Bartoli Design
“Combining creativity with a deep understanding of technologies and industrial processes, and of craftsmanship and artisanal techniques, Bartoli Design’s outcomes are best-selling, long-lasting products and award-winning designs.”
Their Story
Bartoli Design, a team comprising Carlo, Paolo and Anna Bartoli, continues the experience in design developed through many partnerships with leading companies in the furniture sector along many years.
The studio’s research explores elegance based on simplicity and balance.
From concepts to product design, art direction and brand strategies, the studio’s activities embrace the full spectrum of design services. Bartoli Design also works on architecture, exhibition, interior and urban design.
Combining creativity with a deep understanding of technologies and industrial processes, and of craftsmanship and artisanal techniques, Bartoli Design’s outcomes are best-selling, long-lasting products and award-winning designs.
Carlo Bartoli exhibited his work in Italy and abroad: at the Triennale Design Museum in Milano, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stadt Museum in Cologne, as well as in New York, Prague, Hong Kong, Athens and Buenos Aires. The Gaia armchair is included in the design collection at the MOMA in New York and the Triennale Design Museum in Milano. The 4875 chair is on display in the design collection at the National Arts Museum of the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Awards
Bartoli Design received the XXI Compasso d’Oro ADI award for the R606Uno chair in 2008 and, in 2016, Carlo Bartoli also received the XXIV Compasso d’Oro ADI Carrier Award. The studio was selected to appear on a set of Italian postage stamps entitled “Italian Design for a New Domestic Landscape”.
Several products by Bartoli Design have been awarded design prizes: the Breeze armchair with the I.D. Design Distinction Award, the Apex Product Design Award, the Red Dot and the IF Award for Good Industrial Design; the Tube sofa with the IF Award for Good Industrial Design; the Sol table with the 2010 Good Design Award; the Still and Octa tables with the Red Dot 2013 and the Good Design Award 2014; the Mercury Curva chair with the 2015 Good Design Award; in 2016, the Camel seating system with the Golden Key Award.