Collection: Marco Acerbis

Marco Acerbis was born in 1973 in Bergamo. He obtained his degree in Architecture in 1998 at the Milan Polytechnic. Even before graduating, in 1997, he moved to London, where he attended TASIS The American School in England and collaborated with Foster+Partners, contributing to the design and construction of a building for scientific research at Imperial College and the Capital City Academy high school. Back in Italy in 2004, he founded an architecture and design studio in Bergamo, tackling different design scales. Some projects included the Vertigo lamp designed for FontanaArte in 2005 - still a best-seller, included in the permanent collection of the Vitra Design Museum, the Pentole Agnelli showroom in Lallio (BG) and the adjoining Bolle Restaurant of chef Filippo Cammarata inaugurated in 2019. He designed the Prius handle for Colombo Design - winner of the Special Mention at the XXI Compasso d'Oro in 2008 - and the Xeliox Energy Lab in Medolago, the first class-A certified industrial building in Italy.

Regardless of the object's size, his approach is characterised by the ability to interweave different disciplines and infuse technology into design (and vice versa) naturally and spontaneously, creating integrated projects. Acerbis collaborates with Riva 1920, Platek, MaxDesign Italia, Marazzi Group, IB Rubinetterie, Fratelli Guzzini, Fontana Arte, Fiam Italia, Desalto, Colombo Design, Citterio and Talenti. This last collaboration has resulted in several outdoor collections. The most recent, presented in 2021 and 2022, are, respectively, Coral, a family of furnishings – poufs, sofas, lounge armchairs, coffee tables, sun loungers and tables - inspired by the concepts of modularity translated into aluminium and woven rope outdoor furniture; and Leaf, with explicit references to the natural world and the lightness of petals, carefully but generously proportioned pieces supported by slender legs and softened by ample cushions.

Marco Acerbis also explores outdoor lighting, designing architectural collections like Mesh or Team for Platek. Acerbis has tackled the Internet of Things; Dice, created for Abenergie, is a small and attractively shaped object designed to fit into the home and offer users real-time information on energy consumption. Marco Acerbis has received numerous recognitions. In addition to the already mentioned Compasso d'Oro, his work has been recognised with the 2009 Red Dot Design Award for the Kloe armchair by Desalto, the Renzo Piano Foundation prize for young talent and the Environmental and Social Sustainability prize for the municipality promoted by Saint-Gobain Italia and Ancitel Energia e Ambiente, both for the POLINS project, a Strategic Innovation Pole in Portogruaro. In 2013, he won the Good Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum for the Wave tap and, in 2021, he received the Archiproducts Design Awards for the Leaf collection designed for Talenti.