RHO Fiera Milan, Italy, 14.04.2015-19.04.2015

 

- PINETUM 02 – INNESTI, curated by Bruno Boretti, Silvia Fabbroni, Laura Moretti, Guido Pellegrini, Villa Gaeta Pinetum, Moncioni, Montevarchi, Italy, 12.09.2015

 

- Ego, Galleria SXX, Palermo, Italy, 02.10.2015-11.10.2015

 

- Miart 2016, curated by Massimo Lunardon, Milano, Italy, 07.04.2016-10.04.2016

 

- FUORI SALONE 2016, Rossana Orlandi Gallery, Milan, Italy,  07.04.2016-10.04.2016

 

- Slow, curated by Alice Stori Liechtenstein, Schloss Hollenegg, Austria, 8.05.2016-10.05.2016

 

- DESIGN COMPETITION – CREATIVITÀ3, Spazio Oikos, Torre Velasca, Milan, Italy, 07.10.2016- 09.10.2016

 

- Atom: The Cutting Factory, curated by Giulio Iacchetti and Francesca Molteni, Triennale di Milano, Italy, 11.11.2016-30.11.2016

 

- ITALIAN DESIGN ACT FOLK&ROLE, curated by Alexandra Georgescu, Moravská galerie, Brno, Czech Republic, 28.02.2017-03.03.2017

 

- Miart 2017, Super Oggetti, curated by Michela Bassanelli for Colleoni Arte, Milano, Italy, 31.03.2017-2.04.2017

 

- SALONESATELLITE. 20 ANNI DI NUOVA CREATIVITA’, curaded by Beppe Finessi, Fabbrica del vapore, Milano, Italy, 05.04.2017 – 25.04.2017

 

- SALONESATELLITE COLLEZIONE 20 ANNI, Salone del Mobile, RHO Fiera, Milano, Italy, 05.04.2017 – 25.04.2017

 

- THE ITALIAN AFFAIR, curated by Carolina Pasti, Casa dei Grifi, Milan, Italy, 05.04.2017 – 25.04.2017

 

- Tracce, curated by Mario Scairato, Spazio Paestum, Paestum, Italy, 26.10.2017-29.01.2018

 

- Legami Anonimi, curated by Lorenzo Palmeri, Triennale di Milano, Italy, 28.11.2017

 

- 100×100 Achille, Chiara Alessi e Domitilla Dardi, Fondazione Achille Castiglioni, Milano, Italy 16.02.2018-30. 04.2018

 

- DESIGNERS SELECT DESIGNERS, curated by Zeev Aram and Riya Patel, The Aram Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 08.03.2018 – 28.04.2018

 

- STORIE. DESIGN ITALIANO, curated by Chiara Alessi, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy, 14.04.2018- 20.01.2019

 

- Send me the future, curated by Stefano Maffei e Marcello Pirovano, Subalterno1 gallery, Milan, Italy 17.04.2018-22.04.2018

 

-MOSTRA XXV Compasso d’Oro ADI, Castello Sforzesco, Cortile della Rocchetta, Milan, Italy, 21.06.2018-26.06.2018

 

- MANIFESTA 12, OFFICINE CALDERAI, Palermo, Italy, 05.07.2018-04.11.2018

 

- SHANGHAI-MILAN NEW TALENTS DESIGN SHOW 2018, curated by Davide Conti, National Exhibition Shanghai, China, 10.09.2018-13.09.2018

 

- FUORI SALONE 2019, Rossana Orlandi Gallery, Milan, Italy, 09.04.2019-14.09.2019

 

- MEDITERRANEAN GRAFTS, for Lithea le forme sensibili della pietra, Palazzo Litta, Milan, Italy, 09.04.2019-14.09.2019

 

- EDIT NAPOLI 2019, INNESTI MEDITERRANEI, for Lithea le forme sensibili della pietra, Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore Napoli, 07.06.2019-09.06.2019

 

- Porto Design Biennale, Frontiere — expressões de design contemporâneo, curated by Maria Milano and Lucio Magri, Casa do Design Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal, 19.09.2019 – 05.01.2020