Paolo Rizzatto was born in 1941 in Milan and graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano in 1965.
In his Milanese studio he works in the fields of architecture, interior design, and design. In 1978 he founded the company Luceplan with Riccardo Sarfatti.
He designed for several italian and foreign companies: Alias, Arteluce, Artemide, Cassina, Danese, Driade, Fiam, Flos, Guzzini, Knoll, Kartell, Lensvelt, Luceplan, Molteni, Montina, Nemo, Philips, Poltrona Frau, Segis, Serralunga, Thonet, Veneta Cucine.
He gave classes and conferences in many University Institutes: Columbia University of NewYork, Politecnico di Milano, Cranbrook Center in Detroit, Washington University in Saint Louis, Architecture Institute in Moscou, Università degli Studi di Palermo, IUAV in Venezia.
His works have been presented in seminars, architecture and design exhibitions, and are included in many permanent collections and foundations: Triennale di Milano, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica in Milan, Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. He won several prizes, such as Compasso d’oro in 1981, 1989, 1995, 2008 and 2011, the “Premio dei Premi per l’Innovazione” in Rome in 2011, and the international competition for the urban renovation of Darsena of Milan in 2004.
Paolo Rizzatto, being the refined and expert designer he is, puts great care in the proportions of the structural elements of the products he desigs. Fittings and lines, grafts and joints, everything is designed for the best harmony. The dialogue between the parties, as in architecture, is for the Milanese architect a perfect orchestration.
The ability and experience of Rizzatto in designing elegant, ironic and precious objectswhich dialogs happily with the other collections of GHIDINI1961 creatis endless relationships, equilibrium and rigor.
Rizzatto's landscape of almost infinite possibilities allows the end users to organize the space maintaining aesthetic uniformity in the name of a more refined elegance.
Nothing speaks better of Rizzatto's philosophy than the Zuan family of cabinets where different cultural needs and references in time and space are combined with the timeless classical Chinese cabinets and the eighteenth-century English "chests" to create ultimate elegance.
The single piece combines three materials in a variable and versatile way: brass, wood and marble. The brass for the support frames and partition walls, the wood for the containers and the marble for the support surfaces.
The passionate quality of traditional cabinetmakers is supported by engineering in all production phases and by numerical control technologies, from the general scale to that of detail. The result is a product freed from fashions and boundaries.
GHIDINI1961 - Brass and Design for Life