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Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola Hidalgo (born 1961 in Oviedo) is a Spanish architect, industrial designer and art director.
At age 22, Urquiola left her hometown of Oviedo to attend the Polytechnic University of Milan in architecture. After graduation, she went to work at the studio of De Padova in Milan where she became the head of product design. From 1996 to 2001 she worked for Lissoni Associati. She has designed products and furniture for companies including Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina, Coalesse, Flos, Kartell, and Moroso. Her Step Sofa was shown at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Since 2015, she has been the Creative Director of the Italian furniture company Cassina. Urquiola has also started designing clothing with her first fashion collection for Max Mara in 2022. Also in 2022, Urquiola helped renovate and redesign the Haworth Hotel in Holland, Michigan.
Bowy Outdoor Side Table – Cassina
Matched together: stack them and overlap them, in two different sizes, to furnish outdoor living rooms; they share the same aluminum sheet structure with textured paint finish and top available in several colors.
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Dudet Chair – Cassina
A design chair by Patricia Urquiola with a soft, enveloping shape that offers contemporary comfort with a well-developed sense of environmental awareness.
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Hayama Storage Cabinet – Cassina
Price range: €4,200.00 through €6,014.00
These elegant lacquered pieces of furniture are a figurative example of the place where the finely crafted oblique legs meet the ancient art of lacquer finish.
Biography
In 2011 she was awarded the Medalla de Oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes and the Order of Isabella the Catholic by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. The New York Times has described her as: “possibly the most lauded and in-demand industrial designer in Europe, on par with Philippe Starck and Hella Jongerius”. In 2023, she was named the Interior designer of the year at Dezeen Awards. In October 2024 she and Teresa Sapey were the recipients of the inaugural Tempietto di Bramante Award. In October 2024 she was inducted into the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been acquired for the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vitra Design Museum, and Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. Her work has also been displayed in the following exhibitions:
2013 “O’clock – time design, design time”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China.
2013 “Patricia Urquiola and Rosenthal, Landscape”, Neues Museum, Nüremberg, Germany.
2017 “Patricia Urquiola: Between Craft and Industry”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA.
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