About Davide Oldani & Attila Veress
Davide Oldani, inventor of POP Cuisine - high quality, priced reasonably - opened his restaurant D'O in 2003 in Cornaredo, outside Milan, his home town. After just a year in business, the most authoritative culinary guides included him among the great chefs of Italian cuisine. He has received many accolades, including a Michelin star in 2004, the City of Milan's Ambrogino d'oro in 2008 and, in 2013, he was invited to speak at Harvard about his experience as an entrepreneur following publication of a case history about his restaurant in the Harvard Business Review. In May of 2014, the Davide Oldani Caf opened in the new Luxury Square shopping area at Milan's Malpensa airport.
Oldani has published several books, including Cuoco andata e ritorno (2008), Le D'Onne lo sanno (2018), Mangia come parli (Luglio 2020), and POP Food (2021) Feltrinelli paperback edition.
In 2016 he opened his new D'O, an evolved version of its predecessor in order to create a bigger cuisine, able to hold its own against other cuisines in Italy and abroad. In November 2020, the Michelin Guide awarded him a second star for the year 2021 and the Michelin Green star, symbol of sustainability.
His activity as a designer, an offshoot of his skill as an attentive observer, reflects that of the chef himself: tables, chairs, dishes, flatware and glasses, inspired by POP: simple, functional, elegant.
Attila Veress was born in Transylvania in 1990 and raised in the United Arab Emirates. He graduated in Industrial Design at the IED in Milan. His thesis was included in the ADI Index Targa Giovani. Winner of the BMW Creative Lab in 2013, he goes on to collaborate with a number of companies, thanks to which, he is able to work and gain insights in a wide variety of industries with the goal of creating value synergies between brands, product and people. In 2015, he set up his own studio, and has since been a regular lecturer at IED in Milano.
He currently works as a design consultant for a number of international brands, dividing his time between product design, creative direction and strategic design projects. Experiences that allow his studio to work in and in close contact with a number of creative fields, merging limited edition production with large scale industrial manufacturing. As of 2022, beyond running his own studio he is also the the Creative Director of Luce Di Carrara, a leading marble brand specialized in creating Total Look spaces in marble.
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