Alberto + Francesco Meda

Alberto Meda was born in Tremezzina (Como) in 1945. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1969. From 1973 he was technical manager of Kartell, in charge of furniture projects development and plastic laboratory equipment. Alberto Meda taught industrial technology at Domus Academy, and was a professor at the Graduate Course of Industrial Design at Milan Polytechnic and at the IUAV in Venice with a planning workshop in the masters course in industrial design. He holds numerous conferences and seminars in Europe, Japan and the United States at Washington University School of Architecture. Since 1979 Alberto freelances as an industrial designer for various important companies, like Alfa Romeo Auto, Alessi, Brevetti Gaggia, Philips, Olivetti and others.

Franceso Meda was born in Milan in 1984 and graduated from Milan's Istituto Europeo of Design in Industrial Design. Francesco Meda gained experience working at Sebastian Bergne's and at Ross Lovegrove's studio in London. Since his return to Milan in 2008 he has been collaborating with his father Alberto Meda on projects for different clients. Concurrently he has been pursuing his own personal Art and Design projects with companies such Nilufar Gallery, Hong Kong's Schoeni Art Gallery, Henraux, Luce di Carrara, Rossana Orlandi Gallery, Mint Gallery in London. In 2013 he co-designed Flap, an acoustic panel produced by Caimi Brevetti which subsequently won the Compasso d'Oro award.In the same year he began his own design production.