Collection: Francesco Faccin
Francesco Faccin was born in 1977 in Milan. In 2003, after attending the European Institute of Design, he worked in the studio of Enzo Mari. Meanwhile, he began working as a freelance designer collaborating with Italian and foreign companies. Since 2004, he has been self-developing projects that can be produced in small series; He works closely with artisans, careful to personally control all phases of product development and passionate about all phases of the project, particularly those related to wood and craftsmanship. In the same period, he worked and collaborated with the model maker and luthier Francesco Rivolta. In 2007 he participated for the first time at the Salone with the table "Quadrato" which went into production and was selected for the permanent collection of Cosmit. In 2009 he met Michele De Lucchi, with whom he began a collaboration still ongoing.
In 2010 he took part in Salone Satellite for the second time and along with Alvaro Catalan de Ocon he won the Design Report Award 2010. Since 2010 he has been a professor of Industrial Design at NABA in Milan with a Product Design course entitled "Projects not objects". In 2012 he was invited by the NGO "Liveinslums" to design the furniture of "why not academy" in Nairobi. In the same year, he designed the interior of the restaurant "28 Posti" in Milan, realizing the interiors with the inmates of the Bollate prison (Milan), in a laboratory set up for this project, and is still working. In 2013 he was invited, as an "Affiliated Fellow" to spend four months at the prestigious American Academy in Rome, where he conducted research to create a mapping of the productive fabric and craft of the historic center of Rome.
Always at the Triennale in 2013, he presented a collection of selected objects in the Slums of Nairobi, made with municipal waste but with the logic typical of mass production; The exhibition is titled "Made in the slums", curated by Fulvio Irace. He collaborates with Italian and foreign companies and NGOs such as Tod's, Saeco, Danish, Miniforms, Bolia, Valsecchi1918, Officinanove, Liveinslums, besides constantly searching through work in small series. His work has been published in leading magazines, national and international (Domus, Interni, Abitare, Intramuros, Wallpaper, Details, Inventory, Design Report, Monocle, Elle Decor, etc).
