Gianni Veneziano, Architect and Designer, received his degree in architecture in Florence in 1979.
Luciana Di Virgilio, Designer, received her degree in Industrial Design in Florence in 2010.
Gianni Venezianohas lived in Chicago since 1979-81 , working with architectural firms, including Stanley Tigerman and Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Fundamental to his growth was the American experience, as part of the architectural debate in relation to the birth of the Post-Modern Movement, which shaped his early architectural experience.
He has designed commercial activities, numerous interiors for private homes and fittings for public spaces, with particular experience in museum spaces. In 2008 he founded, with Luciana Di Virgilio, the Veneziano+Team studio, composed of a creative team of professionals and “conceptual thinkers” with specific and complementary skills capable of interacting in multiple design situations, restructuring, interior design, industrial design, graphic design, exhibition and management design. The combination of experience and innovation is important. Many collaborations with companies also, including Vistosi and others.
Relevant is the artistic activity of Gianni Veneziano, who over the years has curated, and taken part in, numerous national and international exhibitions.
The Veneziano+Team studio was born in 2007 from the meeting between Gianni Veneziano and Luciana Di Virgilio, the studio is composed of a creative team of professionals and “conceptual thinkers” with specific and complementary skills capable of interacting in multiple design situations, restructuring, interior design, industrial design, graphic design, exhibition design, communication and management design.
The firm’s work explores different areas of design to provide solutions with “strong emotional impact” with a focus on integrated communication strategies in a unique process of creativity, passion, technology and strategic thinking. The philosophy of the studio sees the concept of functionality free to define forms and structures, in a simple and intuitive way while maintaining a strongly artistic spirit open to experimentation and contamination to 360 degrees, the combination of experience and innovation is important.
In 2015 they designed the STARNET collection for Vistosi, presenting at Euroluce a limited-edition preview of the co-branding project between Vetreria Vistosi e Morellato, a leading Italian brand of easy-to-wear jewelry.
From this exceptional team comes Chiari di Luna, a lighting system composed of handcrafted pure Vistosi crystal rods embellished with pearls, capable of enchanting the observer with the myriad seductions and facets of a luminous fabric that illuminates the room through an LED source. An all-Italian project, which starts from the craftsmanship of Murano glass, “dressing” it with precious and very pure elements and thus evoking ancient suggestions of precious fabrics and brocades, in a fascinating mixture of tradition and modernity.
In 2019 the collection is revisited by including three new items in which the lampshade disappears and the fabric takes on new configurations.
